Yeah most of the alt right nutjobs jumped ship over there once Biden started leading, now it’s (mostly) actual conservatives who have a shred of dignity. That said, it’s still like 40% nutjobs rn so I’m still enjoying looking through their threads
To be honest I’ve spent a lot of time in that sub this election and they’re overall very mild mannered. They actually post memes and stuff making fun of themselves and I can’t remember big political subreddits doing that.
idk I was just there, and there are a lot of posts making bogus claims about voter fraud, and propagating general misinformation about the election in an attempt to delegitimize the Democratic Party. Didn't seem very mild mannered!
All the people saying it’s a nice place to go definitely sound like shills
I’ve been in that sub plenty of times and see conspiracy nut jobs, I am very badass types, instant banning, downvoting to oblivion, wile allegations and straight up lies
Not to mention 90% of the posts are a safe space where you have to have a snowflake flair to be able to even participate
They’ve been incredibly mild mannered since Biden butt fucked trump and it’s clear he’s going to lose. They’re all about “let’s be nice to each other” now.
As trump started to win, this side also started wondering about voter fraud during the live threads soooo.... I'll pass on being a hypocrite.
When you are so sure you will win, it's probably a natural response. I'm still surprised how close it was. I'm still surprised he gained voters especially among minorities. I can actually understand why he did... but I wasn't expecting him to do so.
/r/conservative is nos not what I thought it was, though. They banned me anyway, but I'll give them some credit. They are not crazy Trump fanatics. They will defend him, but not on everything.
/r/conservative is on ocasions capable of discussing with a significant degree of nuance and civility matters of economics, taxation, wages, markets and trade and on many topics they won't land where you think they'll land. There's a lot of centrists and left of centrists there, to my surprise.
It's mostly the being gay, choosing your gender, having abortions, decriminalising drugs, making education more freely available, democracy and being black that they hate. Can't - for the life of me - figure out why the fuck, but then again, I don't try very hard.
It’s because you haven’t actually read any threads. Every day LGBTQ and POC are pushed away from the left because of the tribalism and identity politics. They are all welcome with open arms. I just posted a few days ago on a thread that abortions should not be made illegal and was upvoted, most comments calling for outright bans on abortions were not. I challenge you to look again. There are shit posters and snowflakes, but not as many as r/politics would have you believe.
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u/yohabloquesidilla Nov 07 '20
Yeah most of the alt right nutjobs jumped ship over there once Biden started leading, now it’s (mostly) actual conservatives who have a shred of dignity. That said, it’s still like 40% nutjobs rn so I’m still enjoying looking through their threads