After being asked to defend Trump's second flip in as many days, two Trump supporters replying to an Ask_TS thread decide to walkaway.
Posted Jul 17, 2018, 8:14 PM UTC
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This is the true #WalkAway. Not that bullshit anti-Democrat astroturfing Russian disinformation campaign.
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To bad we can’t just redirect the new walk away to this sub, the original walk away.
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I think the real #walkaway occurred after Charlottesville. That was the time when I saw the number of NNs commenting on a single topic drop down to just a handful, and those that did comment were largely Trump apologists who were not there for any real conversation. They and the obvious trolls are still present, and probably will be as the mods are hesitant to crack down on bad faith NNs.
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If the mods cracked down on the bad faith NN’s that subreddit would be a wasteland.
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Really gonna be interesting to see how the two next major elections go.
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They should crack down on both NNs and NSs. A lot of NNs will just say irrational shit and a lot of NSs will ask "Okay so what now that you're disappointed?"
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A lot of NSs are just tired of bullshit defending of the indefensible. Rather than call Trump out when they disagree, most NNs will just choose to not answer the question.
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It is legitimately interesting to see what straws break the camel's back for different people.
This was a pretty big straw but I'm sure nearly everyone will hang in there. You have to wonder what their "straw" would need to be, honestly.
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My straw was he's a fuckin reality TV star with no political experience.
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its weird that many of the people in that subreddit seem so genuine. like they genuinely thought a man living in Manhattan with a golden toilet would care about them
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What’s cool is a mod even said they are keeping the first trumpgret comment up. Usually they take it down because the person is no longer a NN. But because they were a legit NN they kept it up.
That speaks fucking volumes.
Honestly, I think they only did that because they just had a huge kerfluffel over banning NNs that switched like two days earlier. And they banned a massive amount of people during that fight.
If their feet hadn't just been held to the fire over it earlier in the week I assume they would just delete it for "incivility" and call it a day like they did last time.
EDIT: I spoke waaaaaaaay too soon. All of their follow-up answers about how Trump has let them down have now been removed by the mods.
EDIT 2: Now any other NNs agreeing have been removed, along with any other requests to switch flair. It's an absolute repeat of what happened last time a bunch of supports quit. I assume the thread will be locked soon; it's kinda like when the stock market suffers too large of a loss and they shut-down for the day to prevent further bleed-off.
Like this?
That's false. Most of the time they just leave the denouncing comment. It was only recent events that had a FS comment being removed. Pretty sure that was due to an accident or miscommunication.
Bullshit I've seen comments removed regularly for the last two plus years since I got banned from there.
I don't remember seeing FS comments being removed a lot in the two years I've been lurking. If you're talking generally I'm pretty sure most comments get removed due to not asking a question and instead is just ranting to the NN.
Comments get removed all the time but comments with NNs denouncing Trump were left up unless they broke other rules (see the due process megathread, 16 women thread, etc.). The mods have now changed their policy and are rightfully get shit for it.
What exactly is a “nimble navigator” in this context?
A Trump supporter. That's what they call themselves over there.
... yeah, I know...
Seems arbitrary. But I suppose it suits them for that exact reason.
It's from a nature documentary where the Giant centipede was descriped as a "nimble navigator". And that soundbite was used in a pro-Trump video. So it kinda sticked. As you know, trumplerinas like to call themselves "pedes", short for centipedes. (of course, they are less cute and intelligent than them.)
Anyways.. If you're interested, here's is a whole glossary about alt-right terms.. It's worth a read, so you'll never be stumped by dogwhistles.
Why? They can navigate the bullshit and still have faith because they have now convinced themselves that he meant something else? If so that’s a surprising amount of self-awareness.
Wasn't it based on a meme?
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