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mucifer

(23,522 posts)
Sat Sep 26, 2020, 11:33 AM Sep 2020

I am impressed with Reddit's general political page

If you post a thread on the page it puts up a link on how to register to vote and voting information. The general politics page is very anti trump. This means that articles that are anti trump by the members get upvoted and while britebart and fox news articles are posted, they get downvoted so you can only find them if you look for the newest posts.

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/hot/

I know there are lots of ugly parts to reddit. But their general politics page is a great source of info. I would also say the Bernie people who post there are pretty much all supporting Biden. Bernie was very popular there in the primaries.

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I am impressed with Reddit's general political page (Original Post) mucifer Sep 2020 OP
Reddit is overwhelmingly liberal/left-wing Sympthsical Sep 2020 #1
I never go there. But, my son goes there a lot. bamagal62 Sep 2020 #2
I love Reddit but I mainly go there for non-political stuff FakeNoose Sep 2020 #3
I use several reddit gaming forums regularly...pretty civil places pecosbob Sep 2020 #4

Sympthsical

(9,067 posts)
1. Reddit is overwhelmingly liberal/left-wing
Sat Sep 26, 2020, 11:37 AM
Sep 2020

If you go to anything about politics or news, all the top posts are from a Lefty perspective.

I always sort by controversial. It’s far more interesting, and you can often find more conversations and debates.

Reddit has this odd reputation as some sort of racist, misogynist, neckbeard paradise. It’s not. It has those places, sure. But the top posts on All are overwhelmingly liberal like 95% of the time

FakeNoose

(32,613 posts)
3. I love Reddit but I mainly go there for non-political stuff
Sat Sep 26, 2020, 11:46 AM
Sep 2020

It's fun and interesting, and the demographics skew youngish (well young than I), liberal, city-dwellers, mostly better-educated. I love that fact that people chime in from all over the world on
Reddit, but it's also local Pittsburgh/western PA people. Lots of good humor there, fun stuff - not mean and usually not crass.

For politics I still come to DU every day.





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