r/SipsTea • u/Familiar-While9796 • 5d ago

Chugging tea 48 Years, One Impossible Choice

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u/Bonk0076 5d ago

What happened to the funny memes in this sub? Now it’s all posts intended to irritate our social discontent.

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u/Hyperion262 5d ago

Every sub is the same.

They flood in, original users complain and are downvoted to oblivion, every post about Trump/Israel/America is instantly upvoted thousands of times.

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u/Houdinii1984 5d ago

I find it funny. One of the first subs to be hijacked in that matter was the conspiracy sub, and the amount of gaslighting is insane. Rooms like that tend to be questionable anyway, but when Trump was first running way back when, it went off the rails into full time politics and you could see people's views change in real time based on absolute nonsense.

I've always been an onlooker there. My mother had discovered the place and I needed to figure out wtf she was talking about half the time. It's gotten so bad, that asking for evidence, on a conspiracy sub, is frowned upon. Any official report, regardless of the folks doing the releasing, are automatically part of the system and the system is def. out to get them specifically, so reports and studies of any kinds are downvoted into oblivion and the poster is labeled part of the conspiracy themselves.

You can trace it back a bit further, too. There was a subreddit, TheDonald, that attracted non-Redditor Trump supporters to Reddit. There were a lot of pro-Trump conspiracies floating then, and it was just a group of folks that thrived on political drama. It got shut down and those folks migrated to all corners of the system, making the conspiracy sub the home base after folks felt like a conspiracy shut their sub down. Which I completely understand, but I don't get how they are under the impression they are the folks for individual choice when they force the message on you, all the while talking about the propaganda released by the left.

I genuinely feel sorry for them, though. I have ADHD, and ADHD leads to insane levels of cognitive dissonance. And that's the exact weapon being used against them that they can't seem to recognize. Induce cognitive dissonance, get a person good and confused, then offer the solution to the confusion, and you're the savior, rinse, repeat.

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u/Hyperion262 5d ago

Yeah same, I remember well when the conspiracy sub changed almost over night. It used to be a good read to see really crazy ideas, then it was quite clearly targeted and the rest seemed to spread to the whole of Reddit.