Them not doing anything to oust the Nazis allow the Nazis to gather there undeterred. There’s been a few documentaries where prominent members of the community talked about how horrifying it was watching the site make such a hard right wing lurch.
Like a lot of users weren’t aware of the jokes and took the shit seriously.
Like a lot of users weren’t aware of the jokes and took the shit seriously.
That’s called Poe’s Law and I swear it’s a huge reason why Trump became president the first time in 2016. A ton of his internet presence was just shit posting because no one took his campaign remotely seriously. It was all stupid stuff like “Rubio gets blown the fuck up!! Here comes the Trump Train WOOOOOOWOOOOO!!”
It was all pretty hilarious, until all of a sudden it wasn’t. And you realized people had gone from making jokes to taking it all serious. A few years later and our country’s democracy is on the brink of collapse.
Yeah exactly! I was not Republican or even Republican-curious. But I joined /r/thedonald in the early days because it was hilarious. Then all of a sudden it was like “what the fuck? you guys are serious?”
Same, I joined thinking it was some generic anti establishment thing, blowing up and goofing on the Clintons in spite of u/spez’s irritation then over the course of a couple months the unironic support started to surface through and it basically became a fanclub.
I don’t think it’s predominantly anything, it’s just a bunch of people shit posting
Them not doing anything to oust the Nazis allow the Nazis to gather there undeterred. There’s been a few documentaries where prominent members of the community talked about how horrifying it was watching the site make such a hard right wing lurch.
Like a lot of users weren’t aware of the jokes and took the shit seriously.
That’s called Poe’s Law and I swear it’s a huge reason why Trump became president the first time in 2016. A ton of his internet presence was just shit posting because no one took his campaign remotely seriously. It was all stupid stuff like “Rubio gets blown the fuck up!! Here comes the Trump Train WOOOOOOWOOOOO!!”
It was all pretty hilarious, until all of a sudden it wasn’t. And you realized people had gone from making jokes to taking it all serious. A few years later and our country’s democracy is on the brink of collapse.
Crazy shit.
I remember watching the infamous sub thedonald turn from making fun of him into being for him. It was insane.
Yeah exactly! I was not Republican or even Republican-curious. But I joined /r/thedonald in the early days because it was hilarious. Then all of a sudden it was like “what the fuck? you guys are serious?”
Same, I joined thinking it was some generic anti establishment thing, blowing up and goofing on the Clintons in spite of u/spez’s irritation then over the course of a couple months the unironic support started to surface through and it basically became a fanclub.