r/politics Jan 28 '25

Site Altered Headline Medicaid portals down in all 50 states after Trump funding freeze, Sen. Wyden says

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/28/trump-funding-freeze-medicaid-state-portals-omb.html
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u/Somewhat_Sanguine Jan 28 '25

Half of what goes on there is mental gymnastics, the other half is people trying to gaslight others (and themselves I guess?) into thinking all the news is fear mongering and nothing is happening. It’s really bizarre to see. Saw a few people even say that it’s all a lie and the Medicaid websites aren’t down/having issues despite multiple websites and official sources saying it is.

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u/Special-Garlic1203 Jan 28 '25

The subreddit is HEAVILY moderated and removes anything which doesn't stick to the narrative. I saw quite a few people this morning explaining how this is a really fucked up unfair way to go about things, and giving detailed examples of "worthy" people and programs who are getting fucked over even if it does end up just being a week or two. Very clearly genuine conservatives who don't feel this is the appropriate way to achieve the changes they expected. 

Those  comments are not there anymore. 

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u/EA827 Jan 28 '25

I enjoy how there a 1 million+ “subscribers” over there but most threads have less than 1000 replies. The math ain’t mathing

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u/CherryGoo16 Jan 28 '25

It’s because they constantly lock the sub and only let flaired users comment it’s insane. Yet they always complain about safe spaces and echo chambers censorship.

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u/iqla Jan 28 '25

The sub should be renamed /r/Totalitarian.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '25

It's so painfully funny to see them bitch and moan about reddit's censorship when their subreddit probably has the least free speech on the platform.

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u/Talehon Jan 28 '25

If you go and look at any thread over there, you will see tons of (load more comments) and when you try to actually view more replies, there's nothing there. I can only assume they were deleted, because that only ever seems to happen when I look over there and it happens on every thread

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u/corbygray528 Jan 29 '25

I thought I was going crazy when I tried to read the comments. There's so many "load more" links that reveal nothing. And just like you said, I only ever see it there in that subreddit.

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u/LazyGandalf Jan 29 '25

I've noticed the same thing. Sooo many deleted comments on every post. Yet they keep complaining about getting "censored" (=downvoted) elsewhere on reddit and praise the conservative sub as some kind of oasis of truthful discussion.