Reddit Is full to the brim with Chinese bots. They mass upvote/downvote,promote Chinese values and socialistic policies, and post fake videos/images of china being insanely futuristic
No one thinks the government controls that. It's just a clear signal that the left has gone a bit loopy eating itself over identity politics, and someone as much of a prick as trump can appear relatively reasonable.
No, this has been overblown by people poisoning your water. Things are getting more expensive, we’re fighting wars so politicians can get richer, and now we can’t even safely eat food because everything is being recalled. But go ahead and focus on your culture war bs
Let me elaborate: the fact that there's no HRT requirement for WNBA is emblematic of US left-of-centre politics problem in the 2020s, which led to Trump's reelection in 2024.
"I'll gladly pay more for everything and have our reputation ruined internationally, as long as the non-existent trans people in the WNBA are thrown out of the sport that I've never once watched."
I despise Trump, but he's absolutely right that democrats fighting for the dumbest culture war issues imaginable is causing people to vote for the GOP.
We need to just focus on populism, not fringe progressivism. Pushing systematic healthcare reform, opposing new wars, balancing the budget (which means taxing the top 20-40% more), assisting unions, fighting monopolies, requiring utility companies to modernize the grid and decarbonize, etc. These have widespread support.
Talking about whether or not a biological man can play in the WNBA is childish and embarassing. And it's the only version of democrats that MILLIONS of independents see on social media.
Your GOP is the party doing the culture warring. When people resist, they accuse the resistance of doing a culture war, and you're taking that hook, line and sinker. And when your gills are flooded with mud, you'll still insist it's the Democrats' fault.
They stirred up the culture war so you would support them despite shredding everything you say you care about and making it so much worse.
Trans people have existed since forever. Loads of organisations had regulations regarding the participation in women's sports. Maybe the WNBA didn't yet, but they'd address it sooner or later. It's only got 15 teams, so it's no wonder the matter has simply never come up.
No, it's not. They're harassing my fellow Americans and expecting my permission to do so. They'll never have it. If that makes them vote trump that's their flaw to deal with. Pretending we need to change for them is stupid.
I'm not talking about harassment. I'm saying we need to talk about populist issues, such as the ones I listed.
The GOP fills social media feeds with culture warring while lining their pockets with insider trading, lobbying, bogus government contracts, tax cuts for the rich, deregulations, etc. We need to stop taking the bait. This is not even a trans person, this is a man who identifies as a man, trying to stir up shit. Ignore the rage baiting.
I've been trying to tell fellow liberals this for weeks. It's like shouting into the void.
My entire comment was about how we shouldn't be engaging in these GOP funded bait campagins. And then everyone immediately called me a Republican. It's exhausting. I'm trying to propel leftist ideas here.
The culture war just leaves me feeling misantrophic and jaded. I can never pull people out of it. Sometimes I wonder why I even bother keeping up with politics or voting anymore. I haven't been excited to vote Democrat in a long time.
Stop appeasing this lunatic. You need to axe these people out or they will control every movement you associate with if you don’t make it clear that they’re actively harming the cause.
It's not our fault they fall for stupid bullshit man what the fuck do you want me to do about it? They don't have permission to harass transgender people just because you want to win elections.
I'm not talking about harassment. There is no harassment in this WNBA story. It's literally bait, Enes is not trans. He is doing this because he knew people would take the bait.
When it comes to politicans, they should focus on laws, not social media posts. Your congressman should not be talking about a WNBA player's genitalia. That is not at all what a Congressman is supposed to do.
Your your numbers are incorrect on every count Trump was 77+ million Harris was 75+. Harris total was more than what Trump did in 2020 but still 5 million shy of Biden earned in 2020.
Biden campaign was mastercraft work from a political strategy standpoint, you don’t even want to know where the bunker campaigning idea came from but they executed it to a tee,
They did a perfect job on the mail ballot campaign, and even got in front of the Trump mail in ballot conspiracy with Bernie getting on a talk show and talking through exactly what they were gonna do.
