A daily mail (yes, the “trustworthy” daily mail) have leaked bodycam footage of George Floyd’s execution and the posts are filled with reactionaries and outright Nazis now. Just avoid reddit for today, it’s not worth it.
You weren’t joking.
When reddit casually trends the nazi sub actualpublicfreakouts.
Disgusting shithole fascist pipeline.
EDIT: this is so damaging how many fucking libs are going into that thread reading the fucking bullshit and think jup that sounds reasonable. I mean it has a reddit gold highlight and it’s neatly formated and everything. Fuck I that website.
I love the way that if you look at new Reddit on a PC they try to make it look so professional, welcoming and nice, and then you have literal neo Nazi shit right below it. The contrast is so striking it’s actually unbelievable
Yeah. just at this. As a designer I’m confronted with the fact that highlighting posts like this is extremely dangerous. People take authority from things presented like that, it’s not just a meme, it’s how our ape brains work.
It happens on reddit over the most trivial kind of shit as well. Whenever a subject comes up that you’re even mildly acquainted with there will be someone near the top stating something that is just blatantly untrue, and people will believe them because they do it confidently. This is incredibly easy to game if you want to push opinions, as seen in this case. People won’t investigate further, they’ll look at the headline and the first post that seems like it knows what it is talking about and dip out. Once something starts to get pushed to the top, the only way to correct it is either by a moderator or the user themselves.
The way over half that shit is easily proved false with 5 minutes of research (anything to do with the autopsy from MPD can be debunked as they are using the same coroner as Jeffery Epstein and JFK) but it has gold proves that being banned from reddit was good so we don’t have to deal with these shitheads.
Edit: turns out that the doctor only observed the Epstein autopsy and said it was “consistent with a homicide” and was asked by the Floyd family to do the autopsy and also found that cause of death to be a homicide, and was only responsible for the handover of JFK’s information. Sorry for getting that wrong, turns out autopsy guy is actually “good”:
How weird! I’m 2 years into med school and I’ve never heard of “excited delirium syndrome.” I wonder how these cops have more medical training than me?
A quick search shows that “ExDS” is not recognized as an actual medical condition. So now we have people trying to justify the use of deadly force via a bogus medical condition, huh? This is like, half a step away from using old phrenology “science” to justify deadly force.
“Well the suspect was a black male, and as we all know, their temporal lobes are slightly more rounder, which impinges on their amygdala and causes them to act violently, thus justifying me shooting them in the back 22 times. Sorry libs, this is just science!”
Insular racist community gets on trending or /r/all with a thread > The regulars mass upvote racist shit and disinfo and downvote critical posts > Oblivious users from elsewhere flow in; read the disinfo > leave the thread badly informed and begin to propagate that nonesense.
it’s actually dangerous.
Yeah, probably but there’s many niche hobby communites that don’t exist anywhere, that’s the only reason I’m still on there.
