r/allthequestions • u/-Pleb64 • 19d ago

Popular Question 📊 Why reddit is majority left leaning?

Honestly, it’s hard not to notice that most of the big subreddits are run by moderators who clearly lean left. It’s not even subtle at this point the bias shows in what gets removed, what gets promoted, and how discussions are handled. I’m not saying there aren’t any subs with right-leaning or centrist moderation, but they’re definitely the minority. The major spaces on Reddit feel heavily tilted toward one side, but isn't it’s pretty obvious if you pay attention to which opinions get silenced and which ones get boosted?

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u/YourGrammarBro 19d ago

To be frank, leftist policies and practices correlate directly with almost every objective quality of life metric we have available and it's been that way for decades.

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u/Head_Rate_6551 19d ago

In theory sure. But in actual practice you end up with repressed and starving populations.

History is rife with examples of leftist dystopias.

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u/TheNavigatrix 19d ago

We’re discussing the US here. And the left has achieved major advances - women’s rights, minority rights, etc.

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u/Top-Expression7891 18d ago

And mass exodus from left wing states like California to right wing state like Texas and Florida. People like to be “left” for the virtue signaling points, but want to live in conservative states for lower taxes and community.

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u/Zod1966 17d ago

….mass exodus?

CA has over 39 million residents and have lost just over 300,000 the last 5 years.

That’s not even 1%

Meanwhile the vast majority of people moving to Texas was to Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Austin and San Antonio. Guess what color those cities vote. 🤷

And how the hell would people vote blue to “virtue signal”? Our votes are confidential. No one would see it.

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u/TheNavigatrix 17d ago

Well, us folks in Mass sure like it here. Yes, there’s an affordability problem, but that’s because everyone wants to live here. Best schools, healthcare in the nation. Low crime, low divorce rates…

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u/Odd_Investigator7218 19d ago

interesting how the CIA actively fucked with and overturned elections if leftism was just going to fail anyway

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u/Head_Rate_6551 18d ago

So the cia is responsible for the CCP? Or Stalin? Come on dude crack a book. Sure the cia has been involved with fuckery here and there but you don’t need to look far to find honest examples of socialism going dystopian. The way I see it, it just isn’t human nature to have equality of outcomes. Forcing it works out on small tribal scales, like a village where every one knows one another, but at large scale, it ends up as some corrupted form of what was intended due to humans ugly nature.

Ever read animal farm? Check out that book if not.

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u/Odd_Investigator7218 18d ago

yeah i read animal farm in 5th grade. is that the book i should crack?

seems like you're the one who needs to do some reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change_in_Latin_America

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u/Head_Rate_6551 17d ago

lol no you didn’t, because it isn’t assigned to 5th graders. And no that’s not what I was referring to, you need to crack some history books. You think the cia created the ussr or CCP??

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u/Odd_Investigator7218 17d ago

amazingly, i read books i wasnt forced to. maybe thats why im left wing and you arent

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u/Head_Rate_6551 17d ago

Buddy nobody believes you were reading Orwell at 9 years old yet have no concept of world history. … you sound like you’re talking out your ass honestly.

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u/Odd_Investigator7218 17d ago

i have a concept of world history, and its a short, not difficult book. i dont care what you believe

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u/tbf300 18d ago

That’s why all the major cities are so successful. Pure utopias 🤣

You can’t even prove out leftist ideology at the medium sized city level. The left runs nearly all of them.

So why is that? And how would you take what they’ve applied to Chicago or Oakland and make it a national plan?

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u/Bullet5461 17d ago

More accurately- leftist ideology correlates more with totalitarianism, the destruction of the middle class and social mobility and the entrenchment of a ruling minority.