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Reddit honestly killed news for me because of the trump presidency. For years I thought he'd be removed from office. Turns out redditors blew unbelievably small

Reddit honestly killed news for me because of the trump presidency. For years I thought he'd be removed from office. Turns out redditors blew unbelievably small things out of proportion to the point that many including myself just ignored it cause it would change anything. Getting off reddit has been one of the best things in my life. Discord has helped find more positive outlets for me to waste my time. But lastly, get a hobby that isn't just working on getting better at something. It's cool if you can do like 30 different things, but that's hard. Know your limits and budget screw around time to help unwind.

mrlala 6y ago
Well, I think the bigger problem is the actual general insanity of the last 4 years, mixed in with growing social media. It's horrible for people to have to be bombarded by trolling and lies by the president on a daily basis. (To those who wish to deny that, please don't bother because you are wrong, it's not a debate). >For years I thought he'd be removed from office. Turns out redditors blew unbelievably small things out of proportion Eh yes and no.. any other president before trump would have resigned in disgrace about 100 times. I don't think it's blowing things out of proportion when the PRESIDENT is constantly calling people names on twitter on a daily basis and doing his best to divide. Anyway.. I agree the best solution is to try and avoid seeing shit daily, and I'm really really hoping in two months we can go back to not hearing about politics every fucking day unless we really want to seek it out.
- njanirudh 6y ago
  Just an fyi Its comments like yours also who are responsible for creating reddit news circlejerk. Trump is not good but is he as messed up as you are saying? Maybe not because I felt the democrats were as horrible if not more. Look at their SJW stance, shitty things done to remove trump at any cost, berating anyone who dosnt fall in line with their shitty policies, supporting BLM rioters, playing victim card for everything
- mellosouls 6y ago
  That whole "one side is evil and don't bother responding if you disagree" tone is part of the problem.
  - creata 6y ago
    Honestly, I think it's part of the solution. Too many words are spent in online arguments between two people who aren't at all open to changing their beliefs. If people are willing to admit that at the outset, everyone's time is spared. But anyway, mrlala said "wrong", not "evil", and in this particular case, the evidence is on Trump's Twitter account for everyone to see.
    - kortilla 6y ago
      Until you can assign the people you disagree with to the gas chambers, it’s not a solution. They are still there, still voting, etc. 4 years of hysterics and the guy got even more votes than before. Calling them dumb/wrong and not worth engaging is not working.
  - DavidSJ 6y ago
    I don’t think the “don’t bother responding” part is productive, but I also think we have to avoid false equivalences, pretending both sides are anywhere close in terms of how much they’ve misbehaved (not saying you’re doing that, but a lot of people are in an attempt to stay above the fray). False equivalence is how the frogs got boiled and we ended up where we are today.
    - LMYahooTFY 6y ago
      So, one side is evil?
      - MrRiddle 6y ago
        Looks like it, not sure which one though.
      - VBprogrammer 6y ago
- tremon 6y ago
  In my view, that insanity is mostly based around fabricated outrage from the media. Trump's presidency has been pretty predictable. The first person fired from his inner circle may have been newsworthy, but every subsequent firing or leak or twit should have been nothing more than a byline on page 6. So yes, I too avoid the news (and have been for over a decade). It hasn't made my life any poorer.
- axguscbklp 6y ago
  >any other president before trump would have resigned in disgrace about 100 times Reagan supported death squads in Latin America and didn't resign. G.W. Bush started a war based on bullshit and had people tortured and didn't resign. Every president going back years now has overseen the NSA surveillance system.
  - ben_w 6y ago
    My history isn’t amazing, but let’s say they did those things. Why should USA presidents care what non-Americans (myself included!) think? I can’t vote them out, nor the Senators supporting them. (Would I even be able to sue them if they injured me with their policies?) What matters is limited to their actions with regard to America and Americans. For the actions which led to the impeachment, for their actions during the pandemic, and for the post-Election behaviour, a normal politician would demonstrate shame. And those are just the biggest and most obvious ones.
    - MeinBlutIstBlau 6y ago
      One thing that bewildered me about reddit talking about Trump is that the amount of Non-americans that would chime in about our politics. Like why the hell do you care about my country so much? Are we a zoo to you? We equally dislike our system as much as you but we're at ground zero and understand the harsh reality of our system better than them. Why do they think our countries influence is something they should try to sway?
      - ben_w 6y ago
        Because “when America sneezes the world catches a cold”.
      - fastasucan 6y ago
        >It's just not a concern I have. Because when you fabricate a war we send our young men and women there to die a pointless death as your allies. Because if you descide to use nuclear weapons its over for us, and if you descide to ignore global warming its equally over for us.
justEgan 6y ago
Why not just unsubscribe to any news-related subreddits? And unchecking the "use new reddit as my default experience" while you're at it.
