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Re:92 of top 500 subreddits controlled by same 5 people by sudosysgen on Thursday May 14, 2020 @03:09AM (#23176371)
Geopolitics has really degenerated. It is now dominated by users that post unending barrages of unrealistic, low-quality "fall of China" articles.

Incidentally, I was banned for saying that China would end up with less deaths due to the coronavirus than the US, as a result of their stricter interventions, which turned out to be true. The moderators of that subreddits decided that it was such an egregiously incorrect point-of-view that it had to be deleted, and the poster banned.

So no, r/geopolitics isn't really good anymore. It was interesting a few months to years back, though. But now it's mostly biased, moralistic and americentric takes with artificially limited debate, with such scathing and interesting discussion as "Western culture is the best culture, and that's why the US will be an eternal empire", or "China will be sublimated by the US just like the US beat Japan". This is a stark contrast to the more realpolitik, realist discourse of yesteryear. Non-China related threads are better, though.

Re:92 of top 500 subreddits controlled by same 5 people by 101404 on Thursday May 14, 2020 @03:38AM (#23176589)
And that's the problem of today's Reddit. People get banned for disagreeing with the mainstream of a sub. Fear of controversy.
Re:92 of top 500 subreddits controlled by same 5 people by raverbashing on Thursday May 14, 2020 @04:02AM (#23176746)
Because for the 1% that have a legitimate disagreement/different opinion, there are 99% of "new posters" that act like that sub was worldnews or some other frontpage subreddit

Then it's hard to separate the wheat from the chaff and the mods, (as much as I agree that in some subs are totally going for the echo chamber) have a lot of work to do.