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I don't sense what is so conspiratorial about it. Just spend some time observing the kind of material that gets posted there and the tone of the comments. It cr

I don't sense what is so conspiratorial about it. Just spend some time observing the kind of material that gets posted there and the tone of the comments. It creates an atmosphere that reinforces the idea that these people "had it coming" so to speak. There is no shortage of mockery and contempt. I think if you spend enough time there, you really do start to internalize these feelings. Why wouldn't someone? >"Subscribers are subscribed to this not through some advertising campaign" Perhaps the subreddit grew entirely organically, but it does show up on r/Popular and r/All. It is entirely reasonable to think that a significant number of redditors saw it, wound up subscribing, and after being there for a while they have learned to dehumanize the people that get showcased there. Whereas before they were probably anti-anti-vaxxer but probably not giddy about seeing them suffer because of it.

ianleeclark 5y ago
> I don't sense what is so conspiratorial about it. You're attempting to insert agency to account for natural repercussions of how we live our lives and the nearly 750k deaths we've already seen. That's what is conspiratorial. > It creates an atmosphere that reinforces the idea that these people "had it coming" so to speak. People are just posting what they believe. They believe that death after spamming facebook about the so-called danger is come-uppance. > after being there for a while they have learned to dehumanize the people that get showcased there I'm sorry, but I face an almost impenetrably large barrier to the belief that your average American (judging based on Reddit demographics and content of the sub) has to go through a process of dehumanization. Most people get up, try to avoid eye contact with the massive homeless population, ignore news about our empire droning children, grab some lunch, try not to think about us having the largest prison population in the world, and then call it a day. The single defining political moment of my, and many other Americans lives, has been 9/11. The bloodthirst in the aftermath is that only political consensus I've ever seen. How does one reconcile higher covid mortality rates than 9/11 with calls to reopen Fuddruckers regardless of the outcomes? It appears this subreddit is one of many answers.

ianleeclark 5y ago

> I don't sense what is so conspiratorial about it. You're attempting to insert agency to account for natural repercussions of how we live our lives and the nearly 750k deaths we've already seen. That's what is conspiratorial. > It creates an atmosphere that reinforces the idea that these people "had it coming" so to speak. People are just posting what they believe. They believe that death after spamming facebook about the so-called danger is come-uppance. > after being there for a while they have learned to dehumanize the people that get showcased there I'm sorry, but I face an almost impenetrably large barrier to the belief that your average American (judging based on Reddit demographics and content of the sub) has to go through a process of dehumanization. Most people get up, try to avoid eye contact with the massive homeless population, ignore news about our empire droning children, grab some lunch, try not to think about us having the largest prison population in the world, and then call it a day. The single defining political moment of my, and many other Americans lives, has been 9/11. The bloodthirst in the aftermath is that only political consensus I've ever seen. How does one reconcile higher covid mortality rates than 9/11 with calls to reopen Fuddruckers regardless of the outcomes? It appears this subreddit is one of many answers.