- numpad0 6y ago
  I’d rather agree with the parent. There’s something in Reddit that it consume a person worse than Twitter does. Constantly asking for righteous micro-decisions for one thing. It’s always a fight for some justice, and where there isn’t, the corporate fuels it.
  - twic 6y ago
    No, it isn't. There are plenty of subs that just talk about their thing. justEgan is entirely correct to point out that you can avoid politics or news if you want to. An awful lot of people do have this idea that you just have to turn the whole thing off, though. And i see a lot of people on Reddit equally incorrectly saying that about Twitter! I wonder why.
    - tubularhells 6y ago
      Can you point me to one of these subs you are talking about?
      - shearez 6y ago
        /r/buildapc is a good example. There is very little discussion outside of the intended topic.
      - bighitbiker3 6y ago
        Most of the synthesizer and music subs
      - com2kid 6y ago
        /r/askculinary /r/askengineers /r/SEUT Lots of the fiction and story subreddits, /r/maliciouscompliance is hilarious. There are multitudes of art and music subreddits, choose your favorite genres. /r/neutralpolitics is a great heavily moderated subreddit that requires HQ citations for any statements of fact posted. The diet and fitness subreddits are super supportive and positive. Tons of artists have their own subreddits, e.g. Swordscomic got its start on Reddit, and still has a really active subreddit.
patrickk 6y ago
You can create a RES[1] filter to remove the Trump keyword, or any other of your choice. Carefully pruning your subscribed subreddit list makes Reddit worth it. I still get value from buildapc, homeassistant, patientgamer, ipod, rugbyunion, and some others that concern other interests and hobbies. I do agree that people shoe-horning Trump into everything is extremely annoying. [1] https://redditenhancementsuite.com/ https://redditenhancementsuite.com/
- Loughla 6y ago
  I would add that 'Reddit is Fun' is the best mobile reddit app that I've found, and allows for username, keyword, and subreddit filtering. Very, very useful.
Rillen 6y ago
I'm not sure what you mean though. I'm much more surprised that he did not got impeached. Talking to Russia without recordings? His quid pro quo? His political business deals in mar-a-lago? His illegal hush money? His blant missuse of power with people like Barr? Is it the fault of reddit that the american people have not stood up? Is it reddits fault that there are so many people in the republican party without any spine? (not saying this does't exist on dem sides as well) His lies? Have you ever had a person lie to so many people constantly? You should not have ignored it, you should have gone to the streets every single time.
- coldtea 6y ago
  >His lies? Have you ever had a person lie to so many people constantly? Yes. Any other president. But they did it with more panache, and were less garish, so that was OK for the mainstream liberal media.
  - Rillen 6y ago
    Others misstake doesn't make it better. We should have always stood up and made it clear that lying is not okay. And 'any other president'. Really? Do you have examples for this? I'm not aware of any president doing it that strong, that crazy, that often.
    - coldtea 6y ago
      >Others misstake doesn't make it better. "Better" is a relative term, so others mistakes do make it better. If anything, it shows that it's hysteria to scream and panic for something that's more or less business as usual, just more gaudy and with worse PR, and without sharing all the establishments bloodthirstiness for wars, invasion, and interventions. I'd rather have self-serving deals for golf courses than the nth trillion dollar invasion...
      - Rillen 6y ago
        I do think corona shows rather nicely how critical good leadership is. We should assume that other things also had impacts for people lives. Otherwise it would mean that a President isn't relevant at all. While one person takes care of a self-serving deal for golf courses, the other person would sit down and educate themselves on topics like climate change, education and current education system issues etc. I'm quite bewildered, that you actually prefer a self-serving deals over everything else he could do. And your two options are missleading arent they? Its not a black and white topic.
coldtea 6y ago
>Turns out redditors blew unbelievably small things out of proportion Just redditors? All established media...
- MeinBlutIstBlau 6y ago
  I get that but when you have morons who can make a post at a whim and equally influenced morons, they spread the media garbage like wildfire then get mad at you when you state it's false or wrong just because it doesn't support their worldview.
deeeeplearning 6y ago
>Turns out redditors blew unbelievably small things out of proportion to the point that many including myself just ignored it cause it would change anything. Not sure this is right. I think Trump has actually just demolished norms at such an astonishing rate that the system can't keep up and things that 10 years would have torpedoed a campaign or a presidency now get forgotten in the 24 Hour shitshow that has been the Trump administration. Remember it wasn't that long ago that Howard Dean blew up his entire presidential campaign just by "screaming" at an event.
jancsika 6y ago
> Reddit honestly killed news for me because of the trump presidency. Reddit for news is like StackOverflow for programming. If come to either one already knowledgeable in the given area looking for a quick supplement, they are a boon. If you use them as a substitute for knowledge, they are harmful.
- MeinBlutIstBlau 6y ago
  Half the time that's what I use reddit for anyway. I agree with this statement whole heartedly. Reddit just has too many eggs in one basket milking their own community for free labor at this point.

