Banned from r/politics

308    08 Feb 2024 16:53 by u/Bovinae_Elbow

What a shame that the sub dedicated to politics is so left wing party line. Any dissent is just immediately suppressed. I was banned for incivility after I was insulted for offering a different opinion and my spicy comment was "lol, just as I expected. Good luck kid, life comes at you fast." I find it very sad that the sub meant for all Americans to discuss politics is silenced to push only a single narrative. This platform could do so much around connecting, yet it is used to muzzle. This country isn't near as divided as the media and platforms like these want you to believe. Reddit can be better.

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31 u/Jackofallfables 08 Feb 2024 19:42
I got banned from an alternate history thread because I called out Marx. The left are insane and have perverted every subculture
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-2 u/FreeToBeeThee † 08 Feb 2024 21:14
If you think it's only the left, go try to post something left leaning on a right dominated sub and see how fast you are banned. The morale i have learned is that Reddit mods love using the ban hammer.
8 u/BeetGumbo 08 Feb 2024 21:23
Leftists do not get banned on r/PoliticalCompassMemes lmao
-4 u/livinginfutureworld 08 Feb 2024 21:44
r/conservative will ban you before you get your post all the way out.
13 u/StrikeEagle784 08 Feb 2024 22:08
At least r/Conservative is very clear about it being a right wing space, r/politics doesn’t formally indicate left wing political bias at all. If you didn’t know any better, than you’d assume it’s neutral territory if you don’t take the time to see what’s going on over there.
-5 u/GringoRedcorn 08 Feb 2024 23:39
Well the thing is, Reddit isn’t exclusive to the USA and the vast majority of the rest of the world generally leans to the left. The American “left” is center-right on most broader political spectrums. So r/politics leaning left should probably be expected.
1 u/KaiWren75 09 Feb 2024 00:25
Anyone except conservatives... which is the point here.
1 u/GringoRedcorn 09 Feb 2024 01:45
American conservatism(at least the current populist movement) is considered radical extremism in the eyes of the rest of the world.
3 u/AdLeather2001 09 Feb 2024 01:11
Western Europe leans left. The vast majority of the world would probably disagree, and American center is probably further left on average than the world as a whole. This isn’t a good thing.
1 u/GringoRedcorn 09 Feb 2024 01:43
Western Europe doesn’t lean left, they are firmly left as is China, India and Oceania. Considering that encompasses over 2/3rds of the global population I think most would probably agree. I’m not sure what part of the American center you think is further left than average but I’m going to guess that you are focusing on a few select issues that you don’t agree with and assuming everyone but the crazy American liberals agrees with you. Most countries are extremely socially liberal and the ones that aren’t are known to be ruled by violent and oppressive regimes.
1 u/thatscucktastic 09 Feb 2024 07:23
Hahahahah holy fucking shit did you just say Oceania is firmly left Hahahahah
6 u/GrizzMcDizzle79 08 Feb 2024 23:44
Yes! I thought id join the alabama page and boy was i shocked. That page is like anti-alabama
2 u/Happyjarboy 09 Feb 2024 00:51
The Minnesota and Minneapolis pages have completely whacked out far left moderators, if you don't support their ideas, you will be banned. Thus, it is an echo chamber within an echo chamber.
2 u/tghjfhy 09 Feb 2024 05:37
The Missouri subreddit would have assumed Missouri is where all the socialists go.
-3 u/Outandproud420 09 Feb 2024 00:55
No it isn't a space for the right wing. It's a space for Trump cultists. They claim to be a space for conservatives but I'd you don't suck off Trump they ban you. It doesn't matter how conservative you are they don't know what conservative is.
1 u/Brainfreeze10 09 Feb 2024 03:55
Yes and don't worry, if you say anything about them, they will find that post on any sub and downvote it just so you can feel like them. A minority.
10 u/AleksanderSuave 08 Feb 2024 22:17
That’s not even remotely accurate. I’d encourage you to go test it. They routinely allow equal-sided debate
-4 u/KinseyH 08 Feb 2024 23:38
In your head, maybe. In reality, no.
8 u/AleksanderSuave * 09 Feb 2024 00:01
Funny that rather than actually trying to have an adult debate there, you thought insulting someone was the appropriate response instead. In this case, it’s obvious that nothing of value is lost if your participation there isn’t allowed
1 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 03:45
Yup... that's a typical redditor for you.
-5 u/jtt278 09 Feb 2024 00:56
This is extremely false. Literally go look the sub. Most threads are explicitly flaired “conservatives only” and even in the others, they’ll ban you for disagreeing. The only disagreement tolerated there is between Neo-cons and Neo-Nazis
3 u/AleksanderSuave 09 Feb 2024 01:02
You’re either incredibly naïve, or missing the textured portion of the pink part, go to the sub now and sort it by any criteria you’d like. Yea, it’s very common that after some time controversial posts will be flared users only. That’s because people like you seem to love brigading that sub with nonsense and calling everyone a Nazi, which you’ve already proven in here as well. Go post things other than repeating NPC nonsense and maybe you will be reciprocated with a more welcoming experience. Or go screech some more. I honestly couldn’t care less, but don’t respond to my comments whining about a reality that exists only in your head.
-2 u/jtt278 09 Feb 2024 01:04
That sub is predominantly populated by fascists, which makes sense since the GOP is a fascist organization (more accurately a conservative one taken over by its fascist wing) like for fucks sake they’re getting rid of Mitch McConnell because he wasn’t in favor of sabotaging their own border bill to make trump look good
3 u/AleksanderSuave 09 Feb 2024 01:41
Whatever you say, groomer.
1 u/tacticalman4566 09 Feb 2024 02:46
Imagine calling someone a pedophile for disagreeing with you
3 u/AleksanderSuave 09 Feb 2024 02:50
You mean the guy calling anyone who disagrees with him a Nazi? Imagine that. Maybe when the shoe is on the other foot, someone might understand how ridiculous that is.
0 u/tacticalman4566 09 Feb 2024 02:54
He said that the GOP has been taken over by a fascist faction and most GOP supporters wouldn’t be conservatives but fascist since they support the current GOP agenda 
3 u/AleksanderSuave 09 Feb 2024 02:55
He also said “The only disagreement tolerated there is between Neo-cons and Neo-Nazis”. Scroll up. It’s not that difficult.
1 u/tacticalman4566 09 Feb 2024 03:01
Like you being fake upset over a correct assumption with republican voters? Most of them are manly some flavor of Neo-cons while a good chunk of them are full on fascist 
3 u/AleksanderSuave 09 Feb 2024 03:42
Oh I get it now, you’re also a pedophile. Makes sense why you’re upset about it too. Good chat groomer.
