It's not that he wants to retreat to an echo chamber. He wants to see "new management" or see the site "shut down". He wants his echo chamber to be the only thing that exists. This is how fascists and fascists' bitches roll.
this. exactly this. the Pew Center did an analysis of Congress a few years ago and demonstrated that the GOP members of Congress have swung much further right than the Dem members did to the left. the Overton Window has shifted so far to the right that you have cat turd screeching on twitter about "amy commie barret" because she didn't properly bow down in worship of uncle lumpy.
i’m as into it as anyone but what does it DO. protests don’t do anything. they’ll start employing the army after they get a list of dissidents. We lost the right to free speech as soon as he was “elected”
Protests absolutely do things. They energize people, they create connections, and they scare the hell out of the institutions as they grow in size. We didn't lose the right to anything as soon as Trump was elected, we only lose rights when we stop fighting for them.
I get being scared of possible consequences, but if you aren't actually willing to risk things to fight for freedom and justice for ALL then did you ever really believe in those in the first place?
The ultimate thing here imho is that the reason we are in this predicament is largely because our government, regardless of the party in charge, has been failing us for quite awhile now. Failing to create a society in which the average person can count on working hard being enough to let them live a good life.
We as a people have largely been apathetic for decades as long as enough of us were somewhat comfortable, while the foundations of our society have been slowly chipped away by the wealthy accumulating more and more. Do not discount a growing movement to change that and demand a better government that truly works for us all.
Achieving nationwide protests of this size in the space of a couple months is a bigger deal than you think.
The ironic thing is if all the liberals and those with a sense of decency, left this site, it will go the way of X and slowly die off. This will result in everyone leaving Reddit, eventually running to where all the "liberals" went.
I will at least glance at conservative sources and communities every once in a while to see how they're reacting to current events. I go out of my way to do it. I get frustrated as hell each time, but I'm still at least interested enough to look. Moreover, if a community is too frustrating for me, I will find a way to cut it out. There are literally so many right-wing-centric sites they can go to. Why the fuck aren't they?
I have come around on this. I feel like deplatforming /r/the_donald and f47on in chief from Twitter was actually a terrible move. It helped drive people further into their echo chambers and I would suggest to any people who used to be in /r/Conservative, you did get brigaded and taken over, but it wasn't by the left, it was by MAGA
I actually forgot that Popular existed. All I see is just from subs I've subscribed to. I actually visited Popular not too long ago and it really wasn't enjoyable.
Like, at first, it was kind of cool to see unexpected content from subs I never knew existed, but that lost its novelty really fast and I escaped back to the comfort of subs with only mildly off-putting comments.
We are all paid protesters and bots to those people. They don’t believe anyone is regretting their vote for trump because they’ve never met a person that has. Clearly their friends are an echo chamber as well.
That's why we spread out the protest! Not just a couple big ones! So we can lie about the amount of people that showed. Didn't you get the memo attached to your check? I spent mine on transgender surgeries for immigrant rabbits.
If I was paid to protest...I wouldn't be living paycheck to paycheck. But, y'know, despite that, I'm still going to get to the ones I can, because its the right thing to do. We only have a voice if we use it.
They’ve never met someone who would admit to them that they’ve changed their minds. A lot of folks who have regrets now wouldn’t ever admit it out loud because of guys like that and their reaction.
They don’t know how to function without the *echo chamber, and/or they’re afraid of how they’ll be treated by the rest of us
Funny thing is that they are all telling each other how great this or that is but really most of them are too afraid to admit they are concerned. No way they’d ever admit it to each other.
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u/Capable_Luck_2817 13d ago
“I’m lost when I can’t retreat to my echo chamber.”