Hmm....good idea.

They definitely control a good portion of r/movies. The discussion surrounding the Justice League had that "bought and paid for disdain" vibe.

This. Disney invented Fake News to attack WB films in 2014

It would be foolish to think large corporations wouldn’t seek control of public discourse given the fiduciary power to do so.

On the other hand, titles like that are kind of the reason we get made fun of.

Make an argument with some sources or something, you know?

Many meaning how many? Who? Where?

I haven’t personally seen any Star Wars discussion in r/politics threads. I suspect you may be basing this off of one or two comment chains that were vaguely positive about the movie.

It’s a term that accurately describes the perception anti-Trumpers have about his presidency and their role in it.

What exactly are you implying?

That you go around parroting talking points and shitting on every conspiracy thread you come across.

Parroting what talking points?

I would like for people to focus on the things that are actually conspiracies and dangers to the common man; not whimsical fantasies with little supporting evidence, circumstantial or otherwise.

If you can repudiate my arguments, do so. Otherwise, concede that perhaps you don’t have an argument in the first place.

Call me a shill, or shut up about it. Man up.

Lol I don’t think you are good enough at this to get paid for it.

Then I’m probably not getting paid for it... shocker.

You are the one who went straight for shill accusations...you are just trying to get people banned for violating the rules.

I don’t actually report people for calling me a shill, usually, but nice try.

K.

What am I, hmm? An r/politics poster? Oh, buddy. A liberal conspiracy theorist. Those don’t exist at all!

If i was a CEO of a site that is in the top 20 visited sites. Damn strait I'd undermine everyone and sell mod rights to a company so long as there is some ground rules.

Money

I’d say maybe but doesn’t R/politics kinda lean left in the first place? If so I’d say the Star Wars stuff kinda makes sense. With the female protagonist, animal rights and whatever other shit they tried to cram into the new one, they might all just really like it. I personally disliked Admiral Ackbar getting snubbed the purple haired bitches position

You might be surprised. They've consistently been anti-Trump, but you should have seen it in early-mid 2016. Within a very short time the sub went from a mixture of Bernie supporters with a few Clinton fans, to being overwhelmingly pro-Hillary to the point where anyone suggesting the DNC cheated Bernie was ostracized and treated the same as a Trump supporter.

It's just professional courtesy for corporations to be polite about the products of other corporations, especially products without grassroots popularity.

WuT?

Disney is a corporation. The Democratic Party (and the Republican Party) represent corporations, and their shills dominate /r/politics. They're all fellow corporations.

disney tea bagged the core audience

I realise this sounds a bit tin foil hatty, but the style of posting and Reddit "mannerisms" of the pro-TLJ people has really made me think of the internet's liberal community. Like half of what I am reading feels manufactured or unauthentic.

(Note: I am not saying that only the liberal community have paid groups, just that this particular group feels like them)

What does TLJ stand for?

The lady jedi, many people are upset about a toy commercial.

The Last Jedi!

Lol, thanks. I never would’ve guessed that. I’m so out of the loop.

Kind of sounds like your perception of liberal discourse is that it sounds inauthentic.

If you have differing political beliefs that is common.

Probably the case, I also hated the new Star Wars which would be a similar situation.

TLJ does seem like a "liberal" fantasy (even had a purple haired girl as admiral!), so it would make sense that liberal types would be praising it. As far as comments being manufactured, yeah, I guess that's a thing now.

Stop trying to start political arguments in this sub eithout sources or reasoning

Critic reviews for on sites like metacritic for TLJ are overwhelmingly positive...yet user reviews are overwhelmingly negative. It's not just mindless bashing, either - a lot of the user reviews raise excellent points that the official critics downplay or ignore.

So I do think it's worthwhile being skeptical of anywhere that has mindless praise of the movie.

The issue is that many fans don't like their expectations being subverted. They don't want a surprise or something new, they want more of the same. They don't want to consider bushes of morality, they want good and evil space wizards to have laser sword fights. Critics, meanwhile, love having their expectations subverted, they love meta commentary. Fans have good points to make because there are many plot threads that seen to be "dropped" unexpectedly, but critics are glad to see that happen when it leads to something novel they weren't expecting.

I've been on reddit since 2008 and /r/politics was a shit hole back then. Better not to venture to that side at all. It will cost you brain cells.

Did you see the third Mark Hamill tweet? They say he "Corrected he record lol"

Media companies often pay popular bloggers/posters, if you get enough exposure, you can make a career of it.

I wanted to watch the new Star Wars until I saw a clip of the milk scene. Yeah, no thanks.

Shareblue, not disney. Its a toxic soup of democrat shilling since 6months before the general election.

It’s a term that accurately describes the perception anti-Trumpers have about his presidency and their role in it.

The issue is that many fans don't like their expectations being subverted. They don't want a surprise or something new, they want more of the same. They don't want to consider bushes of morality, they want good and evil space wizards to have laser sword fights. Critics, meanwhile, love having their expectations subverted, they love meta commentary. Fans have good points to make because there are many plot threads that seen to be "dropped" unexpectedly, but critics are glad to see that happen when it leads to something novel they weren't expecting.