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This is one sample visit to the conservative subreddit. It's an appalling example of the impact of disinformation. When you need to be reminded of who the enemy is and what they think, visit here. You will see that there is no gratitude or mutual respect, and there never was. There was never any concept of mutual benefit. And now, with Trump leading the cult, there truly is no depth to which they won't go, and no decisions from Trump that won't be retroactively justified.

These people are dangerous, and they don't give a shit about any alliances, friendship or partnership. And they control the levers of power.

Edit to add a screenshot. Not sure how to add more, but it doesn't get any better as you go deeper. What's clear is that this relationship is over, and we need to move on.

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[–] crapwittyname@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago (5 children)

James O'Brien isn't my favourite talking head, but I do like his idea of having contempt for the conmen and compassion for the conned. These people have swallowed a lot of big lies and the fault is with the liars.

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 2 points 9 months ago

If they were truely conned sure. But most of these guys just thought the pain would be placed on others, not them. They're fine woth others suffering, but the tears start to flow when they experience anything negative at all.

[–] Zizzy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I agree that someone conned deserves compassion. You got tricked into sending someone money? Im sorry, even if it was dumb of you, im angry at the scammer.

But when you get scammed and the person who scammed you says theyre using your money for atrocious hateful acts, say making someones existence illegal, and you double down and say "well actually theyre right let me send more money, " you do not have any sympathy from me.

[–] crapwittyname@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

You're 100% entitled (and right) to feel that way. But there are a lot of lies these people have been fed, often from birth, about for example white supremacy etc. that only education can really erase. Education is withheld by the same liars that profit from the hatred they whip up.
Now I'm not advocating for the softly, softly approach with them, I'm all for punching Nazis, and it's ultimately up to the individual what to believe. But these drones aren't the right target, it's the monsters that made them that way and hide behind them, the people in power advocating for e.g. religion and ethnonationalism to increase their power and profits. They are the root cause. And their first victims are these ignorant sheep forming a human shield around them. If I were to explain how much contempt I have for those people this would be a massive text wall that probably breaks Lemmy TOS.

[–] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I get what you are saying, I do. But just allowing everyone to quietly go back to their lives after doing monstrous things is the reason we are here in the first place. After the first civil war, the south was treated with kid gloves as far as the enemy combatants were concerned and there was very little reconstruction. This was a breeding ground of hate and resentment. None of the issues were resolved in any way. This is essentially the same civil war.

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[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

Personally, I automatically hate anyone that describes themselves as conservative, but you have to know that r/Conservative is not a very good representation of the entire group. It's EXTREME and one of the most blatant echo chambers I've ever witnessed; any dissent will earn you a ban from that sub.

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Its funny seeing this stuff in r/conservative getting down voted as hell.

[–] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

r/republican is no better. They literally spout the lies trump spews and believe them 100%

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[–] Aconite@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 months ago

The U.S. is Bizarro World.

[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago (26 children)

Pedo-Donald will try to annex Canada. For the first time of my life I'm considering getting a gun. We cannot trust conservatives anymore. Poilievre and mostly Ford are just playing the though guy card now to negociate a position, mark my words. Be prepare to fight.

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[–] spinhoser@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It has been interesting to see "Canadian Conservatives", some of them top commenters, get viciously turned on by /r/conservative while lamenting about how this is hurting PP and the Conservatives movement in Canada.

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[–] Spookyghost@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

Cesspool, the question is what % are bots.

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

All of these comments are severely downvoted. What are you every saying here? That one incredibly unpopular opinion represents them all?

Don't get me wrong, fuck them all. But this is such a stupid argument for your hate.

[–] WraithGear@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

That happens when r/conservative gets to the front page where they are pant’ed/ brigaded.

They do not reach those numbers on their own, and the most heinous shit is defended by the mods with the same voracity as Reagan

[–] RaskolnikovsAxe@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

I don't need r/Conservative as an argument for my hate. Listen to Rogan, or read any one of the dozens of other threads at that sub. Or even look a bit deeper in that post.

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[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Wow, so glad this brave American here could teach me so much about my own country. Let me just call up my drug dealing ~~prime minister~~ governor and demand that he fix Canada immediately lest we face more punishment from Poppa Cheeseball. Thank you r/conservative, I'd be so lost without you proper Americans leading the way.

[–] thefluffiest@feddit.nl 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Wouldn’t be surprised if this was Made in St. Petersburg™️. And American ‘conservatives’ just lapping it up

[–] formulaBonk@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

There is so few actual people left in that sub. It’s just ai comments and absolute staggering amount of Astro turfed propaganda

[–] freeman@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The talking points might be, that supremacist US attitude is not. It's been there for decades.

Its not the Russians or Trump there is big part of the US that is hostile to anybody but their, imagined, version of America and places no real value on others even allies.

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[–] iltoroargento@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 9 months ago

Sometimes, I wish I didn't have eyes... This is one of those times.

Jesus fucking christ. Like, if I typed that shit, I'd hope someone would put me in a fucking psych ward, stat. People need some fucking help.

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