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Re:Apollo will close down on June 30th by commandlinefan on Thursday June 08, 2023 @05:57PM (#36249775)
> reasonably sized and loud portion of the community

He also spearheaded entirely killing off reasonably sized and loud portions of the community - love them or hate them, r/The_Donald was a massive, advertisable bloc of users.

Re:Apollo will close down on June 30th by Red_Leaves_Flyy on Thursday June 08, 2023 @07:37PM (#36250901)
>r/The_Donald was a massive, advertisable bloc of users.

Bit soon to whitewash history.

Re:Apollo will close down on June 30th by goodmunky on Thursday June 08, 2023 @08:32PM (#36251440)
What are you talking about? It was a large, vibrant, and rapidly growing community of Trump supporters. Funnest subreddit around before it was banned on completely laughable charge of targeting police. Spez did that.
Re:Apollo will close down on June 30th by xtracto on Thursday June 08, 2023 @08:07PM (#36251180)
Turns out a large majority of Americans are uneducated white men that tend to right side political ideals.... and for good or bad Reddit decided not to deal with them.
Re:Apollo will close down on June 30th by fencepost on Thursday June 08, 2023 @08:24PM (#36251361)
Turns out a large majority of Americans are uneducated white men that tend to right side political ideals

Uh, no. Turns out that there's a noticeable percentage of Americans who are white men for whom education is apparently not relevant, but they're far from a majority - they're just obnoxiously loud and in your face.

And I'm not going to say that they're dumb, but it's undeniable that approximately half of people in the USA are of below-average intelligence.

Re:Apollo will close down on June 30th by xtracto on Saturday June 10, 2023 @01:46AM (#36267959)
Reminds me of a scary quote I read somewhere (I'll put it in terms of my country):

Think of the average Mexican, the most average you can picture. Now think that half of the population is WORSE than that (in terms of education, culture and "dont give a shit about you")

Its frankly scary to realize the situation of at least half of the world.

Re:Apollo will close down on June 30th by andsoitis on Thursday June 08, 2023 @08:32PM (#36251431)
> Turns out a large majority of Americans are uneducated white men

In the US, the male to female ratio is roughly 97 to 100. This means that in most areas of the country, there are slightly more females than males.

White men make up 31% of the US population.

Just under 90% of Americans have a high school diploma or GED: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_attainment_in_the_...

Re:Apollo will close down on June 30th by mrguyorama on Friday June 09, 2023 @09:09AM (#36257288)
Hot take: A high school diploma is no longer enough to be considered "Educated" and should rather be considered a bare minimum to do the most basic things in life.

A year of high school history about how the south actually were totally the good guys with slavery and it wasn't that bad has turned out to not be the wonderful enlightenment we should strive for.

Re:Apollo will close down on June 30th by OneLeggedCat on Thursday June 08, 2023 @08:45PM (#36251566)
Hard to convince advertisers to cough up real money for an audience of Russians and impoverished rednecks.
Re:Apollo will close down on June 30th by mrguyorama on Friday June 09, 2023 @09:05AM (#36257248)
Surely Mike Lindell would have purchased millions worth of advertisements!
Re:Apollo will close down on June 30th by CapstanRoller on Thursday June 08, 2023 @08:50PM (#36251627)
>r/The_Donald was a massive, advertisable bloc of users

What are they buying? What would be advertised to them, and by whom?