I am sure there is a lot of cross traffic between here and thedonald.win, myself included, although I only lurk there. I've been lucking since before the 2016 election, before reddit even banned the original subreddit.
Since the election there has been a huge number of election fraud posts, and while some of them certainly seem to have merit, there are plenty that don't. As a consequence I see posts that call for "low energy pedes" to leave, or Republicans (that aren't Trump supporters) to leave, etc. I fear that the signal to noise ratio is too low, and it makes it too easy for the MSM to ignore.
I have my own theories about what happened with the election, why, and how, based on what I've read, that I hope are reasonable, but my title question is an important one. It also asks other things. Is the Trump movement growing or shrinking? Are reasonable voices being driven away who really want to sort the fact and fiction? Are we all deluding ourselves?
Thank you for the reply.
I hope you are right about the movement growing. I feel like to be a heretic, because I can not see what so many others see.
The QAnon thing is insane. I see way more about it outside of right wing circles than in them. Just today I got a flyer in the mail with crap about it.
I don't watch MSM directly, and I tell people to stop watching. I called it propaganda for years but as soon as Trump got elected I couldn't watch it any more.
Like Richard Spencer, it's propped up by the lying media.
My time in Gamergate and my time in TheDonald.win has taught me to get straight to the source to figure out if something is fake or not.
I wouldn't worry about what they see. Focus on what you see.
Yeah, from what I've seen from the QAnon posts, I'm pretty sure you could get most of that if you listened to Glen Greenwald, Tom Woods, or Michael Malice. The people who follow it tend to be over-excited boomers, though.
Yeah, no shit. There's collusion between finance and the intel agencies.
I used to listen to NPR. I had to stop listening because it started getting too crazy and too racist.
My consumption of MSM decreased steadily since I started going to college and completely goes away ever since Gamergate started.
Since then, my contempt for the MSM has only grown.
I have almost no tolerance for journalism at this point. It's not just an issue of "I don't respect journalists." I would be genuinely offended if I were around many of them.
I mentioned that Donna Hylton was in a video at the DNC and I had leftists saying: "I looked it up and that's QAnon bullshit...you can vote for whom you want, but you can't post QAnon bullshit."
I posted my source that "noted QAnon rag known as USA Today". The leftists wouldn't shut up and tripled down that it was just a conspiracy theory, she didn't do anything wrong. I posted links to her criminal record in the NY criminal records system and from court records of her appeal...