- The nazi punching thread had several moderated comments ranked near the top which were presumably calls to violence.
- The Mitch McConnal thread has many people looking forward to his death, hoping he goes to hell, and a few deleted comments.
- A musk thread has "eat the rich" and storm the capitol. Not super highly ranked.
I didn't go through all of them but it certainly is a bit odious.
Also note though how there's only 1 non political thread and the remainder are anti trump. This is on a general interest sub and what is likely to be an unremarkable day in the administration!
If you stop your thought at just “people are losing their shit”, thats seeing half the world.
I’d say thats disingenuous, because it misses or dismisses the incredibly alarming actions that have precipitated them.
If you genuinely care about it, then you might be interested in knowing why people are responding like this. For example, people generally hate Nazis, and punching Nazis is a popular idea.
DO people expect themselves to be polite when the see a takeover and destruction of their government? “it looks like pre WW2 Germany out there, do pass the salt dear.”
As someone who tries to be non partisan, and isn't even american, I am fatigued by all of the claims that the world within the USA is ending. Whenever I take the time to examine any of the claims they tend to be fairly hollow or making slippery slope arguments.
As an international user of reddit, there are many of us I presume, I want the outrage to be saved for Trumps undeniable and worst offenses. In my eyes the memecoin was worse than anything which has happened since he became president and yet it has completely left the collective focus. Everything since then has just been a mix of people allowing trump to dictate the media cycle and the deep state deploying its immune system.
If we review democracies through history that have at some point become less democratic, I think describing the process of how that actually happens as being a slippery slope is quite apt. I’d say it’s more of a fallacy to assume that democracy is a secure default state of being rather than an ideal that we must collectively support or lose entirely—that we can safely “slip” a little without risking a slide further down the slope.
They also map to historical counter-examples.
You don't have to go far. Take hysterical false positives like #RussiaGate, which turned out to be a manufactured hoax.
Let's say I disagreed with you - I have no incentive or reason to discuss those disagreements. Off the bat, you've called everyone that disagrees with you a Nazi that needs to be violently attacked.
So both sides will just go back to their echo chamber, perpetuating the cycle of increasingly extreme and detached rhetoric.
They did not do this. Everyone can read the post that you’re responding to.
I also had trouble with all the far right wingers who kept talking about civil war.
Or you didn't experience, or don't know what they are, what they think and what they want ; neither the aftermath.
There is a reason people are angry and the truth is Musk/trump have gone too far. It's bizarre to say but we are watching the downfall of the USA in real time. The country has been captured by criminals who are working to destroy it–folks are going to be angry about that.
Are you for real? Is this seriously a good faith argument? My man, you may be a true believer, and that is no compliment. Course correct. Try to steelman a bit.
If you feel the need to defend the salute I would suggest digging into that.
No, as evidenced by the "Politics" flair. (But also no, the rules of the sub do not forbid political images.)
> Does it tend to feature current events and is that lineup just proportional to the magnitude of what's happening right now?
Yep.
No, I'm not. I'm making a statement about a particular claim: that Reddit is overwhelmed with leftist death threats.
I said nothing about r/pics being apolitical, and I'm not taking a stance in this comment chain about whether I think r/pics should or should not be apolitical. That's a different claim, and you're moving the goalposts.
> Bring back the guillotine
> violence is the answer
etc. The implication is clear.
In fact, Reddit itself has had to step in and remove hundreds of comments from some of the threads. r/WhitePeopleTwitter was just temp banned for a thread full of death threats and 40k upvotes as well.
Reddit has a problem. It is clearly radicalizing people.
Hacker News is radicalizing, and is very likely going to have to decide if it’s going to be pro MAGA or not.
What did people think the response was going to be once Trump did everything he said he would? People would lie back and let things happen?
In America? The land of the second amendment? I mean people should be happy, after this liberals are going to be proud members of the NRA.
- deported a few thousand illegal immigrants who are criminals and rapists
- reduced border encounters by 60-90%
- taken back Panama Canal from Chinese dictatorship
- attempted to shrink the size of the government and American tax burden
- put more tariffs on Chinese dictatorship
- increased foreign spending in US by a few hundred billion
- focused US on AI
- prevented biological men from beating up biological women in sports
- taken over Gaza to prevent another war between Israel and Hamas
- gotten Mexico and Canada to finally own up to protecting the border
- been taking fentanyls killing Americans very seriously
I've never seen so many good things accomplished from a government in such a short time. I'm sure many people around the world are jealous at the velocity of our government.
As well as thousands who are normal hard-working people.
> taken back Panama Canal from Chinese dictatorship
By using threats of force like a dictatorship.
> attempted to shrink the size of the government and American tax burden
In illegal, non-democratic ways.
> put more tariffs on Chinese dictatorship
As well as more democratic allies.
> focused US on AI
Without understanding the huge risks involved for all of humanity.
> taken over Gaza to prevent another war between Israel and Hamas
By doing ethnic cleansing.
> gotten Mexico and Canada to finally own up to protecting the border
And in the process lost the trust and respect of allies.
Do you have sources for that? Honestly trying to find out. Thanks!
Also, Biden has already addressed the numbers coming across the border [1]. So again, the people who are left are mostly hard working people trying to make a life.
I grew up an active NRA member, shooting since I was 6. I have long since disassociated myself with the group but want to make it clear - a lot of liberals have guns and regularly practice using them.
We don't need the NRA (a Putin funded organization) to do that!
Reddit has been basically unusable for anything concerning politics since, and nowadays with politics leaking out into every damn sub possible it definitely has a problem.
Then I realized that my kindergarten teacher was onto something when she told us we should be nice and share our toys, and I grew up.
The temperature is so high right now, and it's only continuing to rise because there seems to be zero accountability for what's happening whether it's pardons or Musk running unfettered through government accounts. Unfortunately, it's natural for people to keep escalating when they see no other avenue.
This is just blatant misinformation. Since r/pics is the only example you've chosen to give us, let's evaluate it: I've scrolled through the current first 50 posts in Hot, and 0 of them are death threats, thinly veiled or otherwise. "Packed full", indeed.
And here, so it isn't simply my word vs. his; these are the current posts:
… none of which are death threats. I could scroll all night and not see any examples.