2 u/thegnomedome_ 09 Feb 2024 00:12
r/conservative is being invaded by lefties who come to insult and downvote everyone
1 u/livinginfutureworld 09 Feb 2024 03:20
That sounds like one of those conspiracies that would fit nicely on r/conservative
2 u/thegnomedome_ 09 Feb 2024 03:48
Anything that puts you in a state of cognitive dissonance is disregarded as "conspiracy"
1 u/livinginfutureworld 09 Feb 2024 04:01
You're the expert
3 u/KaiWren75 09 Feb 2024 00:29
This is hilarious as the next post on my feed was a /conservative post which is completely brigaded by leftists. 600+ votes for the leftist comments. -200 for conservative comments.
3 u/AleksanderSuave 09 Feb 2024 01:46
They do exactly that, then act all surprised pikachu when the post becomes flaired users only.
3 u/KaiWren75 09 Feb 2024 03:21
They go to the suicide bot because that thought is so often on their mind. Leftists tend to be extremely unhappy.
3 u/AleksanderSuave 09 Feb 2024 03:40
Valid point, considering we’re discussing the party that famously can’t define what a woman is, to begin with.
1 u/Thuban 09 Feb 2024 03:24
I said a couple years back in r/conservative that police have a culture/trigger discipline problem and bam! The post wasn't 30 minutes old.
1 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 03:43
Gargantuan lie right here😂😂😂
1 u/AikiBro 08 Feb 2024 22:04
But rightists do?
2 u/BeetGumbo 08 Feb 2024 22:48
No, its run by right wingers, however. Leftists cannot stand open and unfiltered conversations.
1 u/AikiBro 09 Feb 2024 18:00
I seem to be the one being downvoted but by all means, continue to believe whatever mythology appeals to you.
9 u/deeeproots 08 Feb 2024 22:05
I got banned from gundeals for saying fuck commies… uh, historically commies have been anti gun o.o
1 u/AleksanderSuave 08 Feb 2024 22:16
GAFS was going to ban myself and another user for leaving feedback from an older transaction after the transition to their new feedback system. The span of time was something insignificant like 3 days.
3 u/FennecScout 08 Feb 2024 23:13
The fuck did they revolt with?
1 u/Emotional_Tip8996 08 Feb 2024 23:42
You wrong boi "Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary" -Karl Marx
2 u/boscoroni 09 Feb 2024 01:14
>Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary Gun control came into being after the Communist revolution. Gun ownership in Russia was as uncontrolled as in the US before that. It is not what Marx and Engels said, it is what they did.
3 u/gosh_dang_oh_my_heck 08 Feb 2024 23:53
The Communist Party of the USA is actually fairly pro-2A.
2 u/Alternative_Oil7733 09 Feb 2024 03:05
Well After the revolution probably won't be.
3 u/thegnomedome_ 09 Feb 2024 00:19
Try it without vulgar insults. Make a sensible discussion on why commies are bad. Of course a low effort "fuck these people" isn't welcome
1 u/makemebiggerpls 09 Feb 2024 00:50
This is just objectively wrong lmfao
1 u/jtt278 09 Feb 2024 00:54
Communists are inherently pro gun. We’re genuinely far more pro 2A than republicans are, seeing as republicans want guns do that they can murder people they don’t like while leftists genuinely want to overthrow the presently undemocratic and ever authoritarian system we live in.
2 u/El3ctricalSquash 09 Feb 2024 01:20
Communists are very pro gun
14 u/Infidel42 08 Feb 2024 22:13
If someone left leaning posts a question in r/conservative in good faith, they won't be banned.
4 u/banned_account_002 08 Feb 2024 22:15
Did you use the word faith? Going to get preemptively banned from a bunch of subreddits!
6 u/Infidel42 08 Feb 2024 22:16
***gasp!***
1 u/Brainfreeze10 09 Feb 2024 03:53
Bullshit. I got banned for posting the list of republicans that testified before the Jan 6th committee.
1 u/azrolator 09 Feb 2024 04:00
Lol. Conservative is very well known for banning anyone making good faith arguments.
1 u/EC_CO 09 Feb 2024 06:18
Wrong, I got banned for a simple question. And not just there, but a couple other 'conservative' subs. There are nutjob mods *everywhere*
7 u/Bobby_Beeftits 08 Feb 2024 22:46
You’re talking a 98%/2% split. The majority of reddit has always been a disastrous left wing circle jerk. The only reason any right wing sub would ban left leaning opinions is because the left wing losers brigade any post that gains traction.
5 u/GrizzMcDizzle79 08 Feb 2024 23:41
Wrong. Im on a couple of right leaning threads and almost everyone there is respectful even of the occasional liberal passing through.
2 u/thegnomedome_ 09 Feb 2024 00:21
Probably because they come in hot with insults, instead of logical discussion. I've seen posts on r/conservative from left leaning folks who want to have a serious civilized discussion. Of course you'll get banned when you come in like "fck you mAgAt terrorist"
1 u/KaiWren75 09 Feb 2024 00:24
There is no right sensitive topic that will get you banned from Reddit. There are numerous topics I can't even list off to you without having a site wide IP ban from Reddit that are lefty soft spots. And those subs you mentioned are not named "politics." They are clear that they are conservative spaces.
2 u/Own-Pause-5294 † 08 Feb 2024 21:15
Majority of what ypure talking about isn't from leftists, it's from liberals.
1 u/wildwolfcore 08 Feb 2024 22:38
Who are leftists
3 u/i_am_tired12 08 Feb 2024 23:33
socialists and communists
1 u/KinseyH 08 Feb 2024 23:37
Anyone who disagrees with MAGA.
3 u/thegnomedome_ 09 Feb 2024 00:14
People who are easily offended
1 u/_Foulbear_ 09 Feb 2024 00:15
... So conservatives.
2 u/thegnomedome_ 09 Feb 2024 00:17
Conservatives complain about hypocrisy and degradation of American values. Libs cry if you use a word or have a different opinion
1 u/_Foulbear_ 09 Feb 2024 00:25
Speaking as a leftist and not a liberal, we don't cry when someone calls someone a slur. We respond with criticism or some other form of social consequences. Then the conservatives cry because they can't figure out the difference between facing social repercussions and legal repercussions as it pertains to freedom of speech.