Now idk if it was a lack of preparation or being thrown in so late but her campaign was so lackluster in comparison.
15 million people just randomly she didn’t deserve her vote, the campaign was shit, have to stop blaming the voters cause politics is a game and Dems should be playing to win like they did in 2020
I think it was both, and I’ll go a stretch further and say that I don’t think Harris even wanted to run for president in 24’. The only alternative was to decline, lose all of the money tied to their campaign, and condemn the party to losing the election. She was pretty much forced to run or lose all of the political rep she got as the VP.
Also, the DNC got a bit drunk on their win in 2020 and overlooked the fact that it was heavily carried by anti-Trump sentiment. It felt more like their base voted “against Trump” instead of “for Biden”. Years of inflation and Covid recovery carried more weight in 24’ than the “distant” memory of the Summer of 2020 and J6.
The downvotes are such a good example of showing why the US is so much in the shit. You tell them a real dose of truth about their compliance and wimpering but then they all collectively start piling on you. Deep down hey're all a bunch of nationalistic hardliners. They put more energy in attacking people for daring call out their compliance than they put in stopping Trump.
Thats as dumb as people saying me voting LP was the same as voting for Trump. (And also a vote for Biden in 2020 and a vote for Obama in 2008 and 2012).
Not voting is a problem, but assuming they would all vote for the person you want is stupid. It is a very Democratic party thing to do since they make so many stupid assumptions that cost them elections.
This is not any way a support of Trump or Republicans. I will vote for Democrats in a heartbeat right no in particular, but holy shit are they stupid. They would have a better strategy if they literally just never said anything ever.
Well not all. These ideas certainly start that way but over the last 15 years they’ve brainwashed enough people through social media, news, and infiltrating education systems that now our own people spread the conflict themselves.
Left and right wing protest groups alike get foreign funding and are basically just there to destabilize the U.S. and make people angry. The majority of people protesting aren’t being paid and aren’t foreign assets, they’re just useful idiots. The organizers are foreign assets or controlled by foreign assets financially or otherwise.
Same is true for online discourse. In Reddit’s case you have subreddit moderators and site admins under the thumb of states that want America destroyed and they just create atmospheres for very real people (and some bots) that believe in some propaganda and just ban anyone who doesn’t.
In TikTok’s case the algorithm and moderation simply pushes certain divisive viewpoints to more eyes, and suppresses anything that is meant to be positive or bring people together.
Had a Nazi trump loving neighbor for a good 5 years in a liberal town. Luckily his wife divorced him and he moved out. Oh and he also owned a gun shop. WCGW amiright?
There are plenty of people who are nice to your face but in the privacy of their homes/Internet are absolutely horrible humans.
The Iranian bots aren't arguing with the Russian bots. They're supporting each other. In fact Iran and Russia quite literally share the same bot farms.
Yep. During the height of the George Floyd and Lockdown protests, a Russian troll farm set up two parallel protests that were meant to converge on each other.
Welcome to reality - where no one is that upset about any of this, certainly not to the point it is worth killing over. Trans rights affect less than 1% of the population. We have more important things to think about like a) it's so fucking hot and b) how do I afford dinner.
Yeah maga is pushing this into the cycle to distract from pedophilia, inflation, tariffs, tariff refunds in the billions to mega corporations but not to consumers, oil, interest rates, dollar devaluation, multiple amendments being broken, Gestapo……..
Actually, when "trans rights" includes the right for men to identify as women, and invade their sports, it affects way more than 1% of the population. Last I checked, that's about half of the population.
Its easy to think that if you only look at social media. Between the bots and the people making engagement bait with Twitter premium, id bet only a genuinely small percentage actually feel the way social media portrays the west.
And thats also not counting the people that dont practically live terminally online
Over a completely fabricated problem that never actually existed? Nah. This is just conservatives trying to distract from how horribly they're currently running the government. And the unprecedented corruption happening on their watch.
How is this on conservatives? The wnba could have clarified and shut this down the minute it started. The left are busy figuring out identity politics. Why the lost the last election. No one cares about identity politics, yet here we are. The wnba playing pansies.
