I was just thinking as I read successive posts in Voat how much the overall tone of this site differs from that of Reddit. The vast majority of posts here could be catagorized as right wing or nationalist or conservative. Yet this is an open forum, a genuinely open forum unlike Reddit. What does that tell us? It tells us that public opinion is overwhelmingly conservative, and that Reddit's presentation of public opinion is strongly and artificially skewed to the left.
I see the same nationalist, conservative opinions in the comments sections of Web sites when those comment sections are not censored. When people are free to express themselves, the majority of them express conservative views, not liberal views. The liberal fascists control the media, but they can't control public opinion, they can only distort and mask it.
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jerry ago
No,you are right for the wrong reason. Vote has lots of different people, but most are generally right wing because these views get you cast out from other online forums. Even just playing Xbox with my friends, random people chastise the fuck out of you in public lobbies for being right wing. On GtA there is Anti-Trump gangs. For this reasOn, the right wing thinkers had to find a place that wasn't shit so that they could have a normal forum. Just lots of right wing people found here. There are liberals here too, just not many because they generally congregate in packs like any group. Right now the liberal hive is plebbit
we-lost-a-giant ago
People are more nationalist and "racist" than they would ever admit. People just love to conform, especially women. I made a dating profile that is verbosely "alt-right" and I get hit up by women regularly, more often than I have in the past that's for sure. Just yesterday I got a message from a teacher who said she holds the exact same racial views but never speaks about it. This is an ESL teacher too so she's not working with white students. Now to clarify, I'm not prejudiced, I treat people as the individuals they are but I treat patterns and data with no regard for politeness and conformity.
10019073? ago
I come here to voat because I can't express most things to my friends and family. My sister blew up tonight because I asked her to explain her understanding of "The Russian Narrative" to me. She exploded because my use of the word narrative implied that I "didn't believe it." Most people I talk to in real life have these emotional outbursts where politics is concerned.
Voat can be a tough pill to swallow and I've blocked about 50 subverses, but I come here because there's literally nowhere else to have a real conversation.
ardvarcus ago
I don't see it this way. Voat is a free and open forum. What we are getting is a genuine expression of popular opinion, unfiltered by censorship, bregading, moderator manipulation, or vote buying. The liberals are free to come here and express their opinions, but unlike other forums, they are not free to manipulate or suppress the opinions of conservatives. The result of this freedom is what we see on Voat.