Yep, /r/nsaleaks is doing a good job, as well as all the crypto subs - /r/tor, /r/bitcoin, etc. and there's a post in /r/worldnews doing okay.

/r/news is fucked though. So disappointing.

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Yep. I've been enduring a long running battle posting the guardian, and other links to /r/news only to see them spam filtered, and to vanish into oblivion or when the story is too big for them to reasonably ignore see a shitty meta-journalism report from one of their 'approved' news sites rise to the top reporting on the report. It's not even subtle.

I can't be fucked to waste my energy getting involved anymore but it is incumbent upon the mods of mega-subs to enable the free flow of info, to not do so is self-defeating and will ultimately kill reddit when the shady practice becomes commonplace.

Let them dig their own graves, I can't be arsed ruining my health being stressed over trying to spread important news stories.

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Yep, never really was a big thing I noticed before. In fact there was almost a systemic change of tides after the wikileaks stuff dropped when Assange turned from a liberator in the public eye into a manipulative sex-pest. (I think he's neither and think the documents he released are infinitely more important and interesting than the bloke himself)..

I find it particularly weird, being not from the states and so not particularly interested in this left/right dichotomy that prevails in US understanding or presentation of politics, and being - frankly - a commie compared to most of the people who are upset by this. I dunno dude. I just feel weirded out by it all.

If I ever log out and check the frontpage it seems more full of crap than it ever did, I remember it being a lot more 'news-y' than these days, now it's all fluff.

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Yeah it's interesting viewing people's naive assumptions and occasional glee in the impending default - I think many don't really understand economics at all. I mean, I kind of don't, but I do know enough to know prospects are very, very bad without resolution. We shall see though.

Stay safe man, all the best :)

What's even more pathetic is the users who are tricked into thinking they're on some cool bandwagon by supporting it.

The majority of people only seem to care about what is trendy, and anything associated with the NSA is quickly become stale. They don't read the news to learn, or to keep up with what's going on around them. They just need enough to talk about at work tomorrow, or maybe to have a brief conversation with a stranger at a pub.

It's not people, it's shills (i.e., just pigs).

People care about these issues... the shills create a false sense of reality trying to make us believe that the people around us do not care, so we should not either.

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False Dichotomy: Presenting two alternative states as the only possibilities, when in fact more possibilities exist.

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Purely speculative on my part, I didn't mean to state what I did as an absolute.

Article link?

One of the worst thing I seen in reddit is /r/news replaced /r/politics in the default subreddits.

"liberal" circlejerk in progress, over nothing, as usual.

You know, I'm starting to wonder if this isn't pr games at work. They say that we should expect a major shift in government soon. Maybe by crippling the republican party in the public eyes, they can push for a "democrat" Gov. But it doesn't really matter, as it's all the same as pro wrestling. If TPP Or whatever the fuck it's called goes through, the corporations will be running the show in more than just sponsorships.

Plus, I thought that TOR leak came out a week ago? Maybe I was just ahead of the curve.

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Did you even read the article?