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A comment on Francis Fukuyama: Paths to Depolarization.

Re:Francis Fukuyama: Paths to Depolarization by immigrantheart on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @08:32AM (#32410833)
Seeing how Reddit’s frontpage is becoming more and more left to the point even moderate leftists think it is ridiculous, I don’t have much faith in depolarization.
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Re:Francis Fukuyama: Paths to Depolarization by uoaei on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @09:46AM (#32411833)
Reddit is a simulacrum of real life, as are Twitter and HN. Best not to use them as bellwethers for public sentiment generally.
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Re:Francis Fukuyama: Paths to Depolarization by vehemenz on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @10:07AM (#32412201)
This is demographics in action. Reddit leans heavily under-30 and educated.

More importantly, why is a more left-leaning Reddit front page your exemplar? The social, moral, and intellectual decline of the post-Trump Republican Party seems far more noteworthy.

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Re:Francis Fukuyama: Paths to Depolarization by immigrantheart on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @08:38PM (#32420230)
Seems worrying to me if our under 30 and educated population is anti working.

I'm just giving one example, doesn't necessarily mean that I am a Trump supporter and covering up for Trump.

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Re:Francis Fukuyama: Paths to Depolarization by im3w1l on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @10:23AM (#32412485)
It's hardly a natural process. It takes a lot of moderation labor to keep reddit as left-wing as it is.
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Re:Francis Fukuyama: Paths to Depolarization by wiredearp on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @11:07AM (#32413253)
That's just how just centrism looks on a global scale. People out here find it hard to imagine how Democrats could possibly move further to the right. If the Overton window leads to America, perhaps you should stop chasing it.
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