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by ltbarcly3 3499 days ago
I've been browsing The_Donald lately out of curiosity, and it's like 99% memes based on news articles and links to news articles.

I see very little there that is objectionable, certainly nothing that seems worthy of shutting it down.

Certainly there is a lot of 'things to piss off people against trump', but how is that different from any other political site/sub?

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It runs afoul of brigading due to the sheer scale.

If it managed to stay entirely within the subreddit then the admins would never need to be concerned with it and none of this would've happened.

Brigading is a pretty meaningless term when the whole site is build upon linking to other sites. It's pointless to make a distinction between a link to an external site and to reddit itself.
Well it's a good thing you are not on the reddit administration.
You did not address my previous post in any way.
Ok, have a more serious post: I disagree with you strongly, but lack the drive to explain in detail.
I suppose this is what Trump's supporters call "low energy".
/r/srs can covertly brigade because they are pro pc tolerance.

/r/t_d cannot brigade because they are anti-pc obscenity.

it has turned into speech policing. and trying to squash it, with half assed attempts, is making things worse.