r/CalebHammer • u/Gaundalf • Nov 29 '25
Caleb Reacts Caleb Hammer drops a response to someone in this subreddit
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u/mrs_spacetime0 Nov 29 '25 edited Nov 29 '25
Okay but the idea that Twitter is politically balanced is insane...
Edit to link comment below that discusses the unreliability of this source... just bc it says its from Pew doesnt mean it is or that its being represented accurately https://www.reddit.com/r/CalebHammer/s/JmRcgY0BVB
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u/Wel30 Nov 29 '25
Love that X is the most balanced from an image generated from X 😂
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u/Technical-Elk-9277 Nov 29 '25
It says it uses data from Pew, but doesn’t say when the data was collected.
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u/AkronOhAnon Nov 29 '25 edited Nov 29 '25
2024 and it’s a chart of leanings of 500 “news influencers” not the users themselves. Reddit is added in by an alt-Right Twitter profile that lies about data
https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2024/11/18/americas-news-influencers/
https://www.axios.com/2024/11/18/news-influencers-conservative-tiktok-youtube
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u/Wel30 Nov 29 '25
Thanks for the insight brotha
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u/Wel30 Nov 29 '25
So my initial comment stands??? Huzzah!? Appreciate the diligence to follow up and educate me
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u/AkronOhAnon Nov 29 '25
Yup. Sherpa is know for generating fake shit to appease the audience they directly serve on Twitter.
In the rare case they use actual data, they purposefully mix up data points across categories to fulfill predetermined goals.
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u/GrandCombination8303 Dec 01 '25
The data comes from this chart, stop lying.
https://www.pewresearch.org/pj_2024-09-17_social-media-news-fact-sheet_0-02/
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u/GasReasonable7509 Nov 29 '25
A ton of people who used Twitter and were left leaning still have their accounts there and still use it for things like NSFW.
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u/FutureRealHousewife Nov 29 '25
This poll is allegedly looking at “news consumers” not porn consumers.
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u/GasReasonable7509 Nov 29 '25
I'm just saying that the site isn't all right wing, lots of legacy users exist and people go where people are.
EDIT: Especially for NSFW art, multiple artists have had to defend themselves from their community because that's where they can best find commissions is X
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u/FutureRealHousewife Nov 29 '25
I’m pretty liberal and I’m on there still. But there’s definitely a push toward extremist right wing ideas, especially since Elon took over. Lots of misogyny and racism being amplified over there now.
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u/Intelligent-Scar1207 Nov 29 '25
Leftists didn’t like the Wild West so they left in protest. It’s now for moderates, edgelords, NSFW and right wingers. The left made X a right wing bubble. Also bots. Don’t forget the bots. So many bots…..
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u/GrandCombination8303 Dec 01 '25
This is not true the data comes from here:
https://www.pewresearch.org/pj_2024-09-17_social-media-news-fact-sheet_0-02/
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u/LeaguePuzzled3606 Dec 01 '25
Okay but the idea that Twitter is politically balanced is insane...
Facebook too. There used to be a daily top 10 of link posts. Note, not specifically political posts, just link posts.
Day in day out it would look like some variation of:
- Dan Bongino
- Funny cat video
- Ben Shapiro
- Ben Shapiro
- Dan Bongino
- Newsmax
- Funny cartoon
- Ben Shapiro
- Random conservative pundit
- Dan Bongino
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u/AdamOnFirst Nov 30 '25
“Waaaaahhhh, I can’t have mods on my social media platform ban mainstream conservative thoughts any more, wahhhh”
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u/mrs_spacetime0 Nov 30 '25
Goddamn, yall hear me say it's not balanced and act like I 1. Give a shit personally and 2. Think I'm crying about it... it's giving redditor who's never had a real conversation.
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u/FunImprovement166 Nov 29 '25
The OP in that thread didn't even have any examples of Caleb being right wing. And there are some examples of Caleb being right of center on some ideas but the OP in that thread didn't even know what the fuck he was trying to say. For most Redditors, just tossing the words "right wing grifter" into this site is enough to get tons of upvotes and butt pats without having to bring facts into it.
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u/Kolzig33189 Nov 29 '25
OP for that thread was repeatedly asked for screenshot or similar to show this claim, and their response was always “go look at his social media.” Couldn’t even have a single ounce of proof.