2 u/thegnomedome_ 09 Feb 2024 00:27
Slurs aren't even required
2 u/Reasonable-Alarm-300 09 Feb 2024 01:09
What you're missing is no one asked the leftists for their input or their social repercussions. I think we as Americans have had enough of leftists' 'social consequences' which are working to destroy the population centers of America, full stop.
1 u/_Foulbear_ 09 Feb 2024 02:03
And the people you're trying to sling slurs and other insults at didn't ask for that shit either. Yet here we are. If you want people to stop calling you out for being shitty, then stop being shitty.
1 u/Reasonable-Alarm-300 09 Feb 2024 02:05
Exactly, that goes both ways. Or do you not acknowledge that?
1 u/_Foulbear_ 09 Feb 2024 02:10
If your reasoning is that being chill to one another goes both ways, then why are you pissed about people get called out when they break that agreement by saying something shitty?
1 u/Reasonable-Alarm-300 09 Feb 2024 02:18
I'm center or moderate, as such I find things I like and things I dislike on both sides. Unfortunately in my experience the most hateful people here are leftists. As soon as they find out someone has a right- flavored comment they swarm and down vote, insulting as much as they can. They automatically assume anyone who isn't far left or a socialist is a MAGAT that they need to "put in their place." Hence the reason why I clicked on this post in the first place. This kind of attitude on both sides is the exact reason American society and politics is where it's at right now, unreasonable automatic hatred for anything someone from another viewpoint says or does.
1 u/_Foulbear_ 09 Feb 2024 02:56
Dude, I'm a capital C communist. I have a hammer and sickle tattooed on my arm, and I'm an active organizer in the streets. I was also the best man in my libertarian friend's wedding last year. The truth is that leftists and conservatives alike are toxic as hell online. But most leftists have friends who aren't lockstep with our beliefs. And in my case, my best friend is on the opposite end of the spectrum from my beliefs. Just touch grass, man. Stop assuming the shit you see online represents the actual movement of people who are in the streets.
1 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 03:42
You truly do enjoy reading your own bs. You put a lot of stuff in people's mouths that they never said then wish to stand on a podium as a social justice warrior. How utterly typical of today.
1 u/LowEffortMeme69420 09 Feb 2024 03:38
“Being chill to one another” How delusional
1 u/tacticalman4566 09 Feb 2024 02:40
I guess that makes the house GOP liberals then 
2 u/thegnomedome_ 09 Feb 2024 02:40
Some of them, yes
1 u/tacticalman4566 09 Feb 2024 02:50
They all act like that. The gop and their supports are a bunch of self serving hypocrits
1 u/Brainfreeze10 09 Feb 2024 03:51
Conservatives are hypocrisy in action. There is no position they hold ton rights hat they do not change action on based on who is attempting to exercise that right.
1 u/TheJoker069 09 Feb 2024 04:58
You got that backwards champ. Case in point, trans people.
2 u/thegnomedome_ 09 Feb 2024 05:05
Most people do not care. Do whatever you want, but don't force others to accept it. That's where the problem lies. It's forced, and then they freak out when the taboo is not socially accepted. Many of them push the boundaries, aka participating in sports of the opposite sex, calling for sex changes in children, etc.
1 u/TheJoker069 09 Feb 2024 05:08
There’s like 20 trans athletes competing in the country and not a single child has had a sex change operation. Fox and oan lied to you. Also your representatives are hateful christo-fascists who bow down to your golden calf trump. When it all explodes it’s going to be funny to watch you all scramble.
2 u/thegnomedome_ 09 Feb 2024 05:10
They don't need surgery. But they are given hormones. And many Dems advocate for putting children on hormones and allowing them to cross dress. There's tons of kids paraded as social media clout items by their parents who convinced them they should partake
1 u/TheJoker069 09 Feb 2024 05:12
Why are you looking at kids in drag on social media? Sounds like you got a problem man
1 u/thegnomedome_ 09 Feb 2024 05:33
It's thrown in my face by social media algorithms🤣 and conservative pages expose the parents. Look at @gaysagainstgroomers and @publicadvocate on instagram
1 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 03:38
Authoritarian power-hungry elitists who only wish to take full control of everyone's actions and anyone who opposes them gets deemed dangerous for wrong think.
9 u/thepatoblanco 08 Feb 2024 22:42
No, that's leftists. If you are talking positively about Marx, you are not a liberal. Private property rights are essential for liberalism.
6 u/Fightlife45 08 Feb 2024 23:11
Yea I consider myself a liberal as in I support gay rights, pro choice, etc. but fuck Marxists.
6 u/thegnomedome_ * 09 Feb 2024 00:13
So you support the constitution, aka a conservative
1 u/PromisedIWouldntPost † 09 Feb 2024 00:43
Oh cool which conservatives support the constitution?
3 u/thegnomedome_ 09 Feb 2024 00:47
It's in the name. Conservative, conserve, conservation, conserving the original purpose, America was founded, freedom. Some conservatives only seek to conserve culture, which is good, but ultimately the point is to conserve the freedom granted by the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and the Constitution
1 u/PromisedIWouldntPost 09 Feb 2024 00:51
The nazis have socialist in their name. One of their first actions was to murder every socialist in Germany. What is the full name of North Korea? Like… let’s use our whole brains, ok? Also, why does conserve mean “conserving the original purpose America was founded”, and not conserving the immigrant status that all our founding fathers held? Word games are for stupid people.
3 u/thegnomedome_ 09 Feb 2024 00:55
The Nazis were lead by a mentally ill drug addict with a funny moustache. North Korea is a dictatorship, their name means nothing, they have illusion of choice. America was founded on immigrants. Most of our parents, grandparents, great grandparents, and great great grandparents, are immigrants from other countries. They came here because of written rules like the Constitution. To this very day, we welcome immigrants with welcome arms. Just not illegal secretive border hoppers because that can put our own communities at risk of foreign threats.
1 u/PromisedIWouldntPost 09 Feb 2024 00:57
Liberals are also against illegal secretive border hoppers, which is why Obamna was called the Deporter in chief. But hey whatever people tell you to believe.
1 u/thegnomedome_ 09 Feb 2024 01:23
Obama is not the current president. Look at the border crisis under the current administration
1 u/PromisedIWouldntPost 09 Feb 2024 01:25
Literally the conservatives are the ones, in both house and senate, voting against closing the border. So again, what conservatives believe in the constitution?
1 u/Royal-Connections 09 Feb 2024 08:01
What the hell are you talking about? That makes zero sense.
