When did ATS become so right wing minded and politically motivated?

originally posted by: Blue_Jay33

originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus

originally posted by: Blue_Jay33
True, but many Ron Paul supporters went over to him, one reason was to get revenge on the GOP for what they did to their guy in 2012.

That's an absolutely stupid rationale and makes them not Libertarians either.

I think there was a group that supported Paul in 08 and 12, that did not want a traditional RINO at the head of the party, Trump was not the logical next step, but it was what was available to them after Rand Paul dropped out for the 2016 election cycle.
I know some that would have voted for Tulsi Gabbard if she had won. And there were some here on ATS too.
I see a pattern of ATS posters going for those who think differently than most politicians.

The bottom line is, where is there more common sense that respects personal liberties in America right now, when you answer that question, you understand where ATS is at for its basic political perspectives.

Kabuki 🎭 theatre.

The whole thing..FFS...WIZARD OF OZ was like 💯 years ago..
I am in kindergarten!!! Listening to kids talk about Santa clause again..

It's a FAIRY TALE... Elections..

Please for the love of God, at least comprehend the wizard of oz..

Flabbergasted at both the left and right... The red and blue

Right wing means being THE NARRATIVE GOBBLER...

Always..always..always...

a reply to: ExiledSpirit777

The short answer? It didn't, the left became more bat# crazy and further and further to the left making it seem like the majority of rational thinking peoples are on the right. When you move the goal posts, you'll find everyone who hasn't moved has shifted to the right.

JAden

a reply to: ExiledSpirit777

Was gonna copy and paste the stats but here are the stats that say otherwise regardless of how it appears.

www.abovetopsecret.com...

originally posted by: LastFirst
Right wing means being THE NARRATIVE GOBBLER...

Always..always..always...

Whos narrative?

CNN?
MSNBC?
FOX?
Facebook?
Twitter?
Instagram?
the CDC?
the WHO?
the NIH?

originally posted by: putnam6
a reply to: ExiledSpirit777

Was gonna copy and paste the stats but here are the stats that say otherwise regardless of how it appears.

www.abovetopsecret.com...

What stats is this trying to show?

originally posted by: underpass61

originally posted by: LastFirst
Right wing means being THE NARRATIVE GOBBLER...

Always..always..always...

Whos narrative?

CNN?
MSNBC?
FOX?
Facebook?
Twitter?
Instagram?
the CDC?
the WHO?
the NIH?

See.. can't see the forest for the 🎄🌴..

Wow.. cognitive dissonance.


Life has been sunshine and lollipops under right wing oppression.

Ffs.. do people not grasp....

LEFT..... RIGHT.... PARADIGM...

DERP..Dunning Kruger for the masses..

Abortion, religion, etc...

The fight over crap that is personal.
The

Decades

Of the religious RIGHTWING
Has brought us to today!.

The cancer from McCarthy and the Reagan Christians set this nation up to FAIL..

"Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now,"
Thomas Jefferson..

The douche religious RUINED THE WEST...!!.women's rights, personal FREEDOM WITH OUR BODIES..
Circa 1880s..

Religion inserting itself into politics!!

originally posted by: ExiledSpirit777
Hello. I first started browsing this website way back in 2010. I know my account does not reflect it, but I dont have access to that first account, so I made this one a while ago. Ever since, maybe 6-7 years ago, I noticed a change in the type of minds this website attracts. It got more and more common as the years went and suddenly, its taken over my a main "hive mind" as I like to put it. ATS used to be about the illuminati, aliens, ghosts, anything paranormal, cryptozoology, amongst other conspiracies. 9/11 was a huge one here. Now, its mainly just pro Trump, pro Russian invasion, and mainly politically right winged mindsets that have taken over. So why the shift? Now dont get me wrong, I'm more on the left/central side of things, and I dont disgaree on everything a right wing/politically motivated person here believes, and I do my best as a human to listen to everything. But this website has really shifted into a political circle jerk of a particular type. So I'm curious, what happened to ATS?

When the left is literally destroying the country and people are sick of it, you will find like minding people coming to a place to talk about it. It really is as simple as that.

The left/progressives/democrats are an enemy to us all - and behind most conspiracies we all talk about anyways.

Imo it isn't so much that ATS has become an echo chamber for either US political party but rather that truth, facts and discussions have lost out to opinions , lies and confrontation.

Couple that with the fact that in general most people can't engage in meaningful, unbiased discussions anymore.

We have very active posters on ATS that 100% believe the political party they support is always correct always good and here to save the world. Additionally they also believe that the media covering their party is the bastion of truth by providing only the facts.

Anyone that thinks either the Left or Right along with associated media are infallible or blame free are willfully choosing to ignore the facts that have played out for decades.

originally posted by: Pyle
It can be traced back to two things that happened in the 2000s and one major thing in the 2010s.

The first thing is the right-wing militia movements post 9/11, followed by the 2008 election when the right wing went #ing crazy when Clinton and Obama were running in the DEM primary leading to Obama's presidency. Finally 2016 election between Clinton and Trump leading to the Q movement and Trump's cronies actively pushing conspiracy into mainstream GOP thought for EVERYTHING. (Desantis claiming everything is some form of grooming conspiracy the latest form of this BS.)

If you do not see the sexualizing happening in the schools as grooming......then you are not a parent, are not paying attention and/or you may want to look internally at why you do not see it.

