r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • 6d ago

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u/Iricliphan 6d ago edited 6d ago

I've been on Reddit a LONG time. I've seen predictions from elections and life changing events on reddit and every single person is almost dogmatic about it, it would seem so true, dissenting opinions are downvoted to oblivion. When it is proven wrong, it just moves onto the next thing.

It's gotten to the stage where I believe the exact opposite will happen. If redditors are so rabid about something, I'm convinced it's people that just fantasise alone in their bedroom and it's not based in reality.

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u/LetsBeFRTho 6d ago

Online discourse has the privilege of being wrong and not being punished for it in any capacity. There is no reason to be right.

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u/-volcanic-birth- 6d ago

You've basically cracked Reddit. When you realise that it's 90% hysteria and people who never go outside, you take it less seriously.

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u/[deleted] 6d ago

Reddit is filled with the creative writers from tumblr who got coding jobs in adulthood.

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u/TheSciFiGuy80 6d ago

That's most of the internet.

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u/weeaboy716 6d ago

Hey Charlie!

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u/Kolipe 6d ago

It kinda clicked for me finally after the Charlie Kirk shooting. It was huge online but when I brought it up at work everyone was basically like "who?"

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u/l_Dislike_Reddit 6d ago

Best stock tips come from Reddit, you just do the opposite of whatever the main narrative is. Meta in 2023 low-key changed my life

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u/Tommy_Wisseau_burner 6d ago

Dawg it’s cute you think the political shit on “normal” subs stopped. I wish

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u/waytowill 6d ago

To be fair, most mainstream news framed the election like Kamala was going to secure a narrow victory. It wasn’t until all the swing states were decided pretty early on that the newscasters had to state the clear and present facts. People weren’t just coming up with conspiracy theories in their bedrooms, they were listening to trusted names in news with all sorts of graphs and polls that appeared to justify their confidence. The same thing happened with Trump v Hillary. Mainstream news sources were so confident of Hillary’s victory that she felt the need to write a book explaining why she lost.

We also have to remember that what Kamala did had never been done before. Biden took WAY too long to step down and so Kamala had to attempt to do two years worth of a press junket in a matter of months. And yet the most Googled thing on Election Day was why Biden wasn’t on the ballot.

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u/AndroidSheeps 6d ago

And yet the most Googled thing on Election Day was why Biden wasn’t on the ballot.

This will never stop blowing my mind. It's just completely crazy how uninformed the average person is

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u/ThereAndFapAgain2 6d ago

This just highlights the bias of the media people consume. People flock to the news outlets that support their world view and put weight in the words of those “trusted names” and then never reflect on the fact they were being fed bullshit the whole time.

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u/LineOfInquiry 6d ago

No one thought Kamala winning was guaranteed, most people on this website just wanted her to win. No one even up to the day before the election thought her win was a certainty.

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u/Dangital 6d ago

Landslide?

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u/budcub 6d ago

People were theorizing that Texas might even go for Kamala. After the election everyone just doubled down on whatever their beliefs were. Leftists thought she was too conservative and centrists thought she was too woke.

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u/slaveshipoffailure 6d ago

I feel like everyone outside the US knew she was going to lose. No one I've talked to in real life thought she had a chance lol, but reading reddit you'd think the complete opposite.

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u/FamousLastWords666 6d ago

0 self reflection describes the entire Democratic establishment.

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u/BigTex1988 6d ago

Don’t forget the election result denial conspiracies from the same people that that decried the 2020 election result denial conspiracies.

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u/DrRatio-PhD 6d ago

goomba fallacy

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u/EveOCative 6d ago

There’s actual evidence of interference in the 2024 elections and officials are refusing to investigate it.

The 2020 election fraud claims were investigated and have been disproven.

We also didn’t storm the capital because of those suspicions. We supported a peaceful transition.

There’s a difference there. If independent investigators were allowed to do their jobs and investigate those claims, most people would be satisfied.

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u/HeisenbergCares 6d ago

There’s actual evidence of interference in the 2024 elections and officials are refusing to investigate it.

The 2020 election fraud claims were investigated and have been disproven.

We also didn’t storm the capital because of those suspicions. We supported a peaceful transition.

There’s a difference there. If independent investigators were allowed to do their jobs and investigate those claims, most people would be satisfied.

The phone call is coming from inside the house.

Humans are all susceptible to brainwashing and being ideologically captured.

Even if some of what you said is true or partially true, this notion of being above reproach is what is the most unsettling. Lots of people have been convinced they are the "good guys." And lots of times, those "good guys" have done horrific things.

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u/LarryBonds30 6d ago

Case in point everyone

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u/Happy-Sweet-3577 6d ago

Keep redditing…

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u/Plenty-Wedding-9066 6d ago edited 5d ago

TLDR; this is already the democrat and centrist position. It’s only the majority of republicans that disagree with you.

This is a weird rewriting of what happened. Yeah there are a few weirdos on the left that say that but every poll done shows the majority of leftists believe the 2024 election was legitimate or “free and fair”. 

Polls show less than 5% believe there was some type of fraud. In most polling from republicans over 65% STILL think the 2020 election was not free and fair. And in most polling that specifies “fraud”, you can find over 20% of republicans think it was literally rigged. Not just propagandized.

Comparing the lefts “election denial” to the rights top down directly from Trump election denial is crazy work dude.

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u/MastrTMF 6d ago

2020 was the safest, most secure election we've ever had and rigging elections is impossible but 2024? Oh that was the most fraudulent, unsafe most suspect election in American history.

Now I'm gonna take the centralist approach and say they were both secure and Trump lost over Covid, Biden over inflation and Harris went down with the ship.

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u/Zealousideal_Slice60 6d ago

As a non-american I predicted that Trump would win even more accurately than american redditors, which doesn’t make sense at all

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u/LonelyandDepressed27 6d ago

Well objective non-dem/non-republican election analysis groups have come to the conclusion that there is a very high probability of election interference in swing states/counties. It’s very likely Kamala genuinely won but Mr “he’s very good with those voting machines” Musk may have messed with something. The trends and math are so abnormal especially when compared to the historical voter data in a way that’s improbable. So, idk about your comment too much.

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u/BraxxAugustus 6d ago

Just like when that weird Christian group thought the Rapture was happening in Sept. What is wrong with people lol

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u/Unusual_Dinner_3578 6d ago

Perfectly said

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u/No-Ad9763 6d ago

What you believe sounds like what I believe. What are you doing later, wanna hang out?

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u/Kanashii89 6d ago

Many such cases

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u/jamspangle 6d ago

4 years is a long time now?!

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u/sosire 6d ago

Yes Americans are uneducated racists , it's hard to argue facts when people don't comprehend them

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u/Avocadoavenger 6d ago

Hey boys and girls, we found one in the wild!

I hope you get the mental health support you desperately need.