yeah, it's a really fucked up place. if you're not expecting it and watching out for yourself they'll try to destroy your life for fun. kiwifarms will do the same but everyone on kiwifarms knows that already, reddit, on the other hand, is trying to attract normies and misrepresenting itself so it's full of "innocent bystanders". there was a cop who would post on my local reddit, i dont like cops and i post a lot of criticism of the local cops. i would also argue with him sometimes because that's what a public forum is supposed to be. my views and arguments were right leaning libertarian though versus the local leftist agenda and i didn't fit in either, so there were times when i would have to defend the guy, and he returned the favor a few times...the local tranny mafia literally stalked him on reddit though and one day he posted a picture to a reddit hiking group and on his personal fb page and they doxxed him and he lost his job. i could laugh at him but he's just going to get replaced by another cop, albeit a less vocal one, so it accomplishes nothing in my opinion. like 2 months later i posted about an artifact that i'd found in a local park that was related to a reddit thread about local history and regular posters who normally never engage with my comments started asking me to post a picture of it, it felt like they were trying to dox me next so i led them on a wild goose chase...if they ever left their section 8 apartments though, they would have known that i had donated it to the county's local museum a few years ago and my name was public record as the donor. instead they never figured it out and they're still the screaming about how much they love the city and how important it's history is and how they need to preserve the local culture without actually knowing anything about the area or its history
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