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r/politics is “communist”? That’s… just a really dumb take. If there is a far-left presence on Reddit, it is not prominent. r/politics is left-leaning and angry, but, objectively speaking, not really all that extreme.

And, for what it’s worth, it seems perfectly reasonable to label those who tried to overthrow our democratic government “traitors”.

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This kind of sentiment always shows up in this kind of thread; I think a lot of people don't really grok that being far enough to one side causes an unbiased forum to appear biased against you. If you hate X enough, Reddit and Twitter are going to seem pro-X, regardless of what X is.

(And, separately, almost no one who argues about anything being "communist" is using the same definition of that word as the person they're arguing with, but that's a different problem entirely)

> r/politics is “communist”? That’s… just a really dumb take. If there is a far-left presence on Reddit, it is not prominent. r/politics is left-leaning and angry, but, objectively speaking, not really all that extreme.

Obviously, none of the affluent idiots from chapo or at hexbear controlling r/politics r/news or r/worldnews are really communists, they are just rich asshats that just pretend to be, my point still stands. They are still spouting marxist non sense, violent speech, and their behavior isn't moderated, as long as they don't target "the wrong people".

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