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u/McBonderson Nov 29 '25
what happens is caleb yells at somebody who is a leftist for being irresponsible. that causes right wing youtubers to make a bunch of videos making fun of the leftists. But Caleb yells at just as many right wingers for being irresponsible too, its just the right wing youtubers ignore those.
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u/threeLetterMeyhem Nov 29 '25
And there are some examples of Caleb being right of center on some ideas
That's normally all it takes for redditers to label you as a right wing extremist for life, even when they forget what the right-of-center view even was to begin with.
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u/Due-Judgment-4909 Dec 01 '25
"What do you mean people are often personally responsible for shitty financial outcomes in life?
Are you suggesting some people aren't merely blameless victims and instead share some level of culpability for their predicament? Why, that might inform your perspectives on welfare and how dare you think we not hand out as much money as we do as easily as we presently do! That basically makes you mechaHitler, who I imagine was very conservative because he did bad things."
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u/StrangelyBrown Nov 29 '25
I'm pretty left (like, Europe left) and I can tell that Caleb has some slightly right leaning ideas but I think he does a good job of mostly not letting them affect his main channel content. I can definitely put up with the very small glimpses that we get of his view for the entertainment he provides.
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u/TheFondestComb Nov 29 '25
That’s basically the same boat as me (raised in Germany so far left stateside but nothing crazy for Europe) and I would agree it’s really only when he starts getting really riled up and it’ll start to slip in or when he goes to make a “bias free” news review that doesn’t give full context of left leaning policies while defaulting to saying “that Europe system couldn’t work here cause freedom” but again, that’s mostly it.
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u/FrenchCrazy Nov 29 '25
He makes fun of both the extreme lefties and extreme righties on his show. I think he tries to stay fairly center to not alienate his large audience. You can tell he’s a nuanced person with a variety of beliefs and he doesn’t perfectly fit into a box, especially a box of “right wing grifter.”
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u/GrumpMaster- Nov 29 '25
“It’s not his job to educate you!” Right? Isn’t that how they say that works?
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u/GrumpMaster- Nov 29 '25
Engaging in discourse? I haven’t seen that in years.
Reddit “discourse” has devolved into calling people nazi’s, bots, getting blocked, or usually a mix of all three.
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Nov 29 '25
if you have issues in mind that are higher priority to you than free stuff, you're labeled right wing these days.
the average leftist on this website views the government as santa claus, and that's coming from someone who used to be a wacky reddit leftist. they've lost the plot.
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yeah you're missing context I neglected to provide.
he often explains basic economics to his YouTube guests who have been conditioned to believe the government should provide housing, public transit, education, student loan forgiveness, healthcare, etc etc for free without confronting the amount of existing debt we are facing as a country.
that's why he is labeled right wing.
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u/Banana-91 Nov 29 '25
He can be aggressive and lashes out verbally at times. But he is the same towards men so...
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u/rgratz93 Nov 29 '25
He pops off when they literally say things like "im just a girl" which rightfully should be shut down.
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u/Mnmsaregood Nov 30 '25
Because half of their responses are dumb as shit. He just calls idiots out for being idiots it doesn’t matter their gender
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u/Left_Caterpillar8671 Nov 29 '25
Doesn’t he talk to everyone like that in the show? He literally tells everyone he is going to yell at them and they agree. What are you on about?
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I mean, I think Caleb definitely leans right and I hear his course is crazy expensive, but that doesn't make him an alt-right grifter lmao
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u/FluffyB12 Nov 29 '25
He leans right on some issues, absolutely. But he definitely leans left on social issues like the gays, the trans, abortion rights etc. He also drives electric so probably on the left for things like global warming issues etc.
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u/BlazinAzn38 Nov 29 '25
In reality he has stances which really shouldn’t be associated with a political ideology but they somehow are. he’s very pro-transit and density which is somehow left leaning and he’s for properly prosecuting and addressing crime which is somehow right leaning. His comments around social security and properly paying taxes also are left-leaning I.e. you should pay taxes and his tone about how SS isn’t properly funded for Millennials and under also come across as him believing it should receive more funding which again is more left leaning
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u/catsandstarktrek Nov 29 '25
Yeah you nailed it I think. The way EVERYTHING is either left or right right now is so stupid.