1 u/GunsNGamesYT 09 Feb 2024 18:28
That is untrue, currently the government is in control of by Democrats, even in the Congress. There is hardly any Conservative Republicans in any of the seats. Responding to your previous comments, if you think Trump or Obama was bad, maybe y'all should look up how Biden upgraded those "kids in cages" to "kids in internment camps" along the border. I don't really enjoy picking a side, but the shit the democrats do are borderline fascistic.
1 u/Brainfreeze10 09 Feb 2024 03:49
No we do not welcome immigrants with open arms even those that are legal. Do I have to remind you that while the orange balloon was saying things like that he was drastically cutting citizenship programs.
1 u/hOwBOutDEmCOWBOYS03 09 Feb 2024 03:37
thank goodness you can bestow this expert knowledge upon the world
1 u/Outandproud420 09 Feb 2024 00:52
Conservatives would have fought against freeing the slaves. As in conserving the status quo...
4 u/jtt278 09 Feb 2024 00:53
They did.
1 u/Outandproud420 09 Feb 2024 01:12
No they didn't. Liberals did.
1 u/jtt278 09 Feb 2024 01:24
You think… liberals fought for slavery. Jesus Christ you’re either incredibly stupid or a very confident liar. Why do conservatives fly the confederate flag to this day?
1 u/thegnomedome_ 09 Feb 2024 01:29
The south during the civil war were the Democrats. Republicans freed the slaves. Abraham Lincoln was the first Republican. And the first Black senator was a Republican.
1 u/jtt278 09 Feb 2024 01:58
Yes and in the modern day the Republican Party waves the confederate flag, claims the civil war wasn’t about slavery and to this day passes racially discriminatory laws and tries to prevent black people from voting. The party switch is historical fact.
1 u/thegnomedome_ 09 Feb 2024 02:00
What laws of today are "racially discriminatory"?
1 u/[deleted] 09 Feb 2024 02:28
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1 u/GunsNGamesYT 09 Feb 2024 18:47
You are literally complaining about a minority on the far-right. Holy fuck.
1 u/Ed_herbie 09 Feb 2024 02:35
The south during the civil war were the conservatives, and they're still conservatives today. The conservatives were in the Democratic party at the time. The Republicans who freed the slaves, Lincoln, and that black senator were the liberals. The party name is irrelevant. The ideologies of the people in the parties is what matters.
1 u/Wonderful_Piglet4678 09 Feb 2024 02:43
Right. That was when the Republican Party was the center of U.S. politics. In that same period when the Democratic Party was composed of conservative, white, rural, Southern, racist, Christian fundamentalists. Today that Demographic votes firmly Republican, because the Republican Party is the current Conservative Party. This is also why Republicans are the ones flying Confederate flags and whining about those loser confederate monuments being toppled. It’s a shame that you cowards can’t even own your history. But it really shows everyone exactly how wretched you people are, that you have to deny your own ancestors. Just absolutely pathetic stuff.
1 u/GunsNGamesYT 09 Feb 2024 19:02
>In that same period when the Democratic Party was composed of conservative, white, rural, Southern, racist, Christian fundamentalists. For one, looking at politics of the past today, the Soviet Union could literally have been argued to turn conservative by the mid-80s and early 90s when theh fell. Conservatives exist in every government and in any system dude because "conserving" IS in the name. You do realize that even if Lincoln -- a Republican -- freed the slaves that doesn't make him a liberal LOL -- he still considered slaves to be inferior to the white man and that's why he didn't take it a step further and gave them rights nor did he want race mixing. >This is also why Republicans are the ones flying Confederate flags and whining about those loser confederate monuments being toppled. So you support history being erased? Lets say in worst case scenario a nuclear war happens or somehow all the history books are burned. How else do you expect people to learn of the country's past if everything relating to that history is toppled? Makes literally no sense and this is why society is becoming even more ignorant each and every day. Thank you. >It’s a shame that you cowards can’t even own your history. But it really shows everyone exactly how wretched you people are, that you have to deny your own ancestors. Just absolutely pathetic stuff. It isn't just *my* history though dude, you literally were born in the U.S. so as a nation we collectively and inherently share that history. Also, what cowards? Im here owning up and admitting to you right now that my ancestors used to own slaves and I don't condone it at all. If you wanna call me a racist or fascist for my ancestors, you are putting their mistakes onto me and that's generally unacceptable. I do deny my own ancestors, I reject them even but apparently even when I do the right thing im apparently "wretched" to people like you. I want the statues and monuments up so that people can be reminded of our horrible past and if you want to be the one to topple them then you are the one who can't handle our nation's dark history.
1 u/Outandproud420 09 Feb 2024 01:33
Do you not know what a Liberal is? Wait of course you don't. That's why you think a political party is the same as a political ideology...
1 u/NothingKnownNow 09 Feb 2024 02:12
Do you know what a liberal is? Modern liberalism wasn't around during the Civil war because it didn't exist yet. Conservatives are the OG liberals. US conservatism was founded on classical liberalism. It was this liberalism that Lincoln appealed to in order to sway conservatives to fight to maintain the union. The South wasn't liberal nor conservative. It was confederate.
2 u/Wonderful_Piglet4678 09 Feb 2024 02:45
They were conservative. They literally wanted to conserve their historical power institutions (I.e. slavery). Why are conservatives such colossal cowards when it comes to acknowledging your history? Absolutely pathetic.
1 u/NothingKnownNow 09 Feb 2024 03:01
Sorry, I didn't realize you were a troll. Carry on good sir. I appreciate people who take pride in their craft.
2 u/Wonderful_Piglet4678 09 Feb 2024 03:04
Providing the textbook definition is trolling now? Christ you’re fragile.
1 u/NothingKnownNow 09 Feb 2024 03:06
I already said you were great at trolling. What more do you want?
2 u/Wonderful_Piglet4678 09 Feb 2024 03:10
Pathetic stuff little man.
1 u/NothingKnownNow 09 Feb 2024 03:18
Now you aren't even trying. I'll make you a deal. Convince me you really are this stupid about American history, and I'll reconsider my opinion that you are saying stupid stuff just to get a reaction
2 u/Wonderful_Piglet4678 * 09 Feb 2024 03:22
Convince you? You’re a fucking idiot who doesn’t know basic definitions. That word salad you posted about conservatives being the real liberals is the dumbest thing I’ve read on this site, and I’ve been to r/Conservative. Seriously, you’re a coward and a clown. Bye bitch🤡
1 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 03:36
Liberals are way closer to being Conservative than Leftists are. Just because idiots in the media or online were spoonfed the claim and repeat it doesn't make it so. Libertarians... the real ones not found on reddit, are closer to Conservatives by every fashion vs being anywhere near Regressive Leftists.
