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by wopwopwop 3382 days ago
I haven't read the linked articled (yet), but I wanted to urge everyone to check out r/the_donald. It is the strangest online community that I've seen.

Truth doesn't really matter unless it supports us, everyone who says good things about us is right and everyone who doesn't is a corrupt MSM cuck libtard. To get banned you don't even have to be critical of Trump. If you're even ambiguous you'll get banned. In a sense this is self-selection in that the only people that haven't been banned are lunatic-level supporters.

Basically, it's Donald Trump times 380,000. You have to experience it.
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Arizhel 3382 days ago
It sounds just like the /r/Hillary_Clinton subreddit I briefly checked out during the election. I said something a little bit critical of Hillary and was immediately banned.

This is just how Americans are these days. You have to pick a camp, and you need to agree 100% with everything in that camp or else you'll be shunned. And there's only two main camps too; if you try to pick an alternative camps, or even a camp that's really a sub-camp of one of the two main camps, you'll be shunned and derided.

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Panoramix 3382 days ago
r/Hillary is a run of the mill biased sub-reddit. T_D is biased and lunatic in a way that will have sociologists publishing papers for years to come.
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aanm1988 3382 days ago
No, The_Donald is somethign special.
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forgottenpass 3381 days ago
>It is the strangest online community that I've seen.

shrug It's just NeoGAF with some surface level differences.

GAF is wider focused, has a different position, and uses different memes to be dismissive of disagreement. But overall this describes it's type of political discussion and moderation of wrongthink to a T.

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vivekd 3382 days ago
yeah, that is true of r/the_donald. I got banned for saying I support him but I have questions about some aspects of his campaign. At the same time, arbitrary banning for anything less than 100 % agreement and support seems to be a reddit in general thing rather than something individual to r/the_donald or Trump supporters. Reddit mods and reddit communities are ban happy, whether they are on the left or the right.
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undersuit 3382 days ago
The behavior of the subreddit is hilarious at times. Here is a screenshot of a recent top post: https://i.imgur.com/blw28as.png
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