I saw it on some conspiracy subreddit. I'd like to know what this was ACTUALLY about, rather than reading biased and conspiratorial takes. https://www.reddit.com/r/somethingiswrong2024/comments/1gof2w4/trump_knew_and_even_brags_about_it/

I’ve heard on the news, from multiple sources, and have seen a video of Trump, himself referring to a “little secret” regarding the election that he was hiding. he said he would tell individuals after the election. What exactly was this “secret” that he was referring to?

I keep seeing posts about some political controversy in Hungary, like this discussion from r/hungary discussing potential audio manipulation and deepfakes: https://www.reddit.com/r/hungary/s/O1eAMtelRH

There seem to be ongoing discussions about audio recordings and someone named Magyar Péter causing major political drama. Posts are analyzing background noises, spectrograms, and there's controversy about state TV (M1) broadcasting these recordings.

Can someone explain:

1. Who is Magyar Péter and why is he suddenly important?
2. What are these recordings about?
3. Why is there a debate about their authenticity?
4. Why is this such a big deal in Hungarian politics right now?

https://x.com/veealmighty/status/1855680647332843642?s=46&t=MLrvrs8g8r_XpLIGkh65Xg I see some comments implying she deserves this treatment but I can’t find out what she did or who she is?

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-judge-east-texas-illegal-immigrants-amnesty-1982619

I voted for Kamala, and have no love for Trump. But one thing that has stuck out to me this election season was the divide over Trump's proposed crackdown on illegal immigration, deporting illegals, ending birthright citizenship for illegal immigrant families, etc. Why is that? If an action is illegal, why wouldn't we want to find and remove the offenders, tighten borders, and shore up the methods of immigrating legally? What am I missing? Thanks!

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1855650251077722130?s=46

Keep seeing these posts and pictures all over my feed. Doesn’t every state require an I.D? Im confused

https://www.aol.com/nick-fuentes-personal-leaked-online-154456664.html

"Nick Fuentes has been fully doxxed" they say over his controversial tweet regarding abortion where he said "your body, my choice, forever". They say a bunch of women have shared his personal information. But the only thing they claim to have been shared is his home address.

Has anything of consequence actually been done to him or are these just nonsense articles and posts trying to get clicks claiming something that really hasn't happened?

I read how they got rid of the Streetview app and while you can still upload from desktop it must be a video and tied to a existing landmark/location?

Why did they do all this? Liability? Content quality assurance? Have they not given a reason?

I have actually never uploaded to Maps but was thinking about starting (I’m into hiking now). Is there another platform (besides Google) that is begging for content like this?

https://9to5google.com/2022/11/01/google-street-view-app-shutting-down/

This r/houstonwade thread is full of people talking about voter machine manipulation, saying Elon or the MAGA cult rigged them in various ways: https://www.reddit.com/r/houstonwade/comments/1gossdr/do_we_really_believe_that_all_the_swing_states/

Then this influencer saying Elon Musk used Starlink to hack the election seems to have gone viral: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTFKU4KJ9/

I’ve seen the (unfinished) 15-20M voter turnout graph parroted on X, now being used to say there’s no way 15-20M people didn’t show up in swing states that won Trump the electoral college, but then voted in Democrat senators. I know the number is now closer to a 4M gap, which appears closer to swing voter estimates. The Morning Edition of NYT also came out with compelling reasons why Democrats won House and Senate seats in swing states due to messaging.

I can’t find any evidence to suggest Elon financially influenced voting machine hardware or software companies.

So, what’s pushing these rumors? Civil unrest? There’s usually something credible, even if it’s remote, that motivates the rumor mill.

Marking this as Answered. Here’s the TL;DR for the curious:

Links provided are screenshots of the comments I thought answered this.

Claims seem to be coming from the fact that Starlink was (allegedly?) used in certain counties as an ISP to collect votes. Special thanks to u/CapnDogWater for pointing that out:

https://imgur.com/a/DC2nXBx

YouTube link from the pic.

