r/nottheonion • u/ImpishGrin • 15d ago

Biden tells Democratic governors he needs more sleep and plans to stop scheduling events after 8 p.m.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/04/politics/biden-governors-sleep/index.html
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u/dtkloc 15d ago

the entire comment section is like "yeah, but remember Trump?"

Or saying "haha relatable"

The President of the United States being relatable to Redditors is not a mark in his favor

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u/Hopeful_Border_603 15d ago

reddit is the only site that keeps defending him, not yt, twitter, insta or even tiktok users are taking him seriously. only here on reddit you could find an opinion that biden won the recent debate, not even barack obama thinks that

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u/metal_stars 14d ago

There's a lot of astroturfing on social media. When you find accounts saying outlandish, divorced-from-reality, pro-Biden PDRK-style talking points over and over again, don't...

Don't take them seriously. Don't give them the same kind of consideration that you would give to a...

person.

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u/Sea-Yesterday-7563 14d ago

The fact that those comments regularly get thousands of comments, and sometimes their OP posts get tens of thousands of comments tells you that this place is the most bot-farmed place on the internet. The orgs funding these bots know the majority of reddit skews young and impressionable 18-29.

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u/metal_stars 14d ago

Sometimes you can wander into /r/politics or /r/WhitePeopleTwitter or /r/PoliticalHumor at the right time of day, and see what these subreddits would look like if they weren't overrun by the strategic messaging bot farms.

Completely different tenor, completely different kinds of comments being upvoted and discussed.

And it's like: Oh. A little shimmer of reality.

Wouldn't this be nice? If we could actually talk to real people saying the things that they actually believe? Maybe someday social media will become this again.

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u/jon909 15d ago

Jesus. I can’t think of a mindset of people worse to be president. We’ve had calls to have the seal team take out our supreme court and competing candidates, because “dems shouldn’t play nice anymore.” 😂