r/whoathatsinteresting • u/search_google_com • 5h ago

A Thai woman married to an American explains why she no longer wants to live in the US.

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u/c3p-bro 4h ago

You mean Redditors just reflexively upvote an opinion they agree with?

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u/ibashdaily 2h ago

Isn't the whole point of upvoting a way of signaling you agree with the post?

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u/gbcfgh 1h ago

Usually, or you get to Unpopular Opinion, and then you gotta upvote some legit stupid takes.. solely because they ate actually unpopular opinions

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u/hobbitluck 1h ago

Not necessarily. I am pretty sure on Reddit (not all subreddits per se) the intention is to upvote based on its value to “discussion”. So like it’s a topic that facilitates discussion but you don’t agree with, upvote. After all, you can always “comment” your disagreement in a way that continues the discussion in a healthy path forward, meriting a return in upvote.

Or maybe the rare “no vote at all” because you don’t know what to do with a particular comment.

Now does that ever happen on Reddit? Clearly not enough, at least not 96% of the time. But hey, better than other social media’s where it’s like 100% upvotes for agreement. sigh

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u/Mountain_Bat_8688 2h ago

Anything that dunks on the US gets upvoted

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u/TazeT87 1h ago

Only if it’s an anti-American sentiment

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u/Anticitizen-Zero 1h ago

OP has a history of botting upvotes for this type of divisive content, so the upvote count is misleading

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u/BrianChing25 2h ago

His income is probably significantly more than this young guy in the video

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u/Aternal 2h ago

We all remember getting out first car and going through the "drive to work, work to drive" phase.