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jbm 2 days ago

I think one of the more interesting stories about this that is being missed is the comments being left under videos related to this.

I legitimately don't know if they are bots (because the comments are all too similar) or if they are the just sneering Redditors en masse. I can certainly imagine both scenarios, although I'm going to guess it is more likely to be bots.

Two examples:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VYtabeCROY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_N3g986TiE

UltraSane 2 days ago | parent [-]

What is wrong about the top two comments? They seem pretty accurate.

jbm 18 hours ago | parent [-]

It isn't the sentiment, but rather the omnipresence of the most extreme version of the sentiment, that makes it seem artificial. It's not as if states like Iowa voting for a conservative figure is a surprise. (They voted against FDR during WW2)

I've never heard a liberal American IRL express more than mild distaste for farmers and their subsidies. I've certainly not seen enough IRL vitrol for people to engage in page after page of Reddit / Herman Cain award style comments on news comment sections on Youtube.

I can imagine the farmer handout being seen as offensive when conservative activists opposed bailing out student loans, but other countries do very similar things (Canada certainly does). It's just not political to give money to farmers, even when they are millionaires. Additional consolidation of farms will just lead to more egg price hikes when bird flu spreads to mega flocks on mega farms.

The other reason this doesn't seem real is that normally you'd have an angle behind this other than "Ha, you guys are fucked". Instead it just seems to be comments geared at arousing maximum anger, which seems like something I would do if I wanted acceleration vs. change.

I've also seen similar comments before, like the "Ha ha you didn't vote for Kamala and Gaza is in flames because of you".

It might be people terminally online, but it strikes me as being inorganic, not real.

UltraSane 14 hours ago | parent [-]

So many people voted for Trump, like farmers, when it was so obviously against their own interests that many people are enjoying the schadenfreude when these people realize that Trump is also hurting them, not just the people they wanted him to hurt. It is like telling someone not to touch the stove because it is hot and they do it anyway.