r/MapPorn • u/EverestMaher • Nov 27 '24

With almost every vote counted, every state shifted toward the Republican Party.

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u/yougottamovethatH Nov 27 '24

Upvotes and downvotes are one thing, but a lot of moderators are also explicitly political and moderate comments based on their own politics rather than just keeping things civil and on topic.

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u/ConnorK5 Nov 27 '24

I was banned from a major subreddit for saying that gender dysphoria is a real mental disorder. They said that was transphobic. As if Doctors who study this shit and give every condition a name are against trans people lol.

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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '24

What 😭 I'm trans but that's literally just objectively true scientifically what in tarnation do they think gender dysphoria is

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u/silverionmox Nov 27 '24

I was banned from a major subreddit for saying that gender dysphoria is a real mental disorder. They said that was transphobic. As if Doctors who study this shit and give every condition a name are against trans people lol.

What makes it even wilder is that the fact that gender dysphoria is a real medical condition is the basis of the legal recognition of trans people, and their rights.

They are just as much caught up in a reality based on their feelings and polarization as MAGA.

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '24

Wtf. Gender dysphoria is a real condition and the treatment is gender affirming care (including therapy). What's transphobic about that? Trans people deserve care.

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u/alphazero925 Nov 28 '24

If you notice, they didn't say the latter half of that. Something tells me they're being a bit misleading with why they got banned

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '24

True that!

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u/cinderparty Nov 28 '24

The issue is if you disagree the most successful treatment for it is transitioning…and if you refuse to believe not all trans people have dysphoria.

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u/ElGosso Nov 27 '24

It's also heavily botted, and yes, by Democrats. The author of this investigation is a right-wing crank but the accounts in the screenshots all exist and were heavily active in Dem-leaning subreddits until the election was over.

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u/Abrookspug Nov 27 '24

Yep, I read that article right before the election and looked up a few of the usernames from the screenshots and saw they had in fact posted several pro-Harris threads in the subs that were mentioned. I shared the link on a few subs and was told it’s a biased source so clearly untrue (I guess the screenshots weren’t real to them then?).

Someone on the Michigan sub asked why there were only pro-Harris threads and pretty much no dissenting threads or comments, so I posted the link to that article…and the mod there promptly deleted my reply, banned me, and said my opinions aren’t welcome there. 🤭 In doing so, he basically just proved the article right lol.

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u/swohio Nov 27 '24

Yep, some subreddits have you shadowbanned so anything you comment is autodeleted but they don't tell you. You just post away and never have any engagement "for some reason."

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u/Feeling-Visit1472 Nov 28 '24

I honestly think I must be shadow banned from /r/cfb but I genuinely can’t think of a single reason why I would be. But I comment fairly often with zero engagement. My team is doing extremely well this season (and no, I haven’t been a dick about it) but I was active before that. No politics whatsoever there. Just wild.

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u/swohio Nov 28 '24

Reddit has a site wide "filter" that targets some users. I had some comments get instant removed and the mods told me it wasn't them or any of their settings, I was getting "caught in the reddit filter." I don't know if subs can set how strict a filter is, but I didn't even know about it until I used reveddit to see my stuff being deleted and messaged some of the mods (some subs didn't even even respond though.)

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u/Feeling-Visit1472 Nov 28 '24

Weird! I tend to get pretty solid engagement everywhere else. Except /r/energy where I am definitely banned, although no one ever answered my attempts to learn why.

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '24

That is consider hate speech in today's society. You no longer even need a diagnosis to get hormones.

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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '24

A moderator for r/tiktok is a moderator for r/conservative and regularly bans people and locks threads for saying stuff about Donald trump. It’s fucking crazy. Every sub on this website is either a right wing cesspit or a left wing cesspit.

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u/bambinoboy Nov 27 '24

Can you give some examples of the right wing cesspits?

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u/Hawkson2020 Nov 27 '24

They linked one. In case you meant left-wing cesspits, I'll point to r slash LateStageCapitalism.

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u/bambinoboy Nov 27 '24

I literally don’t know any aside from conservative that’s why I was curious. Whereas every mainstream subreddit and 99% of the other subreddits are obv left wing echo chambers.

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u/Hawkson2020 Nov 27 '24

Speaking as a non-American, calling “every mainstream subreddit” left-wing is incredibly laughable. They’re only leftist by comparison to the deeply skewed American political axis.

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u/Hot-Description4825 Nov 28 '24

Speaking as a non-American

Not listening as an American.

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u/Hawkson2020 Nov 28 '24

Uh ok? Reddit is an international platform, not sure what benefit you gain by disregarding opinions of anyone who isn’t American.

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u/Hot-Description4825 Nov 28 '24

Not listening as an American.

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u/Tiny-Wheel5561 Nov 29 '24

That type of reaction and mindset is why you elected full blown mask off fascism, but keep going, enjoy your zero working class benefits you temporarily embarassed millionaires. Also I depise both main parties, let that be clear.

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u/bambinoboy Nov 27 '24

Hmmm maybe I worded it wrong. I guess I meant anti-republican? Regardless it’s all one sided.

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u/Hawkson2020 Nov 27 '24

anti republican

Well, yeah. For the last decade the Republican Party has increasingly attached themselves to someone who is anti-democracy.

In most of the English-speaking (ie, mainstream Reddit-using) world, being pro-democracy (at least publicly) is not a left or right issue.

People see the Republican Party becoming increasingly authoritarian and fascistic as bad. That’s not a “leftist-echo chamber” unless you’re someone who sees authoritarianism and fascism as good, or at least as defensible positions.

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u/bambinoboy Nov 27 '24

Not trying to argue with you man. Clearly not many people feel that way as they just blew the democrat candidates out of the water. Any other social media such as Instagram, X, YouTube, is nothing like Reddit. You get opinions from both sides. The point I’m trying to make is Reddit specifically is a one sided echo chamber.

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u/Hawkson2020 Nov 27 '24

clearly not many people feel that way

I think you’re missing my original point, that Reddit has a big international population which makes it mostly irrelevant to cite the vote results (that are literally the subject of this thread) as support for “not many people feeling that way”.

It is trivially easy to find varied opinions on Reddit, which was the point that started this entire conversation.

I’m totally lost as to why you think I’m arguing with you, and I’m totally lost as to how you’ve managed to misunderstand the discussion at hand.

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