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AlderaanDuran  ·  3881 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The new reddit?

A circlejerk is a bunch of like minded people all sitting around "debating", but really not debating or discussing anything, just reinforcing each others identical worldview. Like on Reddit, when you post a thread along the lines of "Does anyone else not like the NSA spying on us?", the comment section is just going to be a circlejerk of agreement. It's not a discussion, it's not a debate, it's just "YEAH TOTALLY I KNOW RIGHT?". It's essentially just going round and round on the same topic with no movement. It's just a circlejerk. Like /r/politics on Reddit is a great example. Everyone there, that comments anyway, has the exact same opinion, because they all formed their opinions in the same place.