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Reddit banned Paul McCartney over phone-free concert photos post in their subreddit
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It's funny how a lot of the complaints I'm reading here are about how Reddit is unfriendly toward left-leaning people but all the right wing people complain about how Reddit is a cesspool of liberal propaganda.
It just goes to show that the platform plays both sides just to promote hate and anger.
I visited after I got banned and the default posts that show up without logging in (therefore uncurated) were all so irritating that I had to assume they were all ragebait.
yea just like other social media platforms, they allow astroturfing thats why its both sides getting triggered.
It's because the platform is full of people who can't handle someone not agreeing with them, so anyone who says they're wrong is immediately labelled as the enemy.
Reddit is hostile towards left-leaning people, and it is also a cesspool of liberal propaganda. Liberals fucking hate leftists, even more than they hate fascists, because liberalism is fundamentally pro-capitalism. That's why the mainstream media is currently crashing out about people like Hasan Piker, who actually represent a growing base of support for socialism, and they run every possible smear they can.
Liberals are not left wing
Ok, whatever. The point was that they have fun seeing us bicker over shit for their profit.
But the right doesn't know that.
Yes they are. Liberal covers a wide range of ideology. The liberal versus leftists debate is a Russian pysop
The American use of political terms like liberal and socialist are warped from their original meanings.
Both can mean supporting healthcare for everyone for example. Even though that’s neither a policy following from the theory of liberalism, nor is socialized healthcare dependent on following socialism.
The same is true for progressivism and leftists. All of these terms are often used interchangeably to the previous two.
There’s a deep lack of nuance and specificity.
Actual Marxist leftists and democratic liberals are ideologically opposed to another in many ways. In the US they might agree on better healthcare for everyone and waving rainbow flags. Liberals should be for free markets, (regulated) capitalism, freedoms, etc. A leftist should be opposed to all of these. Freedom to a Marxist means something else than to a liberal.
Nowadays a lot of political discourse across the spectrum is deeply rooted in identity, creating division, virtue signaling, moralist preaching, etc.
Discussion on specific politics and details is often cut short by the above campism and clinging to identities.
This applies to the right and the left equally.
I got banned for posting that Trump is a piece of shit. KTHXBAI!
Lmao I feel the same. Literally feels like rage bait. Like these people are so freaking ignorant. It doesn’t help a lot of Reddit posts are just bots recirculating old content.
it literally is a cesspool eco chamber of libtards
From my perspective "liberal" is still right-wing.
"Wing" is not the term to use. Liberals sat on the left side of parliament, literally the left wing of a hall, so it's accurate and quite literal to call them "left wing". What isn't accurate is calling them leftist, as in socialist, and I think that's the term everyone is actually talking about?
Welcome to your own reality
More like the European reality.
Compared to Europe, America doesn't have a left wing. Just a right wing and an extreme right wing.
"Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, right to private property, and equality before the law.[1][2] "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism
Liberalism is fundamentally a right wing ideology, it's primarily concerned about the freedom of markets, rather than the freedoms of people. That's why both mainstream Democrats and mainstream Republicans agree on most issues, because they're both pro-business, pro-capitalist institutions.
So you can't be pro human liberty anymore? That's what being a liberal is to me. Corporations are not our friends and hate them as much as a leftist. In my mind, my and my peoples liberty trumps your idea of a perfect economic system. Whatever happens along the way to socialism or back to capitalism, human rights must come first. I don't know why that concept is so hard for leftists to grasp. I think leftists are affected by a similar psyop that affects Republicans in this regard
Of course you can, but when people identify themselves or others as "liberal", they're not referring to individual liberty, they're usually referring to "liberalism", which does contain some elements of individual liberties, but far more importance is given to free market economics and free flow of capital, than it is to individual freedoms. That's why corporations can invest anywhere and borders don't pose much issue for them, whereas it is very hard and expensive for individuals to move to another country.
You're talking about lasseiz fair liberalism. Billionaires and corps are not in any way shape or form "liberal" these days unless you want to talk about neoliberals who pretend to be altruistic. It's all a psyop to divide the proletariat
I don't think you know what you're talking about. Moreover, you seem to be lumping a bunch of things together.
Are you American? I could blame that on the lack of a proper representative democracy. Everything gets shovelled together into either one camp or the other, even when they don't have anything related to each other.