'right-wing militia' movement......
Conspiracies are not FALSE when presented with countless amounts of evidence.... unless one can debunk them.
Have you debunked the countless amounts of 'conspiracies' you claim that Trump and DeSantis is pushing into [what] mainstream? If so, please do share with us.

Your knowledge on any of this is questionable though. Because most who support Trump and DeSantis are anti-GOP because we KNOW they are just another wing of the LEFT. This is widely known by those with an ounce of intelligence.

a reply to: ancientlight

ATS is a "Private Members-Only" Forum. Look it up.

As such...we do not entirely have free speech here. There are site rules that you agreed to when joining.

Must join to post. Private Member Only Forum.

Dont mistake Free Speech as a given everywhere. Rules abound.

***ATS is the best place to be tho. Welcome!

originally posted by: opethPA
Imo it isn't so much that ATS has become an echo chamber for either US political party but rather that truth, facts and discussions have lost out to opinions , lies and confrontation.

Couple that with the fact that in general most people can't engage in meaningful, unbiased discussions anymore.

We have very active posters on ATS that 100% believe the political party they support is always correct always good and here to save the world. Additionally they also believe that the media covering their party is the bastion of truth by providing only the facts.

Anyone that thinks either the Left or Right along with associated media are infallible or blame free are willfully choosing to ignore the facts that have played out for decades.

This is what the left does NOT understand.
Those of us opposing the leftist progressive world are not necessarily part of a political party but more so about TRUTH.
They DEMAND that we all be put into little categories - and this includes race.

I am not part of some right wing anything. I am an American Constitutionalist and anyone in this country who is not, is an enemy of this country. Period. That is not a right wing party member. I hate the GOP as much as the democrats.

originally posted by: opethPA
Imo it isn't so much that ATS has become an echo chamber for either US political party but rather that truth, facts and discussions have lost out to opinions , lies and confrontation.

Couple that with the fact that in general most people can't engage in meaningful, unbiased discussions anymore.

We have very active posters on ATS that 100% believe the political party they support is always correct always good and here to save the world. Additionally they also believe that the media covering their party is the bastion of truth by providing only the facts.

Anyone that thinks either the Left or Right along with associated media are infallible or blame free are willfully choosing to ignore the facts that have played out for decades.

When I called Obama a douche... I was racist..etc.

When I called Dubya a douche, I was agaisnt America,

When I called Reagan a douche, I was a commie,

When I called Trump a douche, I was a lib needing owned,

When I call Biden a douche, hmm what?

The whole left/right paradigm..

It's as old as the elites and their minions..the secret handshake corruption..

Wizard of Oz is almost 💯 years old.. and the majority..

ANYONE supporting ♥️ or 💙... They are the MUNCHKINS... The idiot masses...getting butthurt over their guy...

a reply to: theatreboy

G'day TB! touche' here. Touche'.

originally posted by: LastFirst
Any discussions not authorized...

Any inflammatory statements are met with

Instead of ,,,.......
Actually discussing the topic..

..the right wing is MORE anti-speech than the left.. MCCARTHY WAS A STAIN ETERNAL..!!!

I PERSONALLY loved the false ideals of merca..
I personally loved the Jesus fairy tale as a kid.

,

would love to even discuss certain substances that were made in

Secret

By nefarious shadow organizations..

And tied to many high profile mysterious deaths, cults, murders, etc..


Wtf... That's. A scam right there..


And so i am NUMBER 6.. escaped the village, ran home, only to turn on the radio..

Tragedy more haven't watched it..




And the minions of what I saw as a kid on Sundays.. the church kids... If you know what I mean

Try being the kid in Sunday school ridiculing the lessons..

If that statement triggered you...

.. see..

Wrong. MCCARTHY WAS CONTROLLED OPPOSITION 😁

There have been so many great posts in reply to this OP that I have only a bit to add. First, if I take the OP as sincere, I can only see it as hopelessly naive. However, I'm not inclined to take these kinds of "this is right wing" labeling as sincere, because the great posts refuting that claim in this thread have been said in many ways, many times, for years now.

I see this kind of thing as an entirely disingenuous claim to once again shut down discussion and intimidate people with the dreaded "right wing" label, which, by the terms of the new Dem/liberal/left complex, automatically makes you a racist (or even a white supremacist!); a bigot of all kinds; certainly a transphobe; and a threat to democracy or even a terrorist.
This stuff leads to actual real life consequences for people labelled this way every day; it isn't just "words"; it isn't a right wing conspiracy; it isn't the tooth fairy; it isn't "just the same as what's coming from the other side." (We'll see if that changes come November and 2024--cause imo the political climate is about ready to shift in, oh, about five more minutes in a way that I suspect will make the Reagan 80s look tame, for better and worse).

Right now, however, the wetiko displayed by the OP is a new daily reality for millions of people who don't follow every single mandate of the Dem party agenda, and those mandates gets narrower and more extreme and numerous by the literal month or even week. I'm fairly new to this board, but I see this disingenuous "gee, why did [fill in the blank] become so horrible nasty right wing for "some" reason" stuff on every site to go to, inc. my own personal social media where people I know who should know better have succumbed to the mind virus. (Mind masks, anyone, or just suck it all in?)

If you, OP person, are really sincere about this question--and so far in my reading you haven't shown back up to respond--then I suggest you do some basic looking around at the news, etc. The things people are talking about here can be verified in less than ten minutes pretty much anywhere you go on this thing called the Internet, inc. you know...this site. This thread... you get the idea, OP, if you want it.