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makemeking706 t1_j8snber wrote

Reply to comment by djslarge in MPD Officer often fed information to Proud Boys leader by oxidadapanda

> Something about this subreddit

Two things are at work. First is that DC is probably the closet thing we have to a sub about the federal government, so it attracts many people from elsewhere who use it as a stand in. Second, certain subjects are heavily influenced/astroturfed across reddit. I am a member of a few subs that rarely get posts with 20+ comments, let alone hundreds of comments. That is, unless certain keywords pop up in the title and then look out.

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djslarge t1_j8snko9 wrote

Seems weird that people use a subreddit about DC to get insight on the federal government. Aren’t there better subreddits than just this one, where it’s more about the people who live in DC separate from Congress

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makemeking706 t1_j8snzw4 wrote

> to get insight

They don't come here for the insights. A lot of subs dedicated to major cities have this same problem. There is probably an element of the urban hate that runs through a lot of conservative talking points at work.

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Graham_Elmere t1_j8y0z5w wrote

americans, and reddit mouthbreathers specifically have never been able to separate:

Washington DC - the great city to live in

and

Washington DC - THE SWAMP

so this sub gets a lot of topical discussion from incel dipshits that live in their parents' idaho basements

i remember guys arguing with me about like, seth rich's route home who very obviously have never visited the east coast of the united states much less DC specifically

hell we had multiple fake news influence campaigns in this sub during the BLM protests - anyone remember the day that all these fake accounts were pouring in to say that the federal government shut off internet / cell data downtown one night?

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Most_kinds_of_Dirt t1_j8sstqs wrote

I'm sure brigadiers factor into it, but a less comfortable truth is that there's a lot of internalized racism and class discrimination among the young white professionals who live in DC and frequent this subreddit - and discussions about police and homelessness tends to draw those attitudes out.

Unlearning internalized racism and class discrimination takes work - and there's no guarantee that people in this subreddit have done that work just because they live in D.C. or vote for progressive Democrats.

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