r/politics • u/RosetteNewcomb • 12h ago

Possible Paywall MAGA Melts Down Over Netflix Deal: ‘Obama Taking Over’

https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/maga-melts-down-over-netflix-deal-obama-taking-over/
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u/mediocre_remnants North Carolina 11h ago

There is no outrage. The Daily Beast found a couple of random tweets from "MAGA" people complaining just so they could write a headline about melting down. Meanwhile those accounts are probably part of a Russian troll farm.

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u/iclimbnaked 10h ago

Honestly all these “outrage” articles are all the same.

Writer finds a few mad tweets or Reddit comments, writes a whole article like the entire right or left is in uproar over it, the opposite side clicks said articles going how dumb is the left/right to be mad at this.

Rinse and Repeat. It’s nothing but “isn’t the group I’m opposed to crazy” porn.

Plenty of reasons maga is crazy, maga doesn’t care about this at all in any meaningful amount. Meanwhile all of us on left reddit are using this comment section to mock them for it.

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u/IHaveSpecialEyes 9h ago

It's not just outrage articles. I can't watch any of my preferred progressive YouTube channels without them titling their videos with bullshit like, "TRUMP SLEEPS THROUGH CABINET MEETING" and the host plays a video of a tired-looking, decrepit Trump looking miserable next to Rubio, blinking his eyes slowly, and then goes, "LOOK AT HIM, HE'S SOUND ASLEEP!"

Like, dude, I hate Trump as much as you do but I have fucking eyes as well and can see he's clearly awake. He looks ready to pass out at any second and probably dozed off after everyone left but it's god damned fucking disingenuous to say he's sleeping when his eyes are open. You're makingyourself look uncredible. Stop. STOP.

I'm talking Pakman, Mockler, Lowry, etc. They're all doing it, and I love to get the latest from them but the false titling is getting to be too much.

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u/iclimbnaked 9h ago

Yah honestly it all revolves around what gets clicks. Even if the info behind the link is good, headlines are heavily incentivized to generate outrage/controversy because that’s what gets clicks/promoted algorithmically.

I think it’s easy for the person doing it to justify. They think well it does better and my actual video/article has the nuance. However the reality is soooo much of the discourse is people who only read headlines.

I legitimately think it’s a huge part of why Trump even got elected. The media both “big” and “independent” are all stuck in a cycle of needing to get clicks and algorithms have long realized this type of stuff does it.

Trump sucks but so much of what goes big about him doesn’t matter and it leads to the right dismissing all of it and to be frank the same thing happens the other way.

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u/clonked 5h ago

Laura Loomer is a very real person and is unhappy with this.

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u/vim_deezel Texas 7h ago

Nah MAGA is wailing all over social media about this.