If I wanted to subject myself to repeated brute-force political messaging, I’d watch cable news.

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    6 hours ago

    Overused image with obvious fallacy implicating voters

    2k upvotes

    And then top comment is usually someone pointing out how utterly stupid the post is.

    Optionally by FlyingSquid or PugJesus

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    Half of these problems would be solved with a tagging system like on Reddit, then you could just block by tags

    I’m pretty sure PieFed rolled out a tagging system, but clients haven’t caught up yet

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      18 hours ago

      That would depend on users following the tagging system. If Imgur is any indication, political posters will purposely not do that, because they think it’s their god-given mission to “spread awareness.”

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        You’re so right, and they are utterly self-defeating. By attempting to force people to engage, they’re having the opposite effect. People are disengaging instead, and I don’t blame them. We need our spaces for silly humor.

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        Idk bout imgur, but Reddit’s automod can be set to auto-remove untagged posts or human mods just remove them quickly since it’s a no brainer if it’s not tagged or tagged improperly

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        Not if we had a system in place for users having the ability to submit tags and the mods to implement those tags.

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      18 hours ago

      oh look it’s alt-accounts-in-chief with great idea about how to block content we dont want to see. let’s see what their alt accounts have to say to help us out

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    Sometimes it can be less heavy because often people crosspost their thing and you just need to block 'em. But often they are just reposted and damn if i hate seeing the same post 4 times even if i like it

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    18 hours ago

    I doubt cable news is making fun of Americans suffering from the same imperialistic practices they applied in the rest of the world through Pepes and captions, lol.

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      Not everyone everytime want to be bombarded with US politics, especially when you aren’t even American.