mrlala 6y ago

Well, I think the bigger problem is the actual general insanity of the last 4 years, mixed in with growing social media. It's horrible for people to have to be bombarded by trolling and lies by the president on a daily basis. (To those who wish to deny that, please don't bother because you are wrong, it's not a debate). >For years I thought he'd be removed from office. Turns out redditors blew unbelievably small things out of proportion Eh yes and no.. any other president before trump would have resigned in disgrace about 100 times. I don't think it's blowing things out of proportion when the PRESIDENT is constantly calling people names on twitter on a daily basis and doing his best to divide. Anyway.. I agree the best solution is to try and avoid seeing shit daily, and I'm really really hoping in two months we can go back to not hearing about politics every fucking day unless we really want to seek it out.

njanirudh 6y ago
Just an fyi Its comments like yours also who are responsible for creating reddit news circlejerk. Trump is not good but is he as messed up as you are saying? Maybe not because I felt the democrats were as horrible if not more. Look at their SJW stance, shitty things done to remove trump at any cost, berating anyone who dosnt fall in line with their shitty policies, supporting BLM rioters, playing victim card for everything
mellosouls 6y ago
That whole "one side is evil and don't bother responding if you disagree" tone is part of the problem.
- creata 6y ago
  Honestly, I think it's part of the solution. Too many words are spent in online arguments between two people who aren't at all open to changing their beliefs. If people are willing to admit that at the outset, everyone's time is spared. But anyway, mrlala said "wrong", not "evil", and in this particular case, the evidence is on Trump's Twitter account for everyone to see.
  - kortilla 6y ago
    Until you can assign the people you disagree with to the gas chambers, it’s not a solution. They are still there, still voting, etc. 4 years of hysterics and the guy got even more votes than before. Calling them dumb/wrong and not worth engaging is not working.
- DavidSJ 6y ago
  I don’t think the “don’t bother responding” part is productive, but I also think we have to avoid false equivalences, pretending both sides are anywhere close in terms of how much they’ve misbehaved (not saying you’re doing that, but a lot of people are in an attempt to stay above the fray). False equivalence is how the frogs got boiled and we ended up where we are today.
  - LMYahooTFY 6y ago
    So, one side is evil?
    - MrRiddle 6y ago
      Looks like it, not sure which one though.
    - VBprogrammer 6y ago
tremon 6y ago
In my view, that insanity is mostly based around fabricated outrage from the media. Trump's presidency has been pretty predictable. The first person fired from his inner circle may have been newsworthy, but every subsequent firing or leak or twit should have been nothing more than a byline on page 6. So yes, I too avoid the news (and have been for over a decade). It hasn't made my life any poorer.
axguscbklp 6y ago
>any other president before trump would have resigned in disgrace about 100 times Reagan supported death squads in Latin America and didn't resign. G.W. Bush started a war based on bullshit and had people tortured and didn't resign. Every president going back years now has overseen the NSA surveillance system.
- ben_w 6y ago
  My history isn’t amazing, but let’s say they did those things. Why should USA presidents care what non-Americans (myself included!) think? I can’t vote them out, nor the Senators supporting them. (Would I even be able to sue them if they injured me with their policies?) What matters is limited to their actions with regard to America and Americans. For the actions which led to the impeachment, for their actions during the pandemic, and for the post-Election behaviour, a normal politician would demonstrate shame. And those are just the biggest and most obvious ones.
  - MeinBlutIstBlau 6y ago
    One thing that bewildered me about reddit talking about Trump is that the amount of Non-americans that would chime in about our politics. Like why the hell do you care about my country so much? Are we a zoo to you? We equally dislike our system as much as you but we're at ground zero and understand the harsh reality of our system better than them. Why do they think our countries influence is something they should try to sway?
    - ben_w 6y ago
      Because “when America sneezes the world catches a cold”.
    - fastasucan 6y ago
      >It's just not a concern I have. Because when you fabricate a war we send our young men and women there to die a pointless death as your allies. Because if you descide to use nuclear weapons its over for us, and if you descide to ignore global warming its equally over for us.

justEgan 6y ago

Why not just unsubscribe to any news-related subreddits? And unchecking the "use new reddit as my default experience" while you're at it.

