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/r/conservative has absolutely nothing to do with conservatives, but everything to do with the cult-of-trump. It's a great place to read up on how completely cr

/r/conservative has absolutely nothing to do with conservatives, but everything to do with the cult-of-trump. It's a great place to read up on how completely crazy the world has become, if you had posted any thread there on the onion a decade ago absolutely nobody would have believed it to be possible.

Jensson 1y ago
It gets that way when being pro trump gets you banned from r/politics, so all of those who are pro trump take over some other subreddit. It used to be they had their own, but after thedonald was banned they migrated to r/conservative. The more you separate people the more unhinged they become. If you went back and talked about how reddit tried to hide that Biden was demented or that Harris was unpopular so would be a catastrophic election loss that would also have been onion worthy but today its reality.
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- lotsofpulp 1y ago
  The election results were 77,302,580 votes against 75,017,613 votes, or 49.8% versus 48.3%. I would not call that unpopular.
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- jacquesm 1y ago
  That subreddit was taken over just like the conservative party in the USA was taken over. If you allow that to happen (both the party and the subreddit) then that's your problem. In other countries Trump would have had to found his own party, he'd still have captured a chunk of the vote but at least the Republicans that once were would not have squandered their identity. Now the house is on fire and it doesn't look like there are any mechanisms to stop it from getting much worse. You don't let people like Trump near the levers of power if you want to keep your country in one piece. We have a similar problem here in NL and the only thing that saved us so far is that even the most rabid right winger will have to form a coalition. That still was a dime on its side and we'll see what happens at the next elections but single-issue-parties are less of a problem here, as are strongmen (though, like everywhere else, there is a fraction of the population that just wants to follow some glorious leader).
  - nomdep 1y ago
    Keeping the country in one piece is exactly why Trump won, the alternative was falling off the cliff.
    - jacquesm 1y ago
      So, how is it working out for you so far? I find it hard to believe that otherwise intelligent beings can both make claims like this and at the same time observe reality. The USA has in all of its history since the civil war not been this divided. And it is falling off a cliff as we speak.
      - nomdep 1y ago
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        jacquesm 1y ago
        It is hard to tell whether you are serious or whether this is sarcasm.
        Biganon 1y ago
        Ah yes, the famous violent left bullies who tried to raid the Capitol
        pixl97 1y ago
        >The violent left bullies https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/right-wing-extremist-violence-is-more-frequent-and-deadly-than-left-wing-violence-data-shows https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/right-wing-extremist-v... >Based on our own research and a review of related work, we can confidently say that most domestic terrorists in the U.S. are politically on the right, and right-wing attacks account for the vast majority of fatalities from domestic terrorism. Of course this reply isn't for you.If you're spreading this level of rhetoric nothing is going to change your mind. Instead it's information for others.
      - nervousvarun 1y ago
user34283 1y ago
If you think "any thread there" is that absurd, you are clearly not a conservative at all. You are another liberal ranting about /r/conservative, are you not? It is in my opinion a very weak argument to point at /r/conservative specifically as an example for how the mainstream censorship on Reddit is not overwhelmingly liberal.
- jacquesm 1y ago
  No, I'm not a conservative. But I know some and they are not represented by the MAGA cultists.
- prox 1y ago
  You are making a straw man fallacy. It’s not both all the other subs, the point under contention is about that you cannot be critical or reasonably discuss anything proper in r/conservative. I don’t know if you have been following the sub, I have, and it always follows a similar pattern. If it’s a new topic, some discussion is allowed, but soon everyone needs to toe the party line. Edit : I encourage free discussion on this point, instead of downvoting.
  - mlrtime 1y ago
    You are comparing one sub vs most all of reddit that touches politics. Reddit demographics is extremely liberal and anti-trump. This bleeds into so many subreddits that I participate in that have 0 to do with politics or Trump.

Jensson 1y ago

It gets that way when being pro trump gets you banned from r/politics, so all of those who are pro trump take over some other subreddit. It used to be they had their own, but after thedonald was banned they migrated to r/conservative. The more you separate people the more unhinged they become. If you went back and talked about how reddit tried to hide that Biden was demented or that Harris was unpopular so would be a catastrophic election loss that would also have been onion worthy but today its reality.

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lotsofpulp 1y ago
The election results were 77,302,580 votes against 75,017,613 votes, or 49.8% versus 48.3%. I would not call that unpopular.
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jacquesm 1y ago
That subreddit was taken over just like the conservative party in the USA was taken over. If you allow that to happen (both the party and the subreddit) then that's your problem. In other countries Trump would have had to found his own party, he'd still have captured a chunk of the vote but at least the Republicans that once were would not have squandered their identity. Now the house is on fire and it doesn't look like there are any mechanisms to stop it from getting much worse. You don't let people like Trump near the levers of power if you want to keep your country in one piece. We have a similar problem here in NL and the only thing that saved us so far is that even the most rabid right winger will have to form a coalition. That still was a dime on its side and we'll see what happens at the next elections but single-issue-parties are less of a problem here, as are strongmen (though, like everywhere else, there is a fraction of the population that just wants to follow some glorious leader).
- nomdep 1y ago
  Keeping the country in one piece is exactly why Trump won, the alternative was falling off the cliff.
  - jacquesm 1y ago
    So, how is it working out for you so far? I find it hard to believe that otherwise intelligent beings can both make claims like this and at the same time observe reality. The USA has in all of its history since the civil war not been this divided. And it is falling off a cliff as we speak.
    - nomdep 1y ago
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      - jacquesm 1y ago
        It is hard to tell whether you are serious or whether this is sarcasm.
      - Biganon 1y ago
        Ah yes, the famous violent left bullies who tried to raid the Capitol
      - pixl97 1y ago
        >The violent left bullies https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/right-wing-extremist-violence-is-more-frequent-and-deadly-than-left-wing-violence-data-shows https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/right-wing-extremist-v... >Based on our own research and a review of related work, we can confidently say that most domestic terrorists in the U.S. are politically on the right, and right-wing attacks account for the vast majority of fatalities from domestic terrorism. Of course this reply isn't for you.If you're spreading this level of rhetoric nothing is going to change your mind. Instead it's information for others.
    - nervousvarun 1y ago

user34283 1y ago

If you think "any thread there" is that absurd, you are clearly not a conservative at all. You are another liberal ranting about /r/conservative, are you not? It is in my opinion a very weak argument to point at /r/conservative specifically as an example for how the mainstream censorship on Reddit is not overwhelmingly liberal.

jacquesm 1y ago
No, I'm not a conservative. But I know some and they are not represented by the MAGA cultists.
prox 1y ago
You are making a straw man fallacy. It’s not both all the other subs, the point under contention is about that you cannot be critical or reasonably discuss anything proper in r/conservative. I don’t know if you have been following the sub, I have, and it always follows a similar pattern. If it’s a new topic, some discussion is allowed, but soon everyone needs to toe the party line. Edit : I encourage free discussion on this point, instead of downvoting.
- mlrtime 1y ago
  You are comparing one sub vs most all of reddit that touches politics. Reddit demographics is extremely liberal and anti-trump. This bleeds into so many subreddits that I participate in that have 0 to do with politics or Trump.