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snoodog  ·  2925 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How an army of pro-Donald Trump trolls are taking over Reddit

The amount of hate coming from every word that author writes is pretty incredible. In one article he managed to link all the very worst of Reddit to the Trump subreddit.

I think this subreddit is actually bad for candidate Trump and I wounder if the people running it are really trump supporters or are just in it for themselves.

These kinds of communities naturally spiral the way this one did. Eventually it comes down to blaming certain groups for having too much, or being the cause of the problem. New words are invented within the community that describe these "Bad" groups as lesser people and you just have a bunch of angry people doing nothing good. That just seems to be the natural lowest common denominator that online communities spiral into with bad moderation.





kleinbl00  ·  2925 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I think this subreddit is actually bad for candidate Trump and I wounder if the people running it are really trump supporters or are just in it for themselves.

It's the old school radical Libertarian posse, cross-bred with the RedPillers.

In other words, exactly the Reddit cross-section you would expect to be interested in Candidate Trump.

snoodog  ·  2925 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ughh redpill... Occasionally I read it and I just sort of feel sorry for everyone involved. It's an overflow of the Something awful group that is the shithole of the Internet. They are hardcore trolls and make 4chan look like a civilized community

oyster  ·  2925 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Everybody on the redpill is so dead inside and they barely even try to hide it. It's fucking depressing. I think the only thing worse is redpill women, because they don't even know what redpill is they just let there husbands make decisions so he feels good about his manhood. It's so weird.

kleinbl00  ·  2925 days ago  ·  link  ·  

SA are Lawful Evil. They're organized, they're "ethical" (under their own ethics) and they have goals. They're griefers and their motivations and practices are diametrically opposed to my own, but they're creative, intelligent and dedicated to their cause.

They also do a spectacular job of matching the con to the community. The fact that the Archangelles are as tedious and obvious as they are says more about Reddit than it does about SA. And let's be honest: that community is self-sustaining at this point. I don't know how much SA has to do with it anymore; it's self-curating.

"the finest trick of the devil is to persuade you that he does not exist."

- Baudelaire