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Trump supporters on reddit don't all come from /r/The_Donald. Unless you're willing to show specifics of how the brigading happened on that subreddit, most of t
by adnzzzzZ 10y ago
Trump supporters on reddit don't all come from /r/The_Donald. Unless you're willing to show specifics of how the brigading happened on that subreddit, most of the time when people make those claims it means: "my sub was suddenly full of people who agreed with Trump, so it must be the case that /r/The_Donald was behind it". Guess what, when protests in Berkeley happened it's not a surprise that /r/Berkeley is going to be full of people who sound like Trump supporters, for instance.
- Pica_soO 10y agoAye, mate - no true Scotsman, as far as the aYe can see. Good feeling, though, cause the other side didn't stay classy as well, thus we can all, trench in and drill to moral rock bottom. If only we had some tool, that no side would subvert, doctor, hijack and decry - like science and reasoning.
- adnzzzzZ 10y agoWhat are you even talking about?
- SyneRyder 10y agoIt's a very convoluted reference to "No True Scotsman": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman ("no true Scotsman would do such a thing"; i.e., those who perform that action are not part of our group and thus criticism of that action is not criticism of the group).
- mintplant 10y agoThis was in relation to a small chalking incident that would have had no reason to attract attention outside of our school except that the r/The_Donald mods stickied it to the top of their subreddit. I skimmed through a few of the brigaders' histories to see where they were coming from and saw mostly r/The_Donald posts. Some had posted in the stickied thread before hopping over to our subreddit. Some had previously specified that they went to other universities, so had even less reason to be visiting the subreddit for ours. It's not as if we'd hit r/all or anything.