!conservative@lemmy.world because there is no clickable link here.
aww. I was enjoying /c/conservative being run on anarchy principles.
how did you managed that?
Blackmail and bribery lmao jk, I just made a request on the support comm with a proposed set of rules, a week later and the rest is history lol
Turns out we can make the world a better place
blackmail and bribery
A true conservative
Putin will be proud
Nice man, happy for this development. Do your best in your new role!!
By being funny.
I don’t trust this.
It’s true, you can trust me >:)
It appears legit anyway. Haven’t seen any posts in that !c from the usual trolls, it’s only funny people now
There’s a couple guys still trying to post shit from Breitbart but they get downvoted so badly now they never appear on hot.
We’ll see in the longer term… in the meantime I socialized a few memes.
I’ve looked through the history and I could only find a post “it’s now unmoderated as well”. How did that happen in the first place?
I think you might be on one of the others, .world is the one going satire lol
For various reasons, .ee version they were removed because they weren’t taking care of things, SJW version was just abandoned and I think .world was also abandoned
I think pretty much all conservative communities seem like satire much of the time. Hard to believe they’d actually be posting stuff other than to make fun of whoever made it.
Without Russia troll bots posting there to engage people the sub usually dies very fast. It’s evident on Reddit when Putin redirects his trolls somewhere else the site on Reddit become very quiet
Come on come all its time for cm002 to post the exact same shit that’s already all over Lemmy but now in another place!
Y’all already have the entire goddamn website dedicated to shitting on conservatives 24/7. Making yet another place to do it is just repetitive and unnecessary.
I don’t care for most conservative bullshit either, but at least it was nice seeing the random post that wasn’t exactly the same as every other goddamn sub on this site.
You’ll just have to get your two minutes hate somewhere else, it’s not a big deal.
Oh looks it’s Mr I can’t identify a conservative if my life depended on it pancake man.
You still bouncing around and being wrong about people today?
Lol. Holly shit, talk about bouncing around being wrong about people. “Mr. Pancake man” is most definitely a woman. Like … nevermind.
Yeah unlike you weirdos I don’t stalk every single profile I talk to so I can go into every concern knowing dirt about them.
Ain’t no dirt involved here. That’s a weird take, tbh. And telling. Naw, it’s just really really funny that you did the thing you accused others of so blatantly and immediately. That’s all.
Yeah except I never claimed to know anything about them aside from a user name. they claimed incorrect things about me in another thread awhile back then dipped from the thread.
It was a 50/50 on the gender and statically my odds were better assuming it was a guy. Oh well.
Seems like they made the better bet given the odds, but oh well indeed. Still pretty funny.
Dude just block it if you don’t want any exposure. Curate your own Lemmy.
How am I supposed to curate my own Lemmy when conservative subs are turned into crappy meme factory’s poking fun at the conservatives which is already what all of the other subs fucking do.
This is like building a Starbucks across the street from another Starbucks and then telling me to find coffee somewhere else when all the fucking coffee places in a 10 mile radius have already been bought out and converted to yet another goddamn Starbucks.
Are we supposed to feel bad for fascist apologists? Republicans have always been unrepentant bastards or gullible fucking morons. Usually both because they’re objectively impaired for both empathy and intelligence.
Empathy- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9400002/#%3A~%3Atext=While+we+are+regularly+inundated%2Cothers)%20relative%20to%20their%20more
But not just conservatives, all Americans are dumber: https://www.the74million.org/article/across-all-ages-demographics-test-results-show-americans-are-getting-dumber/
Decades of obvious racism:
https://eji.org/news/nixon-war-on-drugs-designed-to-criminalize-black-people/
https://www.brut.media/us/videos/us/politics/gop-strategists-daughter-leaks-secret-files
If they are so unfathomably stupid then how do you alleged geniuses keep losing elections to those morons?
Do you think it might have something to do with how unbelievably smug and elitist some of you guys come across?
I’m not even disagreeing with your specific points as I think they are generally correct, but you have to realize that pointing at a group of people and basically calling them too stupid to know any better is never going to get them to change or side with you. All it will do is make them hate you.
Several points.
One, look over my post history and you’ll see I’m not a fan of the Democrats because they’re marginally less bad conservatives.
Two, like I give a fuck if reality hurts their feelings, but I’m not being elitist favoring my side. Anyone falling for the false dichotomy doesn’t understand reality to the point they could form opinions that matter. Like anyone that favors term limits is automatically a gullible rube that hasn’t looked into it at all. The majority of people rely on received opinions and specious reasoning for almost everything because actual consistent coherent thought is a learned still.
Three, I’m being objective and not judgemental, hence the links. There’s hard data everyone is just fucking dumber largely due to Republican efforts being met half way.
I love you. Unironically. 😅
Two party system gives Conservatives a bais. Particularly with the first past the post system
I added your accomplishment to my list of headhunts.
Only the best memes of conservatives, made in the most conservative region of the conservatorium.
If it’s not made in the conservative region, it’s just sparkling fascism.
On some level I’d like there to be an actual conservative sub since I like to check in on the Reddit alternative’s goings on and what their takes on this or that is. But I can understand why some wouldn’t want to share a platform with those people. Some of the stuff is pretty bad
Maybe if it didn’t get hijacked by crazies and conspiracy theorists after a few months.
The fatal flaw of the internet is that you can find people who are into similar obscure stuff that you’re into, but that also means the nazis can also find each other
On one hand it’d be nice to be able to have some discussion about what sort of government involvement is needed in society. But at least in terms of the US, until the overton window puts some healthy distance between it and fascism, there’s zero point in talking to cons online. They’re literally unwilling to accept reality or basic facts-- what’s the point?
