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[–] [email protected] 74 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Agreed on the voting, but I have to wonder if they are really that upset with him, or a few rabble rousers at truthsocial made just enough of a splash to be noticed.

And are they so upset they won't vote for him? Time and time again it seems clear that with Republicans the answer is always "nah."

[–] solsangraal 39 points 3 months ago

hoping for a domino effect when he inevitably attacks his own followers for being disloyal and daring to question his i'm the most bravest person since jesus narrative

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

but I have to wonder if they are really that upset with him, or a few rabble rousers at truthsocial made just enough of a splash to be noticed.

And keeping in mind much of the fediverse is very "US left" so if you're seeing a bunch of anti-Trump news articles everyday, you'd be as deluded of the actual position as someone seeing a bunch of anti-Harris shit in their feeds all day. Especially since many users don't actually read anything but the headlines as they scroll.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yeah that's kinda true, but I did peek at /r/conservative yesterday and it's not that there is a feed of articles there similar to the sort of thing we have here but with opposing views, it's mostly empty tripe as far as I can tell. Once again the "both sides" argument (not that this was your intent I think) doesn't really stand up to scrutiny.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

after years of total cow-like compliance I’ll take any crack in the wall