Did everyone only read the last 3 sentences of that comment? Obviously in itself the fact that I don't hear anyone talking about Ron Paul means nothing.
The other part of the comment wasn't as interesting. Taken as a whole, what you said sounds indistinguishable from "Reddit used to be like what my friends talked about, only more so. Now it's like that, with another subject they didn't talk about. This is probably because it's being manipulated."
What's interesting is that I've heard this from all sorts of people on reddit! Some of them were talking about Google, some of them were talking about XKCD, some of them were talking about Steve Yegge, and lots of them were talking about you. So a) you're the first person to be right about this phenomenon, b) you just missed it before, or c) this is just how people react when they find out that they're suddenly in a minority within their peer group.
I'm not saying simply that reddit has drifted away from the kind of stuff my friends and I talk about. In fact, that observation was the raison d'etre of the site you just used to post this strawman paraphrase. What sticks out about the Ron Paul links is the suddenness and the magnitude of the change.
I'm talking about acceleration here, not velocity.
Apologies if the paraphrase came off sounding like a strawman. I was just pointing out that your statement is part of a larger category, and that the details (and verifiability) are constant. So reddit conspiracies are like religion: most people think it's just a matter of knowing which one is right; some of us realize they're all wrong.
