Well, as someone that was there during the time, from my memory..
Reddit was 100% libertarian tech bros in 2000-2006, then it started to become popular.. That is when the Obama campaign first bought off the r/politics mods. This was also before any 'vote fuzzing', so you could watch it happen in real time.
Submit a pro-Paul article, and within 1min it had 100's of downvotes. Submit a pro-Obama piece and it was the exact opposite. 100's of upvotes far before reasonable. Also then it was shown they were using early bots to instant downvote any upvote certain users did to make them zero-value.
Yep, they completely F'd Paul large, and we all watched it in real time.
Boy was the left laughing at us...
Then came Bernie and the Democrats did to him, exactly what the Republicans did to Paul.
Anyone, from either political 'side', from that moment on should know in their soul of souls that the Uniparty is real, and really a danger to all of us.
Sadly... so many still refuse to see it.
Yeah, I feel ya guys. I was/am still a Big Libertarian.
However, as someone that lived through the entire Digg kybosh, Digg Patriots, the move to Reddit, the entire Tea Party times, The capture of r/politics from the Obama people, being essentially kicked out of r/politics to greener pastures of r/libertarian, to eventually getting banned from said libertarian sub for comparing illegal immigrants to parasites, to the eventually doomed r/thedonald ....
I find the concept of libertarianism, at least as I understand it, completely at odds with current human nature and absolutely untenable for a working, functioning society.
I'm honestly sad by this revelation to me.
Not sure how Canadians can't see through the illusion.
Mass migration - both liberals and CPC support it.
Globalist treaties - Both liberals and CPC signed on to them.
The ONLY difference is the way it is marketed towards them, but what is being done doesn't change.
The CPC is just as corrupt, compromised and globally controlled as the Liberals are...
This isn't good, this is a lateral move at best - and sadly, likely enough for most Canadians to go back to sleep while being invaded.
TBF, I think at this stage many have figured out they likely fucked up, but after all this time the sunk-cost mentality starts setting in.
Many others were cowards right from the start. Easier/safer to think whatever the authorities tell them to think rather than actually look into it themselves. After all IF it turns out that the authorities are wrong, it isn't like these people are going to stop going with the narrative, so who needs those pesky revelations while you're trying to be the best little goy-bot possible.
It was really incredible to watch it happen in real time. By and large, as I recall, everyone was sick of the GOP/Bush war machine. Didn't seem to matter which 'side' of the traditional left/right divide, everyone was sick of the BS.. a real "Anti-War" movement...
Then Obama was elected, and 1/2 of that movement suddenly turned and claimed the only reason why people were against the wars/things was because Obama was black...
As you say, thankfully its finally wearing off.
I asked a retired man the other week when we were talking about all the crap going on in the world:
While you were growing up, working, raising a family did taxation force you to make choices, say 'no' to yourself, friends or family because there simply wasn't enough $ for everything you required?
Of course the answer was sure..
And the same can go for all your peer group, all your friends. The same with them, having to limit themselves/families/children because the gov. is taking "their cut first"...and the same with their Son's and Daughters....
Now he gets a bit defensive, and claims "Sure, but how else does a government and country run...."
so then I point out that all that suffering, all those "no's", all the time he or his wife and/or kids had to do without because of the taxes the government would take, combined with all the same from his entire peer group....
...Isn't even a rounding error in what the gov./country just freely hands over separately to either Israel, or Ukraine, or China, or any host of Country's... So if they could do that, they didn't need those taxes did they and all that suffering and pain was for .... ?
Community noted on X, its a standard FDA fee that they have to pay. Nothing burger, kinda sorta.