re: Anyone successfully post on Reddit long term?

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I post on multiple watch, woodworking, tool, 3D printing, climbing, backpacking, etc forums, and never once have I even thought there was a need to get remotely political. Many of the ones I post on make political posts verboten... which could be part of your issue.

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I'll give some examples I've seen.

On the wedding planning subreddit, numerous threads have been started about not inviting family to their wedding because they voted for Trump.

On the Baton Rouge subreddit just today, someone asked where to get their haircut as a non-blue-haired liberal.

On the various "snark" subreddits that gossip about insufferable influencers, calling someone MAGA or a zionist is completely accepted as a normal insult all will note down about someone.

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Now all I do is read AITA

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Even this one is filled with freak weirdos. Yesterday, some guy asked if he was an a-hole for telling his postpartum wife she needs to check herself into inpatient rehab and leave her baby behind because.. she's been drinking 2-3 glasses of wine a night post-birth.

People were acting as if she is on the same level of a late stage alcoholic that swigs nightstand vodka throughout the night because, over the course of ~4 hours of her evening, she has a couple of glasses of wine. Ya know, like a simple discussion between spouses and some self regulation can't occur after the woman just spent 9 month sober on her own.

It's like these people have never been out into the real world before.

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Every other post starts with "I'm neurodivergent"

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So true.

Even the cooking subreddits and the wedding subreddits are immediately flooding in every time someone mentions their proposed menu for a party because WHAT ABOUT THE PEOPLE WITH ARFID? WHAT ABOUT THE VEGANS? WHAT ABOUT THESE 900 ALLERGIES?

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It's like these people have never been out into the real world before.

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A lot of them haven’t

Reddit is their social life

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the Baton Rouge subreddit

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every few yrs I remember that place exists and go there to read about TD

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Why is tigerdroppings such a cesspool of deplorables?

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Reminder that Tigerdroppings is a cesspool.

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If you are a conservative arguing politics on Reddit you are on borrowed time

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If you are someone carefully pointing out obvious flaws in the comments of radicals on Reddit, without espousing any conservative ideals whatsoever, you are on borrowed time.

And FTR, I’ve never, in my entire Internet experience, since the dawn of the World Wide Web, seen the word Pedophile, or its other forms, used as much as the last few months on Reddit. It’s mind boggling.

I use it for cigar deals, and illegal European soccer streams.

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So what's the most obscure subreddit some of you have come across?

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r/buttsharpies






oh sorry, I thought you said best subreddit

I have been on forums there about fixing my car, other do it yourself things, my favorite pro sports teams, about my home town area, the industry, various fan sites for popular prime time shows and it is rare to see them touch upon actual current politics and if it comes up it is very light and in passing along the lines of "maybe repairing a car wouldn't be so expensive if the Democrats didn't insist on so many taxes " type stuff that mostly goes ignored.

It's also a good place to check up on an item beforee making a purchase. I wanted to know if a new cough medicine that I just learned about but nothing on the internet comes across as trustworthy so just type in "Name of Product Reddit comments" in google and you might get to see what 200 commentators say about something, good, bad, good but too expensive, etc.

Put simply on non current affairs boards, politics, parties, elections very rarely come up for converstiion in my experience.

Now what the political boards are like? I don't know, I don't go to those boards over there, many say they are liberal so take that for what it is.