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I remember even after both the conventions, all of the political news on reddit was strongly anti-clinton. It seemed to be a mix of trump supporters and jill stein voters. But now it seems to have become very pro-clinton and very strongly anti-trump. When did that happen?
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)Glamrock
(11,802 posts)reality began knocking at the door.
Egnever
(21,506 posts)There is a forum for just about everything.
There is no Reddit consensus on anything.
mucifer
(23,547 posts)bat shit crazy donald trump forum.
JI7
(89,250 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)People try to spin it like "reddit is this, reddit is that". Aside from, as near as i can tell, being generally anti-censorship, it seems too big to pin down politically.
Me, personally, i find it too daunting to really wade into, theres almost too much going on.
Doctor Jack
(3,072 posts)I made a post about it during the convention, on the DU, asking what had happened to make reddit so anti-clinton/pro-trump. Its quite the turnaround.
TheDebbieDee
(11,119 posts)During the 2008 Obama Campaign... Seemingly in the span of 8 weeks!
It was amazing how quickly things changed at that site!
cemaphonic
(4,138 posts)All the Trump supporters hang out in r/thedonald high-fiving each other and raving about Wikileaks Since most of them are there, the other politics subs are more pro-Clinton.
Reddit is very large and very diverse.
davidn3600
(6,342 posts)It has tons of "sub-reddits."
It's got everyone from racists to communists.
Humanist_Activist
(7,670 posts)though I usually lurk is this one:
https://www.reddit.com/r/socialistamerica/
Probably because I love maps, flags, alternative history and revolutionary politics.
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)It's like a few thousand individual message boards and newsgroups.
It's why it's so strange to see people come on here and declare Reddit "deplorable" in blanket terms
The2ndWheel
(7,947 posts)People see what they want to see. The very statement I just made might be that in action as far I can tell.
I think we as individuals all see ourselves as the underdog, so we see the people disagreeing with us more than the people that agree with us. Then if you don't agree with me 100%, you're anti-something that I think, which creates the disagreement.
It's that never ending battle between the individual and the collective. We want to be part of something bigger, but we also want to differentiate ourselves from the whole.