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I find it extremely interesting how little they post on r/politics As a frequent reader/poster there I highly expected them to be all over that sub, and for me to see where I had voted up/down on their accounts. After looking over the list of accounts I didn't have any votes on their accounts.
Comment by ramonycajones at 10/04/2018 at 22:51 UTC
24 upvotes, 3 direct replies
/r/politics is pretty homogeneously anti-Trump, anti-Russia compared to any other large sub. Compare the number of pro-Trump comments on any given front-page post there (like, 3) to somewhere like /r/news (like, 200).
Comment by TheoHooke at 10/04/2018 at 22:40 UTC
15 upvotes, 1 direct replies
They don't want discussion, they want echo chambers. If they can get people to genuinely believe the stuff they're selling, they won't have to participate in (relatively) impartial forums since their supporters will do it for them, all the more effectively for actually believing what they say.
Comment by wraithcube at 10/04/2018 at 22:43 UTC
11 upvotes, 1 direct replies
The thing about politics is that you have a large supply of people very engaged at pushing their own agenda that they deeply believe in. You don't need bots because every side already has thousands of people willing to do it from their own account.
Comment by [deleted] at 10/04/2018 at 22:50 UTC
4 upvotes, 0 direct replies
It certainly seemed like that right after Sanders lost the primary. I unsubbed for a while after seeing RT and other bullshit propaganda sites upvoted to the front page a few too many times.
Comment by PostFailureSocialism at 10/04/2018 at 22:54 UTC
5 upvotes, 2 direct replies
/r/politics is already an anti-Republican two minutes' hate stretched into a 24-hour affair. What point is there in posting?
Comment by TheVegetaMonologues at 10/04/2018 at 23:21 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
If the discussion at /r/politics is genuine, that's arguably worse than the alternative
Comment by magneticphoton at 11/04/2018 at 00:31 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Propaganda doesn't work very well on the left wing. The trolls are all over politics, they are just downvoted.