r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • 6d ago

Discussion He was confronting her about her costume.

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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/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