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I hadn't been on reddit for a really long time (way before all this started) and I logged in yesterday and was pretty surprised by how much war glorification wa

• the_lonely_road 5y ago
  Remember that half of the messages you are reading on Reddit are from literal 10 to 15 year olds. A lot of popular media these days, but especially popular media targeted at the younger demographic, mentions reddit in it and the quality of the discourse clearly shows it. Full anonymity on the internet was a mistake. The exact same words carry very different weight depending on what lips they pass out of and every ounce of that nuance has been lost in internet discussion.
• Razengan 5y ago
  It’s literal propaganda: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30548972 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30548972 Everything that pushes the required narrative gets massively upvoted and accepted as truth without verification, even if falsified later (like the “Ghost of Kyiv” which turned out to be screenshots from a video game) You can try it yourself. Take a random picture from Google and put a made-up caption on it and note the results.