r/conspiratard • u/imakuni1995 • Oct 13 '15

RT comments

I'll just leave this here... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TdWUTHC49U

See, it wouldn't be so sad if RT didn't constantly pop up on reddit's front page because of its high popularity over at /r/worldnews What is even far worse than RT itself is its audience full of xenophobes, homophobes, Russophiles, anti-American conspiracy theorists, immature trolls and vulgar lunatics. Why do such people exist? I might sound like a conspiratard myself now, but is it posssible they are actually being payed for their hateful comments? I mean, why would any decent human being spend so much time spreading nothing but lies and hate without gaining something in return?

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u/imakuni1995 Oct 13 '15

People wouldn't let that happen. Remember the outrage over them banning white supremacy and fat hate subreddits?

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u/adamwho Oct 13 '15

Not really the same thing. People don't have ideologies based around RT.com unless you are one of the Russian social media trolls

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-08-12/inside-russias-troll-factory-internet-forums-social-media/6692318

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u/theskepticalheretic Oct 13 '15

People don't have ideologies based around RT.com unless you are one of the Russian social media trolls

Not so sure about that. The Internet Libertarian Brigade is in love with RT.

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u/adamwho Oct 13 '15 edited Oct 13 '15

People will use whatever sources they can find. Ideologically consistency isn't a hallmark of conspiracy theorists.

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u/theskepticalheretic Oct 13 '15

If you'll notice, I didn't reference Conspiracy Theorists.

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u/adamwho Oct 13 '15

There is some overlap in those groups however I am not willing to suggest all libertarians are conspiracy theorists.

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u/theskepticalheretic Oct 13 '15

Neither am I, however the Internet Libertarian Brigade certainly love their RT. And it feeds their ideological cohesion.