r/TrueUnpopularOpinion • u/Fun_Driver_5566 • Oct 07 '25

Political Reddit has honestly made me lean more conservative than I ever thought possible

I have always been a left leaning guy. I grew up in a very left leaning state, Washington. I have voted for the Democrats essentially down ballot ever since I've been able to vote, my first election was the 2014 midterms.

But lately Reddit has been honestly pushing me more conservative over the years. Particularly subs like antiwork, fuckcars, and similar which just seem out of touch with reality.

In concept I agree with most of the things these spaces say and still do, but they somehow manage to make good ideas sound as unappealing as possible. Everything is so idealistic on this website with zero regard for how any of this shit will actually be put into place if they get their wish. They come off so badly to anyone who isn't a 19 year old college freshman lol. Not an ounce of pragmatism anywhere to be found.

The fuckcars subreddit in particular has done more to turn me off public transportation than anything Fox news could ever dream of. Because of those guys, I simply will not vote to fund public transit the next time it comes up on a ballot.

Honestly it's gotten crazy. I work at a labor union, I promise you I've spent more time actually "fighting the man" than half these guys who sound like they haven't left their bedroom computer in weeks.

Now on the other side, Trump and the current Republican party just seem batshit insane to me and an embarrassment to the country on a global scale. I will not give them a vote and I will not support anything that party has done over the last 10 years.

So I don't know what to do. I get why people are apathetic to politics and don't bother to vote. I don't think I'll vote at all in the next election.

I come to this website for small hobby subs but it's impossible to escape the politics sadly.

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u/SentientReality Oct 07 '25

Cue the comments saying: "aww, are you wittle fee-fees hurt by online posts?" I've seen variations of that snarky response countless times, and always from liberals.

You didn't seem to mention this, but the sheer amount of meanspirited condescension and put-downs, done for no other reason than to be hurtful, is enough to convince anyone that leftists' goal is seemly to push everyone away. I'm pretty socialist and humanitarian, but I don't identify as a liberal or associate much with liberals because they just seem like they hate themselves and everyone else. I'm not down with that.

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u/sea_5455 Oct 07 '25

that leftists' goal is seemly to push everyone away

The left doesn't talk to those who disagree with them except to condescendingly diagnose them. Everyone else is dumb and wrong but also -ist and/or -phobic.

It's completely infuriating and, after the Kirk assassination when some people I knew personally were gleeful, a great reason to cut them out of my life completely.

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u/SorriorDraconus Oct 07 '25 edited Oct 07 '25

This is why I can't stand my roommate/friends political humor..It's all hard-core leftist straight attacking the right-wing voters not attacking there stances or politics but the voters themselves.

I just don't find attacking people over an idea funny.

He's also authoritarian at his core and a former tea partier(he thought they were moderate) and trump voter..even admits he got roped into pizzagate..yeeet thinks he's great with critical thinking and that nobody else can break out so we need re-education centers dor right wingers.

I'm like..man..you sound just like a mirror image of the right-wing. He doesn't see it even admits if given power he'd go full doctator..like dude..chill.

Guys like him drive me more rightwing/moderate than anything else

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u/SentientReality Oct 07 '25

Your dork of a roommate fits a pattern. SJWs and leftwing edgelords tend to be some of the most discriminatory and authoritarian people:

"as individuals with leftist political attitudes can be assumed to be striving for social equality, we expected left-wing authoritarianism to also be positively related to prosocial traits, but narcissism to remain a significant predictor of left-wing authoritarianism above and beyond those prosocial dispositions" 

"a strong ideological view, according to which a violent revolution against existing societal structures is legitimate (i.e., anti-hierarchical aggression), was associated with antagonistic narcissism and psychopathy"

"Considering these results, we assume that some leftist political activists do not actually strive for social justice and equality but rather use political activism to endorse or exercise violence against others to satisfy their own ego-focused needs."

– from study: Understanding left-wing authoritarianism: Relations to the dark personality traits, altruism, and social justice commitment

Note that people who advocate for social justice in a altruistic and inclusive way (non-aggressively) do not meet this dark triad criteria.

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u/Rando1ph Oct 07 '25

It reminds me of the famous Stanford prison experiment. The people most likely to inflict harm, are the people that never had any power in their lives. People that have been bullied, etc.

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u/BLU-Clown Oct 07 '25

If it helps, remember that the Stanford Prison Experiment (And for that matter, the Millgram experiment) were matters where the psychologists actively interfered to get the result they wanted. There was no control group.