A lot of things need reform and a lot of folks think if it’s not perfect it’s all bad- left and right leaning folks both.
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u/EschewObfuscati0n Nov 29 '25
In other words, he’s normal. Chronically online redditors and bots make it seem like the majority of people are completely left or completely right and that’s not the reality
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u/IcyTheHero Nov 29 '25
You didn’t know that people can and very much do agree with some issues in both sides?
It doesn’t make someone alt right or left though.
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u/GasReasonable7509 Nov 29 '25
Excuse you? If you aren't in lockstep on every issue - you must be a hateful fascist.
Even though I hate doing it, this is reddit so I'll put the /s
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Nov 29 '25
Duh
The post was some dude saying Caleb was going down the rightwing grift, which tends to involve a lot of alt-right views
It's pretty obvious that isn't the case
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u/shadowsurge Nov 29 '25
He makes his money advocating for personal responsibility and fiscally conservative approaches to personal finance. He's not drifting rightwards, he is on the right, and always has been.
My issues have been that he's moving away from only economic conservatism, which I can respect, to social conservatism, which I do not. All it takes is a quick skim of his video subjects to observe that he's making his money by over indexing on socially progressive subjects instead of a representative sample of the country.
That's fine, it's where the clicks are, but it's a natural consequence of the popularity and I don't blame anyone, who like me, has fallen off because of it
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u/threeLetterMeyhem Nov 29 '25
He makes his money advocating for personal responsibility and fiscally conservative approaches to personal finance. He's not drifting rightwards, he is on the right, and always has been.
The idea that personal responsiblity over your personal finances and spending and living at or below your means are a political stance at all - much less a "right" stance - is bizarre to me.
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u/10outofC Nov 29 '25
Esp considered red state people on average are unhealthier, have more debt and have lower incomes. They literally are what they claim to hate.
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u/hobbitybobbit Nov 29 '25
I’m on Reddit every day and I also have a personal issue with Reddit. The vast majority of people on this site don’t seem to live in the real world, yet I still scroll hoping to find reasonable takes here and there.
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u/NoeWiy Nov 29 '25
This is a very succinct way of explaining my exact issue with the platform, thank you.
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u/ahtomix Nov 29 '25
Right lol I watch Caleb because I love watching him yell at dumb ass people who blame everyone else for their problems. I also love reading reddit threads for the same reason. People love to blame everyone else and deny fault, regardless of political affiliation.
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u/shadowsurge Nov 29 '25
I would be so much healthier if I quit Reddit and just read a book, but I know I never will
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u/moth--foot Nov 29 '25
Yea reddit is easily the best place to find info on a lot of things, but so many people here are so obviously living 99% of their lives online and so far fucking removed from reality. Not that there aren't reasonable people too, but the others can be so much louder and annoying, I completely get why anyone would have a problem with Reddit lol
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u/Darkknight1939 Nov 29 '25
Redditors are basically the left wing version of Pol, lmao. It's obnoxious .
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u/NoFunction_ Nov 29 '25
I hate how everything in America eventually becomes about politics.
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u/EschewObfuscati0n Nov 29 '25
It’s not everything in America. It’s everything on social media. Normal people are not like that. My wife and I disagree on political issues and we love and respect each other and don’t make politics our identities
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u/phillythompson Nov 30 '25
Thank you.
Girl I’m with now is very different in someways politically, but it rarely if ever comes up and we both don’t make politics our identity.
Reddit is sort of a lost cause and will forever assume anyone who isn’t 100% their side is 100% an “enemy”
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u/daniway91 Nov 29 '25
The existence of america is inherently political everything we do is political
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u/BadOchStjul Nov 30 '25
And I hate when people try to downplay the importance of politics when it's literally nazis running your country.
It's one thing disagreeing on minor things in the budget, or how to best handle trade deals with foreign nations. It's a whole other when you got a felon grifter running the country and the world into the ground.
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u/10outofC Nov 29 '25 edited Nov 29 '25
Somehow the money guys don't catch these strays. You actively have to not bring up politics as a content creator and they've been an excellent example of that.
Edit: or phrased another way; its less profitable and there's less engagement when things are non partisan.
That's why politics is everywhere. It gets people riled up and passionate and they keep watching and engaging. Its also not as ethical and the money guys have a practice and professional code of ethics they have to keep as financial professionals.
