• bigbangdangler@reddthat.com
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    4 days ago

    It has been extremely entertaining to watch that sub recently.

    There are signs of intelligent life in the comments, almost always followed up by some variant of “what’s up, fellow conservative” where other users doubt the first’s conservativeness conservativity because of too much critical thinking.

    Many posts bemoan censorship by the “Democrat” party while their comment threads sit mostly empty, save for the few MAGA-friendly word vomits that the mods have allowed.

    Someone should run an analysis looking at how many posts critical of Der Trumper have been allowed since the Iran war started. There used to be significant numbers of posts about Epstein supported by comments from folks who said they had pitchforks in their hands. It seemed like it might be the issue that broke MAGA. Once there was a military operation, it seems like they’re all too transfixed to care about those ever-important principles anymore.

    But who could have seen it coming? Well, anyone who has watched right-wing reactions at any point in the last 50 years. Nuclear levels of energy, followed by goldfish levels of memory, all further limited by pet rock Kid Rock levels of thought.

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      4 days ago

      That sub has tipped the scale from “controversial but entertaining discussion” to “boring affirmations with simmering suspicion”.

      The very predictable results of heavy moderation

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        4 days ago

        I haven’t been on reddit in 3 years and the conservative sub was like that for years before I left

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          3 days ago

          they all went to conservative, conspiracy. once reddit shut down all the alt-right subs, like the donald(remember this one).

          they poisoned the conspiracy one, when it was vastly different pre-2016.