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Man, Putin must be riding in on his bear and assassinating every single state employee if 'heavy targeting' gets them this result. Let's look at the top posts t
by xster 9y ago
Man, Putin must be riding in on his bear and assassinating every single state employee if 'heavy targeting' gets them this result.
Let's look at the top posts today on r/politics:
- Cards Against Humanity buys plot of land on U.S./Mexico border to block border wall
- Sessions: I Can Remember Only the Parts of 2016 That Exonerate Me
- RNC cuts off Moore
- Secret Finding: 60 Russian Payments "To Finance Election Campaign Of 2016”
- Fox News' Shepard Smith hits Trump for 'inaccurate' claims on Uranium One deal
- Site Altered HeadlineJeff Sessions: 'Not enough evidence' for special counsel to investigate Hillary Clinton
- Troll Smearing Roy Moore Accuser Stole Dead SEAL's Identity
- Senate GOP to add repeal of Obamacare insurance mandate into tax bill
- Roy Moore challenged Alabama law that protects rape victims, documents reveal
- If Republicans believe Roy Moore’s accusers, why not Trump’s?
- The FBI is examining why Russia transferred nearly $400,000 to its embassies 'to finance' the 'election campaign of 2016'
- Pence NFL Stunt Cost Indianapolis Police Department $14K
Maybe Putin secretly works for David Brock.
Let's look at r/worldnews:
- Australia's same-sex marriage postal survey: 61.6% yes, 38.4% no
- 'Tobacco at a cancer summit': Trump coal push savaged at climate conference: The US administration’s attempt to portray fossil fuels as vital to reducing poverty and saving US jobs is ridiculed in Bonn
- Russia tried to use computer game footage to prove that the U.S. is helping ISIS
- Trudeau says he raised human rights issues with Duterte after Trump didn’t
- Sessions changes statement about Trump campaign and Russia. “I do now recall”
- Russia used 419 fake accounts to tweet about Brexit, data shows
- Israeli police 'have sufficient evidence to charge Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with fraud and accepting gifts worth hundreds of thousands of shekels including demanded free cigars and champagne from associates.
- Trump Served Shark Fin Soup in Vietnam—A Delicacy Driving Sharks to Extinction: Shark finning is illegal in the U.S and regulated in 21 countries. It involves cutting the fins from live sharks for shark fin soup, and throwing the shark back into the ocean.
- Secret Finding: 60 Russian Payments "To Finance Election Campaign Of 2016”
Man, that Putin is one effective anti-Putin machine.
If it were me, I'd be for more worried as an investor about the virtues of their founders (e.g. Ohanian sacking Victoria then backstabbing Yishan and Ellen, Huffman abusing site admin to edit user comments) etc and how it generally very much misaligns with their original grassroots pre-superPAC pro-Ralph Nader/Ron Paul/Bernie Sanders (before he turned into a Tom Perez mouthpiece) crowd that's its userbase.
- ruytlm 9y agor/politics isn't a great example: it's always been left-leaning, and from what I saw at the time, efforts appeared to be focused on motivating the Republican base to vote for Trump, and to drive Clinton voters to apathy or complacency. Neither of these would be achieved by trying to convince Clinton's fervent supporters on r/politics. Plus, it's a bit of an equivocation to suggest that today's top posts can be evidence that an influence campaign a year ago didn't work - the campaign was a year ago, not today.
- xster 9y agoI used to read r/politics multiple times a day before it went south right around the time of the Democrat's California primary when the DNC nomination was sealed (on a day when no voters voted and the nomination was determined by poll calls to anonymous super delegates mind you) and the money started flowing https://www.fec.gov/data/disbursements/?two_year_transaction_period=2016&disbursement_purpose_categories=other&data_type=processed&committee_id=C00578997&min_date=03%2F01%2F2016&max_date=09%2F30%2F2016 https://www.fec.gov/data/disbursements/?two_year_transaction... (the FEC site is kinda crap so you'll have to fidget a lot with it). It's anecdotal but I don't think there are any general tone changes from today to since ~June last year. There's a distinct shift in the tone of r/politics. There's a pre-DNC nomination / pre-CTR, pro-Jill Stein, pro-Gary Johnson, pro-Bernie Sanders, anti-Hillary, no-body-cares-about-any-Republicans-because-they're-irrelevant, Democrats-still-nominally-should-represent-working-labor, generally pro grassroots anti hegemonic aristocracy sentiment. A single dimensional left-right axis does huge disservice to clear political discourse but I guess you can say Reddit used to still be representative of the general coastal progressive crowd and it's left-leaning. That is, economically more left-socialistic than a center-right Obama, socially more progressive than a left-leaning Obama, very right-conservative than a very left-interventionist Obama foreign policy, very left-high-social-mobility vs a right-establishment Obama's balance of power. Then there's a hard shift to a pro-Hillary/establishment or you're a sexist/racist/bigot/redneck/Russian spy/religious zealot/white/rural/non college educated strawman dichotomy. I definitely wouldn't say r/politics is left-leaning. See how far you'll get if you want to talk about leftist topics like DAPL opposition, Yemen bombing opposition, Keith Ellison support, Tulsi Gabbard support, single payer support, military budget increase opposition etc. > efforts appeared to be focused on motivating the Republican base to vote for Trump, and to drive Clinton voters to apathy or complacency. Neither of these would be achieved by trying to convince Clinton's fervent supporters on r/politics. Sounds like you're referring to something other than r/politics. What are you referring to?