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…
I got banned for calling a jannie a retard so when I go to browse the path of exile or printsf (and even that's full of shitlibs, the Starship trooper is fascist kind) subs I get the standard front page.
Wall to wall commie liberalism, enviro nuts, antowork/cars, Ukraine bullshit or whining about Trump. The biggest echo Chamber on the Internet, except for maybe twatter.
Ps. The best part of it all. They'll perma any sub that's right of Stalin and Mao but there's a sub dedicated to helping sex offenders find jobs. Literal convicted pedophiles are fine for the jannies.
That's not strange at all. They hate political oppositions. They don't hate pedophiles and rapists.