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The Dredge Tank. For posting all the low tier reactionary bullshit that you can't post anywhere else. Got some bullshit from Reddit with 2 upvotes and want to share, post it here.

This community was created with the purpose that Rule 8 fans will just block it.

The rules are literally The Dunk Tank's rules, just without rule 8.

Rule 1: All posts must include links to the subject matter, and no identifying information should be redacted.

Rule 2: If your source is a reactionary website, please use archive.is instead of linking directly.

Rule 3: No sectarianism.

Rule 4: TERF/SWERFs Not Welcome

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Sometimes I miss the 2016 version of myself, where I would get a mild dopamine boost about funny jokes about the orange man, or seeing a celebrity endorse my favorite DNC war criminal - blissfully unaware of global politics, war, and genocide.

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[–] Monk3brain3@hexbear.net 24 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Not just r/politics but half the big subreddits are dnc astroturfed shit holes. Now I just stick to r/manga for release updates and r/jrpg to find shit worth pirating lol

[–] AmericaDelendaEst@hexbear.net 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

shout out to that day in 2016 when they had to huck hillary into the back of a van like a sack of potatoes and /r/politics was MYSTERIOUSLY pro-Bernie again, just for like 20 fucking hours, almost as if the bot-runners didn't know what messaging to push

[–] Monk3brain3@hexbear.net 11 points 3 weeks ago

Lol. Once your realize voting for key positions of the empire is of no consequence and emotionally divest from the clown show that is electoral politics things get really funny.

I'm not completely against electoral politics but in the US its a dead end imho

[–] RustyVenture@hexbear.net 13 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

These people also ruined simpsonsshitposting which for me was the only decent place left in that cesspool. None of their memes are even good! All grandma-tier clapbacks.

[–] Homer_Simpson@hexbear.net 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

RIGHT!!? It's not just me it used to be a pretty leftist sub right?

That fucking post the other day with like 17k upvotes, and today they found a way to shit on Cuba

[–] RustyVenture@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

Oh yeah. I felt like it was pretty neutral overall, though the crossposts with the_leftorium were always well-received. Now at least a third of the posts are just the most low-effort, r/politics-comment-over-a-simpsons-scene dreck. There's no way that shit's totally organic.

[–] Monk3brain3@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago

I think right wingers don't get comedy. They just think it's open season to be a racist or bigot or push whatever dumbass agenda they ride for (like return to imaginary tradition) and the humor just dies

[–] REgon@hexbear.net 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

r/the_leftorium was still nice last I checked

[–] RustyVenture@hexbear.net 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, just not enough posts lol

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 5 points 3 weeks ago

Any time I poke my head into r*ddit, all I see is astroturfing. I don't have an account and never have, nor do I look there regularly. Sometimes it's the only place to find information about movies and whatnot because it's easier to maintain a social media presence than an entire website. So I'll go peek at the horror sub, for example, and there's blatant astroturfing advertising shitty movies and shows. It's not even a large sub.

Some topics are more obvious, others have more artificial influences. But it's bots and shills all the way down.