No, i have never thought that people on reddit speak the way they do because that's how most people generally speak online.
Link cause I'm not always a lib: https://hexbear.net/comment/3938186
Edit: followed up by this gem
As I'm sure you can imagine, nothing i said was remotely like "no, u"
It's the dunk tank.
This is where you come to post big-brained hot takes by chuds, libs, or even fellow leftists, and tear them to itty-bitty pieces with precision dunkstrikes.
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Redditese has only a few variations. I don't even mean they're "bots" like they accuse us of being. What I mean is they have a form letter style that they tend to follow to sound as smug and superior as possible with a condescending glaze of passive aggressive civility pretenses.
It usually begins with some condescending "I suppose I can bother myself with the rabble" preface like "ahem" or "um" or "hate to break it to you, let's be honest" followed by a "not mad" qualifier for a rage statement, such as "I like it that/it's funny that" then whatever they're mad about, followed by concern trolling and a sprinkling of ableism (because they believe that people that disagree with them are mentally ill and mental illness means they are fundamentally bad people!) and then lamentations and self pity about how their @Civility@hexbear.net is being rejected.
True, true but I mean their position (or supposed) political position in conjunction with how they write and how desperate they are in trying to annoy you reminds me of a user I argued with for a few days who then was banned.
Amazing guy tbh. I recommended a book about the political system of China and how they aren't capitalist and then the fucker went ahead and read a literature review of the book in a journal WITHOUT realising that this wasn't the book. When I called them out they handwaved it away by saying something like "the book is blatant Chinese propaganda and I won't waste my time reading it."
Because Springer (the scientific publisher not Springer Press) is known to be a CPC outhouse and publishing pro China propaganda non stop. These fuckers are so dense while pretending to be above us.
They're not above us, but they are certainly amogus.