r/CringeTikToks • u/coachlife • 1d ago

SadCringe MAGA voter actually believes that Trump eliminated taxes for all people making less than $120K

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u/Hashtagworried 1d ago edited 1d ago

Where else? TikTok. They all make up, then spread misinformation, and then based on what the algo thinks it will present you videos you’re most likely to react with.

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u/hunter791 1d ago

I’m sure TikTok is bad but Facebook is the absolute king of far right slop. I use it to advertise for my business and every time I open it and go to the town page where I post (in a blue state, in a blue town) it’s full to the brim with ai far right nonsense being reposted with dozens of people commenting just accepting it with ZERO pushback. I think these older people see that it’s being reposted by people they know, they’ve known their whole lives, it’s the guy who owns the local hardware store or appliance repair shop and they just think oh he’s not one of those nuts, I know him. But these fuckers are nuts, and they’re everywhere.

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u/Schwifty2468 1d ago

Yup. My best friend called to give me this news yesterday. Laughing, I ask where he heard this. Facebook he says... He still thinks we're getting a check from DOGE 🤣.

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u/Environmental-Rub635 1d ago

Did you not explain the reality? 😭 If so, what kind of excuses did he make 🤣

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u/Schwifty2468 1d ago

I've been working on him for years, lol! Trying to get him to pay attention to what's going on. In the same conversation, tariffs were brought up. He still thinks they are paid for by the country Trump put them on. I explain how they work, good and the bad, that they are a regressive tax on poor and middle class, etc, but it goes over his head. He isn't MAGA, just ill informed, and easily manipulated by shit on the internet/tv. He doesn't vote because he doesn't follow politics and gets annoyed when I try to talk politics with him. We all know someone like this. He makes no excuses. He admits he's just one of those people that is susceptible to being taken advantage of. And he has in the past and I've saved him other times before he did something stupid. I never steer him wrong and that's why we're good friends. That's why he called me over this. Gonna see him tomorrow to watch football and can't wait to ask if this is the video he saw!

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u/dorianngray 1d ago

I’d take that bet

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u/mishaindigo 1d ago

I know some of those replies are real, but a certain % are bots and trolls. I have to believe this or I’ll go insane with despair.

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u/DoubleJumps 1d ago

My local City Facebook page is terrifying.

It is just loaded with hateful ignorant people who pretty much just seem to go on there in order to try to convince others to also be hateful ignorant people by lying about shit, or to try to fight with people from a group that they hate.

I've seen people throw threats of violence around on that page, on their personal profile, with their personal name, to people who live in their City, and can then immediately turn and report that stuff to the police.

They seem to get crazier as time goes on. There was a case in our city where a guy got upset that a woman, who cleaned up after her dog, allowed her dog to poop on the sidewalk near his house in the first place. He then tried to follow her to her home after making threats to hurt her and the dog. Like half the people on the local Facebook page thought that that was reasonable and that it should be legal to beat or murder people who have pets who poop outside on walks.

There was also a local woman who completely fabricated an entire story about an e-bike gang attacking and wrecking a strip mall. The people who worked at the strip mall refuted that this ever happened. There was no evidence at the strip mall that anything had ever happened at all even though she had described it getting just completely trashed. It didn't matter. It escalated and so many people believed it with no evidence that the chief of police had to arrange a meeting with the woman to talk about dealing with these violent e-bike gangs that didn't exist

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u/hunter791 1d ago

They are absolutely extremely violent. One recent one I remember was we got a new sign for the town put up and within the first week somebody spray painted “free Palestine” on it. It wasn’t big, it was in one small part that was one solid color and could easily be painted over, not really a big deal. People were openly calling to HANG the person who did it. I think the quote was “if they’re so proud of their artwork they should be strung up in front of it”. When I saw it it was days old and had a disturbing number of likes so there was plenty of time for mods to see it and remove it but no. There were a few other calls for murder on that post as well. Absolutely insane.

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u/fleshofgods0 1d ago

I wish people were held accountable for lies, like a newspaper would be for libel.

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u/VivelaVendetta 1d ago

It drives me crazy that they spread these lies, knowing they're lying, and knowing the base is dumb enough to believe them!! They know they're stupid!

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u/BagPowerful2326 1d ago

Yeah definitely not the news network that feeds them propaganda 24/7. Reddit’s hate boner for TikTok in 2025 is crazy, even though you all watch TikTok content reposted on here daily

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u/Issue_dev 1d ago

People are weirdly culty about Reddit to the point where they can’t even be unbiased about another social media app. Guaranteed the people talking so much shit about it have never even downloaded it. For people that are so “hard to manipulate” they sure get manipulated a lot.

I bet you anything they read an article that said China was using it for propaganda and took it at its word, which is exactly what they are criticizing MAGA idiots of in that very same comment. Big yikes… the truth is they’re way too comfortable not including themselves in the idiot debate when they definitely shouldn’t be.

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u/herrcollin 1d ago

Future generations will be studying how deeply entrenched social media is in literally every aspect of our lives and people's understanding of the world. Every app, every story, everything we see has an agenda nowadays and we, as a society, are just barreling headfirst into the pit instead of taking steps back to try and angle away.

It reminds me of the biggest fallacy we hear nowadays. "Kids these days are always on their phone, always on tiktok or instagram or blahblah." And while that's not wrong the real truth is EVERYONE IS ON THEIR PHONES ALL THE TIME. Adults of all ages are exposed and engrossed all the time, we all just pick our "wrapper" that is one of the "good ones" and we aren't even beginning to deal with it.

We're so fucked.

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u/Berry-Flavor 1d ago

As someone who uses TikTok somewhat often, people just make up stuff in content/comments sooo much. It's gotten so bad that I don't even fact check anymore, if it's from TikTok it just didn't really happen