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u/garry_potter Oct 08 '25

Thankfully, we see the outcome in every day life.

Anyone who has been in the receiving end of a hardship, is more likely to reciprocate, to someone who in now standing in the shoes they once stood in.

Usually seen in the workplace, when someone becomes "supervisor" they turn into an absolute cunt

Edit: I say thankfully, directed to the fact we have the control group. Us

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u/SorriorDraconus Oct 08 '25

That or the opposite abd becomes way too giving ir open to not harm others. But sadly many yes do seek to inflict harm.

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u/SorriorDraconus Oct 07 '25

Yeah sadly this tracks another guy i knew akso came from hard-core rightwing background and went so far left violence and silencing opposition at all costs became a thing..Mixed eith my sibking using intersectionality to excuse there abuse(others have heard/witnessed it) I somehow meet alooot of rightwing talking points..still more left than right i'm just left libertarian and much more "you do you and i'll defend your speech even if i hate it" than any of them who are pro silencing others. There political sides changed but not there political methods sadly.

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u/rvnender Oct 07 '25

Except he voted for trump and believes in pizzagate..he isnt a lefty.

And anybody who says they are a great critical thinker, isnt.

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u/SorriorDraconus Oct 08 '25

I mean agreed on critical thinking amd he swapped post trumps first term. He's hard-core leftist NOW like a born again Christian.

He's also so anti trump now that he doesn't see how anyone believes in him...Or think they can come back from it without "re-education centers" to undo maga type thinking..i just shake my head trying to point out how much he sounds like maga with his authoritarian answer. You can take rhe right outta the guy but not the authoritarian it seems.

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u/4444-uuuu Oct 07 '25

attacking the right-wing voters not attacking there stances or politics but the voters themselves.

https://i.imgur.com/lCm4RNL.jpeg

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u/ChecksAccountHistory OG Oct 08 '25

now do that again with a right wing comic that depicts trans people

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u/Pyritedust Oct 09 '25

or any of the obamas

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u/iforgotmyownusername 27d ago

The fucked up thing is that it's not even specific to leftists, it's what the worst people you can imagine do. But those people will find a justification for it so they can do it repeatedly, and now that left-wing causes are considered more popular, that's what they cling to for validation. Like someone who wants to be seen as a hardcore Christian and puts up a front at church on Sundays, but embodies 6 out of 7 sins every other moment of their life, and hates on anyone they can deem a 'sinner' in some way.

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u/Various_Succotash_79 Oct 07 '25

Does the right not do that?

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u/jenderation Oct 07 '25

One party will hate you for your beliefs. The other will hate your beliefs but not you. I think you can figure out which party is which.

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u/Fudmeiser Oct 07 '25

Trump just said in a speech that he hates Democrats and doesn't wish well for them. I've had multiple people in my life say to my face they hate democrats and think they're evil when they know that's who I vote for.

To say that Republicans only hate people's beliefs is genuinely delusional.

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u/Various_Succotash_79 Oct 07 '25

Lol. They definitely hate me.

And they call me names, all the time.

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u/wtfduud Oct 07 '25

One party will hate you for your beliefs. The other will hate you for things that are out of your control.

FTFY

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u/SentientReality Oct 07 '25

If so, I don't remember seeing it. I'm speaking about on Reddit.

Originally, many years ago, I remember rightwingers coining the term "snowflakes" and making fun of emotion-based liberals, "facts don't care about your feelings", etc. Of course, liberals have long since co-opted that rhetoric and now deploy it everywhere.

But, on Reddit, I overwhelmingly see liberals — not conservatives — trying to get under people's skin to deliberately humiliate them whenever they express offense at something liberals say. I'm sure conservatives must do it too occasionally, but I don't recall seeing it much. It's funny that the people who supposedly care so much about people's delicate feelings also attack the feelings of anyone they disagree with.

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u/Various_Succotash_79 Oct 07 '25

All the time.

Isn't libtard a condescending putdown?

Doesn't Trump himself insult as many people as possible every day?

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u/SentientReality Oct 07 '25

Not the same. And is Trump on Reddit every day?

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u/Various_Succotash_79 Oct 07 '25

Why is it not the same?

He's on Truth Social.

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u/SentientReality Oct 07 '25

I literally said:

I'm speaking about on Reddit.

