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This is ironic. I don't know of 2016, but in the last election most of the comments were in favour of Joe Biden, not Trump.
by nromiun 6y ago
This is ironic. I don't know of 2016, but in the last election most of the comments were in favour of Joe Biden, not Trump.
- wnevets 6y agoI don't recall a whole lot of Biden the God Emperor memes on reddit during the 2020 election.
- rspeele 6y agoIt depends on which echo chamber you look at. Reddit at large has long been libleft. If you read comments from posts that hit front page, you will find overwhelming support for left-leaning policies (exception: Reddit has a distinct pro-gun streak). You had to go to specific subreddits to see the type of exuberant, memespeak support for Trump. In 2016 that was r/The_Donald. By the time we got to the 2020 election that subreddit and any replacement that got too close to it was banned. But you could still find the same vibe on TheDonald.win, an independently hosted recreation of the subreddit. Or on the chan sites. The meme culture of The_Donald never constituted the mainstream image or talking points for Trump. it wasn't promoted or even referenced directly by the Trump campaign. But it was a weird world where you never knew exactly how serious people were about their love for Trump -- it was so obviously exaggerated as to look like satire, but the participants were at least somewhat serious: they really did want Trump to win.
- unethical_ban 6y agoGun ownership isn't left/right, it just happens that of the two private organizations that operate our republic, one of them defends gun ownership more than the other.
- rspeele 6y agoI agree with you in principle, but in US politics gun rights have unfortunately been lumped on "the right" (see: lack of 2020 Democratic primary candidates not supporting an AWB), so I thought it was worth pointing out that particular blip.
- nromiun 6y agoI should have been more specific in my comment, but I was only talking about the /r/wsb subreddit.