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Hey has anyone noticed how seemingly little online attention the elections are getting? I'm talking about the actual election, NOT Social Issues magnified BY the election.

It seems that no one is quite thrilled to be propagandizing these candidates. At least not to the extent of Obama and Ron Paul. Those two really had actual armies of organized online trolls that went out to change things on the internet. Now due to western civilization's hold on having the most online people, most online chatter is libertarian in nature but yet, we don't see that many rabid Gary Johnson people out here in cyber space. Luckily for the candidate himself, enough real people hate the two candidates that he is now solidly at 10% in the polls. I actually see that Jill herself has more fanboys out there spouting her stuff.

Yet it seems no matter where I go, Trump fanboys are easily squashed and Clinton fans (if they exist) are silent or you have to force it out of them if they are voting for her. They don't willingly display the matter. Bernie Sanders probably had the gotten the bulk of Obama's online army and now that they are pissed he sold out, they have been silent or still grumbling about how it was rigged against their crazy uncle. That's my analysis. I'm sure yours is different. Enjoy.
 
Correct the Record is actually an organization that the Clinton foundation set up to blast positive Clinton messages around the internet. They just suck at their jobs, but what can you expect from someone that supports Clinton.

Also, there is very little enthusiasm because both candidates are horrendous.
 
ModerateGOP said:
At least not to the extent of Obama and Ron Paul. Those two really had actual armies of organized online trolls that went out to change things on the internet. Now due to western civilization's hold on having the most online people, most online chatter is libertarian in nature but yet, we don't see that many rabid Gary Johnson people out here in cyber space. Luckily for the candidate himself, enough real people hate the two candidates that he is now solidly at 10% in the polls.
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That's because Ron Paul was a solid Libertarian candidate, while Gary Johnson is flawed and plenty of Libertarians see through his Libertarian claims about himself.

I also happen to remember him calling libertarians stupid a few years ago and I see no reason to forgive him for that.
 
I was expecting the forum to change drastically during the election cycle, but at best we've gotten a bit more tense. This is2 certainly a strange election year, isn't it?
 
Jesse Booth said:
I was expecting the forum to change drastically during the election cycle, but at best we've gotten a bit more tense. This is2 certainly a strange election year, isn't it?
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Its cause most people that will even vote for one of them, would prefer basically anyone over them.
 
ModerateGOP said:
Sounds like something from Media Matters.
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Same guy, Richard Brock. Correct the record is actually a pro Clinton PAC.
Hillary PAC Spends $1 Million to ?Correct? Commenters on Reddit and Facebook - The Daily Beast
The PAC was created in May of last year when it was spun off from the American Bridge SuperPAC, which is run by longtime Hillary and Bill Clinton supporter David Brock. Brock also founded the left-wing media watchdog website Media Matters for America.
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ModerateGOP said:
Hey has anyone noticed how seemingly little online attention the elections are getting? I'm talking about the actual election, NOT Social Issues magnified BY the election.

It seems that no one is quite thrilled to be propagandizing these candidates. At least not to the extent of Obama and Ron Paul. Those two really had actual armies of organized online trolls that went out to change things on the internet. Now due to western civilization's hold on having the most online people, most online chatter is libertarian in nature but yet, we don't see that many rabid Gary Johnson people out here in cyber space. Luckily for the candidate himself, enough real people hate the two candidates that he is now solidly at 10% in the polls. I actually see that Jill herself has more fanboys out there spouting her stuff.

Yet it seems no matter where I go, Trump fanboys are easily squashed and Clinton fans (if they exist) are silent or you have to force it out of them if they are voting for her. They don't willingly display the matter. Bernie Sanders probably had the gotten the bulk of Obama's online army and now that they are pissed he sold out, they have been silent or still grumbling about how it was rigged against their crazy uncle. That's my analysis. I'm sure yours is different. Enjoy.
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Are you using trolls as a replacement for people actually passionate about the candidate that they support? Yeah, no one really is into either candidate.
 