2 u/Wonderful_Piglet4678 09 Feb 2024 03:50
I agree that liberals are not the same as leftists. But it’s insane to say that the confederates were not a conservative movement. They were textbook examples of a movement that was formed to conserve a traditional power structure. It’s literally the definition. And it’s just pathetic when modern conservatives try to deflect this reality because they don’t want to admit that their political philosophy is tied almost exclusively to morally reprehensible beliefs. Conservatives were pro-slavery, against women’s suffrage, against racial integration, against marriage equality, etc. These cowards need to be called out and held to account.
1 u/NothingKnownNow 09 Feb 2024 11:08
>I agree that liberals are not the same as leftists. But it’s insane to say that the confederates were not a conservative movement Congratulations. You convinced me that you just don't know history,. And as a bonus, you threw in solid proof that you don't know what conservatism is. You're not a troll. You're just a victim of public education and propaganda. [.Here is Lincoln speech talking directly to conservatives.](https://www.nps.gov/liho/learn/historyculture/summary.htm) Here is the specific line to help you understand why conservatives rejected the south's plan to separate. "You say you are conservative. We are the conservatives. We want to maintain things as they were. You advocate new and untried ideas." If you want to know more about why the conservatives formed a brand new party and eventually went to war to end slavery, I suggest you start reading actual history books and listen to a history teacher. You should also read up on classical liberalism, conservatism, and liberalism. Because that textbook you keep mentioning doesn't exist. The real textbooks say something completely different. Good luck, my confused friend.
1 u/Wonderful_Piglet4678 09 Feb 2024 16:22
And here’s the definition of conservative you ignorant chimp: “Conservatism is a cultural, social, and political philosophy that seeks to promote and to preserve traditional institutions, customs, and values.[1][2][3] The central tenets of conservatism may vary in relation to the culture and civilization in which it appears.[4] In Western culture, depending on the particular nation, conservatives seek to promote a range of institutions, such as the nuclear family, organized religion, the military, the nation-state, property rights, rule of law, aristocracy, and monarchy.[5] Conservatives tend to favour institutions and practices that guarantee social order and historical continuity.[6]” Congratulations, you’re both pathetic and stupid. Like a typical conservative you don’t want to acknowledge that your worldviews are heinous and have always been on the wrong side of history. You, conservative, are the side that wanted to preserve slavery. You, conservative, were opposed to women’s suffrage. You, conservative, were opposed to integration . You were opposed to interracial marriage, same sex marriage, and a host of other progressive causes that brushed up against your “traditional” beliefs. Conservatives, like yourself, are cowards and frauds. That’s why you lose. Bye bye, coward .
1 u/NothingKnownNow 09 Feb 2024 17:56
>And here’s the definition of conservative you ignorant chimp: It's like you took a Wikipedia link and smeared stupidity on it to make an ignorance cake. I give it 3 stars out of 5.
1 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 03:31
No, Regressive Leftists did, just like leftists were the ones who started up the kkk.
2 u/jtt278 09 Feb 2024 04:25
You think leftists… as in communists, socialists and anarchists fought for slavery and started the KKK. Holy shit you should go get tested because you may have single digit IQ.
1 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 04:34
Didn't say anarchists. Quit putting words in people's mouths. That's all a keyboard warrior like you can do. Next✌️😂🇺🇲
2 u/jtt278 09 Feb 2024 04:35
You said leftists. Anarchists are leftists. You clearly don’t know the meanings of any of the words you use…
1 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 04:42
Anarchists are not Regressive Leftists. Since you can't understand the difference, I would ask you to read more, but you are too far gone, obviously.
2 u/jtt278 09 Feb 2024 05:02
There is no such thing as “regressive leftists” this isn’t a meaningful or existing term. You’re trying to deflect from the modern GOP being the party of racism the confederacy and the klan
1 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 05:08
Except it's not... and those are your values. And yes Regressive Leftists are a thing. You're just upset when the truth comes to light. Showing that true divisive color. 😊 Is racism in the room with you right now? Is it looking at you?
1 u/Interesting_Maybe_93 09 Feb 2024 05:11
Abe Lincoln was a pen pal with Karl Marx and a big fan.
1 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 05:28
Hmmm... orrrrrr https://www.aier.org/article/was-lincoln-really-into-marx/
1 u/Interesting_Maybe_93 09 Feb 2024 05:36
So Lincoln just read the papers Marx wrote in and had correspondence with Marx but some how had no idea who Marx is???? Sounds like an article of cope you shared to mehttps://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/abraham-lincoln-and-the-ghost-of-karl-marx/
1 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 05:42
An article of cope? Okay, you gas-lighting, projecting, fascist. Typical Regressive Leftist can't take on any facts that don't match their opinion. Next, you'll tell me George Washington was from Africa 😂
1 u/Interesting_Maybe_93 09 Feb 2024 06:02
I called it an article of cope because that is what it was. Unless Abe just calls everybody a dear friend. The argument that he had no idea who Marx is even though he corresponded with Marx called him a dear friend and read the papers Marx wrote for us almost laughable but seems if you really want to cope you will believe it. Looking at how you seem to go with it like a clown
1 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 06:11
🤣🤣🤣he probably didn't even know of Marx's existence. But keep pushing that lie.
1 u/Interesting_Maybe_93 09 Feb 2024 06:14
Just called him a dear friend and read the newspaper Marx wrote for and had correspondence with Marx. Right....
1 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 06:19
WaPo push isn't real😂
1 u/Interesting_Maybe_93 09 Feb 2024 06:22
Abe Lincoln was a commie and would hate you
1 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 06:25
🤣🤣🤣🤣 Honest Abe would have shot a socialist and/or a commie without blinking.
1 u/Interesting_Maybe_93 09 Feb 2024 06:27
There you go writing more fan fiction. What's it like knowing Abe was a progressive? Oh that's right you guys just play make believe instead to cope
1 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 06:34
We don't diddle kids either like you guys do. You should really seek help for that.
1 u/MonkeyNihilist 09 Feb 2024 06:35
Matt Gaetz approves of this message.
1 u/Interesting_Maybe_93 09 Feb 2024 06:38
Lol see now this is what projecting is...Prolly should be removing Gaetz any day now right? Oh that's right you guys anti pedo except for the ones you literally vote for.
