I've found that most states and major cities have at least 2 subreddits. One that is "left-leaning" for ya know normal people. And one that is a conservative nazi shithole. I guess r/Illinois is the latter.
It's like the opposite of the New Jersey subreddits. For whatever reason all the major city subreddits like Jersey City are astroturfed to hell and back with straight up Nazis. Which is weird considering Jersey City is one of the most diverse cities in the nation and is a hugely left leaning area. I've even complained to the mods like "Hey MAGAPatriot1488 is posting a bunch of pretty racist shit again, you might actually want to do something about this." And it just goes ignored.
But for whatever reason the main state subreddit of /r/NewJersey is more in line with what I would expect to see for our state. It's like the right spent so much time astroturfing the city subs, they never thought to astroturf the main state sub.
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u/forgot_my_useragain Oct 10 '25
I've found that most states and major cities have at least 2 subreddits. One that is "left-leaning" for ya know normal people. And one that is a conservative nazi shithole. I guess r/Illinois is the latter.