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Cake day: July 18th, 2023

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  • Wasn’t always like that. For many years the userbase was too small to bother. Around 2014 was when the fascists learned their lessons from gamergate and started ramping up the surveillance capitalism backed propaganda for MAGA (cambridge analytica, “troll” farms, bots and brigades, etc), as well as progressively taking over mod roles and poisoning subs.

    Even afterwards it was still the place to go for breaking news all the way up to 2021ish, but most users knew its best days were far behind. It’s hilarious seeing the occasional comment in 2026 yearning for “the good old days” of a few years ago.







  • It’s quite strange. For months leading up to October there were many articles that indicated planned sabotage like executive orders around mail voting, voter roll purges, voting booth closures, plans to use ICE to “secure” polling locations, but as the election grew nearer they dried up.

    Historically propaganda grows all the way up to the pivotal date and evaporates immediately afterwards (e.g. migrant caravans, jan 6). It appears as though some other force was at play; maybe the fascists plans were sabotaged from within, or support amongst their ranks collapsed. Maybe the data across surveillance capitalism indicated it would be statistically impossible to win regardless of all their election fraud, which is only able to impact races that are relatively close.