The article isn't as important as all the replies are.

[LiberalArkie]

https://www.reddit.com/r/SandersForPresident/comments/3dm8v0/a_2income_family_today_has_less_disposable_income/


I thought I would post one of the replies on Reddit:


]Amannelle [score hidden] an hour ago
In Korea I earned $40-$50/hour tutoring, here I'm lucky if I can earn $10.

This is extremely pertinent to many who graduate from higher education. Most of my friends are traveling to Europe and East Asia to work, because it pays 4 or 5 times what they make here. My roommate's girlfriend in Sweden makes OVER TWENTY TIMES what he makes in the United States per hour. Working in a thrift store equivalent in Stockholm, he was able to make far more than he made in Wisconsin working in audio editing. It's insane what Americans put up with.

[djean111]

1. Great comments. Have you noticed that Reddit, with its 62,000 or so Bernie supporters,

is all of a sudden getting bad press here? Hilarious.

[LiberalArkie]

2. I think there are a lot of people here hoping for a job in the HRC administration.

I used to work for Alltel in Little Rock. You would not believe how many people at work went out of their way to please the Huckster when he was gov and running for press. They wanted to get hired for anything in his admin. Probably the same here.

[Skinner]

5. Reddit is getting bad press everywhere right now.

Their now-former CEO was subjected to an onslaught of racist and sexist bullying because she tried to cut down on some of the harassment there.

[jeff47]

6. She's getting more hate than she deserves, but she did screw up some.

She was rather selective on which harassment had to go.

Her team also made some technical and marketing choices that greatly angered the members of the site, especially the moderators.

[Skinner]

7. Yes, that too.

Not sure I agree with the implication that she deserves any hate at all. But yes she (and others on the team) made some serious blunders.

[canuckledragger]

9. A lot of popular subreddits were infested with right-wing racists/bigots

in their comments section for any left-leaning article posted.

...which the mods refused to do a thing about.

Most of them devolved into cesspools of lies and right-wing hate, and I found if you got too vocal calling them out the mods would ban the person trying to hold them accountable!

I got quite mouthy with a few due to that moderator apathy, (but nowhere near as nasty as the commenters I was responding to) and got banned from commenting on at least 2 of those subreddits.

Then given the lack of any action against blatantly racist reddits like r/ferguson that popped up within the first few days of protests after the murder (which had a big banner saying 'n*ggertown') I gave up on the site altogether.

[djean111]

14. Thanks for the explanation! I hear about Reddit every morning, from my grandson, and just never

thought about it in the context of DU - until he showed me the Bernie (and Hillary) sub-reddits. Which are remarkably well organized and civilized. Grandson starts every morning whisking through the Reddit news, it is his CNN, sort of.
I have never explored the dark parts of Reddit, just the AMAs and such. When I think of truly frightening, I think of 4chan. Yikes.

[n2doc]

3. Yep.

We need to tie into this and get them to come vote in the primaries.

[merrily]

4. All insane: what we put up with, what we do without, what we fail to demand, how much secrecy and

outright deceit we are subjected to--all, all insane.

[heaven05]

8. to hell with REDDIT!!!!!!!

and the openly racist bullshit I have read there. The moderators and owners are doing NOTHING about that. If racists had no forum to spew their disgusting feces, that would be one way to marginalize the ignorant brutes.

[LiberalArkie]

10. The funny thing is I have never seen what people are talking about.

Of course I don't go looking for it. I go to the ham radio, the hackingtosh, the Bernie Sanders and writing prompts. I guess if it popped up, I would ignore it like I did with people at work or at the stores or repair shops or just about everywhere. I even ignore it when it happens at Democratic Underground. Any time you have a large group of people you are going to have differing opinions. Like is not bible study where everyone believes the same thing. There are, believe it or not, people who may not believe the same thing you do. There was a country founded by people of differing opinions than the country they were from.

[heaven05]

11. I agree.

Many of the people who founded this nation had differing opinions, but believe it or not some also had slaves and all did not object. Differing opinions than mine? Sure. But the privileged have always stood united as they gorge on the profits of their beliefs. A large group love Trump, what does that immediately make them? A lot could care less about that poor woman of color murdered in that waller county jail over this last week, what does that make them. A lot will wave their confederate flag in my face while calling me either out loud or under their breath, racist names. I can't ignore that or the ones on DU that might have differing opinions concerning my priorities in racial or social areas. I look because I want to know who my real enemy is...twitter, reddit, facebook all give me ammunition against the "racism and white privilege don't exist" crowd. Know the enemy, a creed I have lived by since my granddaddy told me about the night the KKK tried to intimidate his family/my family. By the way, not all people agree in Bible study either.

[LiberalArkie]

13. There is racism, bigotry just "You're not like me" attitude everywhere. I am still going to try

and listen to them. Sometimes the person may have a valid point on something. The red neck with the KKK shirt carrying the m16 running out of the Wal-mart may have a valid point when he is screaming "FIRE". Sometimes he may not.


But, I have learned a lot from the kids on Reddit. There are a lot of really smart people there. In the comments to the article I linked to, I found a lot of very smart people flipping burgers. I almost as a Boomer, are with them when they say that the boomers do not understand what the world is like now.

[Enthusiast]

12. I'm with you. I don't even know what they are talking about, racism.

There are sockpuppets all over the internet.