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American politics seeping into every damn thing. And to top it off, with a clear bias in one direction. I resent having the feeling like there's an astro-turfing effort going on, even when I agree with whatever stance is being pushed. Reddit is really tainted with that sort of thing.
Hopefully it doesn't take hold here, or at least stays contained so I can decline subbing to magazines that would pertain. I'd rather not have to swim in the "political party A is evil and political party B is angelic" muck in unrelated magazines.
That's hard to avoid on such a huge site where something like 50ish percent of the userbase is American. I totally agree with you though - it's super irratating to be on a sub, talking about friggin Spiderman's webfluid or something, and some dumbass in the comments has to relate the debate back to some American Republican talking points or something.
I find your lack of respect for the hyphen in Spider-Man disturbing
Spider-Man is Peter Parker. Spiderman is Tatsuya Yamashiro.
Oh no, I broke rule number one!!! Damn you to hell, autocorrect!!
Having recently watched the latest Spiderman movie, wut?
I'm just making up a throwaway example. Once upon a time there was a debate about whether Spidey's webfluid should be organic or if he should have webshooters. I'm personally in the webshooter camp - it's one of the great examples we get of Peter being a genius who was so smart he could invent something so spectacular at such a young age with limited resources and no help. I really hated the organic idea. I thought it dumbed Pete down and was contradictory to the established character. And, I'm just saying, those kinds of discussions are the worst place to run into some idiot that can't help but interject their personal politics, or mention their favorite candidates/pols for no reason. I always thought it must be just exhausting to be so totally consumed with poitics that you have to try to bring it up in every conversation, no matter how much of a non sequitur it ends up being.
Also...
Organic spideyfluid would be A-OK if he shot it out of his ass! Shooting it out of wrists doesn't make any goddam sense!
If Spiderman shot webs out of his arsehole I might actually go and see one of those dumb films for a change
Well... a cat spits out a web ball in the latest Spiderman... does that work?
Much like Brown Widow from Ventrue Bros.
Ventrue Bros. sounds like an awesome Vampire chronicle.
This is the VtM campaign I didn't know I needed.
Oh~ yeah, that sounds annoying af.
I said this the other day. Post on Reddit about English something. First comments were about american culture. Had to scroll until I found opinions from the UK.
Everything becomes murica. It's infuriating. I get reddit is basically America and it's a large population but so is India or China or Africa. Doesn't just need to be America all the time.
That's not just a Reddit thing, it's an Internet thing.
Americans absolutely dominate the English-speaking Internet.
But then the population of the US is greater than the population of Australia, the UK, New Zealand and Canada combined, twice over.
They were also the origin of the Internet. It is frustrating for me as a Latin American discuss about tech and being told by Americans to just buy cheap refurbished tech from eBay, Microcenter or something. The access to markets isn't remotely the same.
Murka murka murka, murka?
Funny thing on Reddit there quite literally was an astroturfing campaign paid for by CTR/Shareblue. That's why r/politics turned into the toxic cesspit it remains today.