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Re:Reddit bans subreddit group “r/DonaldTrump” by proverbialbunny on Friday January 08, 2021 @01:47PM (#25688282)
I'm an active reader of threads on YC, and maybe I'm just lucky but I have yet to see anyone spouting MAGA based conspiracy theories. I did get downvoted one time for saying Trump invented the term Antifa (Which is absolutely true. I did a google search by date to verify.) but that's as close as I've seen.
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Re:Reddit bans subreddit group “r/DonaldTrump” by fl0wenol on Friday January 08, 2021 @01:59PM (#25688560)
I think you got downvoted because the term/group Antifa has existed in several forms since the 30s, it was a movement started in Germany in response to the rise of the SPD between WWI and WWII.
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Re:Reddit bans subreddit group “r/DonaldTrump” by proverbialbunny on Friday January 08, 2021 @02:18PM (#25688881)
That I did not know. I just know no one was using the term online before trump started calling the BLM protestors antifa. (However, there was a single tweet with an #antifa hashtag 2 days before trump used the terminology. I figured he saw the tweet and it inspired Trump to pick up the term, but now I do not know given the historical back stop.)
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Re:Reddit bans subreddit group “r/DonaldTrump” by newen on Friday January 08, 2021 @03:29PM (#25690012)
Three year old article [1]. It was used in leftist circles a lot for a long time and especially in the last four years.

[1] https://www.theroot.com/white-supremacists-killed-more-peopl...

Google trends: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...

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Re:Reddit bans subreddit group “r/DonaldTrump” by proverbialbunny on Friday January 08, 2021 @04:50PM (#25690981)
You gotta go father back than that article.
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Re:Reddit bans subreddit group “r/DonaldTrump” by wolco5 on Friday January 08, 2021 @01:58PM (#25688531)
The downvote might be because the Antifa fact is inaccurate according to wikipedia:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)

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Re:Reddit bans subreddit group “r/DonaldTrump” by proverbialbunny on Sunday January 10, 2021 @06:59PM (#25721943)
Just because it's not mentioned in Wikipedia doesn't make it false.
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