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@mooshld said in Erdogan in the US:
Reddit is a cesspit? I read some interesting stuff on their. Especially in the running and MTB communities.
If its not a cesspit, you are not looking at the right subreddits
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@Stockcar86 said in Erdogan in the US:
@mooshld said in Erdogan in the US:
Reddit is a cesspit? I read some interesting stuff on their. Especially in the running and MTB communities.
If its not a cesspit, you are not looking at the right subreddits
Maybe it says more about the readers tastes then the platform.
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@mooshld said in Erdogan in the US:
@Stockcar86 said in Erdogan in the US:
@mooshld said in Erdogan in the US:
Reddit is a cesspit? I read some interesting stuff on their. Especially in the running and MTB communities.
If its not a cesspit, you are not looking at the right subreddits
Maybe it says more about the readers tastes then the platform.
It's a bit of both really. The site tends to be populated by a certain demographic of young, liberal andeducated people. The upvoting format doesn't allow for decent especially in polarised discussions like politics. At least on this forum, we have to see the opinion's of people we disagree with.
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@Stockcar86 Thanks for that. I knew about the incident, didn't know it escalated to look like that.
Anyway, fuck him. Ataturk must be spinning in his grave.
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Reddit Rugby is excellent for clips & highlights (and full games), terrible for discussion
https://www.reddit.com/r/rugbyunion/
Reddit Politics -
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/?hl=
Is again, excellent for all the breaking US news, the comments are 80% garbage 20% excellent, like most of the net.
People tend to hit the front page of Reddit & go "this is garbage", but if you login & find a few subreddits that are interesting its great.
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@Tim said in Erdogan in the US:
Reddit politics is a horror story. As a reddit/cumtown poster put it, "politics are gay, internet politics are gayer". True shit, even Aaron would agree.
The links or the posts? Because the links are great, they break literally every major US politics story, you just have to click the link not read whats posted about it... thats... bad.
Right now its nothing but stories nailing Trump, but thats because right now the top stories in the US poilitics are about Trump.
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Problem is most people who use Reddit politics don't even read the links. Most people just read the headlines and then upvote. So you literally have a situation where the political news you read is decided upon by people too lazy to even read the article themselves. I think post the election last year, every day a new article detailing how much Clinton won the popular vote was upvoted highly. I don't know how anyone could call that news.
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Sometimes the rabid parts of reddit can be amusing in their awfulness, this one targets Lena Dunham who I loathe probably not as much as these people
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/4eiwds/fuck_off_lena_dunham_you_absolute_cretin/
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Turkish Guards Will Be Charged in Embassy Protest, Officials Say
By NICHOLAS FANDOS JUNE 14, 2017
THE NEW YORK TIMESWASHINGTON — Law enforcement officials plan to announce charges Thursday against a dozen members of the Turkish president’s security detail for their involvement in a brutal attack on protesters outside the Turkish ambassador’s residence here last month, two American officials said on Wednesday.
Authorities have already charged several others, including two Americans and two Canadians, with taking part in the violent skirmish.
The Washington police have been investigating the May 16 incident along with the State Department and the Secret Service. The police planned to announce the charges at a news conference on Thursday morning, according to the two officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the charges before they were made public.
Coming almost a month after the incident, the charges are the most significant retaliatory step taken to date by American authorities, who have fumed privately and publicly over what they see as a highly offensive attack on free speech — not to mention American law enforcement.
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Sadly most of the Turkish henchmen are back home and unlikely to be extradited. So I guess it's mostly finger-wagging optics.
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