Because Reddit isn’t above average intelligence anymore. It’s back to baseline.

There was a time, about a decade ago, when Reddit was what I would have called the best collection of intelligent minds on the internet. Not because it had the entirety of intelligentsia, or that everyone was a MENSA genius, but because everyone was on the Same page. There was none of this emotional bullshit eating up every subteddit. These reactionary, clickbaity, moral high grounding articles that get shoved to the top as a cross between virtue signaling and confirmation bias. People stumbling over themselves to regurgitate and echo the same hive mind bullshit everyone else is saying/upvoting. And sometimes /r/libertarian is no better. I caught someone calling another a racist for supporting the nationals ban. A racist. Even if it were a Muslim ban, which it isn’t, guess what: muslims arent a race. That’s how fucked up everyone’s perception is. Call them a bigot. Call them intolerant. Call them patriots. It’s anything but racism.
Nowadays I wouldn’t put it above the comments section of a YouTube video. Mocking people for sharing good opinions by hotlinking /r/imverysmart, disregarding opposing opinions no matter however well thought out they are. Calling anyone and everyone a misogynist/racist as a catch all for not being able to make a coherent argument. Dismissing viewpoints you don’t agree with, with the disagree button.

This website went to shit. Alan Schwartz is rolling in his grave. Reddit’s original mission was to be a bastion and beacon of free speech for everyone. Nowadays the guffawing hyenas who call themselves mods/users say something along the lines of “something something privately owned company something something free speech isn’t a right.” They hide behind the shroud of corporatism to justify and protect their authoritarian reign on what used to be known as the front page of the internet, but now should be known as “but ad space here, censor negative stories here”.

The sad thing is we’ll never know what information has been censored on here due to the fact that it’s impossible to sort through every deleted page. I gave up on this site 2 years ago. Im subscribed to /r/patriots (and even that sub is turning into a meme/fuck Goodell shitfest) /r/libertarian, /r/warshipporn, and /r/watchpeopledie. Should be a /r/watchredditdie for like minded individuals.

Part of this is also that I’ve grown up. I’m not the bleeding heart 14 year old liberal I was when I joined, and I’m not part of the major age group that makes up this site. I’m 24, I’m matured, and I’m sick of telling people why they’re wrong when they’re sitting on the other side of the computer drinking a monster and contemplating whether or not they should do their US History 1 homework. I’m tired of schooling young kids and then getting brigaded by their teenage friends, who weren’t even out of diapers when 9/11 happened, who have never read a book outside of their school curriculum, and who moreover aren’t even above average intelligence.

Someone once told me /r/shitredditsays isn’t relevant anymore. Couldn’t be further from the truth, they became the website.

[SAUCE](https://np.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/5r2x31/justin_amash_on_twitter_admitting_that_both/dd4rvva/?context=3)