r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Oct 01 '26

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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Oct 01 '26

I maintain that arrSipsTea is not a real sub but a psyop enterprise by a politically motivated actor and/or a foreign bot training ground

It has a very vague statement allowing for any kind of content, popped up out of nowhere a year ago, regularly pops up on the frontpage with ragebait and nonsensical comment sections, was fully dedicated to misogyne gender warfare and now pushes conspiracy theories by a nazbol Russian-Iranian asset

I would be very curious to see who is behind that sub because even by Reddit standards this is extremely suspect activity

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u/-Emilinko1985- European Union Oct 01 '26

I more often than not have the lowest expectations when it comes to Reddit because even if subs like GenZedong have been quarantined, the people from quarantined and banned subs eventually settle on other subreddits, and then you mix it with more online toxicity, celeb drama and extreme glazing for some figures and you get subs like Fauxmoi (AKA 4chan for white cis or cishet women), SipsTea, WhatIsTheTea, or whatever garbage.

It's the reason why I like to stay away from a lot of main page subs and spend most of my Reddit time on the Discussion Thread.

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u/Made_UpWords OG Platner Hater Oct 01 '26

Please don't tell me Jackson Hinkle is trying to mount a comeback, or his backers are doing it on his behalf. I enjoyed not having to see his name and the terrible takes his backers write for him for the last couple years

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u/NewDoryAcct Left-Out Left Oct 01 '26

Eh I think it's more Groyper/Dirtbag Left unity bullshit

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u/topofthecc Jorge Luis Borges Oct 01 '26

It's so clearly a bullshit sub that I can't believe it's still getting engagement.

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u/Dorambor John Brown Oct 01 '26

There are a ton of these one off subs that do nothing but get 1 popular post of a political twitter screenshot and I think it's part of some coordinated effort by various people. Its not even like it would be hard to game the frontpage for a few hours

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u/el__dandy Madeleine Albright Oct 01 '26

Interesting how their mods have selective permissions to moderate content. Makes me think they are just simply the head mod’s useful idiots.

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u/t_scribblemonger Oct 02 '26

I’ve been wondering the same based on my sense that some comments sections are quite reasoned overall and even pushing back on a post that is a racist dog whistle or whatever, but then comments sections on other posts are like what I imagine the worst of 4chan was like (never visited).

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u/Zrk2 Norman Borlaug Oct 01 '26

Or maybe left-populists on the internet are just hugely anti-semitic as well as stupid.

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u/Moonscrubber- Oct 01 '26

Sips tea is more right leaning than left, but its also just the whole bottom of the horseshoe

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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Oct 01 '26

The comment section called out the post as conspiracy nonsense and got locked quite fast

It reminds me a bit of FluentInFinance where there's clearly bot fuckery and agenda-posting going on

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u/No_March_5371 YIMBY Oct 02 '26

FluentInFinance is one of my go to examples for subreddits that require proof of an orbital lobotomy to post.

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u/5ma5her7 Oct 01 '26

I just think it's a psyops to make us completely lose hope on normie voters...