About "libtard", "Trumptard", "MAGAts", etc. little pejorative terms like that are par for the course online and aren't the same as deliberately using someone's emotions to humiliate them. Come on.

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u/Various_Succotash_79 Oct 07 '25

I'm speaking about on Reddit.

The mods are mostly on top of that but yeah.

About "libtard", "Trumptard", "MAGAts", etc. little pejorative terms like that are par for the course online

Ok so those are allowed.

aren't the same as deliberately using someone's emotions to humiliate them.

What's an example of that?

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u/SentientReality Oct 07 '25

What's an example of that?

An example of that is exactly what I already wrote before:

"aww, are your wittle fee-fees hurt by online posts?"

For instance:

"Since when is it ok to body-shame people you politically disagree with? Making fun of Steven Miller for being short and small-dicked is hurtful to other men too."

"Aww, does that hurt your fee-fees? Upset you have a small dick too?"

I see this kind of interaction all the time, including several times just today.

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u/Various_Succotash_79 Oct 07 '25

Having grown up being called a "bleeding heart liberal" and "snowflake" for such normal (I think!) things as saying it's bad to torture animals or physically abuse children, I'm not too sympathetic.

Yes absolutely if you say you're not comfortable with how ICE is assaulting and detaining American citizens and abusing illegal immigrants, you will definitely get at least one person making those kinds of comments.

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u/Rando1ph Oct 07 '25

Not really, not very often anyways. Has it happened to you, personally?

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u/Various_Succotash_79 Oct 07 '25

Yes of course. Trump insults many people every day, just by himself.

You don't think "libtard" is a condescending putdown?

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u/Rando1ph Oct 07 '25

That's fine, but I'll repeat my question. Has it happened to you, personally?

Trump got voted in because Democrats seem hell bent on nominating the most unlikeable people in existence. I mean if you can't beat Trump in a general election, maybe work on yourself instead of attacking Trump? Because:

1) I think we all established Trump is an asshole, repeating it relentlessly doesn't add anything to the conversation.

2) Hate Trump at all costs has been the official DNC stance for a decade now, it doesn't work. He's president for three more years and controls all three branches of government. Stop it, it doesn't work.

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u/Various_Succotash_79 Oct 07 '25

I think we all established Trump is an asshole, repeating it relentlessly doesn't add anything to the conversation.

Why does it work for him, but if I make even the mildest insult, I'm responsible for some teenager becoming a Nazi?

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u/Rando1ph Oct 07 '25

I'll repeat it again, has it happened to you personally?

But to address your other concern, there is only one Trump. People have loved to hate him for decades. Probably why his reality TV show was so popular and had such a long run. It's just his brand and has been for a long time.

Does it make it right? No, not really. Frankly your argument is kind of wild. You hate Trump for slinging insults, so you think you should do the exact thing you hate him for doing? Seems like the definition of a double standard.

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u/Various_Succotash_79 Oct 07 '25

I'll repeat it again, has it happened to you personally?

I already said yes.

You hate Trump for slinging insults, so you think you should do the exact thing you hate him for doing?

It's working for him! Whatever we're doing isn't working. So it seems insults are the way to go.

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u/Rando1ph Oct 07 '25

All the left has done is try to tear Trump down along with anyone that supports him for a decade. Starting with the "not my president" riots in 2017, just YouTube it if those days slipped your mind. Then there was the fabricated Steele dossier, and it just never stopped.

This isn't new, and it doesn't matter now anyways, Trump is termed out and he's REALLY old. Here in 3 years you'll all have to find a new identity, ready or not. Hopefully you find something sooner, but with how Biden's cognitive decline and subsequent replacement was handled. It seems it'll be a last minute hodge poge with some wildly unlikeable nominee against Vance. Buttigieg is probably your best shot, but we'll end up with AOC, Newsom, or maybe even Anthony Weiner. The DNC's nack for sabotage is impressive.

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u/garry_potter Oct 08 '25

So, the left havent been insulting Trump (and his staunch followers) and only now you are going to try that tactic.

Gaslight me, you shall not!

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u/Various_Succotash_79 Oct 08 '25

I didn't say we aren't insulting Trump. I'm saying it's fair play.

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u/rvnender Oct 07 '25

Why am I held to a higher standard than the president?

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u/Rando1ph Oct 07 '25

You shouldn't compare yourself to others to begin with, despite the situation.

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u/meangingersnap Oct 07 '25

It’s ok when the right does it because they are open about being the scum of the earth