An awful lot of people do have this idea that you just have to turn the whole thing off, though. And i see a lot of people on Reddit equally incorrectly saying that about Twitter! I wonder why.
While that's good and I'd be okay with this normally, reddit has had a decade of history showing they aren't afraid to generate a new policy to ban certain subreddits just because a minority of vocal losers want it banned.
/r/askengineers
/r/SEUT
Lots of the fiction and story subreddits, /r/maliciouscompliance is hilarious.
There are multitudes of art and music subreddits, choose your favorite genres.
/r/neutralpolitics is a great heavily moderated subreddit that requires HQ citations for any statements of fact posted.
The diet and fitness subreddits are super supportive and positive.
Tons of artists have their own subreddits, e.g. Swordscomic got its start on Reddit, and still has a really active subreddit.
It's the old question of liking something despite knowing it's (probably) fake: Usually it doesn't hurt, and can in fact mean that literally nobody got hurt.
But there's a general tendency of such content attracting hatred: If it does not explicitly identify itself as fictional, people don't like the idea of it being believed to be true.
E.g. Reddit "recommends" popular subreddits, and regularly injects top posts from them into your feed. /r/politics is one of them. Also, a lot of the big subs that you'd think are benign (like /r/science) are filled with blatantly partisan posts that are guaranteed to have hateful comments in them. E.g. There have been dozens of "science" posts there about studies that effectively equate conservatives to religious, science-denying idiots using much more "sciency" words. Even if that's not the intention, the comments inevitably go there, and you're stuck reading very non-science related comments.
Or check out the top posts in /r/cringe or /r/publicfreakout. It's all related to Trump. It just gets so boring, repetitive and predictable.
Reddit has gone out of their minds. They want people to target ads to, not a genuine community of people that care about the content they make. That's why those stickers have gone to absurd levels and they charge ridiculous prices for it. Now when I see a post, gold means nothing anymore. I don't even know whats a worthwhile post to bother reading cause half the time it's garbage group think irrational "the dems are freedom fighters!" stuff anyway.
Plus banning literally everything to cater to the puritanical mommies out there is absurd. Reddit was an interesting place. Now it's kind of like how HN reacts when google creates something new where you go "Wonder how long it'll last before they kill it..."
Not sure this is right. I think Trump has actually just demolished norms at such an astonishing rate that the system can't keep up and things that 10 years would have torpedoed a campaign or a presidency now get forgotten in the 24 Hour shitshow that has been the Trump administration. Remember it wasn't that long ago that Howard Dean blew up his entire presidential campaign just by "screaming" at an event.
Carefully pruning your subscribed subreddit list makes Reddit worth it. I still get value from buildapc, homeassistant, patientgamer, ipod, rugbyunion, and some others that concern other interests and hobbies.
I do agree that people shoe-horning Trump into everything is extremely annoying.
Reddit for news is like StackOverflow for programming. If come to either one already knowledgeable in the given area looking for a quick supplement, they are a boon. If you use them as a substitute for knowledge, they are harmful.
Just redditors? All established media...
He was impeached, just not convicted.
But yeah lets see how the sword will come down on Trumpy.
Yes. Any other president. But they did it with more panache, and were less garish, so that was OK for the mainstream liberal media.
And 'any other president'. Really? Do you have examples for this? I'm not aware of any president doing it that strong, that crazy, that often.
"Better" is a relative term, so others mistakes do make it better.
If anything, it shows that it's hysteria to scream and panic for something that's more or less business as usual, just more gaudy and with worse PR, and without sharing all the establishments bloodthirstiness for wars, invasion, and interventions.
I'd rather have self-serving deals for golf courses than the nth trillion dollar invasion...
We should assume that other things also had impacts for people lives.
Otherwise it would mean that a President isn't relevant at all.
While one person takes care of a self-serving deal for golf courses, the other person would sit down and educate themselves on topics like climate change, education and current education system issues etc.
I'm quite bewildered, that you actually prefer a self-serving deals over everything else he could do.
And your two options are missleading arent they? Its not a black and white topic.
Notice that this is weasely phrasing. I didn't say I prefer it over "everything else he could do". Nor I spoke of any kind of "self-serving deal".
I literally said "I'd rather have self-serving deals for golf courses than the nth trillion dollar invasion...".
He did less invasions and wars than Bush, Clinton, Bush, and Obama, more self-serving deals of the cheap kind, and less self-serving deals of the trillion dollar Wall Street bailout kind.
