Sometimes I miss the 2016 version of myself, where I would get a mild dopamine boost about funny jokes about the orange man, or seeing a celebrity endorse my favorite DNC war criminal - blissfully unaware of global politics, war, and genocide.
They’re setting themselves up for failure so hard with the obsession over McDonalds lol.
Trump is doing optics at a beloved American fast food chain and Kamala is campaigning with Liz Cheney who literally everyone hates. And somehow to libs this is great news for them.
I laughed when I saw trump at McDonald’s at first but then I realized that it was a pretty good move from his campaign (it makes him more relatable) and probably the first time he has ever worked a real job in his life.
He thought you put the fries in with your hands. He couldn't even imagine that there would have been a tool to protect the worker and the food... Definitely never seen the back of a McDonald's before let alone a real job lol.
I feel like if all he did was film himself working at McDonald’s from now until election day he would win in a landslide.
i think its more than that, it shows he never actually uses an actual kitchen.
this is something that i simultaneously already expected of someone like him and got my mind blown. that man's reality is actually so distant from the average joe. maybe he even believes his own bullshit.
I'd love to hear him answer questions about the price of common food
Trump should do his inauguration in front of a McDonalds. At the end he dawns the standard issue McDonalds apron and visor and walks triumphantly through the doors and into the kitchen. Or just walk in and order a meal it's all equally funny
But have you considered that after Trump waved out a McDonald's drive thru window they had an EColi outbreak, so now he's associated with a poop virus?
Checkmate, tankie
Here’s a bit of on topic irony:
“Fuck you Ms Cheney” -Eminem circa 2000
i've heard folks around me saying they want to go back to not having to pay attention to politics. the brunch meme is real
I pop in there every so often to look for names, then sort by controversial and do the same
Today, hot sort as of right now: 19 headlines have Trump, 0 have Biden (the current president), 6 have Harris (3 have Trump and Harris)
Most are lib burns on Trump and the like
Notables: A headline featuring Liz Cheney shitting on Trump, one headline called '3 tell tale signs that Harris will beat Trump'
Controversial sort: 5 have Trump, 6 have Harris, 2 have Biden
Most are about Israel, Gaza, or election outcomes
Notables: One headline in there is an op ed by an IDF arms manufacturer (who supports Harris and more upvotes than comments), one is about poor people being apathetic about voting (and has 0 upvotes and 40 comments)
I hate these people so much.
bots*, not people. its election season and the candidades are campaigning on reddit. relatively easy to buy space on the frontpage over there. you might remember r/redditminusmods, or the few "it was all bots all along" controversies.
reddit has a well known mod problem: with some of them modding all major subs with their shitty bias, some who took money to allow/disallow some bullshit, or some that straight up represent the corporations the user sub is supposed to provide a good forum for.
redditminusmods was a sub that simply posted daily screencaps of what reddit would look like without them, going by mod logs or something. i think it represents the mod problem very well, reddit would be much less ragebaity and notably less reactionary on some instances.
once in 9/11, amid the usual, some arab sub posted a video of the bombings that ensued in the middle east and they got upvoted right to the frontpage then promptly shadowbanned and erased, the thread was GONE it was pretty funny.
i think i may have used a terrible example with redditminusmods because it had the spotlight for a very short while there. very eye-opening of the problem though.
It's a sub that also appears to be banned now. I went to look into it, and it was gone. It could be something worth reviving on Lemmy honestly. Just for the sake of my own curiosity anyway, ha.
Yeah, it's been pretty clear for a long time that there is no impartiality to the nature of the reddit feed. That might have been true in the early days, before there were even subreddits, but not anymore.
i dive into there every now and then just to see what the libs are up to. and it's all pure asthetics. orange man bad because uncouth, rude, gross, smelly, etc.
they do not discuss actual politics there. it's no different then any sports subreddit.
I like the "Harris Will Beat Drump because X" stuff. The nerds think elections are like tests with right answers you can know if you read the prompt thoroughly, it's so in line with how passive they are about motivating turnout or appealing to anyone on the promise of changing anything.
Not just r/politics but half the big subreddits are dnc astroturfed shit holes. Now I just stick to r/manga for release updates and r/jrpg to find shit worth pirating lol
shout out to that day in 2016 when they had to huck hillary into the back of a van like a sack of potatoes and /r/politics was MYSTERIOUSLY pro-Bernie again, just for like 20 fucking hours, almost as if the bot-runners didn't know what messaging to push
Lol. Once your realize voting for key positions of the empire is of no consequence and emotionally divest from the clown show that is electoral politics things get really funny.
I'm not completely against electoral politics but in the US its a dead end imho
These people also ruined simpsonsshitposting which for me was the only decent place left in that cesspool. None of their memes are even good! All grandma-tier clapbacks.
RIGHT!!? It's not just me it used to be a pretty leftist sub right?
That fucking post the other day with like 17k upvotes, and today they found a way to shit on Cuba
Oh yeah. I felt like it was pretty neutral overall, though the crossposts with the_leftorium were always well-received. Now at least a third of the posts are just the most low-effort, r/politics-comment-over-a-simpsons-scene dreck. There's no way that shit's totally organic.
I think right wingers don't get comedy. They just think it's open season to be a racist or bigot or push whatever dumbass agenda they ride for (like return to imaginary tradition) and the humor just dies
Any time I poke my head into r*ddit, all I see is astroturfing. I don't have an account and never have, nor do I look there regularly. Sometimes it's the only place to find information about movies and whatnot because it's easier to maintain a social media presence than an entire website. So I'll go peek at the horror sub, for example, and there's blatant astroturfing advertising shitty movies and shows. It's not even a large sub.
Some topics are more obvious, others have more artificial influences. But it's bots and shills all the way down.
I used to be like this in 2016 too. I listened obsessively to the 538 podcast and read everything on their website. Then, on election day, Trump won the electoral college while Hillary won the popular vote. 538 had never covered this possibility. I know because I really did follow them obsessively for months. This world of r/politics headlines has only the most tenuous connection to the actual material world. If you follow liberalism closely, sooner or later it leads you over a cliff.
538 had a 30% chance of Trump winning. Here's the last analysis prior to the election. Of my friends following politics at the time, I was the only one who thought Trump had a chance and was slightly worried explicitly because I was following 538.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/final-election-update-theres-a-wide-range-of-outcomes-and-most-of-them-come-up-clinton
Edit: I reread your comment and realized you meant specifically the scenario where Clinton won the popular vote but lost the electoral college, but Mr bronze's model gave that scenario a 10.5% chance if you look at the bottom of the final 2016 forecast, and it's also mentioned briefly in the analysis I posted above
My experience was being pretty much radicalized by 2009 after Obama's Wall St cabinet appointments, but having nowhere for that consciousness to go and just becoming alienated from politics until Trump, then still not having been exposed to anything left of Rachael Maddow, I started at lib and instantly moved left the instant I found anything else. For me it was a thread to pull rather than a pipeline.
CMV: the failures of democrats can be directly correlated to libs being cringe af and making anyone with any self awareness check out of politics.
I think it's the other way around. Democrats failure to do anything for the people who support them has forced libs to focus on the cringe stuff.
If Democrats had done some meaningful things and people really believed they had an intent to do good policy, a lot of these people would be talking about that. They know all that Democrats can give them is smug superiority and symbolic victories over the bad orange man.
Funnily enough, he's one of the two or three rappers that giant chuds like.
he’s just a massive lib which is only marginally less bad
I heard it from a friend who, heard it from a friend who, heard it from a friend TRUMP IS STEALING THE ELECTION!!!!!
