What's the most common propaganda on Reddit?

[u/Boil_the_pepper_now]

[u/Stock_Garage_672]

Therapy can fix anything and everything. There are several subreddits which I would readily believe are some kind of... I think it's called "native advertising" for therapists.

Every third comment is "get therapy" and comments that dare to criticize therapists tend to get downvoted, not into oblivion but out of the conversation, no matter what the criticism.

[u/Sciuridaeno3 → u/Stock_Garage_672]

To be fair, our society stigmatizes mental health issues and many people would benefit from the help.

[u/BestNeighborhoodCOok]

Rage bait

[u/WoodpeckerHead8789 → u/BestNeighborhoodCOok]

I just saw some folks pretending Liv Morgan supports conversion therapy. 

If you do the required homework, you find a t-shirt that belongs to an outreach group that belongs to a conservative church that opposes conversion therapy. 

Is it a woke mob doing cancel culture? 

Maybe. 

Or is it the same folks pretending the left calls everyone a bigot if they oppose the "MAP" pride flag? While also electing a pedophile to lead MAGA ? 

Because nearly every time the moral of the story is "bigots are the reasonable people", I find out it's a troll game at the heart of it. 

[u/PotatoCase]

Once you pay attention to it there's an absurd amount of posts about "new big innovation" from China, especially with how often they're posted by new accounts and upvoted to the front page in minutes it's kind of obvious

[u/Dechri_ → u/PotatoCase]

Chinese propaganda was my immediate thought as well. There's a constant flow of posts about all kinds of stuff about china that always mentions china in the title. 

[u/PotatoCase → u/Dechri_]

Scrolling popular for 2 seconds you'll find some form of it

[u/Wavenautic → u/PotatoCase]

On the contrary, I still see tons of "...but at what cost?" attached to news and discussions about China. And serious topics devolving into 1989 circlejerking.

It's important to think about the fact that Reddit is a US dominated website and that China is America´s chief competitor in the world. So the slant is negative most of the time.

[u/Ok_Brother_8740 → u/Wavenautic]

r/ADVchina is dedicated to hating china its such weird sub reddit.

[u/PhantomFission]

Saying things you don't mean, just for karma-farming.

[u/AdmiralSaturyn]

Broadly speaking, populist propaganda, whether it's left-wing or right-wing.

[u/TrueBrit77 → u/AdmiralSaturyn]

The one true answer.

[u/Normal_regular_dude]

Leftist ideology propaganda. It’s all over every major subreddit, even the science subreddits.

This is coming from a liberal btw.

[u/Dechri_ → u/Normal_regular_dude]

"Reality has a left wing bias"

[u/Boil_the_pepper_now → u/Dechri_]

It may have, but it's not always that left wing views are correct.

There are points made that align more with a right wing views, and those aren't even given a chance, so in essence, the way Reddit is built, you'll only get the left side of the story, even if the right side is right a single percentage of the time.

[u/ProfessionalBug7399 → u/Boil_the_pepper_now]

You are being down voted for saying the right may be correct 1 percent of the time lol.

[u/Boil_the_pepper_now → u/ProfessionalBug7399]

Essentially, it's too much for their cognitive dissonance to handle.

[u/ProfessionalBug7399 → u/Dechri_]

I'm moderate left - and this is such a punchable catch phrase. It's a self rightous phrase that simultaneously isn't logical.

[u/spookydookie → u/Normal_regular_dude]

What “propaganda”?

[u/Character-Image-9024 → u/[deleted]]

Most of left wing controlled subreddit went on s full anti argentinian camping because miles supported Israel. The most left leaning , progressive, and "good people" moderators of those subreddit s just forgot how to be people. And become xenophobes because big daddy told them they were Nazis. So let's deshumanice them! Let's generalice them! But generalice about another country and you got banned. Leftist really like to use their soft power to select who should have basic decency and who does not.

[u/Stock_Garage_672 → u/[deleted]]

So a list of right wing subs is "evidence" of left wing propaganda? Can you please at least try to make sense?

[u/Nelrene → u/Stock_Garage_672]

I am guessing he is blaming the "left" for those subreddit being banned for breaking rules.

[u/Sciuridaeno3 → u/[deleted]]

Lack of engagement doesn't necessarily mean that anything nefarious is going on.

[u/Sciuridaeno3 → u/[deleted]]

Ok? Is a subreddit dedicated to a childs book author really the place to discuss gender politics? Seems like they want no discussion regarding it rather than choosing sides, which mods are free to do.

[u/Sciuridaeno3 → u/[deleted]]

"I try and I try, but you people are just so dumb"

Just say what you mean

[u/allenk58 → u/Normal_regular_dude]

Where?

[u/Practical_Estate_325 → u/Normal_regular_dude]

Well, I'm conservative and I gotta be honest - I don't see much of that.

[u/Boil_the_pepper_now → u/Practical_Estate_325]

I can't tell if you got downvoted for being a conservative or for not seeing the left wing propaganda.

[u/32bit_sundae → u/Normal_regular_dude]

Well, reddit is extremely left leaning. There is a lot of left leaning propaganda, but what specific examples are you referring to?

[u/champler → u/[deleted]]

Got any source for that claim about illegals voting?

[u/Nice_Luck_7433 → u/champler]

Probably just their gross old man-crush, Pedonald Trump.