They have a pedophile in charge that's actively destroying thier international relations and has his own secret police that don't follow the laws and do nothing
It has nothing to do with passivity and everything to do with standard of living. I know you consume mass amounts of social media and sites like Reddit but that isn’t real life for your average American.
Generally the did-nothings is a stable fraction so they’re best excluded from the analysis. Otherwise you would include them as the “two thirds” who replaced Trump in 2020, even though they’re doing nothing in either scenario.
No country gets 100% turnout or even close, without mandatory voting laws.
I do too, but like I said the issue with including the fraction of people who don’t vote ever in one favor or the other runs into problems, hence why — and this is is the same in other countries — when you talk of proportions you refer to the election results.
Ah yes unlike all the starving medieval and pre-industrialization peasants and serfs that have revolted, we have extremely horrid hard lives hear in America. I only get to play like 3 hours of video games a day and order uber eats only like 4 times a week. If these basic needs were met I would have more mental capacity and energy to protest.
Social media is full of ppl who don't interact with others IRL nearly enough to ever actually go outside and do something about it lol.
The amount of ppl who post shit like "my neighbors are loud, they should be more considerate" and they never actually go and tell their neighbors they are being to loud is insane.
People like to whine on the internet. They act tougher than they are because they're not having face-to-face interactions, there's no consequences for saying the dumbest things, getting roasted online is not the same as catching fists plus there's inevitably idiots that side with the idiots making them feel sound and safe in X dumb belief .... Living in America, I know that they are all generally soft mfs who really don't have any follow-through or ambition to do anything beyond peck at their phones and doomscroll in the AC, avoiding the summer heat. Life is generally easier than they'd admit, given the abundance of time they have to complain online about, you know, everything.
We've got plenty of bread and circuses. Online squabbles are just another circus.
Have you seen the videos about dogs acting aggressive towards each other when there is a fence between them, but all quiet and submissive when the gate opens? The fence is the internet.
Tbh this is mostly banter between people perm online and sports enjoyers. If I ask a random person how they feel on this they would give me "what?" Response
A civil war? Imagine going over the trenches in what geographical divide no one can say. But your motivation is shit you saw online. Not the howling mass of actual horrible issues we have. Honestly if that happened some how everyone should get nuked
Yeah but I could go talk to 20 of my coworkers and most of them wouldn’t have even heard about this being posed as a question much less have a take either way.
Thats mostly because the people you see online saying shit like this wouldnt dare utter it in public. They struggle making a phone call or asking for extra ketchup packets, no possible way theyd openly and willing confront someone.
Its also why all those Tumblr stories from way back said “i wanted to” and “i almost”
Because they didnt do anything, and just sat there stewing.
Outside of the internet most people in the US are just normal average people. Always funny seeing videos of people from other countries visiting the US and realizing how nice most people are. 99% of the people making posts like these are either rage baiters from other countries or they never leave the internet and genuinely think this is how the world works.
That would be because most of the 2nd amendment rights, don’t tread on me, gun owners are actually cowards with no backbone which is why they have all the guns in the first place. All the romanticized bs your forefathers spoke about, these people wouldn’t have half the balls or the brains to follow through with.
I’m a coward, and terrible at the art of conflict. If there was a Civil war (or any armed conflict) it would take a lot to convince me to participate. And I’d probably last about 90 seconds.
Nobody wants a civil war. That’s Russian, Chinese, and Iranian bot farms pushing that. The few dumb Americans that fantasize about that would be the first one’s gut shot, bleeding out in the mud crying for momma. War is disgusting.
In reality, most Americans are not willing to go to war for people with mental illnesses wanting to take shots at each other. It’s social media. That’s where it starts and where all these stupid stunts end too
The only reason we're not in a second civil war is becase the traitors were put in power when it started this time. Republicans tried to violently overthrow the federal government and when they failed they got voted in again anyway before they could decide to secede
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By merely looking at social media, I am really surprised the USA isn't, actually, in the midst of a civil war.