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Go check the UnitedKingdom subreddit if you want to see the celebratory bloodlust of the average Briton, the blatant alternative truths and so on, and this is of the young progressive sort, the average 40+ boomeroid probably no longer bothers with that mask even.

I am so tired. I’ve fought the good fight for so long for my people but in the end it’s like it was all pointless.

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6 points

Haven’t they always been like that?

r/GreenAndPleasant split off from them for a reason

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There’s been a noticeable shift on r/UnitedKingdom since around the time of the Reddit protests. I no longer participate there but I’ve seen quite a bit of extra unpleasantness the few times of taken a curious look at it.

Not that it was ever a great place to discuss trans issues, but the nastiness seems to be spreading to all manner of topics now.

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There may have been an organized effort by the far right to take over various national subreddits. It gives the impression that their views are overwhelmingly popular in the country, when really they’re not. The subreddit /r/Canada also got dominated by the far right, which led to the creation of /r/onguardforthee. At least one of the mods of /r/Canada was shown to be an active neo-Nazi, and another declared himself a white supremacist. There is still too much support for the far right in Canada (and we’re looking at a big lurch to the right in the next election), but it’s not as dominant as you’d think from that subreddit.

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Tbf, leftists did this also. r/northernireland had a big bunch of American IRA larpers who never set foot in the country, and edgy youth from the Republic.

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There’s always been that undercurrent of hate. The first few comments on any immigration story was enough to see that.

But yeah, I think the demographic did shift a bit in the last year or so

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6 points

r/Canada is very similar

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Go check the UnitedKingdom subreddit if you want to see the celebratory bloodlust of the average Briton

urgh, remind me to never follow that advise again. What a bunch of hateful, clueless assholes.

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Are they real though, or bots? It’s increasingly difficult to tell these days.

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As much as I’d like to think they are all Ivans and Vlads from Kamchatka doing this for 50 kopecks, I feel like there can’t be that many and with such authenticity, dedicated so hard to that sub.

Like how important is demoralising the already inactive disengaged progresvives really to political power and who has so much time and resources?

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As MLK stated "The moral arc of the universe is long but bends towards justice " stay fighting for good!

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An arc so long it looks flat I guess…

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That’s a perspective… zoom out.

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