And special thanks to u/cscottnet, for pointing out how hard it would be to actually, “hack the code.”

https://imgur.com/a/nmGhGOX

Thanks for playing Reddit today everyone.

i rediscovered this sub from a random comment on other sub but noticed i was already joined and as the title says i never got a single post from here in my main feed.
and i want to ask if somebody has the same issue but if somebody do then they won't see this post lol, anyway do anybody has this issue?

i need a url, so: https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop

https://youtu.be/mHba5M5Wk8w?feature=shared this is the link to the video of the news segment

I'm confused, I've seen this video start to circulate around and people talking about how starlink was used to upload votes. This county did end up red- and I've heard that Elon Musk was bragging about knowing the results before anyone else because they used starlink. I had thought that was illegal. Im out of the loop here- is this real and is it actually a problem?

Edit: Why are you downvoting me for asking a question? This is the subreddit for asking these things 😭 I don’t understand how voting machines aren’t supposed to have internet but also starlink was being used- see YouTube video. So what’s happening that im out of the loop on?

Edit edit: I'm not pushing a conspiracy theory, I'm asking what the context of that video is and how starlink was used to clear up any misinformation or misunderstanding. Thank you to the users who took time time to not act snippy or aggressive and try to point fingers of conspiracy theories, Starlink was used to support services OTHER than voting machines and data related activities.

President Trump talked a lot about massive voter fraud before the election and I have heard nothing since the results were official. He truthed on Election Day that massive voter fraud was happening in Pennsylvania. What’s going on with the investigation? President Trump has access to classified intelligence so if anyone would know, he would. So what’s going on with talk of the voter fraud disappearing from all of the platforms?

Relevant link: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113432510587738535

Seemingly from nowhere I’ve been seeing the word “Twump” on many, many questions in Reddit in lots of different subs.

I’m guessing it’s something to do with Donald Trump, but why this particular spelling? What’s the story behind it?

Example: https://www.reddit.com/r/shittyaskscience/s/7CTgVIiry0

I want to clarify that I do partially blame the Democratic party for this loss, but I'm just flabbergasted by this subreddit for being so repetitive and don't know why that is.

So I've been browsing Reddit for the past few days and I keep seeing the r/self subreddit on my post, and the posts have all literally been the exact same, Just post after post complaining about Democrats for being the worst party in America for whatever reason, especially when it comes to culture?

I want to repeat I'm not saying that the Democratic Party does not deserve partial blame, it's clear there were major failures along the way that lead to their massive defeat this week and that they should be held accountable for, but why is everyone acting as if there is one singular cause? Why ignore the fact that Conservatives have spent so much more effort developing and appearing on alternative media spaces, why ignore the fear-mongering aspects of their campaign strategy, why ignore the failures of Democrats to capitalize on public policy that might appear good to voters, why not focus on the positive/negative policies of both parties and instead focus on culture war talking points often exaggerated by the other side just as much as one side?

Also, I'm gonna sound harsh here, but for a social media site that loves talking about how stupid people are in crowds, I'm surprised by how defensive people are of the American electorate on that subreddit as if there isn't some blame to be put on the lack of political education, considering a sudden surge in searches for policy AFTER the election ended.

Why are people acting like that party was only incompetent in the past decade or two ignoring their political failures in 2004, 1989, or 1984?

Why do people talk about Antifa as if it was a formal organization?

I see posts like this linked on Reddit periodically: https://x.com/KatieDaviscourt/status/1853994577772061180

I’ve also heard it for years from more conservative friends that “Antifa” is some kind of major threat to the US. That it’s responsible for false flag operations, is a formal organization, they use violence, and maybe even collude with three letter organizations in the US federal government.

I hear from more progressive friends that Antifa is more a way of thought than a formal organization, and that people acting under that label to counter Fascism and autocracy, almost an Anarchistic Libertarian movement, compared to the actions taken to defeat Nazis in WWII.

It all seems a bit wild to me but maybe it’s not really in my little corner of our highly fragmented world of information. Asking across the political spectrum here to understand…

• Why this is a thing?
• How did you come to believe what you do about it?
• Is there compelling evidence one way or another about this?

Much appreciation. Please be civil!

I’ve heard that Musk told Rogan that he knew the election results hours before they were announced. Is this true and, if so, what is the evidence behind this allegation?

Relevant link, apologies for the terrible site:

https://www.sportskeeda.com/mma/news-joe-rogan-claims-elon-musk-knew-won-us-elections-4-hours-results-app-created

I’m referring to this: https://imgur.com/a/AhKjg2e

I’ve been seeing it everywhere lately.

https://imgur.com/a/lADefS1 ^ I got these for Temu at some point, and I think a meal-delivery app, and they all have the same format. Free music, AI voices, same slideshow format. My guess right now is that youtube creates them for an advertiser, but that's my best guess.

