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... What on earth is going on in r/Sweden? There's some real sludge being thrown around in there. It's about par with 4chan's /b. Somehow I don't think that reddit is a very normal sample of the culture of Sweden.

To put it gently... cough Where does r/Sweden get its credibility from?

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Reddit is a refuge for a lot of very right-wing commenters, I've seen the same in several /r/<European country>.

The debate in Europe is so toxic, on one side starry-eyed humanists, on the other narrow-minded losers. Each resort to separate little bubbles where they can reaffirm each other. In the middle, reasonable people get squeezed out.

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