ModerateGOP said:
Hey has anyone noticed how seemingly little online attention the elections are getting? I'm talking about the actual election, NOT Social Issues magnified BY the election.

It seems that no one is quite thrilled to be propagandizing these candidates. At least not to the extent of Obama and Ron Paul. Those two really had actual armies of organized online trolls that went out to change things on the internet. Now due to western civilization's hold on having the most online people, most online chatter is libertarian in nature but yet, we don't see that many rabid Gary Johnson people out here in cyber space. Luckily for the candidate himself, enough real people hate the two candidates that he is now solidly at 10% in the polls. I actually see that Jill herself has more fanboys out there spouting her stuff.

Yet it seems no matter where I go, Trump fanboys are easily squashed and Clinton fans (if they exist) are silent or you have to force it out of them if they are voting for her. They don't willingly display the matter. Bernie Sanders probably had the gotten the bulk of Obama's online army and now that they are pissed he sold out, they have been silent or still grumbling about how it was rigged against their crazy uncle. That's my analysis. I'm sure yours is different. Enjoy.
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Just a correction.
Trolls, generally, don't have a political ideology or aim, they exist to just rustle jimmies, get people upset.
One day they'll be an uber communist, the next they're Nazi's, the next they're man hating feminists.

What you're talking about are shills, paid or not.
 
Trump fanboys are easily squashed
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I don't care how big of a Trump fan someone is it's got to be almost impossible to defend him daily and avoid being 'squashed'. His own party has abandoned him. His campaign staff changes monthly because they can't defend him.

When Trump supporters start threads here 75% those threads are destroyed almost immediately because they don't have much to work with. Trump doesn't give them anything to work with.
 
Fishking said:
Are you using trolls as a replacement for people actually passionate about the candidate that they support? Yeah, no one really is into either candidate.
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There is a fine line between being passionate and being dupped/willfully ignorant and not admitting a candidate's mistakes. Trump supporters either don't know all of Trump's failures on this campaign or they openly say they don't care!

I was and still am a HUGE Romney supporter but I admit he F'd up when he was caught saying 47%. It was like he didn't even care, even though that wasn't the point he was making, that was the perception people saw.
 
ModerateGOP said:
There is a fine line between being passionate and being dupped/willfully ignorant and not admitting a candidate's mistakes. Trump supporters either don't know all of Trump's failures on this campaign or they openly say they don't care!

I was and still am a HUGE Romney supporter but I admit he F'd up when he was caught saying 47%. It was like he didn't even care, even though that wasn't the point he was making, that was the perception people saw.
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I never consider a person a troll who is arguing out of an honest belief in their ideology, even if they are being a little salty, as long as they are sticking to an actual point.
 
ModerateGOP said:
Hey has anyone noticed how seemingly little online attention the elections are getting? I'm talking about the actual election, NOT Social Issues magnified BY the election.

It seems that no one is quite thrilled to be propagandizing these candidates. At least not to the extent of Obama and Ron Paul. Those two really had actual armies of organized online trolls that went out to change things on the internet. Now due to western civilization's hold on having the most online people, most online chatter is libertarian in nature but yet, we don't see that many rabid Gary Johnson people out here in cyber space. Luckily for the candidate himself, enough real people hate the two candidates that he is now solidly at 10% in the polls. I actually see that Jill herself has more fanboys out there spouting her stuff.

Yet it seems no matter where I go, Trump fanboys are easily squashed and Clinton fans (if they exist) are silent or you have to force it out of them if they are voting for her. They don't willingly display the matter. Bernie Sanders probably had the gotten the bulk of Obama's online army and now that they are pissed he sold out, they have been silent or still grumbling about how it was rigged against their crazy uncle. That's my analysis. I'm sure yours is different. Enjoy.
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This is going to be the weirdest presidential election in American history. The extreme online sides are blasting away at each other, but the internets as a whole seem to be doing just fine without them.

I think a lot of people are looking up "how to build a bomb shelter"...
 
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