1 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 06:42
Except that's a nice lie you have there. No proof, no conviction. Nothing but copium because the left hates strong men.
1 u/Interesting_Maybe_93 09 Feb 2024 06:45
Seems the right enjoy defending pedos and call them "strong men"
1 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 06:48
The left just likes to make shit up and project their own failures. Just like when Trump was supposed to cause a bunch of wars and here we are with Biden🤪🤣
1 u/Interesting_Maybe_93 09 Feb 2024 06:57
Sorry pedo defender says what?
2 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 07:01
Look it's not my fault your father cries himself to sleep every night at the limp wristed candy ass you turned out to be. Now run along and get me some whiskey boy.
1 u/Interesting_Maybe_93 09 Feb 2024 07:04
Is that what you say to all the kids?
2 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 07:18
Only the ones who blame me for their uncle not touching them anymore. That's between you and your therapist there sport.
1 u/Interesting_Maybe_93 09 Feb 2024 07:20
Guess you view those uncles as strong men huh?
2 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 07:22
You tell me, you engaged with them. And you're the one who wishes to keep on doing so. But hey.... you go, girl! Stunning and brave!
1 u/MonkeyNihilist 09 Feb 2024 06:34
Except he was shot by a racist conservative.
1 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 06:37
Racist sure, conservative not at all. That comes straight from your summer of love types.
1 u/MonkeyNihilist 09 Feb 2024 06:38
What was the civil war about again?
1 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 06:41
You wouldn't know since you can't comprehend anything that doesn't come out of Rachel MadCow's mouth.
1 u/MonkeyNihilist 09 Feb 2024 06:41
So you know but won’t say, lol!
1 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 06:43
What are you on right now kid?
1 u/MonkeyNihilist 09 Feb 2024 06:47
lol, we all know who’s the kid here.
2 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 06:52
You're the one who keeps tugging on my pants. At least make yourself useful and grab some bourbon for me. You can keep your budlight that you and Dylan drink😉🙃
1 u/MonkeyNihilist 09 Feb 2024 07:04
And that’s where your mind went, straight to gay sex and transsexuals. Can’t make this shit up!
2 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 07:17
You're confusing your fantasy with reality there bucko... nowhere did I mention gay sex nor imply it. Unless you're saying just drinking with a trans means you're gay.... to which wow... who's the closed minded bigot now? 🤣🤣
1 u/MonkeyNihilist 09 Feb 2024 07:18
You’re the one thinking about a fat cock down your throat not me. I was talking about how the confederacy was a conservative institution wanting to keep slavery. You brought up Dylan and trans sexuality. Does that take up a lot of your thoughts?
1 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 07:21
I brought up Dylan and you drinking a bud light. If you think that equals sex then I have some news for you about your virginity.... you've still got it✌️😊
0 u/MonkeyNihilist 09 Feb 2024 07:22
Lady, you brought him up not me.
1 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 07:24
Look buttercup if you're not going to read these one to two sentence replies at best then you're beyond Big MAD and you should lie down until you can ask someone else how to respond to me. Because you lost before you started✌️😇🇺🇲
0 u/MonkeyNihilist 09 Feb 2024 07:26
lol, meal team six losers like you that can’t stop thinking about cock is hilarious. And now you’re doing the “U mad”. Holy fuck what a pathetic clown you are, 😂
1 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 07:28
Who keeps typing about male genitals? Oh yeah that's you😊 Nice "projection" though. Keep tugging on my pants for attention I'll get to you later. Post as many replies as you can. Maybe even watch some Destiny videos for inspiration. That guy is a cuck, so I'm sure he's your role model.
0 u/MonkeyNihilist 09 Feb 2024 07:30
Lady, again, YOU brought him up. That means YOU think of him/her/whatever. Freud was on point.
1 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 07:31
And yet you went straight to sex with him... that one's on you there, missy.
1 u/MonkeyNihilist 09 Feb 2024 07:32
That’s cute since he’s top of your mind. Girl, you’re a closet homosexual. Just acting tough on here. And you’re a clown to boot.
1 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 07:36
And you keep wanting to put makeup on dudes... clowns... not my cup of tea. But I'm glad you can be so forward with your attraction towards me. No, thank you, though... you don't have the right parts, and you wipe back to front. You shouldn't do that, it's bad hygiene.
1 u/MonkeyNihilist 09 Feb 2024 07:37
Yeah, like I thought, just a little bitch.
1 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 07:40
🤣🤣🤣🤣 keep going... you run out already? You done got stomped. Bahahahahahahaha
1 u/MonkeyNihilist 09 Feb 2024 07:40
By a little bitch like you? Bwahahaha
1 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 07:43
Are you even of age to be on reddit? I'm genuinely curious now... give your father back his phone, kid. That's enough internet for you.
1 u/MonkeyNihilist 09 Feb 2024 07:46
Haha, you literally have nothing. You lost the argument, tried to bring up a trans (something you apparently think about a lot) to “win” but just showed what a loser you are. Then you try and act tough. Classic conservative MAGA clown.
1 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 07:49
For someone who can't afford their own phone or place that's some big words you're using. Give your dad back his phone and tell him how you're gonna cry harder about being owned by Duncan's Trump every day of your life.
1 u/MonkeyNihilist 09 Feb 2024 07:52
Now we’re bringing dad into this?! You seem to like men a lot. Quite the theme with you.
1 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 07:53
I brought up that you couldn't support yourself. If sexual thoughts about your father is what you got from that... that's solely on you✌️😅
1 u/MonkeyNihilist 09 Feb 2024 07:55
I’m not the one bringing up dudes, you are RuPaul.
1 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 07:58
RuPaul is more of a man than you'll ever be. But you already knew that. Tell your family how you keep talking these Ls. By the way Trump is back on the ballot fuckbag ✌️🤣
1 u/jtt278 09 Feb 2024 05:30
You literally can’t define regressive leftist. It is a made up term. Regressive and leftist are literally opposite meanings, it’s an oxymoron. Holy fucking shit you are stupid.
1 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 05:38
Not the opposite at all. They are one in the same. You just aren't intelligent enough to see the answer before you.
