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182 sats \ 9 replies \ @freetx 25 Jun \ parent \ on: Are software engineers more likely to be socialist? AskSN
I would say about 2010 was the watershed moment. Not sure why though? Generational? Social media?
I know that many young people see the events of 2008 as a failure of capitalism. Perhaps that's why?
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And they probably view 2016 and 2024 as a failure of democracy. Or voters failed democracy by voting for fascism.
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When did the economics sub Reddit purge all the Ron Paul libertarians?
2009? 2010?
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Yeh, I think it was around 2010.
Over the course of a few months most of the mod team was replaced. It went from a place that was about 60/40 austrian to keynesian content to >95% keynesian.
Haven't been back there in many years, so not sure what the current slant is (betting it hasn't changed that much)
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I'm not sure. I didn't start using Reddit until much later. By then you had to go to more fringe subs like ancap, although libertarian was still ok.
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- Bush
- Iraq
- Obama
- news. YCombinator. com asturfing
is what happened, imo
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Operation Wall Street was coopted by the feds. Turned it into feminism, gay rights, trans rights. There's a meme that compares transsexualism with nerds to crack in the 80s