In an up to 2015 I would visit one evenly sampled across the US political forum around election times to see what's up. I saw that Trump was winning and someone with a lot of firepower coming out had a www.reddit.com/r/TheDonald in their signature. I went there and was blown away at the tool and reach that was reddit for politics before it was censored. I had posts there that were title text only that made front page etc. I frequently made front page maybe once every couple of days. *Posts I made mattered*. They reached 10s or 100s of thousands. The reason 'dumpster fire' is in your lexicon? That's me. I so flawlessly used it on one case at the right time to describe the democrats that for days and literally forever afterwards they've been butthurt'edly and uselessly been trying to use it in the other direction. Never saw it being flung around anywhere on reddit etc until I used it that one time. But now they've censored the living shit hell *out of everything*. Things I / we post here DO affect the zeitgeist. I've seen it many times. However I DO NOT reach 10s or 100s of thousands anymore with HIGHLY validated single messages / posts. But I feel like I still post here and places like that as if I do.