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The comments on this article are horrifying. It's clear people have lost their damn minds.
by Aloisius 1y ago
The comments on this article are horrifying. It's clear people have lost their damn minds.
- squigz 1y agoDon't make the mistake of thinking comments on a random article are indicative of the way the population actually thinks. They may not even be real.
- vkou 1y agoOh, they are real, they aren't just bots, and they've all been emboldened. Go on these people's facebooks, or invite them to Thanksgiving, you'll see the same firehose of shit.
- culll_kuprey 1y ago> Go on these people's facebooks, or invite them to Thanksgiving, you'll see the same firehose of shit. A fun game is to look at Facebook profiles selected from random comment sections. By doing this, I have come away with even less understanding of people’s believes, motivations, etc.
- squigz 1y agoProfiles can be faked too
- EasyMark 1y agoexactly, clicking on most bluecheck accounts on any politically active post on twitter and you will likely find a bot posting 24/7 about politics, usually as a right wing troll, been quite a while since I spotted a leftist one, but I have seen a few.
- Forgeties79 1y agoI used to think that, then the last decade happened. The conspiracy theorists are in the halls of power now and their followers are frothing at the mouth for revenge against perceived enemies. The uncomfortable uncle at Thanksgiving is now driving national health policy and funding.
- bongodongobob 1y agoThey are real. I cleansed 100s of people from Facebook that were planning Charlie Kirk vigils and shit. It's real.
- JumpCrisscross 1y agoThere is a huge difference between holding a vigil and demanding retribution.
- bigstrat2003 1y agoAre you seriously claiming it to be objectionable to mourn for a man who was murdered in cold blood? That's pretty fucked up if so.
- standardUser 1y agoWhat concern of it is yours? Will you mourn whomever I ask you to mourn? Sounds like an absurd proposition.
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- JumpCrisscross 1y ago> claiming it to be objectionable to mourn for a man who was murdered To be fair, a vigil held in the wake of a death is in mourning. A "vigil" held today for Kirk is a right-wing rally.
- oceansky 1y agoWhich comments you have an issue with?
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 1y agoI presume they are referring to these ones: https://reason.com/2025/10/10/tennessee-man-arrested-gets-2-million-bond-for-posting-facebook-meme/?nab=1&comments=true#comments https://reason.com/2025/10/10/tennessee-man-arrested-gets-2-...
- yibg 1y agoFunny thing is, I’m not 100% sure which “side” you are referring to…
- thiht 1y agoYou should, it’s pretty clear MAGA are completely out of their minds… if you’re equating anything that happens in your country to whatever happened under Biden or Obama before that, you’re delusional. The government is speed running fascism, and the apathy of the opposition should be terrifying.
- causal 1y agoA common theme in these comments is justifying retribution against the left as if everyone in the country is for or against one team or the other- when in reality many of us are in the middle and think injustice remains evil no matter who does it.
- cindyllm 1y ago[dead]
- ZeroGravitas 1y agoReason is a big part of how we got here. Billionaire funded climate denial etc. so they have big audience of idiots they've cultivated.
- tootie 1y agoLibertarianism is often described as a broken clock and it's their time of the day again.
- deadbabe 1y agoThey’re bots.
- thiht 1y agoTrump was not elected by bots. Half the US population is hateful.