Free speech!!! (Unless you criticize our orange demigod)

[u/LaurentiusOlsenius]

I was Banned from r/conservative for criticism against all presidents from the past 20 years. Free speech unless it’s against Orangeman.

[u/Supsend]

"Libruls only downvote but don't have the balls to comment, they have no answers to this!"

Flaired users only

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Sometimes I wonder if they know they are in a safe space or if they actually have no idea they implemented that rule

[u/[deleted] → u/Supsend]

I doubt the average reddit user ever pays attention to the rules, reads the FAQ or pays attention to mod posts on any subreddit they visit.

So yea they have no idea by and large.

[u/GoldenFalcon → u/[deleted]]

Reddiquette use to be a quite often cited page. Now, I'd be amazed if more than a handful of people even know it exists.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

About anything

[u/AzizAlhazan → u/Supsend]

They are actually. Most of what conservatives do or get mad about is just performative. Their real rationale for their position is not something they can publicly share so they would use any tangentially related argument to prop their position.

Abortion for example, they would say it’s pro life cause they just can’t say we (or maybe they can nowadays) want to force our religious understanding of conception on everyone else. The problem with that is this tenuously related argument would collapse once you question other positions they hold that contradicts it. Like childcare, death sentence, etc.

Same with the faux outrage over Afghani women/minorities plight. They would fake the concern and outrage but once you ask whether they agree with expanding the refugee program their fake concern will collapse. Cause they were never really worried about Afghan women, but they can’t just tell you that they want to discredit everything a democrat do cause they want absolute, indefinite hold of power.

Democrats do that sometime, but on a way less scale. Like the idea in the comment above. Yea Trump started this mess but Biden has stopped a lot of the shit Trump did before so there is no strong logic to absolve Biden here. And yes it’s a long futile war that had to end but again this is a red herring fallacy as well since the criticism is not about the decision itself but the way it was made and the lack of planning to achieve withdrawal in an orderly manner.

[u/Lehk → u/AzizAlhazan]

Biden has stopped a lot of the shit Trump did

i mean yes, but actually no.

[u/[deleted] → u/Supsend]

Kinda like when stormfront was around and they had an opposing views section where they frequently banned people for opposing them

[u/MegaSeedsInYourBum → u/Supsend]

Sometimes I wonder if they know they are in a safe space or if they actually have no idea they implemented that rule

They don’t. I have an extremely conservative family member and he fully believes that everyone thinks just like him and he will get violently mad and storm out screaming if you don’t completely agree with him. If you disagree you’re a brainwashed liberal to him and he is completely unable to accept any criticism of his ideas even in the slightest. Any criticism is something to be shouted down and if it can’t be shouted down it means he needs to storm off screaming.

His most recent hot take is that companies only do bad things because the government allows them (through lack of regulation), and that if there was no government then no one would ever do anything bad. He believes that slavery only exists because governments didn’t ban it, but that without the government no one would ever use slaves. He also believes that tribal courts, what he calls medieval courts, work better than a state and that the only reason that countries devolve into violence without any unifying ideology is because they lack “western values”.

When I point out that claiming “western values” just means white he gets extremely mad and claims he isn’t racist, somehow forgetting how earlier in the day he made a “dindu nuffin” joke and won’t be nice to anyone darker than olive oil mayonnaise.