Frankly, I very much believe this is a reading issue more than a writing issue, but I do agree the solution is “give it another pass.”

Right now we have a data set of 1/1 that had issues comprehending what I meant. When both sides of that number tick up, we can talk about the data tending towards that it was poorly written.

Yeah Flat Earthers is definitely one, though it also depends on a touch of mental illness with the delusions regarding the government and everyone else conspiring to deceive.

Wait, being directly cited as not being akin to the three states I listed is a bad thing?

I couldn’t disagree more.

Don’t let your kids wander into the wilderness unattended and they won’t get preyed upon.

Humans like to reinforce group membership and receive validation by targeting out-groups.

If Rhodesia, the Confederate States of America, and the Third Reich can live forever in the hearts of the far right, PizzaKentuckyBell can live forever in mine.

A highly engaging video that’s entirely BS is not a good video for anyone but advertisers.

Every step:

“Let’s make it more difficult for people to realize the video they’re about to watch is hated (so people keep coming back for more and advertisers keep paying us more), but not in a way that is blatant so we lose a significant portion of our userbase.”

I just have a thing for people who look down their nose at others

Speaking of making assumptions…

How is that an assumption? You were looking down on Redditors for having less sex than Lemmings, were you not? Or was that a different /u/Almacca?

defended [sic] by me telling you off for being dumb

Are you asserting I made a grammatical error? By all means, point it out. Don’t be coy.

Haha [sic]. Sure [sic].

I mean, we’re equally affected if you want to play that game. You’ve replied to every one of my comments.

Honestly I don’t know why I didn’t block you sooner. It’s clear you take pleasure in shitting on and getting a rise out of people. Bye, Felicia!

I just have a thing for people who look down their nose at others, especially if the target is objectively higher up on the matter in question.

You can guffaw at your own assumptions about me based on who’s defended by me telling you off for being dumb if you want. Doesn’t really affect me and it appears to make your day better. At least that way you never have to work on self-improvement!

Jokes are supposed to be funny.

Reddit hasn’t been majority nerd for at least a decade now.

Lemmy, on the other hand…

In other words, people in glass houses probably shouldn’t throw stones at people in brick houses.

God, it always feels so weird to see people lying to themselves to have a circle-jerk about something they dislike.

MAGAs see that reading the Communist Manifesto is a requirement for entry and simply don’t bother. They have X, Truth Social, Reddit, etc. to party on, and they’re fine with the downsides of those platforms, i.e. supporting oligarchy/technocracy.

It’s not that they “get their asses handed to them,” they’re just not here.

Compare your perception of reality with election results. Even if Trump cheated like he probably did, I doubt it was bigger than single digit percentages.

TL;DR: You simply don’t witness enough MAGAs and you naturally assume they must not exist.

I hate seeing this comforting fiction.

The truth is there are absolutely tens of millions of people who think Trump is fantastic and will bend over backwards to vocally support him for virtually anything he does. Some of those people have Reddit accounts. Most of those frequent /r/conservative.

Are there bots among them? Almost certainly. We do see slowdowns there whenever overseas propaganda mills go down. Then there’s the Twitter fiasco where so many of their MAGA influencers turned out to be from Eurasia.

But patting each other on the back about how 80% of them are bots serves only to undermine the passion with which people should be opposing MAGA. I guarantee many would-be Clinton and Harris voters stayed home because they were sure MAGA was an extremely vocal minority almost entirely propped up by bots. Just look at the aftermath of those elections on Reddit and Lemmy; it’s generally mass confusion.