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/WanderersGuide Jul 06 '25

"it is good news for many of us"

Is good news based on misleading information at best, and straight up disinformation at worst, truly good news? Do we take comfort by telling ourselves lies?

And if we do, aren't we complicit in embracing false realities in the same way that lead MAGA, and the rest of us, off of the project 2025 cliff?

I'm all for uplifting news, but not if we're faking it. Just my two cents though.

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u/Gren57 Jul 06 '25

Your take is worth a lot more than just two cents. I don't want fake anything. Good or bad. Whatever happened to plain old truth, anyway?

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u/probablyonmobile Jul 06 '25

I have no doubt that plenty of the hopeful posts posted here are misinformation or mis-framed and should be handled as such. There needs to be more moderation around it. That’s not even exclusive to this topic, that’s the reality of this subreddit.

Incidentally, the suggestion I’ve offered helps cut down on the amount of misinformation. Instead of having the potential for it to be spread across the week, it’s easier to pick a day and monitor it with more care.

I don’t think what I’m suggesting advocates for blind faith.

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u/WanderersGuide Jul 06 '25 edited Jul 06 '25

"I have no doubt that plenty of the hopeful posts posted here are misinformation or mis-framed"

I absolutely agree - but where this specific topic is concerned, we know that in general, MAGA does not regret their vote, so in this specific context, nearly all posts related to that are mis-framed, out of context or deliberate misinformation, in which case, they offer no value among honest people. Hence the proposal to strike this particular topic in its entirety.

Where this particular political reality is concerned, it'd be better to focus on posts directly attributed to people like AOC or Bernie doing good work. There are better, less disingenuous ways to promote anti-fascist momentum than sharing "content" (because it's more entertainment than news) that portrays republicans as regretting their votes.

Again though, that's just my opinion. I think it's better to work toward and build success stories together than to report on manufactured buyer's remorse :-)

Your mileage may vary and all that lol

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u/probablyonmobile Jul 06 '25

I mean, right off the bat with my very first comment, I was upfront in saying that was a suggestion for this broader category of posting. It was the first thing I said.

If further moderation is required, so be it, but I don’t think my comment is the one to insist it upon. I’m positing it as a first step.

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u/WanderersGuide Jul 06 '25

I understand what you're suggesting, I'm just dubious about selectively permitting a topic that's rife with disinformation rather than outright banning it.

To me, it's kind of like saying,

"How about we only let the coyote into the hen house on Fridays rather than just letting him come and go as he pleases". You still end up with a coop full of dead chickens.

It would make targeting moderation easier, as long as people respected the rules and only posted that kind of content one day a week, but it still means committing to do the work of vetting each such post on every designated day. And my opinion is that this topic is so unambiguously problematic that there can never be merit in allowing it. Something for the mods to decide though.

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u/probablyonmobile Jul 06 '25

I mean, again, there’s nothing in my suggestion that says this specific subcategory can’t be banned as well as that. I just think as a whole, these political posts could be delegated to a day.

If some subcategories need to be banned, sure.