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Re:‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the ... by rockostrich on Thursday April 19, 2018 @12:19PM (#16877163)
The default/popular subreddits are toxic. The smaller, niche subreddits are rarely toxic and usually good communities.

As for the Russiagate stuff, the front page is riddled with it because it's a very important subject in the US, Reddit's user base is primarily people from the US, and there are bombshells dropping every day.

Re:‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the ... by notMick on Thursday April 19, 2018 @12:58PM (#16877571)
Still a nothing burger, it's paid political propaganda on those default reddits, paid teams pushing bs and noise.

Share blue for example was given a budget of 40+ million a year to do just that. (Over 100k a day)

The other paid campaign is 'deplatforming' (their term). They do your best to silence opinions which don't match the paid script.

Re:‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the ... by streb-lo on Thursday April 19, 2018 @02:09PM (#16878405)
I'm sure it's being brigaded by both sides for political points/fire control.

But you'd have to be willfully blind to describe the events up to now as a "nothing burger."

Re:‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the ... by notMick on Thursday April 19, 2018 @02:15PM (#16878472)
There is nothing, except a large paid hoax propaganda campaign. With the same team we could make mother Teresa seem like an imperialist religious nut. But anyway, let's agree to disagree. Because the world is nicer that way.
Re:‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the ... by scrollaway on Thursday April 19, 2018 @03:58PM (#16879551)
Your attitude of batching everything not matching the "side" you happened to pick and calling it a "large paid propaganda campaign" is dangerous and the world is certainy not "nicer that way".

This attitude is something you find everywhere because it's simpler for people who believe something strongly, to also believe that anyone who disagrees has been paid to do so. So it's attractive to dismiss anti-trump articles as "paid propaganda", and dismiss people like you as russian bots.

But you're going to have to wake up from that attitude at one point or another because it's going to catch up with you. As others have said, arrests and indictments aren't a "nothing burger". You won't get to the truth by dismissing sources you've been told not to like.

Re:‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the ... by pathseeker on Thursday April 19, 2018 @04:42PM (#16879960)
> As others have said, arrests and indictments aren't a "nothing burger"

Arrests and indictments for things unrelated to illegal dealings with Russia, except for maybe failing to renew registration as a foreign agent but that's a stretch.

Re:‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the ... by DavidVoid on Thursday April 19, 2018 @05:54PM (#16880514)
>With the same team we could make mother Teresa seem like an imperialist religious nut.

Wouldn't be too hard considering the amount of valid concerns regarding her practices.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Mother_Teresa

Re:‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the ... by chillwaves on Thursday April 19, 2018 @02:34PM (#16878700)
Over a dozen indictments say otherwise.
Re:‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the ... by pathseeker on Thursday April 19, 2018 @04:46PM (#16880003)
How so? None of those seem to imply anything about a Trump/Russia connection so far.

If you start a fishing expedition for the Loch Ness monster, you're bound to find some fish but that doesn't prove the existence of the Loch Ness monster.

Re:‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the ... by chillwaves on Thursday April 19, 2018 @08:40PM (#16881319)
Why does Trump keep hiring people who are implicated with Russia? Why did his son meet with a Russian agent @ Trump Tower? What is the deal with Trump "special" relationship with Putin and why did he secretly meet with Putin for hours without a translator? Why do we often learn of US policy from Russian media before the White House? Canceled sanctions on Monday is the latest example.

These questions are not nothing.

Re:‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the ... by streb-lo on Thursday April 19, 2018 @02:27PM (#16878626)
I think you need to consult some neutral coverage and apply Occam's razor.
Re:‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the ... by vuln on Thursday April 19, 2018 @01:56PM (#16878254)
There was also Correct the Record - CTR.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correct_the_Record

Re:‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the ... by pathseeker on Thursday April 19, 2018 @04:44PM (#16879981)
>As for the Russiagate stuff, the front page is riddled with it because it's a very important subject in the US,

Not really. Describe how each news articles has impacted your day-to-day life. It's only important in that it keeps readers coming back who are excited about a big conspiracy taking down the president they don't like.

Re:‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the ... by rockostrich on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @04:20PM (#16916168)
The most recent example? It was revealed in a court testimony that Cohen has Sean Hannity as a client (after Hannity explicitly denied being a client on twitter) which raises a ton of questions regarding Fox News and Hannity as a source of "news" and not just state-run propaganda. It's probably the other way around (media-run state) considering how much Trump watches Fox and Friends, but it's still a pretty big bombshell.

If you go onto subreddits that mostly focus on non-US news whenever Trump comes up it's pretty obvious that the majority of the world views Trump's White House in a negative light.

Re:‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the ... by bhandziuk on Thursday April 19, 2018 @04:41PM (#16879953)
City specific subreddits are really hit or miss. Often it's people complaining about newcomers and how the drivers "here" are the worst drivers anywhere ever. Sometimes a good news story comes through. Some are better than others but that kind of discussion/complaining bores me.