I wish we could see up/downvotes like in the past. I think reddit may be artificially boosting some posts into the front page. You can see in the screenshot it has very little upvotes (or older) compared to the other top 4 posts.

I have no evidence other than noticing right after the election, /r/conservative seems to be hitting the front page every day. But I remember before the election, it only hit the front page once in a blue moon or so. Is this just me? Am I the only one noticing this?

      • jrs100000@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        14 hours ago

        Many of the people claiming to be too liberal for the dems online were not really people, or at least not eligible US voters. They choose whichever perspective is most destabilizing at the moment and push that, sometimes switching accounts and sometimes not even bothering to do that. Theyll jump from Bernie to Trump to Stein and back to Trump without a second thought because they do not actually believe in the positions they are backing, only the chaos they can cause. Some of these people are unaffiliated trolls, some are self organized volunteers, some are paid call center workers and some are bots.

      • blakenong@lemmings.worldEnglish
        3·
        14 hours ago

        Fine, since you said please. If you need any clarification just let me know.

        I’ll use Lemmy as an example, though the same applies to Reddit. A few months before the election, the phrase “Genocide Joe” was making the rounds. On the surface, it was a criticism of Biden for not stopping arms sales to Israel. I don’t disagree with that criticism. However, this wasn’t a campaign to pressure Biden into action—it was designed to convince Democrats not to vote in protest.

        Not everyone who repeated the phrase had bad intentions, but the origins and those aggressively pushing it weren’t doing so out of concern for Gaza. Their goal was something else: weakening the Democratic Party to help Trump win.

        They don’t like Trump or believe he would help Gaza—they know he’d make things worse. But that’s not the point. What they want is to accelerate the destruction of the United States by turning Americans against each other and weakening the government from within.

        A direct assault on the U.S. isn’t possible—we’re too powerful. The only way to bring us down is through internal collapse, by fueling division and distrust.

        After the election, many of the most vocal “Genocide Joe” accounts vanished or went silent. They had served their purpose. Now, the target has shifted: Republicans are next. Suddenly, there’s a surge in activity in conservative spaces, using new slogans tailored to stoke anger at Republican politicians and the government in general.

        This is the work of blackpill provocateurs—people who infiltrate movements under false pretenses, not to support them, but to spread division and hopelessness. Their tactics don’t change—only their targets do.

        Summary/TLDR

        Blackpill provocateurs infiltrate online communities to sow division and weaken the U.S. from within. Before the election, they pushed “Genocide Joe” to discourage Democrats from voting—not to help Gaza, but to damage Biden and help Trump. After the election, many of those accounts disappeared, having served their purpose. Now, they’re targeting Republicans, using similar tactics to turn conservatives against their own politicians. Their goal isn’t to help any cause—it’s to accelerate America’s collapse by fueling internal conflict.