Like most social media, reddit has gotten progressively worse. I haven't had an account there since 2015 or so when the astroturfing and bots really took over. I still lurk on a few communities using the redlib frontend, but whenever I accidentally visit the official site I'm somehow always surprised with how bad it's gotten. Reddit died with Aaron Swartz.
Try to post a Moderate or Conservative viewpoint and you get voted down fast. Try posting a different opinion than the unwashed masses and you get voted down fast. Some of the smaller subs are alright though they don't have as many users.
Off topic: I heard yesterday on BBC radio interviews of people in the capital of the mother land noting that they get their news via Telegram, and generally try to avoid TV and radio news there, and they claimed they avoid discussions of politics. Does that appear to be common in the mother land?
Well, it depends on age as everywhere I guess - old people watch TV, and young/middle age people use Telegram. Telegram is blocked nowadays though, so it's not so simple to use - you need to find an unblocked VPN, which are usually shady as all good reputation ones are blocked.
As for avoiding political discussion that's also true as a lot of opinions are criminalized - being anti-war, or supporting Ukraine in any way.
Generally it's hard to determine the public mood as people don't reply sincerely to polls, and allowed ones are probably faked in some ways. Navalny allies try to do their own independent sociology via phone calls from abroad.
Polls: I worked for a pollster when Bill Clinton was running for President. I got a rich area that mostly wanted to vote for H. Ross Perot, it could have been a bad sample size but later we found out Perot got a lot of supporters when compaired to other polls. Not enough to be President, but like 20% of the votes.
Yeah - I remember that - and the views that Perot helped elect Clinton, by taking votes G.H.W. Bush would have gotten, so that the final percentages of the popular votes were surprisingly: 43.0% Clinton; 37.5% Bush; and 18.9% (!) Perot. (Nonetheless Clinton had almost double the electoral votes of Bush, and Perot had no electoral votes.) Also, Quayle was an absolute joke of a VP candidate, IMO.
Quayle might be the most-quoted VP candidate in history.
What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.
It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.
Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.
It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.
I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.
I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.
The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.
The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.
Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.
I deserve respect for the things I did not do.
If you give a person a fish, they'll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they'll fish for a lifetime.
Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.
We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.
When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.
Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.
This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.
Poor Harris's comments don't compare to these gems.
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Like most social media, reddit has gotten progressively worse. I haven't had an account there since 2015 or so when the astroturfing and bots really took over. I still lurk on a few communities using the redlib frontend, but whenever I accidentally visit the official site I'm somehow always surprised with how bad it's gotten. Reddit died with Aaron Swartz.
Try to post a Moderate or Conservative viewpoint and you get voted down fast. Try posting a different opinion than the unwashed masses and you get voted down fast. Some of the smaller subs are alright though they don't have as many users.
Off topic: I heard yesterday on BBC radio interviews of people in the capital of the mother land noting that they get their news via Telegram, and generally try to avoid TV and radio news there, and they claimed they avoid discussions of politics. Does that appear to be common in the mother land?
Well, it depends on age as everywhere I guess - old people watch TV, and young/middle age people use Telegram. Telegram is blocked nowadays though, so it's not so simple to use - you need to find an unblocked VPN, which are usually shady as all good reputation ones are blocked.
As for avoiding political discussion that's also true as a lot of opinions are criminalized - being anti-war, or supporting Ukraine in any way.
Generally it's hard to determine the public mood as people don't reply sincerely to polls, and allowed ones are probably faked in some ways. Navalny allies try to do their own independent sociology via phone calls from abroad.
Thanks. Very informative.
Polls: I worked for a pollster when Bill Clinton was running for President. I got a rich area that mostly wanted to vote for H. Ross Perot, it could have been a bad sample size but later we found out Perot got a lot of supporters when compaired to other polls. Not enough to be President, but like 20% of the votes.
Yeah - I remember that - and the views that Perot helped elect Clinton, by taking votes G.H.W. Bush would have gotten, so that the final percentages of the popular votes were surprisingly: 43.0% Clinton; 37.5% Bush; and 18.9% (!) Perot. (Nonetheless Clinton had almost double the electoral votes of Bush, and Perot had no electoral votes.) Also, Quayle was an absolute joke of a VP candidate, IMO.
Quayle was just as stupid as Harris.
Quayle might be the most-quoted VP candidate in history.
Poor Harris's comments don't compare to these gems.
Harris spoke in word salads and laughed too much. Quayle goofed up statements and is Mr. Potatoe Head!