US Pol (~-)
Ugh.
It's one of those nights where the internet makes me feel like 95% of people alive love and support Trump. And that /I'M/ the unreasonable one.
re: US Pol (~-)
@Phorm Don't forget that Russian bots are a very real thing, and their exact purpose is to make us feel exactly that way—like Trump has overwhelming and demoralizing support, when his base is actually in the minority.
re: US Pol (~-)
I gotta admit, they're doing a /bang up/ job of that. Heck. I think they own 75% of Twitter, and just about all of Reddit.
re: US Pol (~-)
@Phorm I have to admit it's pretty damn shocking how many positives botsentinel gives me. Even with the criticisms of it I mentioned early today—there's still a remarkable number of accounts I interact with that have ZERO personal tweets and mostly do nothing but retweet other Trump supporters and insult dissenters.
re: US Pol (~-)
@Phorm If it's any consolation, Reddit does not seem to deserve its reputation as a hotbed of MAGA. There's The_Donald and a bunch of incel communities and such, but many of them are quarantined, and I consistently get huge upvotes for slagging Trump—even on supposedly apolitical communities.
re: US Pol (~-)
I think I'll have to consult Botsentinal more in the future, though cautiously.
Reddit is a weird best these days. Because somewhere, there's always some MAGA chud playing the "I'm more calm and reasonable and therefore correct" card. I keep running into the "You have Trump derangement syndrome" argument, and it sticks in my craw because it sounds reasonable, even when it isn't. Right now there's a political article on /r/science that climbed to the top of the frontpage, and /hoo boy/ was it nasty before the mods went scorched earth on it.
Arguments like "You let someone you've never met tear apart your family? Sounds like the problem was you, not Trump", while fundamentally bullshit, somehow make my brain turn around on me and go "HEY THAT'S RIGHT, YOU'RE WRONG" all the time.
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@Phorm Yup. Took me YEARS of battle experience—and a right pranging from one particular very talented troll-frenemy who really knew how to push my buttons—before I could develop an immunity to those tactics.
Thank you Ilthuain, wherever you are, for being the Yosemite Sam to my Bugs Bunny (and sometimes vice-versa).
re: US Pol (~-)
@zebratron2084
. . .
Well now I sincerely hope that back then, at least one of your rhetorical booby-traps somehow involved "Those Endearing Young Charms".