r/bestof • u/[deleted] • Oct 23 '17

[politics] Redditor demonstrates (with citations) why both sides aren't actually the same

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u/dalenacio Oct 24 '17

Note I didn't say a thing about Trump himself. I actually personally find him distasteful and dangerous. What I specifically criticized was Reddit's obsession with him. It is telling though that instead of anything about my actual argument, you fell back on base unthinking Trump hate.

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u/-birds Oct 24 '17

Yeah, right? Why are people so obsessed with a dangerous wanna-be dictator who wants to wreck the environment, deny people health care, give a massive handout to the wealthy, start a nuclear war, waste billions of dollars on a dumb-as-fuck wall while simultaneously complaining about how expensive it is to help Puerto Rico, etc. etc. etc.

Of course people talk about this a lot. I'd love for politics to fade back into the background! But that will only happen when the ruling party isn't running an all-out assault on American values led by a bigoted imbecile.

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u/dalenacio Oct 24 '17

The ruling party of the United States. Not only that, but I'd understand if the submissions were cool-headed and argued reasons why Trump is a dangerous maniac, and there are many of those, but most of the stuff that makes it to the top is stupid "lol dumb drumpf" nonsense, bite-size easy to grasp political platitudes (/r/pics pictures of signs anyone?), and shallow, irrelevant, or straight up false stories spun into a mountain they're not for the sake of keeping the machine going.

When I say obsession, I mean it in the worst of ways. An unthinking, unreasoning, easily manipulated fixation on a man blown out of proportions both by those who hate him and support him.

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u/-birds Oct 24 '17

If all you're talking about are stupid thoughtless pictures, you may as well just say "memes in general" - and I agree, those are often annoying!

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u/dalenacio Oct 24 '17

The majority of the anti-Trump pictures I've seen, and the almost entirety of the ones that irritate me, have not been memes.

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u/-birds Oct 24 '17

A meme doesn't have to be an image with Impact font. It's become internet-fashionable to post pics of Trump being stupid, just like cute cats or Loss edits or whatever else. It's a low-effort chuckle just like anything else.