The new community feature was a stark reminder how the embarrassing TDS we have at home requires multiple containment threads for all the speculation, the seethe, and the ever more hysterical scenario-crafting.
Yep, the featured thread inside feels like I'm looking at r/politics and r/all all over again. Actually, just Reddit generally. And remember, you can't criticize Trump while still being part of the Republican party! You either loathe the orange man like a good TDSer or you're a bootlicking diddler. There's no either ground on how one can view their opinions on him.
People can't accept that you can be critical of the president or candidate you support without them thinking you have to outright hate them. Even if you do outright hate him, it doesn't mean you'll suddenly switch to being a raging leftist. Any criticism of him is fair and welcome, and not 100% sucking the latest leftist talking point about him doesn't mean you can't be upset at his decisions or what he's done.
But what the recent Epstein emails is giving us is that it's all a battle of not protecting the victims, but for Democrats to rub at Republicans again for the 1298383455th time cause they've spent their entire ideological career trying to take down Trump at any means necessary. It's ALL what their party is good at being. "Vote for us because we're not Trump, lol!"
Now is this a blow to the party? No, they've said this a thousand times. Will anyone outside of hardcore leftists and curious republicans care about this? Maybe. Will leftists use this for Reddit karma and flood every political subreddit with this? Absolutely.
It's why I said Charlie Kirk's assassination barely did anything. Democrats still have a stronghold in taking down the other side as much as possible and Republicans can't make no earnest, non-"orange man bad" opinion on this without being accused for defending le kiddy diddler. Again, it's either you drink the orange juice or stay out of it.