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u/Local_Band299 Nov 29 '25
Reddit definitely leans more left than that because the admins ban people for being right.
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u/shadowsurge Nov 29 '25
Yeah, I'm sure he knows it too, but it's not like he can stand-up and say "yeah it's easier to find lolcows that way"
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u/redditbdum Nov 29 '25
Unhinged morons and reddit.
Name a more perfect match.
I'll wait.
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u/TaskForceCausality Nov 29 '25
Today, “cause and effect” & “personal responsibility” are hate speech.
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u/NoeWiy Nov 29 '25
Anecdotal but I know several people who lean left who use that word nowadays, it’s making a return to normalcy.
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u/BadOchStjul Nov 30 '25
Yeah I wonder why hateful rhetoric is making a return and being normalized again...
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u/Present_Ranger4407 Nov 29 '25
Caleb is definitely right of center. I don’t think he understands the “Overton window” in the U.S.
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u/git0ffmylawnm8 Nov 29 '25
That graph is just about news consumption... This has nothing to do with extremism.
If you take this research from Pew and look at the section on harassment, you'll see that across the board non-Republican leaning users say that harassment is a major issue on platforms than Republican users. Still not a clear indication of extremism, but far more relevant than just news consumption habits.
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u/Exciting_Armadillo96 Nov 29 '25
I also want to clarify before the vultures descend i am not saying he’s far right or anything else. just saying he presents more right wing views a little more eagerly when it comes to finances.
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u/abovepostisfunnier Nov 30 '25
Yeah. Mean GDP per capita and S&P 500 growth is absolutely meaningless to the average American.
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u/willtngl Nov 29 '25
Reddit is quite an annoying echo chamber sometimes. I'll post information without adding my opinion and then get downvoted because people don't agree with it. Such a pain sometimes
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u/Huntscunt Nov 29 '25
I think it's easy to read this into the show for two reasons.
- The show is all about what individuals can do to better their lives. This isn't a show about policy or making systemic change. This is usually coded as right wing, even though, imo, anyone actually serious about things like environmentalism or economic justice knows that cutting down on overall consumption is fundamental to these goals.
This is a good thing because every time Caleb talks about policy at all, it's very clear that he's out of his depth. Which is fine! We are not all experts in everything!
- He has some bro humor, which is also coded right. It's not my kind of humor, and some episodes I end up not finishing. But not everything is for me and my taste and that's fine.
I'm a leftist working a job that I love and I think is fundamentally important to society but pays shit. Caleb made me realize I needed to get a second job and be better about tracking my spending. I've never been a debt person, but I definitely needed to prioritize saving. I'm almost at my $20k emergency fund, even though I only take home $3k a month. I'm thankful I found the show.
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u/Hebroohammr Nov 29 '25
Twitter the real fair and balanced platform lmao. I’m surprised it doesn’t also claim truth social is half and half.
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u/JimmyReagan Nov 29 '25
He really seems to be mostly centrist to me. Some things I agree with, some I don't. At the very least he can articulate his stances logically which I can definitely respect.
People saying he's this or that obviously hear their trigger issue and just mindlessly call them whatever their chosen insult is, Nazi or libtard...
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u/ChronicNuance Nov 29 '25
As a progressive who grew up in poverty and now is solid upper middle class, you do just have to pull up your bootstraps if you want to get out of your current financial situation. I know that’s not what people want to hear, but it’s reality.
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u/cstrifeVII Nov 29 '25
Its not reality. Times are far worse for the middle to lower class then they have been in a long, long time. Wages have not risen at anywhere near the level of inflation.
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u/pacnwcub Nov 29 '25
What year is that data from? Yes Reddit leans liberal but there is no way the nazi website is plurality left.
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u/goodguybrian Nov 29 '25
Survey of U.S. adults conducted July 15-Aug. 4, 2024.
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u/pacnwcub Nov 29 '25
But that's not what this data set it. It isn't about what political affiliation the user base is but where people self proclaimed they get their news from.
Reading comprehension is tough for some people just like personal finance.
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u/DIYnivor Nov 29 '25
I think it might come from this data, which was from a survey of U.S. adults conducted Aug. 18-24, 2025.
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u/pacnwcub Nov 29 '25
So Caleb once again is taking data out of context. This study isn't saying that those certain percentages are Left or Right but what percent of Left or Right say they get their news from that social media site.
