Mentions (13)
""The war is a tragedy *but...*" "Hamas killed civilians" "This war started on October 7th" over and over and over. It's like the living, breathing equivalent of a /r/worldnews mod."
"I had heard a lot of secondhand accounts of Reddit subs being censorious but this has really shocked me."
"Result is always the same, doesn't matter the source lol"
"never in my life have i seen such open and tolerated dehumanisation. never seen anybody call children 'subhuman' or 'creatures' before. may God cast them all into the furnace of fire <3"
"You have the Ukraine soldier LARPers on here parroting CIA talking points from r/worldnews about how Ukraine is destroying the Russian orcs with ease and then you have edgelord right wingers saying that Ukraine will fall any day now."
"I swear for a period of time before the hostages were returned, I remember clicking on a worldnews thread about the hostages and there were comments with thousands of upvotes and hundreds of replies basically fantasizing about Hamas sexually abusing the hostages? They would go super deep into detail"
"my dad loves reddit. loves it. I've seen his account and he has like 200k karma or something. when i visit my parents the topics of conversation are lifted directly from the front page. he loves marvel, sends me mechanical gifs, gets his political views from r/worldnews and is a perfect centrist."
"Funny how everyone on r slash WorldNews was ready to glass Russia. I suggested that it could've been a SAM and everyone just called me a Russian shill, idiot, yadda, yadda, yadda. Why is everyone so pro war these days?"
"They are really astroturfed, or the insane redditor have finally reached the neocon phase of 'killing everyone who is not a soldier of Washington?'"
"so many people suggesting to sanction the hell out of them, Ukraine wants to cut Russians off from the internet, destroy their economy, and so forth. What the fuck? It's well past any pretenses of hating Putin at that point, all this bullshit would ever do is drive Russian citizens towards actually "
"A thread about China where people were posting r/WorldNews tier comments literally saying we need to carpet bomb China. One guy was saying that we needed to be tougher over the 'Chinese Spy Balloon.'"
"80% of comment sections on the front page and 100% of r/europe and r/worldnews draw a harder line than fucking fox news right now."
"Interesting communities in theory like r/art or r/worldnews only hit the front page if the posts follow the same Reddit approved characteristics."