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happy to say I just got banned from the donald community (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by to c/main@sh.itjust.works
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And it only has four posts lol!

I'm so proud.

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[–] 14 points 3 years ago (5 children)

I just shitposted into one and got countered surprisingly witty. Yeah. A lot of those are Satire communities, at least atm.

Pretty sure r/TheDonald started as a satire community and it evolved into one of the largest white nationalist movements the world has ever seen.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Like the nazis on 4Chan 10-15 years ago. They were debate threads for the sake of arguing. Same with the flat earthers there. It was for the argument, not the points made.

    Then people didnt get it and it became real.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Not sure I'd conflate r/The_Donald with the Republican Party's turn into overt fascism, as a whole. But yeah, there's something to be said for the dangers of ironic bigotry.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago*

    Its not a conflation, but a direct line. I watched it happen. What was /r/TheDonald became the foundation of truth social and all these other white nationalist reddit style mediums. It normalized the kind of populism which Trumps base embraced, particularly for young white males, who have since, taken it much further. I'm very convinced it got tilted in the way that it did by a disinformation campaign by a state actor.

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