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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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[–] hydration9806@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 minutes ago

I'm confused. The screenshot you shared just has two idiots sharing stupid opinions and 1.1 thousand/389 people (likely from the same subreddit) disagreeing with them.

I'm not saying the conservative subreddit isn't unhinged, but this feels pretty cherry picked.

Maybe share a photo of the most upvoted comments for a better reference?

[–] wieson@feddit.org 28 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

This is actually classic fascist playbook:

  • We are the strongest
  • But also - o no - we are under attack from all sides, everyone is against us
[–] nectar45@lemmy.zip 1 points 18 minutes ago

Seriously why hasnt reddit banned that subreddit yet? Is not like they ARENT ban happy in other areas!

But I guess fucking fascism is A-OK!!

[–] Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I hope they skip ahead to the last chapter, the kys-in-a-bunker section specifically.

[–] epicstove@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 hour ago

If they're gonna play follow the leader they should play it right.

[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 hour ago (1 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.

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 1 points 47 minutes ago

Accept the annexation and in 10 years the entire US government will be run by Canadians. Just look at their entertainment industry, they can't resist our Canadian charms.

[–] JPAKx4@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 hour ago

The only 1% these guys can be in is 1% posters on the conservative subreddit.

[–] Spookyghost@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 hours ago

Cesspool, the question is what % are bots.

[–] Guns0rWeD13@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago
[–] spinhoser@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 hours 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.

[–] leftytighty@slrpnk.net 8 points 2 hours ago

turns out an ideology that ignores real problems and always seeks out groups to villainize isn't a good way to make long term friends

[–] crapwittyname@lemm.ee 15 points 6 hours ago (3 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 3 points 27 minutes 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.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 hours ago

The con they got suckered into is American Exceptionalism, and it's not Trumppy that suckered them. He's a victim of the same brainrot.

These guys are reveling in it, and I have no sympathy for those that choose "we're just better than everyone else" as part of their core identity.

[–] Zizzy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 6 hours 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.

[–] HungryJerboa@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Nono, let these morons suffer their consequences. I hope they don't mind learning Russian because they're going to need it to communicate with their new masters.

[–] crapwittyname@lemm.ee 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours 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 10 points 3 hours ago

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.

[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 26 points 7 hours 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.

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 14 points 7 hours ago

I'm closer on the Mexican side of the country, but I'm gonna really miss having friendly neighbors. Sorry we've been so shitty lately to our northern and southern friends.

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 28 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago

It usually gets upvoted to the moon. It's infuriating.

[–] thefluffiest@feddit.nl 28 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] formulaBonk@lemm.ee 5 points 4 hours 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 9 points 5 hours 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.

[–] thefluffiest@feddit.nl 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

That’s true, but Russia is also very good at exploiting the enemy’s weaknesses. They don’t invent propaganda whole-cloth, they play on dark sentiments already present and boost them

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 56 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

That’s not America that’s r/conservative

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 26 points 9 hours ago

So what the people in charge of America are telling the fascists to think.

[–] AlolanVulpix@lemmy.ca 91 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

This is what happens when you have unchecked disinformation.

Let's prevent that from happening by not spreading American owned media pretending to be Canadian, that infiltrates Canadian culture and politics.

[–] HungryJerboa@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

Ahahaha Canada.com? How much more blatant can it be that the site is American?

[–] Habahnow@sh.itjust.works 13 points 6 hours ago

For real. The issues occurring in the US are various, but the vast spreading of disinformation in the US is crippling. Don't let unchecked lobbying (aka bribing of politicians) occur in your country, don't let "news organizations" spread false realities.

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 40 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

They all look like bot accounts with AI generated content.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

ChatGPT can be more empathetic than /r/conservative members so they are worse than AI. The whole subreddit fails Turing test.

[–] stardust@lemmy.ca 13 points 7 hours ago

Would it surprise anyone if it was a Russian run subreddit. Heard moderation is heavy handed to quickly snuff out dissent with people having their conservative flairs taken away if they dare question dear leader who drinks the sun and eats the sky.

[–] bassomitron@lemmy.world 22 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Many of them are, but sadly, many of them are actual people that are just that fucking brainwashed.

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I kind of have pity for them. It's hard these days to see the lies from the truth when the vast majority of the media is owned by corporations who control the narrative, and cherry pick and spin the information to their own benefits. Then you add content pushing algorithms and AI to the mix. They get fed continuous content with similar interests. And also AI generated content that not only generates pretty convincing visuals but now also convincing articles, online posts and even direct conversations.

Anyone that lacks education and critical thinking skills can quickly get suckered into becoming conservative.

[–] HungryJerboa@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

Unfortunately, propaganda works. The best antidote is emphasis on things you can see firsthand but most people don't know shit about whether or not immigrants are actually responsible for crimes (they mostly aren't). All they get is a small increase in costs of living. So they listen to the talking heads on TV who scapegoat whatever minority or target of the week, and if you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people eventually come to believe it.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Fascists love AI generated slop, because it cuts the artist out of the art, so many of these might be real. Please be noted that platforms now often defend AI bots from countering, as they're now hiding comments with common jailbreak phrases (which are also trivial to filter by the bot operators).

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago

Jailbreak phrases?

[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 36 points 11 hours ago

1.1k effective downvotes in r/Conservative, that’s amazing even for explicit libtard comments. If that sub isn’t swallowing your Drumpf Deitification, you’re really and utterly stone bonkers.

[–] IslandLife@lemmy.ca 22 points 11 hours ago

Lol, I've literally never seen that many downvotes. What a toxic sub though.

[–] iltoroargento@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 11 hours 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.

[–] sfxrlz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 10 hours ago

So wrong yet so smug

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 7 points 10 hours ago

Eww, that's some level10 spinjutsu.

[–] Delvin4519@lemmy.world 10 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Kinda wild. I really gotta leave and get out of this pile of a dumpster fire I'm in, and head to Canada or someplace. This screenshot is just insane. I have no words for what I'm seeing here in this screenshot.

Glad I no longer post to reddit anymore. May go ahead with a essentially full block of reddit and essentially all of Big TV outright at some point. I've thought about cutting off Big TV completely; as hearing from American news media has been driving me on the verge of outright mental insanity, but now seeing this tonight, it seems like I gotta cut Big TV outright.

I've never been so thankful and glad to be on Lemmy and Mastodon for this wild ride since the start. I'm realizing just how dire it is out there. Having to get this off my chest with nowhere to vent to. Now I just need to find a Lemmy community or something that helps with people coping with this insanity, because I might need to hide this community again otherwise for my sanity. I already had most of the news and politics communities hidden on Lemmy to manage the flow of insanity, but went back and forth on this one this week.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 6 points 10 hours ago

Time to print a bunch of 'i did that' stickers with Trump's face and put them on US gas pumps.

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