They're all so formulaic, it confuses me. Does anyone know what's up with these, and how they're made?

I always see this being posted in response to someone being stupid or ignorant about something and I want to know the significance of the photo.

https://x.com/morepain4harlan/status/1855147374131528002?s=46&t=UIHT2DSzdyS1vpIbcqbP2w

I'm just a visitor from Down Under here. Also I'm not Gen Z, but I've been seeing this sub on my main feed so much now that I had to check it out.

And based on what I've seen, and based what I've read in threads from other subreddits ... something feels seriously off. The amount of hateful rhetoric and divisive, emotionally charged dribble I've seen here is insane. Yes, I get the US had a terrible election result, and the voter turnout wasn't great. But it's not just Gen Z: Millions of people don't vote every election, which is mind boggling to me.

But compulsory vs non compulsory voting is another topic and I'm not quite here for that. What I am here for is to talk about the usual inflammatory themes I've seen on that subreddit which feel purposeful. I think they're being astroturfed.

Someone in an another discussion linked three very disturbing threads. There are several more but I'll dig into just these three for examples' sake.

• https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZ/comments/1glorvw/the_solution_for_young_men_leaning_to_right/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZ/comments/1gm21i0/the_state_of_this_subreddit_right_now_about_gen_z/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZ/comments/1gm7e55/what_is_wrong_with_this_sub/

Right off the bat, I see that these are very broad, vaguely worded posts, and I believe this is on purpose. The purpose is to illicit emotionally charged responses from the people here, irrespective of their ideological alignments. They rely on strawmen too.

• The first thread is literally only a screenshot of a twitter post. It's just a guy saying that Gen Z men need to die in the trenches. Now the guys will of course be offended at this bullshit. Why should they suffer because of someone else? You have to remember, this is Twitter.
  • It's a bumhole. This is just one troll saying something inflammatory to rile people up, then some other troll comes in and says "see? this is what they want". "They" being whoever in this case. This is disingenuous at the very least. But that's how trolling works.
• The second thread is overly simplistic. It tries to paint all Gen Z men being conservative. Well, Gen Z men where? Everywhere? The US only? Why? What could be the reasons?
  • nobody explores the what, where, who or why. All responses are generalising all Gen Z men. This is very much like the men vs women debacle I saw years ago during the GamerGate days, or the Anti-SJW dark ages of the mid 2000s.
  • I recognise the patterns. This is solely to pit men and women against each other.
• The third thread seems a bit more genuine, but it's very reactionary. It's looking at the world through the lens of what the people from the US are experiencing. That is, most likely an American person expressing their grief but blaming all groups equally, irrespective of their locations.
  • That is a very broad sweep.
  • Same concerns as above.

I have looked at the posting history of a a fair amount of accounts here. Only because I found them shady. I found that there were overlaps with shitposting subreddits, manosphere type bubbles and 4chan like trolling. I.E people who aren't being sincere to begin with.

I think they are being riled up to be divided further. After all, they already got the boomers and the Gen Xers, right? Now it's millennials and Gen Zers, because young people are the future. Young people are the last hope of any sort of unity, so these astroturfers will try to divide and conquer us.

Anyway, what do you think?

When do the trump 2017 tax cuts expire? And for whom?

When does Bidens tax policy start? What will it do and for whom? When does it expire?

When I google these questions I'm brought to a bunch of mainstream news articles, and other sites with a bunch of data tables, which while nice tends to not contain the answer I'm looking for

https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/the-2017-trump-tax-law-was-skewed-to-the-rich-expensive-and-failed-to-deliver

https://taxfoundation.org/research/all/federal/biden-budget-2025-tax-proposals/

I'm asking this to gain more knowledge on the matter, so when people I know talk about so-and-so's tax plan are their own tax return I can point out the facts and tell the fact of the matter and why what they say may be totally right or wrong

Genuinely curious because I don't follow things as closely as I probably should. I know there is a lot of discussion about reproductive rights and the likelihood of limitations/bans being enacted. I've seen the show and am just curious what is going on that lends to such a desolate outlook. Open to all perspectives and would really love a grounded description without the hyperbole I've been seeing on a lot of the polarized subreddits. Thanks so much for the education!

https://images.app.goo.gl/BTpXzYeB8JXNrWRu6

House Speaker Mike Johnson recently declared the existence of a "secret" way to win the election, of which Trump also has knowledge.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/speaker-johnson-appears-to-confirm-a-secret-election-plan-with-trump

House Speaker Mike Johnson appeared to confirm Donald Trump’s claim Sunday that Republicans have a “secret” plan to win the election.

