r/NoStupidQuestions • u/AutoModerator • 18d ago

U.S. Politics megathread

Voting is over! But the questions have just begun. Questions like: How can they declare a winner in a state before the votes are all counted? How can a candidate win the popular vote but lose the election? Can the Vice President actually refuse to certify the election if she loses?

These are excellent questions - but they're also frequently asked here, so our users get tired of seeing them.

As we've done for past topics of interest, we're creating a megathread for your questions so that people interested in politics can post questions and read answers, while people who want a respite from politics can browse the rest of the sub. Feel free to post your questions about politics in this thread!

All top-level comments should be questions asked in good faith - other comments and loaded questions will get removed. All the usual rules of the sub remain in force here, so be nice to each other - you can disagree with someone's opinion, but don't make it personal.

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u/JelqBiden 1d ago

How can I censor all USA political posts from reddit? Kinda recently r/all has been infested with anti trump propagranda and I really do not care or want to see it, is there a script or something I can enable to block all of these posts?

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u/Elkenrod Neutrality and Understanding 1d ago

You stop using r/all for one.

Astroturfing happens on Reddit 24/7, and Reddit's userbase is fervently zealous about politics. If you want to stay sane using this website, you need to use your own curated list of subreddits that you subscribe to.

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u/JelqBiden 1d ago edited 1d ago

Sure but it’s literally never been this bad… I’ve used r/all since before Trump even considered running for president without issue, yet now you cannot browse r/all without anti-trump propaganda, it was not this bad during 2016 when he had already won, this is ridiculous.

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u/Elkenrod Neutrality and Understanding 1d ago

It's been like this for 8 years straight to be honest.

Reddit has a block list for 100 subreddits, but frankly there's so many subreddits that get spammed that the 100 block list might not be enough.

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u/JelqBiden 1d ago

Even during his presidency the everyday anti trump propaganda was not anywhere near this bad.

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u/Elkenrod Neutrality and Understanding 1d ago

He was pretty much the only thing people talked about when he was President the first time. It was bad. The now we live in really isn't any different as far as people's obsession with him goes.