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Politically-engaged Redditors tend to be more toxic -- even in non-political subreddits (www.psypost.org)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Politically-engaged Redditors tend to be more toxic -- even in non-political subreddits::A new study links partisan activity on the Internet to widespread online toxicity, revealing that politically-engaged users exhibit uncivil behavior even in non-political discussions. The findings are based on an analysis of hundreds of millions of comments from over 6.3 million Reddit users.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Tankies aren't leftists. They defend genocidal and authoritarian regimes, which are inherently right wing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

which are inherently right wing.

Why?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Tankies are leftist because the oppose private property and favor the state controlling the means of production rather than individuals or corporations.

You're confusing authoritarian communism with social democracy and anarchism. Stalin was a leftist, he was also genocidal and authoritarian.