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I never see this. Maybe you subscribe to different channels?

Literally any post about ukraine will have redditors screaming for genocide against russia, upvoted to top. Same goes for China

Show me one single post about Ukraine where a top 3 voted comment is “screaming about genocide against Russia”. I will save you the time, don’t bother, because it doesn’t exist.

Re: Reddit is being funded by a fake company?

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It's [removed] now, what did it say?

Reveddit.com for all your deleted user/comment needs; just copy/paste the URL of the comment/thread/user.

Edit to add: Huh, it's not showing. Normally it would - https://www.reveddit.com/v/conspiracytheories/comments/up1cw...

Re: Reddit is being funded by a fake company?

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One thing I've noticed with reddit is they constantly push violence to the frontpage and encourage it. Someone calls you a name or uses a racist word, here watch this video of someone getting beat nearly to death for speech and here are 1000 top comments as to why that is perfectly okay and acceptable. I get the feeling the police state actually wants more violence and crime and therefore encourages it quite frequent…

I think main problem with Reddit are echo chamber subreddits which exist only to get stuff to frontpage stuff like murderbyaoc etc.

Re: Reddit is being funded by a fake company?

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I never see this. Maybe you subscribe to different channels?

Literally any post about ukraine will have redditors screaming for genocide against russia, upvoted to top. Same goes for China

I've seen posts that were calling for violence (usually directed against those directly involved, or leadership, which is natural given the circumstances), but I have not seen anyone (with significant upvotes) calling for genocide. If "any post about Ukraine" has this content, I'm sure it will be easy for you to link a handful of examples?

Re: Reddit is being funded by a fake company?

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One thing I've noticed with reddit is they constantly push violence to the frontpage and encourage it. Someone calls you a name or uses a racist word, here watch this video of someone getting beat nearly to death for speech and here are 1000 top comments as to why that is perfectly okay and acceptable. I get the feeling the police state actually wants more violence and crime and therefore encourages it quite frequent…

I think your second paragraph might be jumping the gun a bit but yes in my experience the Reddit algorithm also highlights the worst of humans.

Also the "general" Reddit opinion on topics tends to skew super pseudo-intellectual and shortsighted.

One remarkable thing here is the difference between comments and up-votes. It's not unusual to see a post trending where the top comment directly undermines the idea expressed in the post. Either by pointing out it's falsehoods or logical inconsistencies.

Re: Reddit is being funded by a fake company?

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One thing I've noticed with reddit is they constantly push violence to the frontpage and encourage it. Someone calls you a name or uses a racist word, here watch this video of someone getting beat nearly to death for speech and here are 1000 top comments as to why that is perfectly okay and acceptable. I get the feeling the police state actually wants more violence and crime and therefore encourages it quite frequent…

I never see this. Maybe you subscribe to different channels?

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Re: Reddit is being funded by a fake company?

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post #7

One thing I've noticed with reddit is they constantly push violence to the frontpage and encourage it. Someone calls you a name or uses a racist word, here watch this video of someone getting beat nearly to death for speech and here are 1000 top comments as to why that is perfectly okay and acceptable. I get the feeling the police state actually wants more violence and crime and therefore encourages it quite frequent…

I never see this. Maybe you subscribe to different channels?

Just browse r/popular or r/all any day. It gives you the most trending and upvoted posts on the whole site

Re: Reddit is being funded by a fake company?

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User peppustimbus replied with the archive version but is shadowbanned. This is the link: https://web.archive.org/web/20220513210317/https://old.reddi... This could just be a wealthy family office, I have first hand knowledge of one such company that would have no website or information online other than a few things in filings but manages several billion dollars.

But for most of those there is some information on the family where the money came from. Like they ran some kind of business. In this case the only information to be found on the family is that someone with that family name is a drug dealer. Makes it even more suspicious where the money came from.

Ironically enough I know of a family office for who the most accurate information was a reddit post. It was from some rando on the other side of the world who spent a few months stalking peoples 15 year old facebook profiles to find the connections between them.

It was astonishing that someone who by their own admission was working part time at a gas station making less than minimum wage did more due diligence than anyone they had worked with including a number of three letter agencies.

The post has since been deleted and the account banned.

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