Current Events > /r/The_Donald is a really frightening place.

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Most of them are trolls, right? No one could possibly be that willingly ignorant?
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I mean, there were enough Americans who thought hed be a good choice for leader of the free world
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I'd like to agree with you, but Poe's Law states otherwise.
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Im sure theres a fair amount of trolls but it cant all be. There are seriously people who think like that and the hive mind just pulls in more and more people. Its seriously creepy how they act.
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There's a lot of trolls but there are a lot of serious posters who don't realize that.
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Everyone knows some truly dumb people from their school days. Kids who didn't understand how to behave in public, constantly harassed everyone around them, and would always come up with the lowest common denominator of ideas.
In school, those kids would sometimes get together and enable one another to do some stupid shit. Until recently, those dumbasses were constrained by the limitations of physical geography. But, with reddit, Facebook, twitter, and other social media - those dumbasses are encouraged to group together and share their stupid thoughts.

I don't think every conservative is like that. I don't even think every t_d poster is like that. But, with the rise of conspiracy social media you can see the effects of people with like-minded ideas grouping up together and insulating their own ideas. Certainly there are groups of this nature across the political and social spectrum, but when a candidate plays to these ideas (qAnon, Alex Jones, and legit fake news propagated by bad actors), those ideas are going to resonate with groups like these and just feed into itself.
All it takes is one lie from some guy in a suburb to fool millions of people: https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/11/23/503146770/npr-finds-the-head-of-a-covert-fake-news-operation-in-the-suburbs
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/03/03/what-a-kamala-harris-meme-can-teach-us-about-fighting-fake-news-in-2020-225515
https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/jacob-wohl-bolt-intelligence/

In short, yes, people can be that ignorant when social media groups like minded individuals together (mixed with a healthy dose of political sabotage).
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ChocoboMog123 posted...

Everyone knows some truly dumb people from their school days. Kids who didn't understand how to behave in public, constantly harassed everyone around them, and would always come up with the lowest common denominator of ideas.
In school, those kids would sometimes get together and enable one another to do some stupid shit. Until recently, those dumbasses were constrained by the limitations of physical geography. But, with reddit, Facebook, twitter, and other social media - those dumbasses are encouraged to group together and share their stupid thoughts.

I don't think every conservative is like that. I don't even think every t_d poster is like that. But, with the rise of conspiracy social media you can see the effects of people with like-minded ideas grouping up together and insulating their own ideas. Certainly there are groups of this nature across the political and social spectrum, but when a candidate plays to these ideas (qAnon, Alex Jones, and legit fake news propagated by bad actors), those ideas are going to resonate with groups like these and just feed into itself.
All it takes is one lie from some guy in a suburb to fool millions of people: https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/11/23/503146770/npr-finds-the-head-of-a-covert-fake-news-operation-in-the-suburbs
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/03/03/what-a-kamala-harris-meme-can-teach-us-about-fighting-fake-news-in-2020-225515
https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/jacob-wohl-bolt-intelligence/

In short, yes, people can be that ignorant when social media groups like minded individuals together (mixed with a healthy dose of political sabotage).

Well said/written - when I heard about not one, not two, but numerous people calling Sandy Hook victims' parents and demanding they "tell the truth", I think how inviting/pervasive conspiracy theories can be. A lot of people already derive self worth/pleasure from an "us versus them" mentality, adding the ingredient of "only WE know the truth" just makes the soup even more delicious

You mean r/politics? Yea I agree.

most of them are actually old, like 50+
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WingStopMaster posted...

You mean r/politics? Yea I agree.

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WingStopMaster posted...

You mean r/politics? Yea I agree.

Think so? I think a lot of them are under informed college kids, but there are some decent thoughts concocted on there unlike thedonald where its all propaganda.
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Romulox28 posted...

most of them are actually old, like 50+

Obviously not...cuz this is pathetic

WingStopMaster posted...

You mean r/politics? Yea I agree.

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Bestoffuture posted...

Most of them are trolls, right? No one could possibly be that willingly ignorant?

... whatever the % of real posters there... it's too damn high.
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WingStopMaster posted...

You mean r/politics? Yea I agree.

oh another pony alt i see
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