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• pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Those conservative subs are 80% bots. Of course, the 20% that aren’t bots are being swayed by it.

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  • MTZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That is very true.

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  • HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I hate seeing this comforting fiction.

    The truth is there are absolutely tens of millions of people who think Trump is fantastic and will bend over backwards to vocally support him for virtually anything he does. Some of those people have Reddit accounts. Most of those frequent /r/conservative.

    Are there bots among them? Almost certainly. We do see slowdowns there whenever overseas propaganda mills go down. Then there’s the Twitter fiasco where so many of their MAGA influencers turned out to be from Eurasia.

    But patting each other on the back about how 80% of them are bots serves only to undermine the passion with which people should be opposing MAGA. I guarantee many would-be Clinton and Harris voters stayed home because they were sure MAGA was an extremely vocal minority almost entirely propped up by bots. Just look at the aftermath of those elections on Reddit and Lemmy; it’s generally mass confusion.

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    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’m not comforting anyone, this is reality. How many Magas show up here? They can’t talk to us because they get their asses handed to them. The bot to maga ratio also doesn’t lend itself to helping them out. If you’re talking truth social? Then yeah, maybe it’s 80% real people.

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      • HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        MAGAs see that reading the Communist Manifesto is a requirement for entry and simply don’t bother. They have X, Truth Social, Reddit, etc. to party on, and they’re fine with the downsides of those platforms, i.e. supporting oligarchy/technocracy.

        It’s not that they “get their asses handed to them,” they’re just not here.

        Compare your perception of reality with election results. Even if Trump cheated like he probably did, I doubt it was bigger than single digit percentages.

        TL;DR: You simply don’t witness enough MAGAs and you naturally assume they must not exist.

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• gigastasio@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  What’s a subreddit?

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  • kmartburrito@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Image

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  • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. You must be cautious.

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  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s where bots go to argue with each other.

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  • MTZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Nobody knows for sure. There are many rumors though.

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  • Karjalan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The sub of a domreddit obviously

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  • X@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Some kind of sexually transmitted disease, I’d wager.

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  • Zink@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Eww, friends I know it’s ok to say fuck on the internet, but some words are just yucky to read, you feel me?

    lol

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