When I first added /r/conservative to my feed, I found myself in disgust at all the stupid and obviously vague headlines. Accusations of hypocrisy, incompetence, and corruption that took only an ounce of critical thinking to see through. Thing is, while I felt that way initially about /r/conservative, I soon started feeling that way about my left leaning subreddits as well. What had happened was that
left leaning BS slipped under my radar easily because it agreed with my views while I had a visceral angry reaction to conservative BS of the same sort. Over time however, I recognized the patterns regardless of political ideology. Seeing the evil tricks used by the other side made me more aware of those same tricks used by my own side.