1 u/jtt278 09 Feb 2024 05:41
You are literally saying that two definitional opposites are synonymous. Stop speaking in riddles and plainly state what you think a “regressive leftist” is and what that has to do with the confederacy and the kkk
1 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 05:45
Tell me how conservative policies are racist since you say they are the party of racism bigotry and the kkk? Bet you can't with any facts... any other buzz words you would care to add while you're at it? 😉
1 u/jtt278 09 Feb 2024 05:51
Republicans pass voter ID laws and voting district maps designed to keep black people from voting… they’ve never stopped trying to keep minorities from voting, they just have to do it in roundabout ways because it’s illegal (GOP majority supreme courts have nullified almost all of the voting rights act). And the KKK endorses the GOP, and GOP politicians campaign almost exclusively on racial hatred, fear of blacks, Mexicans, and Arabs is 90% of your average trump speech. GOP is the party of the south = the party of the confederacy. They venerate monuments to actual traitors that killed US soldiers, fly the flag of treason and try and rewrite history books to teach children it wasn’t about slavery
1 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 06:09
There is a lot to unpack here... first off...assuming anyone of a different skin color not being able to get an ID is absolutely racist. https://youtu.be/Mp2wiO12O-Y?si=ckK22SMxueWbjiUy I want everyone that is here, a full citizen, that wants to promote the general welfare to vote. GOP campaigns on radial hatred?.... *Stares at you through Clarence Thomas's glasses.... or Thomas Sowell, take your pick, they are both amazing men. Identity politics is a game that only fuels more hatred and that has been the push ever since Obama was in power. That last point... we learn from our history. You would not have been a trailblazer from what I'm seeing as you advocate with no proof... and that's not even an attack that's just a clear observation. So everyone in the GOP is racist from what I'm reading? The war was about many things, slavery was, of course, a huge part of that. Regardless of skin color, every American Patriot is my brother or sister. The only ones I see pushing hate are those promoting CRT to school kids.
1 u/GunsNGamesYT 09 Feb 2024 18:44
You do realize the Democrats were literally formed from the Southern "Dixie" crats right? The ones who lead The Confederacy? Its been a hundred years, dude. Shit changes and most of those changes are made only to get easy votes. Are you honestly telling me that the Democrats didn't change from their racist descendants just to play on society's issues by promising free healthcare and education? Politicians are manipulative and will play on society's issues... this is a no-brainer. The reason why backwoods redneck conservatives fly the confederate battle flag or naval jack is mainly for a sense of pride dude, soldiers died on both sides and each side was preserving or conserving their way of life. The civil war was fought between brothers. If you don't honor the fallen, I wouldn't expect you to show respect to the current armed forces who fight in unjust wars to this day -- who come back home and get attacked by groups like Antifa or BLM or ACAB or any other groups that actively oppose the status quo which the Democrats actively encourage. If any conservative flies the confederate battle flag for ill-intent, then they are probably the kind of backwoods redneck that don't even trust or like the government so to label them as Republican supporters is just kinda ignorant and stupid. Do you really think that all self-described "Republican" supporters actually trust the government? I think you're confusing them all with the democrats who like to milk the government for welfare. It's just really ignorant to say all conservatives secretly fly a confederate battle flag when noone is looking. I'd honestly much rather stare at a battle flag than a fucking rainbow flag -- ill tell you that right now -- and if I wanted to look at a rainbow then I'd wait for the fucking rain.
1 u/Wonderful_Piglet4678 09 Feb 2024 02:39
Are you fucking stupid?
1 u/GuyYouMetOnline 09 Feb 2024 04:50
No they didn't. Technically the Democratic party did, but back then the Democratic party was the conservative party, not the liberal one they are today. But you probably knew that already, didn't you? You just don't care because all you want is something you can use to attack the people you disagree with, regardless of whether there's any actual truth to it.
1 u/Royal-Connections 09 Feb 2024 08:02
That was democrats
1 u/redardoncomputer 09 Feb 2024 01:00
So did democrats
1 u/Outandproud420 09 Feb 2024 01:12
Democrat is a political party not a political ideology. The Democrats of that time would be considered conservatives...
1 u/redardoncomputer 09 Feb 2024 01:45
Ohh shit you right, excuse my lapse in judgment
1 u/thegnomedome_ * 09 Feb 2024 01:27
No they just didn't want to work. Slavery violated the Constitution, which is one reason why it was banned by our First Republican President and his party, Abraham Lincoln
1 u/Outandproud420 09 Feb 2024 01:36
Yes Abraham Lincoln was a Liberal...
1 u/thegnomedome_ 09 Feb 2024 01:40
Actually slavery is quite Liberal, it gave citizens the right to own slaves, which goes against the values of the founding documents (slaves were not considered citizens, a violation of human rights)
0 u/Outandproud420 09 Feb 2024 01:51
It's actually not though. It's pointless arguing with you when you.fomt even know what Liberalism is...
1 u/thegnomedome_ 09 Feb 2024 01:51
Liberalism allows you to go outside of predetermined rules.
1 u/Outandproud420 09 Feb 2024 01:55
Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, right to private property and equality before the law. Literally liberals would be anti slavery...
1 u/thegnomedome_ 09 Feb 2024 01:57
Liberals are anti-rules, and pick and choose what rules to follow
1 u/MolonMyLabe 09 Feb 2024 03:57
The Democrats fought for slavery. Republicans freed the slaves. Basic us history.
1 u/No_Cook2983 09 Feb 2024 01:09
Today’s Republican Party: Well-known for ‘conservation’. 😂
1 u/Brainfreeze10 09 Feb 2024 03:47
So, Republicans are not conservatives
1 u/TropicalBlueMR2 09 Feb 2024 04:46
Lol
1 u/PhiloPhrog 09 Feb 2024 06:24
I think liberal and conservative are based on the older English meanings of the words, moderate and immoderate. 
1 u/Royal-Connections 09 Feb 2024 08:00
Not real sharp huh?
1 u/No_Cook2983 09 Feb 2024 01:08
The opposite of Marxism is Not “American Republican”.
1 u/Whiskeywiskerbiscuit 09 Feb 2024 02:29
Calling someone who is pro-choice and gay rights “conservative” is a fucking joke.
1 u/thegnomedome_ 09 Feb 2024 02:29
Read the declaration of independence
1 u/Whiskeywiskerbiscuit 09 Feb 2024 02:35
That’s a dogshit retort LMAO. So you think American conservatives stand for gay rights and abortion? You’re either incredibly stupid or incredibly disingenuous. American conservatives literally took away abortion rights just this year.
1 u/thegnomedome_ 09 Feb 2024 02:37
There are hypocritical conservatives, sure
1 u/Whiskeywiskerbiscuit 09 Feb 2024 02:37
So the entire Republican Party is a walking hypocrisy. Gotcha.
1 u/Whiskeywiskerbiscuit 09 Feb 2024 02:50
In what fucking universe does that make you conservative?