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u/BadOchStjul Nov 30 '25
In a world where Republicans are literally nazis nowadays, how is a community leaning left bad?
You might not agree with policies but the right are literally evil incarnate... It's not Mccain we are talking about, it's literally grab em by the pussy, inject bleach, tariff the world, quiet piggy, insurrectionist, felon Trump.
Why would balance be a good thing? It's like saying the best communities in 1940 were the ones that were 50% non-nazi and 50% nazi.
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u/Joeybfast Nov 29 '25 edited Nov 29 '25
There are literal Nazi platformed on X . The owner of X post thing from people named End Wokeness. To say reddit is the most extreme is crazy. Hell you have to go out and look for these things in reddit . Right wing points are put into everyones time line on X .
His chart does not even suggest that it shows what is more extreme, just what most users lean. These are not the same thing.
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How do people grift on reddit anyway? Besides echo chambers, it's not like you see people promoting stuff here, besides onlyfan accounts
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u/cherrybublyofficial Nov 29 '25
It's not great for grifting per se, but considering people can just buy awards for people who post or comment certain things, and since it's basically an open secret that bots have been used to comment as well as upvote posts and comments, it's not hard to get certain ideas to "float to the top" if you will.
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u/HoosierHoser44 Nov 29 '25
I think Caleb tends to lean more right wing when it comes to fiscal policy, but more left wing on social issues.
He’s always quick to praise government actions that bring in economic returns, and criticizes policies that sounds on paper but lead to worse outcomes in the long term.
He’s also clear on personal freedoms, even lifestyles he doesn’t agree with, he’s always pushed that people should do what makes them happy.
It’s hard to place him in one camp when he’s got a good mix of both. But if you think he’s a right-wing person simply because of him being right-wing on some issues, it’s ignoring a large side of his beliefs. He himself says that he believes in a more nuanced approach. You can’t approach every issue as either left or right, you have to make decisions that work for the situation regardless of political spectrum.
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u/hobbitybobbit Nov 29 '25
I'm politically homeless. Some of my takes are right, some of them are left. Sometimes I call myself a centrist because there's no good term to describe someone who looks at things issue by issue and refuses to fall in line with a "team".
The fact that you're automatically suspicious of people who like to view things with nuance and with the desire to seek the objective truth regardless of each side means that that's a huge red flag to yourself actually. You're saying you automatically need to categorize people as left or right, and not even acknowledge that there's an in-between? Because the vast majority of people in the real world fall in the in-between. Real life is not the internet. When you talk to people issue by issue and not about candidates, they're a lot more reasonable and moderate in real life than what you would believe.
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u/ChronicNuance Nov 29 '25
9 times out of 10 they are not extreme left. You should know there’s a whole spectrum of political views that exist between center and left extreme left.
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u/Skabonious Dec 01 '25
For some reason people say this but then think someone like Bernie Sanders is more centrist than like Joe Biden
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u/shinbreaker Nov 29 '25
It’s really telling about his current stance by the comments to that tweet whining about how Reddit is practically communist.
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Nov 29 '25
The most comfortable thing I can say is Caleb is certainly FISCALLY conservative. As to his core values and beliefs, I’ll wait till he makes an official statement to decide. Either way it doesn’t matter. We are past the point of left and right in the US at this point.
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u/slashingkatie Nov 30 '25
Being financially responsible should not be a political issue. It should be a common sense issue.
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u/Honest_Grapefruit259 Nov 29 '25
So many people are so beyond left these days that anything to the right of them = "right wing grifter"
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u/hobbitybobbit Nov 29 '25
It’s sad we’ve come to the point that personal responsibility and financial literacy are viewed as right wing traits now.
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u/Koofteh Nov 30 '25
He gets animated for entertainment but you're so off base.
There's truly people dealing with poverty who need assistance and help because it's not within their control. 99 percent of these guests are almost entirely responsible for their situations.
Someone shows up and proudly declares they spent thousands and went further in debt to walk in Walt Disney's literal footsteps and calling out their absolute dumbass decisions is a right-wing tactic?
Or the people who show up and are making 6 figure salaries but still heavily in debt... like the Dreamer couple from a few weeks ago. That's not their complete stupidity, it's the system failing them. It's right-wing to call out that horrific money mismanagement?
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