He also spoke about globalization's issues and losing jobs to China, which was not allowed to do in polite company before...
>While one person takes care of a self-serving deal for golf courses, the other person would sit down and educate themselves on topics like climate change, education and current education system issues etc.
And how did that worked out thus far, up to 2016? Wasn't the climate getting all worse, education all the worse and college more expensive under the last, say, 10+ last of your presidents?
Did any of those things got suddenly or especially bad in 2016-2020?
>Otherwise it would mean that a President isn't relevant at all.
Well, politicians are not that relevant in corporatism.
It's only when they try to do anything besides business as usual, even as lip service, that they become somewhat relevant (e.g. slow down outsourcing of jobs to China, stop the war machine and intervenionism, cater to the middle class, as opposed to the welfare-level poor and the 10%, and so on).
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/07/13/president...
We can argue all day about the ethics of lying, but at the end of the day, you cant always be 100% honest about your intent to push people in a certain direction, even if it means "for the greater good."
Should we start with Obama being born in Kenya? Crowd sizes? The possible criminal activity of inflating his net worth (currently under investigation)? Denying Russian interference? The debunked allegation of election fraud and dismissed lawsuits with no proof? These were not necessary for the greater good.
The parent also mentioned Presidents, not CEOs. But I’d argue he is on the high end of the lie generating spectrum for CEOs and not in good company.
If you do this to get everyone into health insurance that has a different base than if you do it because you want it for your own gain.
But anyway, mrlala said "wrong", not "evil", and in this particular case, the evidence is on Trump's Twitter account for everyone to see.
4 years of hysterics and the guy got even more votes than before. Calling them dumb/wrong and not worth engaging is not working.
Imagine the current media shit storm was being given credibility by the media by devoting half of their reporting to ways maybe Trump is right, maybe Trump did win. They would be enabling authoritarian behaviour.
Balance in reporting should be aiming to centre around objective truth. Not trying to find the mid point between one side or another's narrative.
What is objective truth in politics ? It's the most non-objective aspect of society there is, arguably even more non-objective than art.
To use a non-US example: Boris Johnson claiming that he is going to deliver 50000 more nurses in the NHS. Except that figure includes some 19k nurses who are already employed in the NHS.
Back to Trump: Great, but we also won the election!
Yes, but the objectively false statements that the left and right don't disagree on are not politics.
Politics is pretty much what's left that we disagree on, that can't be settled objectively in other domains. And is an expression of people's values, like what's the right way to live a good life, is there even more than one, who's gonna get the rare exclusive things in life that we can't all get (e.g. apartments with views on Central Park or your local equivalent).
There's enough variation in these values that we can't agree on these things and they conflict. Hence, politics.
That is one of many recent examples of these sorts of politicized factual disputes.
Yet how much time was spent reporting on the piss tapes. Then how much time was spent reporting on how fake they were and where they came from?
most of what I've seen pointed to as bias is basically reporting on what he said/did, and he didn't like it. In the first month(?) Sebastian Gorka said ... "There is a monumental desire on behalf of the majority of the media ... to attack a duly elected President in the second week of his term... and until the media understands how wrong that attitude is, and how it hurts their credibility, we are going to continue to say, 'fake news.'"
The term from day one was meant to point out reporting/news that the administration didn't like, regardless of the truth of the news/facts/reporting.
There's a possibility that people are 'biased' against stuff you say because they have a 'bias' for truth, and you're lying on a regular basis. You may be correct in saying people are 'biased' against you, but that doesn't make their statements wrong, or what you say truth.
Reagan supported death squads in Latin America and didn't resign. G.W. Bush started a war based on bullshit and had people tortured and didn't resign. Every president going back years now has overseen the NSA surveillance system.
What matters is limited to their actions with regard to America and Americans. For the actions which led to the impeachment, for their actions during the pandemic, and for the post-Election behaviour, a normal politician would demonstrate shame. And those are just the biggest and most obvious ones.
Because when you fabricate a war we send our young men and women there to die a pointless death as your allies. Because if you descide to use nuclear weapons its over for us, and if you descide to ignore global warming its equally over for us.
So yes, I too avoid the news (and have been for over a decade). It hasn't made my life any poorer.
Getting off reddit has been one of the best things in my life. Discord has helped find more positive outlets for me to waste my time.
But lastly, get a hobby that isn't just working on getting better at something. It's cool if you can do like 30 different things, but that's hard. Know your limits and budget screw around time to help unwind.