numpad0 6y ago
I’d rather agree with the parent. There’s something in Reddit that it consume a person worse than Twitter does. Constantly asking for righteous micro-decisions for one thing. It’s always a fight for some justice, and where there isn’t, the corporate fuels it.
- twic 6y ago
  No, it isn't. There are plenty of subs that just talk about their thing. justEgan is entirely correct to point out that you can avoid politics or news if you want to. An awful lot of people do have this idea that you just have to turn the whole thing off, though. And i see a lot of people on Reddit equally incorrectly saying that about Twitter! I wonder why.
  - tubularhells 6y ago
    Can you point me to one of these subs you are talking about?
    - shearez 6y ago
      /r/buildapc is a good example. There is very little discussion outside of the intended topic.
    - bighitbiker3 6y ago
      Most of the synthesizer and music subs
    - com2kid 6y ago
      /r/askculinary /r/askengineers /r/SEUT Lots of the fiction and story subreddits, /r/maliciouscompliance is hilarious. There are multitudes of art and music subreddits, choose your favorite genres. /r/neutralpolitics is a great heavily moderated subreddit that requires HQ citations for any statements of fact posted. The diet and fitness subreddits are super supportive and positive. Tons of artists have their own subreddits, e.g. Swordscomic got its start on Reddit, and still has a really active subreddit.

patrickk 6y ago

You can create a RES[1] filter to remove the Trump keyword, or any other of your choice. Carefully pruning your subscribed subreddit list makes Reddit worth it. I still get value from buildapc, homeassistant, patientgamer, ipod, rugbyunion, and some others that concern other interests and hobbies. I do agree that people shoe-horning Trump into everything is extremely annoying. [1] https://redditenhancementsuite.com/ https://redditenhancementsuite.com/

Loughla 6y ago
I would add that 'Reddit is Fun' is the best mobile reddit app that I've found, and allows for username, keyword, and subreddit filtering. Very, very useful.

Rillen 6y ago

I'm not sure what you mean though. I'm much more surprised that he did not got impeached. Talking to Russia without recordings? His quid pro quo? His political business deals in mar-a-lago? His illegal hush money? His blant missuse of power with people like Barr? Is it the fault of reddit that the american people have not stood up? Is it reddits fault that there are so many people in the republican party without any spine? (not saying this does't exist on dem sides as well) His lies? Have you ever had a person lie to so many people constantly? You should not have ignored it, you should have gone to the streets every single time.

coldtea 6y ago
>His lies? Have you ever had a person lie to so many people constantly? Yes. Any other president. But they did it with more panache, and were less garish, so that was OK for the mainstream liberal media.
- Rillen 6y ago
  Others misstake doesn't make it better. We should have always stood up and made it clear that lying is not okay. And 'any other president'. Really? Do you have examples for this? I'm not aware of any president doing it that strong, that crazy, that often.
  - coldtea 6y ago
    >Others misstake doesn't make it better. "Better" is a relative term, so others mistakes do make it better. If anything, it shows that it's hysteria to scream and panic for something that's more or less business as usual, just more gaudy and with worse PR, and without sharing all the establishments bloodthirstiness for wars, invasion, and interventions. I'd rather have self-serving deals for golf courses than the nth trillion dollar invasion...
    - Rillen 6y ago
      I do think corona shows rather nicely how critical good leadership is. We should assume that other things also had impacts for people lives. Otherwise it would mean that a President isn't relevant at all. While one person takes care of a self-serving deal for golf courses, the other person would sit down and educate themselves on topics like climate change, education and current education system issues etc. I'm quite bewildered, that you actually prefer a self-serving deals over everything else he could do. And your two options are missleading arent they? Its not a black and white topic.

coldtea 6y ago

>Turns out redditors blew unbelievably small things out of proportion Just redditors? All established media...

MeinBlutIstBlau 6y ago
I get that but when you have morons who can make a post at a whim and equally influenced morons, they spread the media garbage like wildfire then get mad at you when you state it's false or wrong just because it doesn't support their worldview.

deeeeplearning 6y ago

>Turns out redditors blew unbelievably small things out of proportion to the point that many including myself just ignored it cause it would change anything. Not sure this is right. I think Trump has actually just demolished norms at such an astonishing rate that the system can't keep up and things that 10 years would have torpedoed a campaign or a presidency now get forgotten in the 24 Hour shitshow that has been the Trump administration. Remember it wasn't that long ago that Howard Dean blew up his entire presidential campaign just by "screaming" at an event.

jancsika 6y ago

> Reddit honestly killed news for me because of the trump presidency. Reddit for news is like StackOverflow for programming. If come to either one already knowledgeable in the given area looking for a quick supplement, they are a boon. If you use them as a substitute for knowledge, they are harmful.

MeinBlutIstBlau 6y ago
Half the time that's what I use reddit for anyway. I agree with this statement whole heartedly. Reddit just has too many eggs in one basket milking their own community for free labor at this point.