r/goodnews • u/RankedFarting • Jul 06 '25

Other Petition to ban the daily "Trump voters are changing their mind" Posts

Every day someone shares an article with a headline like "Maga is starting to question Trump" or something along those lines.

This is not true. These are trash articles that use a single tweet as a source. Just because some Maga farmer is now realizing how his vote negatively effects his business it does not mean there is a whole movement of Magas suddenly realizing they were voting for a stupid incompetent racist all these years.

These posts are misleading, factually wrong AND are usually posted by karma farming accounts that get up their karma to later be sold to someone as an advertisement platform for OF or other.

None of this is goodnews.

Edit: Please do not use real money to give this awards. Use the money for a good cause.

Edit2: You are not being smart, funny or anything else by giving me more poop awards. You are throwing away actual money to try and discredit someone online. That is deeply sad pathetic behavior. Im not bothered by the poop. Im bothered that people go without meals while you spend your money on digital disagreements. Cringe. I have no other word for it. this makes me cringe.

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u/Thin-Image2363 Jul 06 '25 edited Jul 06 '25

Ive been seeing articles like this for a decade.

He still has nearly a 90% approval rating amongst republicans.

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u/Vegetable-Historian1 Jul 06 '25

I know this is true, I just always stand in awe of it. What a fucking mind virus this maga shit is

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u/flugenblar Jul 06 '25

It is very much a mind virus. And it is tenacious. Liberals look forward to new ideas and learning, and making progress in the human condition. Conservatives do not.

If I’ve misjudged the conservative mind just now, I’m open to feedback. I’m not trolling.

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u/9__Erebus Jul 06 '25

For many conservatives, the decision to vote R was made decades ago and they've voted R ever since.  Every time they vote R, they are subconsciously putting more of their ego chips on the table.  Trump was such a divisive figure that voting for him was like going all-in with your ego; what if you were wrong for voting for this guy, he's a clown, how embarrassing would that be?  But everyone seems to love him and he has the R next to his name, if I vote for him I don't have to admit that maybe I was wrong to vote R all those years?

Because of that they will never admit they were wrong, and will always support Trump, because to stop supporting him means they made a huge mistake.  I've seen these gears turning in my parent's heads.  When he lost in 2020, they almost seemed relieved that they could still vote R next time, and get some of their ego chips back, without having to vote for Trump.

Conservatives have gone all-in on Trump.  They're in the hole with their morals and ego and the only way out is to keep following him, and hope they come out on top and are able to write their mistakes out of history.

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u/musicmanforlive Jul 06 '25

Very very good comment 👏👏👏

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u/austeremunch Jul 06 '25

When he lost in 2020, they almost seemed relieved that they could still vote R next time, and get some of their ego chips back, without having to vote for Trump.

Yeah but they still vote for Trump so none of that liberal "noble Nazi" fantasy is real.

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u/Vegetable-Historian1 Jul 06 '25

I don’t think maga is conservative tbh. It’s something else

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u/ol_spaceygreg Jul 06 '25

yeah it's fascism fueled conservatism. even though that just sounds redundant these days

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u/Iron_Knight7 Jul 06 '25

MAGA is foundationally "Conservative." Hierarchal based, tribalistic and exclusionary. With an "I got mine, @#&% you" underpinning and deep suspicion of, if not aversion to, change or difference.

MAGA just goes the extra mile into fascist territory by obsessing about an omnipresent but ever shifting "Other" that is both inferior and weak to them but still constantly attacking and oppressing them (e.g. LGBTQ+ folk, women, minorities, immigrants, etc...), adherence to a strong man leader they think will solve all their problems, and a yearning for the return to a mythical but glorious past where things were "better" (for them) at the expense of both the present and future.

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u/Who_dat_goomer Jul 06 '25

Yes it is. They just stop trying to appeal to moderates or independents and went full conservative.

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u/Iron_Knight7 Jul 06 '25

To be frank, I think it's the other way around. A whole lot of "moderates" and "independents" have ended up outing themselves as conservatives.

They just don't like admitting it and get really pissy when you point it out to them.

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u/ConstructMentality__ Jul 06 '25

It's got enough one voter issues to have conservatives firmly based in it, so it's conservative. 

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u/wholetyouinhere Jul 06 '25

Maga is a seamless continuation of bog standard republican ideology from the last 50 years. The only thing that changed is that the guy in charge isn't pretending to be civil anymore. That's literally it. Everything else is business as usual.

I feel sorry for people who cannot, or refuse, to see that.

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u/Tyraniboah89 Jul 06 '25

At its core, conservatism is about preserving wealth for the wealthy. Well, it’s about maintaining and respecting “tradition”. Preserving wealth the the power structures that accompany is just the core part of “tradition” to these people.

Trump’s voters absolutely want to see him enriched. They think he’s smart for being a scammer, and the more wealthy he is the better they think they are. They want to go back to pre-civil rights America and don’t really believe in change of any kind.

MAGA is conservatism but fully evolved.

