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…
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.
Yeah, the RSL sale and everything else that happened in the fallout of the 2020 clown world revolution has been hard to take. It’s somehow even worse now - not sure if you heard about this one, but last year a player got suspended for 6 games because he called the (white) ref a “dumb monkey” (apparently a fairly standard way of calling someone a dumbass in belgian, which was the player’s native language) and a black player in the general vicinity heard it and got all butthurt bc he thought it was directed at him.
It’s sad, because there was some pretty funny, edgy shit going on in fan culture during the early days of the league. Two classic signs I remember seeing in the crowd back in the old days - one, in New York, where they hated this opposing player named Mamadou Diallo who had broken the NY goalkeeper’s ribs on a really dirty play a while back, and where there had recently been an NYPD shooting of a guy named Amadou Diallo, read “They shot the wrong Diallo”, and then another, in DC, that read “DC is Jaime Town”, in reference to their star striker Jaime Moreno, and also Jesse Jackson’s comment about NYC being “hymie town”, in reference to the large Jewish population. I can’t even imagine the pearl clutching if those signs saw the light of day today.
It’s a lot like every other fandom. In the old days nobody cared about MLS, and there was weird, interesting, organic fan culture. Then the money and the normies came, and now anything that’s not palatable to soy cucks and 15 year old girls is strictly verboten.