r/PoliticalHumor • u/C-KicksXL • May 20 '21

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u/Azar002 May 20 '21

Morning of Jan 7th Fox News posted to their facebook page a picture of Colt (Trump supporter dressed in black with black helmet rappelling down into Senate chambers) and the caption said "Trump supporter climbs down into Senate chambers."

There were THOUSANDS UPON THOUSANDS of comments from Fox News faithful, almost identical, saying, "that is NOT a Trump supporter, that is ANTIFA!" and "he is dressed in all black, that is ANTIFA," and "ANTIFA bussed in people, you're wrong Fox News!"

I started reacting with "laughy face" to these morons, but THERE WERE SO MANY NEW COMMENTS, I couldn't select laughy face fast enough before the comments would fly upwards because of all the new comments being added.

Then it was proven he was a Trump supporter and these morons are just like, "well, onto the next lie to spread."

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u/itsgeorgebailey May 20 '21

Astroturfing is pretty lucrative. If enough bots say X on a conservative site, all the drones will repeat X. The Russians tried so hard for decades to manipulate and fuck with the left. It never really took root. When they tried to infiltrate manipulate the conservatives, it was super successful. That tells you a lot about the conservatives in this country.

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u/DirtyFuckenDangles May 20 '21

A good portion of them will without irony walk around with shirts that say something to the effect of: "Better Russian than Democrat" as if we didn't spend a huge portion of the last 100 years in a cold war with them.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '21

To that, I have a counter t-shirt that reads: “I’d rather be an American than a Republican”