Why did Reddit and 4chan both support Ron Paul in 2012? I can understand 4chan but was Reddit a way different site back then? Please help me understand
There was some affinity here to the idea that the government is incompetent and printing too much money
>>542339235Yeah
>>542339235Kys.How can i find an old fag's knob to gobble? I promise to swallow.
>>542339235His physiogeny and just looks were so astute. Esp the eyebrows. You can tell a lot about how smart someone is from their eyebrows, anon.
>>542339235people were still normal in 2012m, mostly centrists. people went full NPC after trump said the thing about latinos on the escalator in 2015-16.
>>542339235Reddit was the same then as it is now.4chan supported Ron Paul because he wanted to audit the Fed and people hoped he could clean out the corruption there.This wish would lead a lot of people up the path to natsoc, as they discover the undeniable patterns between the Fed's corruption and the Jewish or Zionist influence.And obviously the guys with the balls to call the beast by its name got the furthest.By 2016 support shifted to Trump principally because Ron Paul while likeable had no mainstream appeal, and Trump was utterly ridiculous.People wanted to meme him into office and succeeded.Some did that for the lulz.Others did it just because Clinton would've been much worse.The underlying motive is that Trump was already compromised by Epstein and guys were sharing that at the time.Same time as when pizzagate exposed the demorat side of the Jew, conveniently.I remember the argument quite well: "He's owned by the Jew too, but nobody else is arrogant enough to start bragging about it and exposing them inadvertently."Some hate Trump because he's bringing the system down.That's why the rest love him. It must come down.It's not so much that people stopped liking Ron Paul.It's that the war for humanity has a frontline, and the front simply moved to a new territory.
>>542339235Reddit was great back then. Racism, jailbait, liberty.
>>542339490The looks of his supporters got me. It's like they share no lineage with the modern day Libertarian whatsoever. They look like normal people, not like transsexual heroin addicts. I guess these people either became politically indifferent or went to Trump in 2016?
Ron Paul is actually popular with the people, and the internet wasn't completely taken over by bots back then. Now both sites are shilled to hell so you'll get support for zogbot 1 on pol and zogbot 2 on reddit. Or you'll get support for divisive fed shills who have no chance of gaining ground anywhere in the real world.
Pre-corporate takeover the dominant ethos of "mainstream internet culture" was libertarianism. Speaking of which, remember how the push for mandatory internet ID was revealed to largely be the work of lobbying by Meta? They just settled a lawsuit where they have to pay like $20 billion dollars or something because they got sued by various governments for addicting kids to social media, and the potential penalties they were facing were in the range of $200 billion dollars. We usually view this shift through the lens of muh woke 1984 but it's largely just cynical corporate risk management
>>542339235Reddit was much more libertarian back then. It was always pretty dorky, but it got squeaky clean and neoliberal during the Obama years.The stereotypical Reddit user in 2008 was a libertarian stoner who probably came to the site for porn.
>>542339235Ron Paul had mass appeal among young people, young people dominated online spaces, and since young people are gonna be new to politics, they're less ideologically entrenched. There's people who supported Ron Paul back then who aren't libertarians anymore, but they all liked his anti-establishment, "question everything" style. Back then, Reddit was more similar to 4chan than they are now because everyone online had the same sort of political bent:>skeptical, possibly anti-religious>civil-libertarian>anti-PATRIOT Act>anti-GW Bush>anti-military-industrial complex9/11 and the War on Terror dominated the zeitgeist, and liberals and libertarians generally agreed on those issues, hence why there was a lot of crossover support for the only candidate speaking out on those issues - Ron Paul. You had people like the Amazing Atheist browsing 4chan and people with the Gadsen flag on their car browsing Reddit and Digg. It was interesting times, more high order political discussion and less abject nihilism from both sides.
Reddit was way different back then. For example, there was a really popular subreddit called Coontown for hating niggers and posting nigger crime statistics. It all changed when Something Awful, as a joke, made a sub called Shit Reddit Says that was to pretend to be social justice warriors. It quickly stopped being a joke as women from Tumblr joined thinking it was serious. They got a lot of subs banned, most notoriously the jailbait sub, which was once one of the most popular subs on the whole site. Once Tumblr stopped allowing porn, a critical mass of sjw lunatics moved to Reddit and it became the site it is today
>>542339235>Why did Reddit and 4chan both support Ron Paul in 2012?Reddit wasn't all leftoided up in 2012. Don't get me wrong, that process was well underway in 2012, but hadn't been completed.
