You got me really curious so I prompted ChatGPT to give me a redditor style comment that’s anti-Trump followed by another far-left redditor’s reply to it and this is what it gave me:

Original Comment (Left-Leaning Anti-Trump Perspective):

“It’s honestly mind-blowing how Trump still has a cult following after everything. The man was impeached twice, incited an insurrection, and openly grifts his supporters with fake fundraising schemes. And yet, somehow, people still think he’s their ‘savior.’ The cognitive dissonance is off the charts.”

Far-Left Redditor Response:

“Because the system is fundamentally broken. Liberals act like voting blue is enough when the entire establishment—from corporate Dems to the GOP—is complicit in maintaining capitalism’s stranglehold. Trump is just a symptom of the rot. The real solution isn’t ‘vote harder’; it’s dismantling the system that enabled him in the first place.”

^ – this seems to be disturbingly accurate, I can only imagine this being produced at automated scale at this point.

Yep, someone in another sub once said “I hope your plant dies” and their whole account was permbanned for “inciting violence”. Against a plant. Hysterical. That site is cooked.

From what I’ve seen on the reddit right-leaning subs most of them are very against the entire war and sending money/troops at all.

I didn’t even know that term existed, it’s the one that told me about it, I only copied and pasted it.

It only summarized the behaviors of the mods/admins, not the reddit userbase at large. There’s probably Venn diagram between the two but not exactly 100% the same. And things like shadowbanning (listed in the response) are not actions of the users, or political ideologies of the users either, only something a mod can do.

I gave it a list of actions and behaviors by admins/mods on reddit, and asked it what the political ideologies would be considered. That’s what ChatGPT spat out. I was curious how its inference would work given a list of behaviors. Hilarious being downvoted for pasting from ChatGPT’s inferences though, I’m just the messenger.

Rule 1 ToS violation – permban.

Sad part is I find a lot of helpful random material (information about cellphone providers, accounts, all sorts of random edge cases in different domains) and still want to look at the threads, and find a lot of help that way. So I just switch to a VM that’s on a VPN just to check those. Sucks but some information doesn’t exist anywhere else.

You know a site is good when its mascot makes you feel intense uncontrollable rage deep in your soul.

The sad part is I still have a lot of random subs I enjoy, fringe stuff like r/OnionLovers and r/slowcooking, r/frugal… and subs like r/frugal immediately delete any comment that brings up politics in any way, so there are a few decent subs left with non-batshit insane mods but they are becoming exceedingly rare.

I am surprised I didn’t even notice that, I used to use it for when sites changed or were down. I guess there’s always internet archive sites if I were so inclined, but still sad.

Observing reddit from a distance (anon accounts, anon email address, anon VPN) it’s very clear that it’s like watching the Titanic sink or the fall of Rome at this point. It’s become a complete cesspool over the last ~5 years but progressively worse at an increasing rate each year.

They sent me a warning of being flagged and monitored because I upvoted a comment about Luigi. That’s how cooked reddit is now. Seriously, only upvoting “rule violating comments”, not even commenting myself. Just a button click is all it takes, and they won’t tell you which comment or post you upvoted that flagged it so it’s like walking through a mine field.

For what it’s worth I use PIA and have never been shadowbanned or banned using any endpoint in any country on new accounts there. I use throwaway non-gmail email accounts to segment each account so they can’t track between them, all on different VPN endpoints per account. It’s sad that this is what it takes to prevent them from stalking me.

It’s hilarious that you made me curious enough to look up RDDT’s stock price today, down 9% today alone lol, -31% in the last 30 days. A third of their stock value lost in the past month, very impressive.

I’m on my 5th permban now I think. Some of them were because I logged in with an alt on the same IP by mistake so they flagged it and banned those too. I didn’t violate any ToS, they just didn’t agree because (I asked ChatGPT to summarize the behavior of reddit mods/admins):

Woke Authoritarianism

This refers to the enforcement of progressive or “woke” ideology through authoritarian means, such as:

• Censorship of dissenting views
• Cancel culture (public shaming and professional consequences for opposing opinions)
• De-platforming (banning people from social media or public forums)
• Forced ideological conformity (e.g., requiring adherence to specific beliefs in workplaces or academia)

Thought Policing

This term comes from George Orwell’s 1984 and refers to the control and regulation of people’s thoughts, often through fear, social pressure, or punishment for wrongthink. In the modern context, it can include:

• Policing language to ensure ideological purity
• Monitoring people’s statements (even from the past) to punish deviation
• Enforcing conformity through intimidation, cancelation, or ostracization

And a followup response:

Authoritarian Leftism – When left-wing ideology is enforced through censorship, suppression of dissent, and ideological purity tests.

Neoprogressivism / Woke Authoritarianism – Some critics use these terms to describe far-left movements that use de-platforming, cancel culture, and corporate-enforced speech restrictions to control discourse.

Cultural Marxism (controversial term) – Some argue that elements of Marxist thought, particularly in cultural institutions, are used to enforce ideological dominance. However, this term is often misused or overgeneralized.

Techno-Authoritarianism – When social media platforms and tech companies enforce ideological conformity through bans, shadowbanning, and algorithmic control.

Soft Totalitarianism (coined by Rod Dreher) – Unlike classic totalitarianism (which uses force and violence), this is a modern, decentralized form of control through social shaming, cancel culture, and corporate censorship.

ChatGPT seems to have hit the nail on the head, I didn’t even know “Woke Authoritarianism” was an actual term.

If one were so inclined you could have many 5318008s on the screen back in the TI-84-85-86 days. Or write a graphing formula to draw them… my teachers didn’t appreciate that very much.

People have had many of those cars long before any of this happened though? You’re saying people should have seen this coming 6 years in advance or something?

Aren’t they destroying regular citizens’ private property by doing all of this or are you only focusing on the dealership arson events and not the masses of other events?

Seems like a safe haven for the extreme leftists who trespassed, vandalized, and stole various things off my neighbor’s yards this last election season. The left are 100% fully unhinged now and will commit assault, and many other crimes simultaneously like a child throwing a temper tantrum, except they are more dangerous than a child. It’s unfortunate to witness in my own community. But this is where the leftist extremists tend to huddle together it seems.