Australia/NZ-specific subreddits, in particular, were always absolutely fucking awful (everything from city subs, to politics, to finance), but this is worse than even during ‘Rona…
For context, this week the Australian Tax Office (ATO) essentially declared war on small (but not big) business, and said that they will use every tool at their disposal to squeeze every unpaid tax dollar out of said businesses, no matter what consequences that has for insolvencies, the economy, and hell, everything that follows that.
I am not kidding when I say that they literally said “Well, if this destroys more businesses than the GFC, that’s too bad.”
In a normal world, such an announcement would have been treated with… At least some degree of disgust, but not on Reddit. On Reddit, people were literally saying they wished that the ATO could employ lynch mobs. In the AusFinance sub (the irony), they were saying they hope small business owners kill themselves over this, because they clearly deserve to…
It’s pretty crazy to me, to see how toxic this discourse has become.
That place is… Well, it’s probably worse than I ever expected it would become, honestly. And that’s just with me lurking, not even wading back in to discussions again…
Even sites with "no politics" rules will allow political post if it's the right politics. I sub to mostly picture subs and you will find politics inserted. If you try countering those claims you get the ban.
Yup. I’ve had that too, with sports and other hobby subs… It’s gotten to the point where one major Australian sport, AFL, has a completely pozzed, politicized subreddit (which banned me for simply being subbed to LockdownSkepticism, lol), but then they also pozzed all the off-Reddit discussion boards, too, to remove that outlet for the rest of us.
Which leaves, like, Facebook..?
It’s fucked.
These people don’t want us to have anywhere on the internet to talk, where they don’t control the narrative/talking points…
I'm a Baltimore Ravens fan and the subreddit has become nothing but BLM and Lamar Jackson dick sucking.
That sounds obnoxious. Lamar is a loser.
Baltimore needs to bring in Nick Foles as their playoff QB.
I think Lamar is a good QB but the stanning is unbelievable. They bitch he only has two MVP awards, the same number as playoff wins.
I can't stand the Lamar fans who are crazy about him because he is black.
I was a big time poster/commenter on /r/MLS 2011-2015. Even was on the official podcast once. I feel like that sub succumbed earlier than most. Early 2016, I think.
Lol I got banned from there when someone posted a photo of some fruity “All fans welcome” tifo with the intention of starting a political circlejerk thread, and I responded by asking if “all fans” included people who felt that existing immigration laws should be enforced and government intervention should be minimized.
Hard being an MLS fan when 99.99% of the fan base is irredeemably cuckolded, but fuck it. I grew up playing the sport, and I’ve been following the league since 1996, so everyone else can eat shit. Congrats on being one of the 0.01%.
I gave up on being an MLS fan when my team's owner, Del Loy Hansen, made negative comments about kneeling during the anthem, and the league made him sell his team (RSL) because they were so butthurt about it. That was the end for me.
Their politics are not politics, your politics are a hate crime.
It's not politics, it's human rights.
I tried pointing it out before, and it turns into you are the one bringing politics into it.
Be a conservative in any political sub? Banned. Go to a conservative sub and it's full of leftist mosquitos buzzing around, some with severe downvotes, and never a fear of being banned. And other posts that start with "radical leftist here." getting voted to the top.
SOmeone posted a gay wedding pic once, and I was like clearly you just posted that to see what people will say, so I'll bite. Told em what I thought. Then got banned.