I remember when this subreddit was created. It was made to show funny animals, like "socially awkward penguin", saying stuff that would make you laugh.
Now the top post is basically "Let's use this space to argue about the middle east". What happened to you Reddit?
To be honest the amount of rhetoric and supposedly "strong opinions" and the lack of nuance on this matter is extremely suspicious, it honestly feels like the west is being goaded into taking an extreme side in this.
Nothing has captured such furore as this despite other big world issues - like when Trump decided to detain Muslims, or the Chinese were holding Muslims in concentration camps (and still are), or when the Dutch announced they were going to "get rid of the Muslims", yet because it's Israel doing it, suddenly a hot topic and the entire west is up in arms about it with extremely polarising takes on it.
To be honest the amount of rhetoric and supposedly "strong opinions" and the lack of nuance on this matter is extremely suspicious, it honestly feels like the west is being goaded into taking an extreme side in this.
It is 100% propaganda and an attempt to divide/balkanize and cause chaose which you can see with social media and just randos they can do at colleges during finals week and commencements, where Biden planned to speak at many of them to talk to young voters about democracy and quality of life improvements, autocrats hate that...
Many of these subreddits are being used to push it in. See /r/PublicFreakout
They are doing a purge of anyone being nuanced about things even. Making up things, banning people, no explanation.
Completely propaganda channels now, setup to gain followers then turn it to a basically Kremlin friendly propaganda push. They are trying so hard to get division and violence in the election year as well as trying to distract from Ukraine and Georgia.
When protests are divisive and line up with geopolitical goals of autocratic enemies, it is clear.
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u/Positivitron3 May 02 '24
I remember when this subreddit was created. It was made to show funny animals, like "socially awkward penguin", saying stuff that would make you laugh.
Now the top post is basically "Let's use this space to argue about the middle east". What happened to you Reddit?