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Just a thought: While I believe every political party uses paid astroturfers, what is it with Trump that now everyone is so convince it happened? If it was ot

Just a thought: While I believe every political party uses paid astroturfers, what is it with Trump that now everyone is so convince it happened? If it was other way around people would call you lunatic Glenn Beck follower etc. In fact, there is at least one known instance Democrats have used the technique.

lawless123 10y ago
Because so much crap from the donald would front page, if you read through the comments you'd see loads of weeks old accounts just saying generic "fuck yeahs". Certain posts would frotpage far too shortly after being posted.
- angry-hacker 10y ago
  And the other political spectrum noticed big newspapers didn't publish enough "bad" things about Hillary and Wikileaks. You see, you're not so different after all. Both with bias, both believe in conspiracy ;)
shuntress 10y ago
Glenn Beck is rethinking his life and choices to be more thoughtful, passionate, and understanding. Being a Glenn Beck follower in 2016 might actually be a good thing.
- angry-hacker 10y ago
  I'm not an American but I have noticed the sudden change. I have no idea what happened to this guy. I'm sure he was unstable to begin with, but he has really changed in every way.
Teever 10y ago
Because the CTR stuff was so piss-poor and blatant. No one denies that they took over /r/politics/ to the point that it felt like a fucking North Korea parade. What's more interesting is the prospect that /r/the_donald/ was also astroturfed. It seems odd to think that they would astroturf their own echo chamber until you stop viewing /r/the_donald as an echo chamber and start viewing it as a staging ground for crowd sourced meme-based advertising that started as paid astroturfing.
- internaut 10y ago
  > until you stop viewing /r/the_donald as an echo chamber and start viewing it as a staging ground for crowd sourced meme-based advertising that started as paid astroturfing. Right! I think there were important psychological differences, perhaps represented by Trump's retort 'Because you'd be in jail' and "I'm with you" in response to "I'm with her". The content doesn't matter but the wordplay does. I don't remember Clinton using his slogan against him or cracking a real joke. With the two examples I've given I feel like she walked straight into them. This difference also exists with their supporters. There is a humour element at The Donald (even the name) that I felt was missing from /r/politics.They often were playing caricatures of themselves as an in-joke e.g. copying Trump's mannerisms, making obviously absurd claims "ten feet higher!". /r/politics was stocked with 'issues' and veryseriousstuff. I don't think the Clinton supporters were deliberately attempting to engage in theatrics beyond the lookatthisoutrage threads. The Donald is filled with outrage threads too but with a side of jesting/in-jokes.

lawless123 10y ago

Because so much crap from the donald would front page, if you read through the comments you'd see loads of weeks old accounts just saying generic "fuck yeahs". Certain posts would frotpage far too shortly after being posted.

angry-hacker 10y ago
And the other political spectrum noticed big newspapers didn't publish enough "bad" things about Hillary and Wikileaks. You see, you're not so different after all. Both with bias, both believe in conspiracy ;)

shuntress 10y ago

Glenn Beck is rethinking his life and choices to be more thoughtful, passionate, and understanding. Being a Glenn Beck follower in 2016 might actually be a good thing.

angry-hacker 10y ago
I'm not an American but I have noticed the sudden change. I have no idea what happened to this guy. I'm sure he was unstable to begin with, but he has really changed in every way.

Teever 10y ago

Because the CTR stuff was so piss-poor and blatant. No one denies that they took over /r/politics/ to the point that it felt like a fucking North Korea parade. What's more interesting is the prospect that /r/the_donald/ was also astroturfed. It seems odd to think that they would astroturf their own echo chamber until you stop viewing /r/the_donald as an echo chamber and start viewing it as a staging ground for crowd sourced meme-based advertising that started as paid astroturfing.

internaut 10y ago
> until you stop viewing /r/the_donald as an echo chamber and start viewing it as a staging ground for crowd sourced meme-based advertising that started as paid astroturfing. Right! I think there were important psychological differences, perhaps represented by Trump's retort 'Because you'd be in jail' and "I'm with you" in response to "I'm with her". The content doesn't matter but the wordplay does. I don't remember Clinton using his slogan against him or cracking a real joke. With the two examples I've given I feel like she walked straight into them. This difference also exists with their supporters. There is a humour element at The Donald (even the name) that I felt was missing from /r/politics.They often were playing caricatures of themselves as an in-joke e.g. copying Trump's mannerisms, making obviously absurd claims "ten feet higher!". /r/politics was stocked with 'issues' and veryseriousstuff. I don't think the Clinton supporters were deliberately attempting to engage in theatrics beyond the lookatthisoutrage threads. The Donald is filled with outrage threads too but with a side of jesting/in-jokes.