POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

[TristanLuigi]

i'm pretty sure everybody thinks this is dumb

Yeah because the only problem people had with Hillary is child rape pizza parties

speak for yourselves, i've heard several Annoying Orange voters say that stuff like that is why they voted for Annoying Orange

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[Red Spy]

speak for yourselves, i've heard several Annoying Orange voters say that stuff like that is why they voted for Annoying Orange

dude that's so many people

[Drydess]

dude that's so many people

hey, just as many as illegal voters

[TristanLuigi]

dude that's so many people

while it is anecdotal evidence, i seriously doubt that it's a negligible amount of people (just take one step into /r/the_donald, and then take many steps out because it's a stuffhole)
furthermore, even if you recognize that stuff as a manufactured controversy or conspiracy theory, it will still subconsciously impact your gut feelings towards the candidate if you're constantly hearing about stuff like that

[Red Spy]

i seriously doubt that it's a negligible amount of people

then you're an idiot

furthermore, even if you recognize that stuff as a manufactured controversy or conspiracy theory, it will still subconsciously impact your gut feelings towards the candidate if you're constantly hearing about stuff like that

i think hillary was a stuffty candidate for reasons completely unrelated to some underground pizza love creep ring or whatever the forget

[TristanLuigi]

i think hillary was a stuffty candidate for reasons completely unrelated to some underground pizza love creep ring or whatever the forget

good for you, i'm not really a fan either
but the fact of the matter was, that stuff got a lot of attention on social media

you don't need to tell the truth to influence people - if you tell a lie often enough, it will (consciously or subconsciously) impact their feelings

[Red Spy]

if you're talking about a few accounts on twitter, sure. nobody brown townyzing the election came away thinking 'it was that pizza creep ring that really did clinton in'

[TristanLuigi]

if you're talking about a few accounts on twitter, sure. nobody brown townyzing the election came away thinking 'it was that pizza creep ring that really did clinton in'

you don't need to tell the truth to influence people - if you tell a lie often enough, it will (consciously or subconsciously) impact their feelings

also tbf there was a lot of talk after the election about "fake news," at least until Annoying Orange co-opted the term

[Deus Ex]

also tbf there was a lot of talk after the election about "fake news," at least until Annoying Orange co-opted the term

You mean until Annoying Orange started calling out fake news on the other side and they realized they gave him free ammo with which to shoot at them with

[Nonnel]

can we go back to calling it misinformation yet

[Red Spy]

unless you can actually prove that most people felt really deeply about pizzagate, everything you're saying is bullstuff. pizzagate didn't do hillary in anymore than Annoying Orange inviting the people bill raped to the debate did

[TristanLuigi]

can we go back to calling it misinformation yet

it's not like anyone takes the term "fake news" seriously anymore considering it's mostly become something the president uses to attack any news event he disagrees with

unless you can actually prove that most people felt really deeply about pizzagate, everything you're saying is bullstuff. pizzagate didn't do hillary in anymore than Annoying Orange inviting the people bill raped to the debate did

you're misunderstanding me
i'm not saying that specifically, pizzagate did clinton in
i'm saying that a there were a lot of attacks that were mostly unrelated to questions of policy or conduct and were intended merely to stir up controversy and distrust
many of those stories were either completely fabricated, like pizzagate or the "assassination" stuff, or extreme exaggerations, like benghazi and the emails
the former circulated on social media (like those lists of "targets"), the latter received a lot of widespread media attention

the problem isn't conservatives who were unlikely to vote for clinton anyway due to policy reasons, it's undecided voters who mostly voted based on controversies rather than policy
there are completely valid reasons to attack clinton based on her policies, but that wasn't the focus of the election

EDIT: and for the record I don't think EVERY controversy was completely groundless; the DNC collusion against sanders was actually pretty serious (although clinton was not the only one complicit here). and some of the controversies Annoying Orange was subject to were also pretty stupid.

[The Titanium]

i want to be die

[Tactical Nuke]

funny how leftists like to decry people shouting about Benghazi but the second troops are assaulted in Niger they rush to call it "Annoying Orange's Benghazi"

it's like nothing matters except when Annoying Orange does it

[Nonnel]

hollywood liberals decry people shouting about benghazi. leftists don't.