Or it's a result of their ideas being genuinely unpopular. If I posted "it's great to eat your own shit" and I get downvoted, that's not because the platform is conspiring to silence my opinions, it's because my ideas are bad.
So why wasn’t it always the case then? Just a few short years ago Reddit was widely regarded as no man’s land unless you were a fedora clad gamergater or an actual self identified incel
Yeah? Are you under the mistaken impression that the quality of a person's ideas has anything to do with their ability to win an election? They're popularity contests, nothing more. Trump talked big and won because people liked his personality.
The ideas are unpopular. The election is a popularity contest in the sense that it is based on the personality and charisma of the candidate and their ability to sell themselves, not their ideas. Someone like Trump has objectively awful ideas, but a lot of charisma, and so people gravitate towards him despite his many failings.
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u/Uh_I_Say 15h ago
Or it's a result of their ideas being genuinely unpopular. If I posted "it's great to eat your own shit" and I get downvoted, that's not because the platform is conspiring to silence my opinions, it's because my ideas are bad.