RobotsLeftHand

By the time I left reddit I couldn’t remember the last time I had a conversation there. I started a personal rule on reddit where if the top comment was “It’s almost as if…” I would just close the tab and move on.

Whatever followed would be the laziest brain rot. And people voted it to the top.

What the hell? I’d ask why but reason left them long ago.

That was more a death rattle.

Reddit was already gaining a lot of clout as a public platform. Around that time was when Bannon leveraged reddit influence to drive the Bernie bros and incels to Trump.

I’m guessing that’s when the world stage really took notice of reddit as a tool for political influence.

Reddit was already a shell of itself before AI. I stuck around too long because I didn’t quite like Lemmy when I tried during the API exodus. I eventually left when they started forcing logins. By that time I hadn’t realized just how much the community had degraded till I came here.

It’s like I forgot what online discourse felt like before corporate tentacles strangled reddit. Even the stupid arguments make more sense, and that seems impossible.

Also the explanations convenient ignorance of global inflation versus how the US Fed reaction actually outperformed most other countries.

This is the most blatant proof for me that reddit is completely subsumed by bots and corporate interests. It used to be routinely overrun by random stuff like this.

Large groups of people on the internet get weird for no reason. It’s a marker of health for a community, like monitoring salamander populations in a stream.

I thought you were overreacting. I’m sorry.

I think Citizens United says otherwise.

It was the greatest part of Biden getting elected.

That silence.

Then remembering the horror of heading back into the daily chaos when Trump was voted back in.

As someone who does some involved costumes, you’d be surprised what turns people on. And the more specific and strange, the more turned on they get.

More people need to try Opal Gold apples.

Here we have a person who has been completely subsumed by talking points. Their brain replaced by propaganda, no longer capable of original thought. Doomed to repeat “Haha I’m right and you can’t stand it!” until they die of smug ignorance.

Eggnog?

Thats why lying to the cops is one of Buddha’s four tasks to enlightenment.

Folks don’t like folks who talk about other terminator movies 'round these parts.

Punch card ballots are supposed to be much better than pen/pencil and paper and that ended in disaster.

Often I don’t need specific items. I just need some new concepts to get my mind out of a rut of the same old gift ideas. I don’t want the kind of friends who would like to receive monogrammed anything.

And lose all the brutalist charm? Might as well wash the sauce off your spaghetti before eating it.