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Somehow I doubt a 60 year old woman with the job title of “socialite” accumulated 15 million karma on Reddit. Call me crazy.

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...and that sort of thing is why I block reddit.com. For any one accurate fact that a redditor learns, there's at least one other that is wrong. The site is like a game of telephone, and what's more half the participants are teenagers, propagandists, attention-seekers, crackpots or pathological liars.

> the participants are teenagers, propagandists, attention-seekers, crackpots or pathological liars.

I quit using reddit regularly about two years ago, but I still checked up on it maybe once a month until a couple of months ago.

What's really telling is opening the site without being logged in to my old account. I never have to scroll more than 5-10 posts down to find an obvious astroturfing political post, or a screenshot of a 15-word tweet being hailed as some masterstroke of political discourse.

Reddit's primary societal function these days seems to be serving interest groups and providing a testing ground for psyops.

Would you have guessed a 60 year old woman with the job title of “socialite” would be involved in sex trafficking?

No matter who it is, I'd like to know what reason someone might have to abandon 15 million karma.

Actually, yeah. The wealthy have always been blamed for pedophile rings, and in places like England, they've gone out of their way to propagate them. People with the job title of "socialite" absolutely do a lot of sex trafficking. Not all of them, but as a whole the group is tremendously guilty.

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