• Mzuark
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    1 year ago

    I was doing some recon on Reddit, some redditcon if you will, and I made a funny little discovery about right wing subs: They’re controlled opposition. r/conservative and r/conspiracy suddenly go full Liberal whenever the topic is about Ukraine or Putin, or at least the only comments getting upvoted are libs who regurgitate the approved narrative at you. I was a little surprised, you’d think crazy tradcons wouldn’t let themselves be compromised in such a way, but you’d be wrong. Once the Feds running reddit pick a trajectory, you fall in line or you disappear.

    No wonder they spend so much time talking about vaccines and making stupid memes. They aren’t anymore allowed to be critical of the establishment than we are.