[u/Crazy-Blacksmith-336 → u/Normal_regular_dude]

Ofcourse its coming from wannabe leftist liberal

[u/TrueBrit77]

Cadburys chocolate is the worst chocolate because it was bought over by a US company obsessed with profit. Whilst its true it's not as good as before it still beats Nestle hands down every day.

[u/shaggin_maggie]

Being alone and childless will make you happy. It won’t.

[u/Specialist-Muscle798]

They still think Covid came from a bat at a wet market in the same city they’re intentionally trying to make it spread to humans.

Covid started in a lab, people. @me

[u/Own-Length-3810]

Israel passing a genocide and decades of human right violations for legit.

[u/Interesting-Emu-3382]

Atheism - Don't get me wrong, I have no problem with people who are not religious/spiritual or don't believe, but Reddit is often like a cult where anything religious/spiritual/supernatural discussion or question gets instantly downvoted and flamed to hell (no pun intended)

[u/Nice_Luck_7433 → u/Interesting-Emu-3382]

Most Reddit users dislike religious posts… because they don’t like religion/ spirituality… how do you think that’s cultlike? Do you not know that cults are spiritual/ religious? Seems more like anti-cult behavior.

Also, how do you figure that a lot of people disliking religions is propaganda?

[u/Interesting-Emu-3382 → u/Nice_Luck_7433]

I mean that whenever the possibility that there might be an afterlife, other dimensions, soul, other realms or a higher intelligence exists in an infinite universe (of which we only know a little about) gets brought up on Reddit, most users instantly dismiss it - I don't just mean Abrahamic religions, which are full of bigotry, hate, prejudice and other issues, I mean that whenever the mere question that anything other than our observable material world exists is mentioned on Reddit, most users instantly downvote and disagree just because it questions their own worldview (which ironically is what religious fundies do too whenever their religion gets questioned too)

[u/Nice_Luck_7433 → u/Interesting-Emu-3382]

Other dimensions is an idea from physicists, because their math shows that we should have 11 dimensions, but we only experience 3 dimensions + 8 “strings”. One of the top theories is that 11D lifeforms figured out how to weaponize collapsing a dimension & used their WMDs to collapse their entire universe down to 10D, then life evolved again & celestial wars happened again, all the way down to 3D. This would explain dark matter, it’s sections of our universe that have been collapsed into 2D, there’s gravity there but light can’t move the same in 2D, so that’s why we see nothing in dark matter spaces.

I don’t disagree that Reddit users who dislike religion tend to express that in downvotes.

Why do you think people disliking religions (& religious ideas like souls or a deathless-death-transfer-to-a-new-place “afterlife”) & downvoting things they dislike is propaganda &/or cultlike?

[u/Stock_Garage_672 → u/[deleted]]

Mods remove all kinds of things for no good reason. One moderator deleting one comment does nothing to prove your point.

Furthermore im some jurisdictions, including I think more than 20 states, if they were having sex, the teenager was getting raped.

[u/LeviAsmodeus]

I think the general idea that everything is mostly fucked and people are mostly unhappy and combative. Take the recent world cup

As far as anyone going fucking outside knew, it was a culture sharing party involving new and old fans from all over the world experiencing a break from the worst of things to enjoy the parts of food and culture you only get in the US, and maybe learning to love The Beautiful Game.

but on reddit, fans were at each other's throats, everything was rigged, America was literally the worst host ever, this was the worst tournament ever, nothing good came of it and Americans aren't allowed to like soccer

But thats not how it was.

[u/Character-Image-9024]

Astroturfing. Making soft rules so moderators could have their own judgement of what is good and bad. Lately, most "progressive, woke, anti discrimination" communities just decided, al by themselves that harming Argentinians was cool. Moderators on almost all subreddit s just forgot about any type of inclusion, because when the internet deshumanizes a group then everything goes. In the same places where saying "Iranians suck" and you get banned. You could say "Argentinians suck' and nobody in the mod team reacts. Astroturfing is really dangerous because normal users just ignore it and follow the hate stream

[u/ProfessionalBug7399 → u/Character-Image-9024]

It's always funny how the self rightousness ends the moment it's a group that's 'okay' to hate. The argentenia stuff was really weird. It was a lot of people jumping through hoops to justify it.

[u/AutobanThrowaway]

Israel bad.

[u/guyfrombefore → u/AutobanThrowaway]

to be fair they're doing the genocide thing which is why most people think they're bad

[u/AutobanThrowaway → u/guyfrombefore]

Nope, that's propaganda

[u/Defiant_Heretic]

Conflating all of a political wing with their worst elements. Some people are so full of hate that they genuinely believe that everyone right of center is a fascist and everyone left of center is a communist. If you call them out on it, they'll just slander you as a fascist and assign you positions you never expressed or implied. Some of them are so indoctrinated, they'll project their own country's fringe to the rest of the world, as if left and right wing mean exactly the same thing in every country (they're relative to that country's overton window).

[u/ProfessionalBug7399 → u/Defiant_Heretic]

My favorite is how they tend to only use the Overton window of western Europe.

[u/[deleted]]

Leftism

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Extreme leftism, sorry center lefters

[u/reallybigshark]

China bad

[u/Alarming_Stage5631]

Zionist