I've continued to spend a lot of time on /r/europe; there's now at least two or three mods who are overtly right-wing now, actually, and one of them actually posted a good article on the problems that have now manifested themselves in Germany as a result of the refugee crisis. (Upvoted to the top, of course, /r/europe still being obsessed with the topic.) The subreddit's improved a lot in the last couple weeks, though. Better/stricter moderation, lots of junk removed, and the centre-right now generally prevails over the angry anti-immigrant mobs in the subreddit; still a big presence on the subreddit, though, at the moment a sixth of the submissions that haven't been removed are being made by /r/European users. Not really much brigading at all (only the megathreads and certain specific threads on /r/europe were ever brigaded), but they've really returned to the subreddit in masses and the general sentiment is still extremely anti-immigrant, but at least it isn't overtly bigoted anymore. I miss how it was before, though, it's been getting worse since spring and now I wish the EU-federalist circlejerkers would just return, though it seems that a lot of them have left, as the ones I remember don't seem to post there anymore.

Also, does anyone else feel that Sanders' supporters are the greatest hindrance to his success? On Reddit, at least, they just seem to be delusional, politically-uneducated across-the-spectrum free-riders with little understanding of anything that goes beyond "it's the corporations'/mass media/press's" fault. Even seeps into here a bit, just look at the downvotes on anything tangentially related to Sanders/trade deals/etc.

Anyways, this is getting remarkably ranty and probably seems a little pissy, so I'll just shut up now and actually post it before coming back half an hour later and deleting it because I feel like I sound like an asshole.