can't stop thinking about how i might still be a vaguely-socdem buzzfeed lib if my spanish teacher when i was fourteen hadn't shown us the motorcycle diaries (che guevara movie)

  • Amorphous [any]
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    4 years ago

    Yeah, /r/politics was genuinely kind of okay for a bunch of liberals for, like, a month. Then the Great Centrist Merge happened and suddenly the only acceptable opinion was full 100% uncritical support for Joe Biden. Guarantee some money changed hands somewhere.

    • grisbajskulor [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I'm not even sure. I think it's very possible /r/politics simply bought into the propaganda that "differences are hashed out in primaries." It's like the Stalinist "dissent in the politburo makes us weak" position, except for democrats lmao

      • ComradeBongwater [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        There's no way it isn't some sort of op. I have r/enoughsandersspam users tagged, and now they dominate most threads, especially ones about former primary candidates.

        • grisbajskulor [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Also wait didn't the dems spend a bunch of money pushing articles on /r/politics in 2016 or am I tripping