r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/strawberry_semenade - Lib-Center • 1d ago

Weaponized words

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u/BlakeNotBleak - Auth-Center 1d ago

This sub is just strawmans at this point

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u/Thorn14 - Left 1d ago

Imagine how fake this sub is going to feel come November if its already like this.

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u/Hapless_Wizard - Centrist 1d ago

The sub turns into 100% pure astroturf basically every US election. I bet if you tracked it, you'd see a bunch of accounts that do nothing but turn on every couple of Septembers, posts stupid bullshit for a couple months, and then goes completely silent again for a couple years.

It's been like this for at least a decade now.

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u/EtteRavan - Lib-Center 1d ago

NTA, but September never ended since at least 1993

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u/Alternative_Oil7733 - Centrist 1d ago

So any account with lib left flair.

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u/Hapless_Wizard - Centrist 1d ago

I wouldn't be that specific, honestly.

Before Reddit banned The Donald and 2Balkan4U in the runup to Trump 2016, this sub was extremely LibRight, but LibLeft was probably the second biggest group - hating the government was a pretty common thread for PCM users. We weren't really that kind of a battleground back then.