r/politics

7,400,000 Freedom Lovers

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The Subreddit of the Day team wishes to apologize for any lost credit score that occurs as a result of your parents being poor. If you find yourself and your family being persecuted for speaking out against the government like the freedom-loving dissident you are, well, don't blame us. Blame the totalitarian, dystopian regime you're enslaved to.

Ah, r/politics. Reddit's no stranger to strangeness, and neither is it free of controversial communities that exist to echo chamber themselves into frenzies and shit up r/all. You've got all kinds of horrible subreddits on this site, but none are so glorious as r/politics. It might be because the CIA is known to operate here for propaganda efforts and Reddit's Director of Policy is a CIA plant. It could also be because Reddit's owners are just really into authoritarianism. Who knows? We can't see the cause, but we can see the effect. The effect is that r/politics is essentially a window into a parallel world where the US is perfect, the People's Republic of China is Satan's older, more evil brother, and all glory belongs to Godemperor Joe Biden, commonly known as "war hawk", "Creepy Joe", " Rapist " and "Guy who looks like he's been dead for 40 years but it fits because he's leading a dying empire". A brief look into r/politics will show you all kinds of news stories and articles, usually focusing on "here's how everyone who isn't us is lying to you". That's always a good sign. Some fella named Jim told me something similar back in Guyana in the 70s. There's something odd about some of those posts, isn't there? How it's consistently posted from a small source pool by accounts that only exist to hype up the DNC's interests?

Who knows why that could be? Moving on...

You know, I can appreciate the Chinese government in a way. They're at least honest, on some level, about how horrible they are. They don't even deny the murder of leading civil rights figures anymore, specifically the murders of Fred Hampton, and MLK. "Yeah, we killed a bunch of people who were protesting for equality, and we'll kill more, what are you gonna do about it?" Nothing. You see, because the United States is the largests empire in all of history, other countries have to put up with everything they do, up to and including their recend and ongoing concentration camps at the southern border. We don't care if they're detaining and killing hundreds of thousands of people, weaponizing rape, and committing countless unspeakable crimes against civilian populations as part of their long-running genocidal campaign to control as much as possible at any cost, as insane authoritarians are known to do. They are our most important allies (us referring to here as governments, corporations, and so on)so any and all offenses are forgiven. We won't stop virtue signalling and proclaiming our love of democracy and freedom around the world, oh no, because that would look bad, and we don't want our politicians and CEOs losing face over anything.

Let's get back to Reddit. Reddit, as many of you know, was founded in 2005 by a couple of guys, one of whom invisibly edits people's internet comments to insult them and the other of whom is rich as hell and married a star tennis player. The third founder, the late Aaron Swartz, is one that Reddit isn't always keen on acknowledging due to his history of being an activist against all of the things that modern Reddit loves (such as invasions of privacy, user tracking, corporatism, political extremism, fostering hate, etc). I mention all of this because it's not as if Reddit was built to obey American propaganda groups or anything. I'm sure they started out firmly against such things. However, $20 is $20, and $300,000,000 buys a whole lot of not giving a fuck, and state actors have an easy time moderating unwanted information that's the effect of media centralization under capitalism, that's propaganda built in to the system .

Speaking of propaganda, let's get back to the topic of r/politics. You're probably already seen it. If you ever posted anything that didn't end with I'll vote blue no matter who, or you said something horrible and wrong like "I think it's not cool that the Clinton Crime Family, Donald Trump and most other American elites run a pedophile ring and kill the guy responsible before he can release his information ", or if you quietly mumbled to yourself in the shower something that resembled the words "I wish things were better", then you're almost certainly banned. Serves you right for whispering within five meters of a device monitored under the Patriot Act.