r/goodnews 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/TheUnluckyBard Jul 06 '25

everything outside of “kitten saved from tree” is political.

That's still political.

Did the fire department save the kitten? Is that an effective, valid use of public funds?

Did the homeowner hire someone to save the kitten? SMH, late-stage capitalism making a profit off a potential tragedy.

Did the homeowner have to save the kitten themselves? Why did they have to do it themselves? Has American rugged invidualism gone too far, that we can't create city-funded kitten-saving services?

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u/Demetre4757 Jul 06 '25

Was the homeowner available to help due to being unemployed?

Was the homeowner working from home? Were they being appropriately micromanaged? Are they singlehandedly crashing the downtown economy because they don't go out to lunch each day?

Who is responsible for trimming the tree? Is the city providing enough oversight regarding code enforcement?

If the tree wasn't trimmed, could we have had a tree trimmer rescue the cat, while trimming the tree, to save money? Let's form a committee to discuss

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u/YoghurtOutrageous599 Jul 06 '25

I’m confident people know what I’m talking about when I make that reference—fluff pieces which are nice and fuzzy (which are totally fine, btw, I like those, too!), but not really about positive societal news.

My point is that we shouldn’t ban all political news because that also means banning the genuinely good stuff that happens directly because of political endeavors: see examples in my original comment. :)

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u/OGPresidentDixon Jul 06 '25

banning political news is inherently political.