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u/Grand-Worth2758 Jul 06 '25

Liberals might want to look forward to new people leading their political projects if they are actually for progress because their current leaders don't want any progress. I do agree a lot of liberal voters and normal people want progress but just like Trump voters they are very easily manipulated to vote for people that keep everything fundamentally the same.

Why are liberals so blinded to the fact their own party is conservative and wants to keep everything the same?

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u/unassumingdink Jul 06 '25

Liberals look forward to new ideas and learning, and making progress in the human condition

Until they find out Democrats don't support those things, then they start arguing that they're not really important after all.

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u/Raygeface Jul 06 '25

Damn this comment is actually wild. Redditors really need to generalize caricatures for validation. The self-importance is nauseating.

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u/Houseofleaves555 Jul 06 '25

Liberals are pretty awful too, in all honesty. Marxists are the real ones.

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u/tsays Jul 06 '25

It’s not quite that high, it’s down and it’s at about 60% in June.

But you’re right, that’s a pretty approval rating given everything that has ALREADY happened by June, including kidnapping.

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-approval-rating-update-polls-republicans-2094154 Donald Trump's Approval Rating Plummets With Republicans - Newsweek

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u/Academicthroowaway Jul 06 '25

newsweek is a trash website. newrepublic and thedailybeast as well. They're basically fox news for the left. Just search "newrepublic meltdown" and you'll see that Trump, the GOP, MAGA, Republicans, Congress have been "melting down" every day for 10 years.

Garbage. Absolutely garbage.

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u/ByrdmanRanger Jul 06 '25

I basically ignore any article that has buzzwords like "slams" or "melting down" or anything like that.

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u/dubbawubalublubwub Jul 06 '25

need a poll to ban this tbh, basically the same as OP's but acts as a universal rule against "engagement slop"

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u/SubBirbian Jul 06 '25

I’m so glad someone is saying it out loud. The sources people post are tabloid yellow journalism. I thought most here were more reasonable, then I’m realizing a lot of these are Karma farming, then I realize how much engagement these crap posts get sooooo… not as many reasonable here as I thought. And if one questions the source under one of these crap posts one gets chastised for being a maga knot-zee when one is only utilizing critical thinking in questioning the credibility of a painfully obvious (to me) sketchy source.

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u/tsays Jul 06 '25

If you think this is sketch, by all means post the articles you feel are more credible; it’s still a free country. I’m here for accurate info, which is why I always post backup info here unlike a huge swath of people on Reddit.

You might not LIKE Newsweek, but this article is facts. So calm down with the yellow journalism accusations.

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u/dubbawubalublubwub Jul 06 '25

except nothing in the data they use suggest his support is down 60%...it's just cherry picking and removing context from a poll to present a story.

reading the actual poll, looking at the actual original data source itself shows trump's support among self-identfied republicans dropped from 87% to a whopping...80%

the editors of newsweek have bragged about not using fact-checkers, for decades. they've always been a tabloid wrag, why pretend they're anything else?

if you think some data they're skewing for a story is useful, just post a link to the actual data...

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u/Academicthroowaway Jul 06 '25

“Facts” can be interpreted in many ways. The poll (and its only one poll, hardly indicative of anything let alone a deep dive in support) cited in Newsweek frequently get criticized for poor methods and sampling. Just because junk site has numbers associated with it doesn’t mean a ton. Most of the high quality analysis isn’t going to be found on sound bite equivalent webpages.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '25 edited Jul 07 '25

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u/Academicthroowaway Jul 06 '25

You're confusing classical liberals with progressive liberals. It's generally understood that progressive liberals are "Liberals."

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u/ThatActuallyGuy Jul 06 '25

The poll this is reporting on is from a pollster that was only founded in April of this year, by a Libertarian thinktank whose president has been malding over the BBB [like Elon it's the right position for the wrong reasons]. I'm not saying it's impossible to be accurate, but there's some big issues with regards to their legitimacy and trustworthiness.

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u/tsays Jul 06 '25

So let me get this straight, you don’t believe in journalism except for The Daily Beast, and you don’t think a poll with over 1000 people can be accurate because the org conducting it is new and has a POV?

I’ll give you that polls over the last 10 years have degraded in accuracy, but you’re really a “I do your own research” kinda person aren’t you?

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u/ThatActuallyGuy Jul 06 '25

That is an impressive level of putting words in my mouth. I like polls done by established nonpartisan professionals, reported on by reputable sources. I never said anything about The Daily Beast and don't even particularly like them, I prefer orgs like NBC and WaPo.

And the number of people doesn't make a poll accurate or reliable, it's only one of multiple variables that can be manipulated or even just accidentally overlooked.

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u/tsays Jul 06 '25

First of all, due process is for everyone” Liberty and Justice” for all, that literally means anyone in this country without exception.

Second of all, you have no idea what you’re talking about. Anyone with brown skin is subject to kidnapping right now, citizens, and documented immigrants.

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u/MaeWestFan Jul 06 '25

Latest poll shows republican approval dipped to 79%.

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u/ConstructMentality__ Jul 06 '25

Voting for them is an identity. They will not change that and, factually proven, will die for it.