A month ago, you could tell that the shills had not arrived yet, at least not very many of them. You could post how much you thought the US government was corrupt, and how obvious blatant false flags were, and you would get dozens of upvotes and not a single downvote. You could talk about how GMOs are not 100% safe and how vaccines need to be given independent studies to verify their safety. No downvotes, lots of people agreeing with you.
But in the last few days, I've been seeing a lot more downvotes overall, and a lot more stifling of dissent. Sure, the general opinion is still "fuck the US government", but now instead of a post like that having +30 -0, it's now +30 -10. And those downvotes will surely only grow larger in the coming months.
They're here. And they're trying to manipulate public opinion here just like they did on Reddit. Be prepared.
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the_gamer_rises ago
so anyone who thinks antivaxers or gmo alarmists are idiots are a shill? youre making your definition pretty broad there friend. those individuals belong on the same level as flat earthers
Beers ago
It's funny that they not only immediately denounce differing opinions as "shilling," they do not even consider themselves shills even though they have the same behavior. Downvoating posts they disagree with, attacking the poster instead of their argument by calling them a shill and accusing them of spreading ideas for money. It is terribly ironic. What if.... They actually are shills... Designed to make the conspiracy subs look.... ignorant.... oh my god...
By the way, if anyone here thinks I am a shill, may I use you as a reference for my astroturfing resume?
Thanks
DoucheBagMcGee ago
I never downvote anyone, but vaccines are fine. I'm ex Navy, I can't tell you how many vaccines I've had, and I'm only occasionally retarded. But I think I was retarded before the vaccines, I mean I enlisted, so there's that.