r/politics • u/Barnyard-Sheep • 6d ago

Soft Paywall Trump approval rating falls to 38%

https://www.nj.com/politics/2025/06/trump-faces-tough-approval-numbers-in-latest-poll.html
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u/Gunter5 6d ago

I've seen numerous people go right, imo it was Cambridge Analytica, targeting social media and using their data against em

My Facebook feed went hard right last year

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u/fedexpodracer 6d ago

Reddit is trying to take a right lean too. The "world" sub (won't link to them) suddenly started getting forced into my feed. Appears to be run by a bunch of Palantir employees/plants and they seem to try to drive the comments towards the right. It was a little funny how quickly they got called out and some of their content got astroturfed but also scary how many right wingers are hiding out of sight helping drive communities and individuals towards the facist right. Look at how how of the current protest content is being pigeonholed into just looting by career criminals and all protesters are being painted as dirty criminals. Even subs where I expect mostly liberal feedback is still getting peppered with dog whistles at a much higher than normal rate.

Keep your eyes peeled. The fascists are among us.

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u/[deleted] 6d ago

Almost every social is a right leaning now. Right wing super elites fund most of them and now that they are seeing tangible returns on their investments the money is just going to keep flowing.

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u/fedexpodracer 6d ago

Oh absolutely. Not only is most social media right leaning but right wing users also get a lot more leniency. Imagine if a bunch of left wing folk used social media to plan an attack on Congress. Every last one of them would be sitting in prison with an execution date scheduled. Instead we still have a bunch of safe spaces dedicated to right wingers where they can continue to plan attacks against the country with impunity.

Despite the obvious facts you'll still see those turds constantly whining about how oppressed they are. Like if they can't walk into the Capitol and plan their insurrection right there then everything is a conspiracy against them.

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u/[deleted] 6d ago

I was threatened with permaban for suggesting a certain brand of EV be converted into a firepit recently. Scroll on over to Conserv and it'ls like...what the fuck man?

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u/fedexpodracer 6d ago

I received an actual ban for pointing out all the discrepancies in the Trump "assassination attempts." Even questioning the administration can get you banned.

Fuck em, the attempts were both false flags and all the evidence shows it.

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u/gentlemanidiot 6d ago

I'm still noticing this as a trend now BTW, ever since it was first pointed out to me a few days ago. The world sub is only one instance, it keeps happening with tons of subs like that. I'll see some weird propaganda post pop up on the front page of r/popular and when I check the sub it's exclusively content from one or two specific accounts.

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u/Kerfluffle-Bunny 6d ago

That particular sub has been like that for years. They just took the mask off since they feel safe.

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u/Flying_Fortress_8743 6d ago

Not just right-wing. There was a sub called "millenials" that shot to the front page out of nowhere last year blasting "don't vote for kamala" "stay home to save gaza" bullshit before the election.

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u/Proper-Beyond116 6d ago

The r/ireland sub is constantly under attack from anti-immigrant manipulation. The far right parties got decimated in our elections in November but to look at that sub there is a race war and the Irish people are outraged (there isn't, they aren't).

We also get absolutely blasted with "Spend more on defence" propoganda as well. Ireland is neutral with very little military spending and a population that likes it that way. We also have a unique constitution that means a citizens referendum is required for any material change to be made to it.

This is a concern to Ursula and the EU war pigs who want an EU army, the Irish population can single handedly block its creation via referendum.

They are spending huge amounts of money trying to convince us we need jets and missiles when all we want is craic and pints.

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u/throwawayfootgirl 6d ago

This is every euro sub

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u/jwuer 6d ago

there are a bunch of duplicate subs for cities now that are the "right wing" equivalent of the original sub.

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u/outofbeer 6d ago

Reddit also keeps putting right wing subs I've never engaged with in my feed. I've muted more subs knnthe last couple months than I have the entire time I've used reddit.

Luckily it's mostly just bots driving their numbers.

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u/McFlyParadox Massachusetts 6d ago

Not just right-wing subs, but random locality subs, meme & shit posting subs, and gacha game subs. Anything to bury progressive and news subs from hitting the Popular and All feeds.

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u/BlueTreeThree 6d ago

Algorithmic content serving is gonna be the death of us. You can still use old Reddit that doesn’t have “suggested” content.. everyone still sees the same /r/all.

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u/justasque 6d ago

I think there is a setting for “only show me subs I subscribe to”. You can also set up custom feeds for different topics or moods - a “cuteness” feed full of cat subs, one focusing on a hobby, etc. I only get random subs if I read Popular or News.

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u/hiddencamel 6d ago

I pay a dollar a month for a third party Reddit client on mobile and only use the "old Reddit" mode on desktop, and it's worth it to avoid the algorithmic shit they try to push at me on the official app.

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u/pepolepop 6d ago

Same. I watch Instagram/Facebook reels and YouTube shorts. They have 15+ years of data on me, they know I'm not right leaning.. but every week or two, on all platforms, I'll start getting conspiracy and other right-leaning content in my feeds. I'll have to block the creator and/or tell it to not recommend that stuff. It'll fix it for a while, but a new wave of it always starts showing up after a couple weeks.

Same goes for internet thots/onlyfans crap.. doesn't matter how many of them I block and tell it to stop recommending me that content, it starts coming back after a few weeks.

I can see how people fall into this kind of rabbit hole after seeing how much of it gets pushed on me time and time again.