LMAO, you should post that image on the new !conservative@lemmy.world
I don’t really engage often with them, I’m just interested in hearing how they view stuff, how it differs from me, how they reconcile this and that and so on.
It’s hard for me not to engage with their opinions. Like “no, that’s not how that works,” “There’s more to it than that,” “there are several things wrong with what you said.” There’s no point trying to argue on the Internet, but some of their comments make me angry. I especially hate when they support something just to “own them libs” like that takes priority over peoples’ well-being.
/r/conservative is not comprised of real conservative people, it only exists to expose “normie” redditors to MAGA propoganda while giving the MAGA movement the pretense of legitimacy.
You have to realize that the con subs on reddit are mostly engaged by Russian trolls to stoke arguments and traffic. Reddit periodically goes through these bans and temporarily gets rid of the trolls and the site becomes much more pleasant and quiet
Well the biggest problem is that the fuck does conservatism want to conserve?
Selling off parks, betraying labor, violating people’s right to self determination…
If you mean Republicans, those are open fascists.
The ones doing any amount of conservation are Democrats, but eventually one realizes nimby liberalism is just the slower road to fascism as it always bends the knee to corporate interests. We wouldn’t be here if this wasn’t true.
The “responsible adults” in the room are either spineless cowards, incompetent dupes, or malicious insider trading bad actors themselves.
Between the Business Plot and the lack of any action against cellar boxing American corporations into bankruptcy and predatory economic bubbles it becomes ever clearer the goal of the entire system is to fleece the poor masses to make the rich minority ever richer.
When progressivism moves toward conservatism, conservatism moves toward regressivism.
There’s like 2 others, and a whole instance. .ee and SJW each have a comm and hilariouschaos is the new “friendlier” ExplodingHeads instance lol
Huh I haven’t bumped into those communities
Doesn’t surprise me, the serious ones always have their wonderful links downvoted to oblivion lolol
Nice! I unblocked it.
I obviously cannot tell you what to do, but I ask that you rethink this decision. Jokes are jokes until they aren’t (see sigma male culture). People will unblock the sub for memes until the forum is hijacked by actual propagandists and poisons the well.
I genuinely believe satire (including memes) was one of the worst things to come from humanity. Because most people on this space-rock are dumb-as-rocks, and cannot tell the difference between a joke and an idea. So your spicy meme becomes their thesis paper.
That’s not how this works… you just go to a different instance like wtf?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It was entirely abandoned, and that was just the latest set of mods. From what I understand, the .world version has been through three sets of mods.
Most serious conservatives around here just want to spread hate and misinformation anyways, should have seen what happened to the .ee version mods, removed by the instance admins because they were doing shit like quickly resolving reports so the admins didn’t see them to allow crap like Nazi celebratory posts to stay up.
Write it down as 700TB and it will be more accurate.
And C: instead of system32, to represent everything that was created using programs that rely on system32.
You’re playing with fire, this is how thedonald started. It was all a joke until it wasn’t. Then it became a cesspit.
Yea, but I’m a mod Who’s Built Different™️
oof ouch my hubris
It’s also how flat earthers started. 4chan started satirically memeing about flat earth. Then idiots saw it, missed the satire, and picked it up as a serious thing. At that point, 4chan went “this is funnier than any satire we could make” and stood back to watch the crazies launch rockets into the upper atmosphere.
The Flat Earth Society was founded in 1956.
4chan’s downfall was mainstream media telling everyone that Nazis were on the site, so all the Nazis who were watching mainstream media went to 4chan and without moot running it, they were allowed to fester.
I first found 4chan around 2005 and there definitely Nazis on it. And pedophiles.
Absolutely idk what that guy is smoking
Flat earthers have been around (heh) for centuries. It’s mostly a religious thing in order to rebuke science in order to keep people stupid. There’s a passage in the bible that refrences the four corners of the earth that gets refrenced by these people as proof. It’s a way to keep people in their cult, because the outsiders are the ones who are tricked into beleiving in round earth ftom scientists.
I’m more of a dinosaur earth guy myself
As someone who once played with the Earth’s actual distancing math, fuck the both of you.
I would say that it really became a thing in its current form in the 1800s. Lots of the weird Biblical “literalism” (and I think things like Salafism/Wahhabism) come from the combination of widespread literacy and direct access to the texts + those ideologies that deny that you need anything outside the text to interpret them yourself/solo scriptura.
You can try to calculate the size of the earth yourself the same way Ancient Greeks did.
What we’re seeing now is related to shitposting being taken seriously for sure (the “birds aren’t real” thing has also been making a slow shift from stupid joke to conspiracy therapy, I think that’s how “Helen Keller” don’t real started)
I trace it back a bit further than 4chan though. You start to see it all the way back in the 90s on Usenet, pretty sure that’s around when the Flat Earth Society Forums - which were clearly mostly Poes - started too.
I think that 4chan started a lot of this apocalypse that way.
4chan was sold in 2015 and that’s when it took a hard right turn.
Damn, sounds like a familiar story now
“Shoop da woop” was a popular 4chan meme dating to at least 2006. Also the whole “newfag”, “oldfag” etc thing has been going on since forever.
Are those supposed to be far right slogans or something? This was normal stuff at the time.
My dad used to be on 4Chan all the time in the 2000s, he told me being called a fag was considered a form of endearment, not an insult. I’ve never heard newfag or oldfag be used by the far right, they typically go for actual insults instead.
There was definately a tone shift when the site was bought. People were usually mocked if they were actually right wing over there.
This one was already serious. The worst that can happen is it goes back to what it was before.
I don’t understand what this is saying :(
