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MillennialNightmare t1_iy7ue2v wrote

The sub is better when the entire front page isn’t dominated by New York Post crime stories.

There are instances where individual threads should be allowed, like when there’s a different angle involved other than crime such as corruption by a public official. But the single thread definitely helps contain some of the clear brigading that happens overall.

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WickhamAkimbo t1_iy7zjjv wrote

Point to the brigadiers. Please explain who is brigading. You've made the accusation so many time with literally no evidence. Assuming that it does happen, explain why it's limited exclusively to people that disagree with you politically.

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FrankFriendo t1_iy87u71 wrote

People that don’t live in NYC love to post about crime in NYC.

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SilenceDooDooGood t1_iydmv08 wrote

And people who don't take the subway regularly and haven't been in a pharmacy in months (where everything is now locked up) love to deny the reality of the city's problems.

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FrankFriendo t1_iydt1zs wrote

I take the subway every day. I shop in pharmacies every day. Stay scared, loser. Keep blaming poor people instead of the policies that led us here.

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FrankFriendo t1_iydu5lj wrote

Hahaha the subways got you SHOOK! Woweeeeee

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SilenceDooDooGood t1_iyduj9h wrote

Nah, but I do happen to care about vulnerable people, on both side of the issue. I guess you don't :( sad times, frankie no care about other people, only fake caring about homeless mentally ill people without actually getting them any help, oo la la.

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MillennialNightmare t1_iy8eru1 wrote

Probably because that viewpoint is not shared by the vast majority of people who actually live in New York City.

Also wouldn’t have to look too far to find a brigader.

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drpvn t1_iy8ks8n wrote

There are certainly some people who post here who don’t live in the city and who get their kicks shitting on NYC with tales of the urban apocalypse. But at the same time, “the vast majority of people who actually live in NYC” are not on Reddit. And NYC voters elected Eric Adams Mayor on a tough-on-crime message. So I would disagree that most people don’t think crime is a serious problem in NYC. Just because you think they’re stupid doesn’t mean they don’t exist.

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MillennialNightmare t1_iy8m5te wrote

Adams barely won the primary though and the alternative in the general was Curtis Sliwa.

Even if the vast majority of people who live in the city aren’t on Reddit, one would think that the subreddits views would be somewhat representative of that population if it consisted of people who actually live here. And yet here we are.

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drpvn t1_iy8md0e wrote

The point is that “the vast majority” of NYC voters did not think Adams’ message that crime was a serious problem was inaccurate.

If your point is that most young white online male voters in NYC disagreed with Adams’ message, and this sub is mostly populated by young white men, and so the focus on crime here is not what one would expect from a group of young white online men who live in NYC, then you probably have a point.

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MillennialNightmare t1_iy8mmrt wrote

That’s also not true considering, again, he barely won the primary.

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drpvn t1_iy8ms4d wrote

Sigh.

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Remarkable_Salary556 t1_iy8s3mi wrote

>group of young white online men

Only a group of young white online men would think that reddit is only populated by other young white online men – assumptions cut both ways homie

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drpvn t1_iy8zrfc wrote

I don’t say “only.”

Reddit’s biggest group of users are young white men.

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Remarkable_Salary556 t1_iy931es wrote

Lol so what? I read and understood all of your words.

Is this sub's biggest group of user young white men? Are you and I both young white men? Does numerical majority equal distribution of impact?

Neither of us know any of this – Reddit is a dark forest and that is the logical assumption for all interactions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_forest_hypothesis

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drpvn t1_iy95db8 wrote

I don’t think you did understand my words if you think that pointing out that it’s not true that “Reddit is only populated by young white online men” is refuting anything I wrote.

Yes, it’s very likely that this sub’s biggest user group is young white men. That would be consistent with the survey data about Reddit’s overall demographics.

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NetQuarterLatte t1_iy9ufku wrote

Younger male and liberal is the majority on Reddit. That alone would already skew the sub towards a population that feels less vulnerable or do not worry as much about public safety.

The fact that so many lack the empathy to understand the reality of others is probably related to something else, though. Because I know many young liberal men who have a lot of empathy.

>About seven-in-ten (71%) of Reddit news users are men, 59% are between the ages of 18 and 29, and 47% identify as liberal, while only 13% are conservative (39% say they are moderate).
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>In comparison, among all U.S. adults, about half (49%) are men, just 22% are 18- to 29-year-olds and about a quarter (24%) say they are liberal.

https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2016/02/25/reddit-news-users-more-likely-to-be-male-young-and-digital-in-their-news-preferences/

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Grass8989 t1_iyaj7ob wrote

He “Barely won the primary”. Yet low income PoC overwhelmingly voted for him and pushed him over the edge. The same communities that people on here pretend to champion for and claim “aren’t concerned about crime” and vehemently hate the police.

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WickhamAkimbo t1_iy933qe wrote

75%. 75% of city residents were polled and said crime is a major issue. You are so delusional.

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/new-york-elections-government/ny-nyc-crime-poll-ny1-siena-college-20220607-7f3g7yxtqnawhflxuuapf5s4ue-story.html

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MillennialNightmare t1_iy96bi3 wrote

75% of city residents were not polled on that, what are you even talking about?

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drpvn t1_iy97j1y wrote

Presumably he’s talking about a poll of a random sample of city residents, 75% of whom said crime was a major issue for them.

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MillennialNightmare t1_iy99ujf wrote

Was that one of the same polls that showed Zeldin winning?

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drpvn t1_iy99z3g wrote

I don’t know. Look it up.

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WickhamAkimbo t1_iy9lixz wrote

Correct: https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/new-york-elections-government/ny-nyc-crime-poll-ny1-siena-college-20220607-7f3g7yxtqnawhflxuuapf5s4ue-story.html

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drpvn t1_iy9lm45 wrote

I was able to figure that out with my brilliant deductive powers.

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WickhamAkimbo t1_iy9m7jj wrote

Had to spell it out for our friend.

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drpvn t1_iy9mbrx wrote

His response will be “but Adams barely won the primary.”

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EdgeOrnery6679 t1_iy92ci7 wrote

Weird cause most polls showed crime was the number one concern for new yorkers. If youre judging views on reddit, well youre making a terrible mistake because reddit is mostly a progressive circlejerk. You can probably go to a red city sub and find it infested with barely any republicans.

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NetQuarterLatte t1_iy9qcvo wrote

>Probably because that viewpoint is not shared by the vast majority of people who actually live in New York City.

Most people in NYC do care about public safety, and the redditors in this sub also upvoted many crime submissions to the top.

Many people don't want to believe other new yorkers care about public safety because they want to deny parts of the reality that they feel are inconvenient to their political biases.

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SilenceDooDooGood t1_iydezvl wrote

These people have never once knocked on a door in NYCHA, for example, and have never talked to lifetime residents of low income neighborhoods. Trust that the law abiding folks in those communities want to feel safe.

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SilenceDooDooGood t1_iydemv4 wrote

They don't have one. Before the election it was "You will all disappear after the election, and so will these posts". Now that they haven't we're 'brigading'. Talk about bad faith arguments, smh.

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spicytoastaficionado t1_iydgq1x wrote

>helps contain some of the clear brigading that happens overall.

What is your standard for what is and isn't brigading?

This has become a lazy, catch-all on Reddit that people use to complain about posts they disagree with.

If you think threads about subway shovings being very popular is because of "brigading" and not because most of us ride the trains almost every day, I don't know what to tell you.

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