“By definition, a secret is not to be shared — and I don’t intend to share this one,” House Speaker Mike Johnson said in a statement.

NYT (paywalled): https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/28/us/politics/trump-secret-house-republicans-panic.html

I saw that a Vtuber named Camila had problems with stalkers lately, and I understand that she had a stalker try to enter her house/plant a tracker in her gift, but then the part that throws me is how the hell does her iPhone suddenly start doxxing her mid-stream? I didn't even know iPhones could do that, let alone without stating 'Hey Siri'. Is this fake? Because if people can do that it seems like any real privacy for anyone is gone. Link of the attempted doxxing (posted on her twitter, address was not revealed): https://x.com/cumilq/status/1854222217367974295?s=46

Could someone explain what this "Hear me out" cake is supposed to mean or do?

Coworker put another colleague on the "Hear Me Out" Cake and now everything sucksGo to coworkerstories

Go to coworkerstoriesr/coworkerstories•3 hr. agokullundee

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/30/media/washington-post-cancel-subscription-endorsement/index.html

I saw that over 250k subscribers have left the washington post, I'm a bit confused as to why? I saw Jeff Bezos (allegedly) pulled out their endorsement for Kamala Harris but isn't that a good thing? To me, it implied that they're becoming more unbiased. Don't people want to read unbiased news and not an echo chamber that only reinforces what they already know? Can someone explain what I've missed?

First of all I'm not disputing Donald Trump's decisive victory. It is clear that he won the electoral collage by a lot. However there are many votes yet to count. Like California and Arizona. Many millions probably

However the day after the election and even know we see a lot of demographic stats pointing as to who voted to which candidate. Since the day after the election I've seen reports like this And this one

And as we saw from past elections, political leanings and demographics have different voting preferences (in person, mail in, etc.) and those different voting methods get counted at different times.

In the past we even heard about there being a red mirage and a blue shift because of mail in ballots being counted later.

I'm not saying that it would have been enough to change the course of the election but maybe enogh to change the demographic stats. Especially the young and latino votes. (I could see young people not wanting to wait in line and I could see conservative latino voters afraid of "socialism" wanting to vote in person and not trusting loosing sight of their ballot) Both contributing to a red mirage in those demographics.

I'm asking if there's a fundamental problem with the way it was reported or if I'm just digging to much into it?

Non-American here. I vaguely remember Bernie Sanders in 2016, if I recall correctly, it seemed like people were either saying the US population think socialism is a dirty word so Bernie would never be president, or they were saying even if he did become president none of his bills would get passed, so backing Hillary is the better option.

Now I'm seeing all this stuff where people are saying the democrats screwed up not picking Bernie. Is this just hindsight 20/20? Or was it really that obvious?

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1gmhd0f/democrats_should_have_listened_to_bernie_sanders/

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1gmlwnh/bernie_sanders_is_right_to_be_incensed_at_the/

Example: https://youtu.be/orfBAqR9Nq4?t=603

Notice the subtle AI artifacting (the a's look slightly different, for example)

I've seen this with multiple youtubers (I can't give any specific examples besides NTTS rn) and I'm wondering why they do this.

What going on with swing state votes (senate vs. president)?

I’ve been seeing an image floating around (https://imgur.com/a/YyHPt3a) that showed the results of the senate election in swing states side by side with the presidential results from voter. These states voted for Trump, but then elected democrat senators.

That seems so weird to me. The election seemed like the most divisive it’s ever been, and either Republicans just voted for trump and then went blue for the senate? Or dems voted for trump, and went blue for the rest of their ticket?

Not trying to be conspiracy brained here. Genuinely curious what the deal with this is cause it feels particularly strange for this election.

There are some very racist text messages being sent threatening to move certain Americans back to the plantations to pick cotton.

https://youtu.be/zz2fE6Ubo2M?si=TAHZMYyv_8Bj21L8

Who is behind this, and can they be prosecuted for this?