Hello from your friendly neighborhood antifascist! I’ve used redlib to keep tabs on the reddit mainstream narratives, ever since I abandoned accounts during the fascist pigboy API ratfuckery.
Th linked thread is a great example of corporate astroturfing against the left I’ve seen a thousand times before. After days of sustained anti-centrist threads, the most upvoted narrative in this one is pro-centrism, after an election where an anti-billionaire, anti-PAC, pro-M4A progressive candidate flipped the con stronghold of Texas by over 20 points. They’re now claiming Talarico isn’t a progressive/leftist, and that establishment centrist candidates “handpicked by Schumer” achieved the landslide. It’s pathetic, but it works for the uneducated and apolitical who don’t pay attention most of the time.
The most obvious indicator of reddit astroturfing has always been when a subs thread flips from the mean of that community, like back in 2020/21 when 9 of 10 threads in liberal subs about BLM were supportive of the protesters, but 1 of 10 flipped to demonizing them; filled with a bunch of troll comments and fash narratives rephrased a dozen times. Usually the astroturf threads will align narratives with those promoted across other social, conservative, and mainstream media.
Edit: also if you go through each username in that thread, a significant number appear to be karma farming accounts with several hundred thousand upvotes = accounts most likely to be owned by lobbyists, guerrilla marketers, and propaganda operatives.
That’s actually why I ditched reddit. Unlike a lot of folks I never got perma banned. Suspended a few times (my favorite one was for pointing out that ICE contractors would theoretically drop some great loot if you needed to arm yourself quickly on a budget).
The entire site is just rent-a-psyops. There’s absolutely nothing there that’s worth subjecting your mind to the massive public manipulation machine.
The only silver lining in the last years is knowing that they got greedy and jumped the shark too early. They sort of shit on themselves before the site could capture anymore of the attention economy. Now anyone with two braincells to rub together knows to stay far far away from that site.
The other beneficial follow up is now (hopefully) more people begin to question who is influencing their media from behind the scenes.
There are far too many Nazis left alive.
Same shit on Twitter “this is a rebuke of Hasan piker and his hateful antisemitic rhetoric, all his candidates lost and it was the DNC under the watchful eye of Neera Tanden and Chuck Schumer himself that this was all possible, a complete and total victory for moderates! This blue wave was the American people rejecting the left!”
Which is fabricated horse shit
I’d be wary of trusting talarico personally, he already proved he’d be willing to flip-flop on issues if he doesn’t think they’re politically expedient with some of the anti-trans stuff he said in his campaign and then half-heartedly walked back, and now he’s saying he wants to work with trump and MAGA to “secure the border” and called himself a “border security democrat”. He definitely seems like he’s taking positions closer to Schumer and Jefferies than he does an actual progressive.
Keeping the border secure is vastly different from the goal of ICE (terrorize civilians). I get the impression that living close to the border where the cartels have control, or family has fallen victim to fentanyl trafficking, does make one more sensitive to the issue. Republicans often warn that Democrats are going to “flood the border” and it’s at least worth making clear rules are going to stay in place.
It’s also probably worth revising border policy to make it easier to get in legally; heck, we also need to seek out whether corrections are needed for the “gold card system” Trump was touting.
He has to attract Texas voters, after all. Political suicide is showing weakness on the border, second only to calling for gun control.
Talarico talked about border security before he was elected. It’s not a flip, it’s been his position for awhile now.
Thats neat. Im glad the astroturfing and bs on reddit isn’t slipping past everyones radar, you seem to get it.
When did it stop?
I often wear a shirt that says “The only good conservative is a dead conservative.” If asked about it by a non-Republican, I like to make it clear the shirt is also referring to centrists and neoliberals.
That’s weird bro.
How so? My enemy is my enemy. I do not value the life of my enemy any more than they value mine. Bro.
Cringe weirdo behavior.
Kinda like using the word cringe to describe normal people telling conservatives to fuck off and die. Bro.