1 u/thegnomedome_ 09 Feb 2024 02:52
In one where you conserve the fundamental rights granted by the original documents of the united states
1 u/Whiskeywiskerbiscuit * 09 Feb 2024 02:57
And which universe is that? Because in the one we live in now, THE conservative party in America just banned abortion rights and have repeatedly stated that we need to “reevaluate the legality of same-sex marriage.” Unless you’re implying that the democrats are conservative, but I don’t think that’s what you’re implying.
1 u/thegnomedome_ 09 Feb 2024 03:46
Abortion should only be allowed under certain circumstances - not as a convenience. There's nothing wrong with same sex marriage. That's what gay rights means. Gay rights does not mean tranny children and rainbow flags on every street corner
1 u/Whiskeywiskerbiscuit 09 Feb 2024 04:00
Yes, if you agree that abortion should be legally protected and that gay marriage is A-Ok, you are not an American conservative. Because American conservatives are actively fighting both of those things, as shown by the conservative majority SC overturning Roe and conservative Republican congress members calling for a “reevaluation of same-sex marriage”. You literally proved my point bud.
1 u/thegnomedome_ 09 Feb 2024 04:11
That's a small minded view. Not everybody thinks exactly same. We're not robots. However some people act like robots. I approve of the dismissal of roe v wade because access to abortion is heavily abused, only about 5% of abortions are justified by medical or moral reasons. Overturning roe v wade doesn't ban abortion, it simply gives states the ability to make their own laws and stops the federal government from interfering with the politics of the State. Some congress members thinking about "reevaluation" means nothing. And if they DO do away with gay marriage, so what. Why do you need to get the government involved in your love life anyways? Have a wedding, have a ceremony, you just won't be legally bound. If you love each other, why do you need approval from daddy government?
1 u/Whiskeywiskerbiscuit * 09 Feb 2024 04:22
Roe made it illegal to federally ban abortions and states could write their own laws with what they would allow within their framework. What you’re saying the repeal of Roe does is ACTUALLY what the system beforehand did. It barred any states from flatly banning abortion while allowing them to pass restrictions on what was legally allowed in the state. You either had zero clue how Roe and abortion was handled before the overturn or you’re arguing incredibly disingenuously.
1 u/thegnomedome_ 09 Feb 2024 04:52
Overturning it leaves power entirely to the states for the public to vote upon. Many conservs aren't pro-gay, but most quite literally do not care. Not for it, nor against it. A neutral stance on the topic is common ground. I feel it should be protected under the 1st amendment. Conservatives get angry when the libs want to involve children in the whole lgbtqiabcd+ thing. That's the biggest controversy.
1 u/Whiskeywiskerbiscuit 09 Feb 2024 04:56
There’s the backpedaling I’ve been waiting for. Just acknowledge that supporting abortion and gay rights is pretty fucking far from conservative ideology. It’s not that difficult. You can do all of the mental gymnastics you want to pretend conservatives don’t dislike these things when every one of their actions or worlds are directly to the contrary.
1 u/Academic-Release-249 09 Feb 2024 04:55
Oh, the obsession with labels, boxes.
1 u/AlphaOhmega 09 Feb 2024 05:07
Last I checked the conservatives are the only ones who are blowing up the constitution. Trump should be banned from running based on the constitution...
1 u/thegnomedome_ 09 Feb 2024 05:08
Trump was persecuted by his political opponent
1 u/AlphaOhmega 09 Feb 2024 05:10
Yeah prosecuted for a crime he committed. That's called justice.
1 u/thegnomedome_ 09 Feb 2024 05:11
Then why did Biden just get off the hook? They literally said Biden is to dumb to be charged lol
1 u/AlphaOhmega 09 Feb 2024 05:16
For what? What crime has he committed?
1 u/thegnomedome_ 09 Feb 2024 05:34
The same exact classified documents crime they tried to get trump for
1 u/thegnomedome_ 09 Feb 2024 05:36
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/08/us/biden-documents-special-counsel.html
1 u/AlphaOhmega 09 Feb 2024 06:09
but concluded that “no criminal charges are warranted.” I mean it's in the first paragraph my guy...
2 u/thegnomedome_ 09 Feb 2024 06:22
So they say. But even the part about his cognitive decline. How is he allowed to be president if he can't even remember big moments in his life? Dudes always talking about dead people as if they're still around, he shakes hands with the air, he can't speak without being told what to say, and even then he can barely read the teleprompter
1 u/AlphaOhmega 09 Feb 2024 06:26
You're switching arguments. I'm all for Trump and Biden to not be running because of their age. But that's not what we were saying. He hasn't broken any laws.
2 u/thegnomedome_ 09 Feb 2024 06:41
Biden is a treasonous liar, both him and his son
1 u/AlphaOhmega 09 Feb 2024 07:08
I mean your feelings don't match reality. But not much I can do about that.
1 u/Puzzleheaded-Cry6468 09 Feb 2024 07:09
I've found most people are mixture of both.ive always supported LGBT, private property, guns(as long as you're not crazy) amongst other left and right ideas.
1 u/Dry_Egg_1529 09 Feb 2024 01:20
No most conservatives are liberal they believe in individuals freedoms. Most democrats on reddit are leftists that support antifa
1 u/SnaxHeadroom 09 Feb 2024 01:10
They're too stupid to know the difference
1 u/donnylemon 09 Feb 2024 02:22
Um no.
1 u/Own-Pause-5294 09 Feb 2024 02:35
HAHAHAHAHAHA. Just took a peek at your profile. Move along buddy.
2 u/donnylemon 09 Feb 2024 02:43
Go fuck yourself
1 u/Own-Pause-5294 09 Feb 2024 03:05
I wouldn't go that far. You're really misguided but I'm sure you have a good heart. I hope one day you see the error in your thinking, have a good evening.
2 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 03:29
No, those are Regressive Leftists. Liberals are more like what I am... hate being told what to do by the government. Wants smaller almost nonexistent government power. And I voted for the evil orange man because I really thought his foreign policies, border plan, and economics were spot on.
1 u/tacticalman4566 09 Feb 2024 04:13
You voted for him because you fell for his populist talking points not because your a "liberal" that likes "small government"
2 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 04:33
Wrong there kiddo. You just want to push your agenda and put everyone in a box that doesn't agree with you. Bet you agree with Hillary when she says people that lean right or vote for Trump need to be reprogrammed.
1 u/tacticalman4566 09 Feb 2024 04:42
I don’t like Hillary, and republicans do that too I mean there is a reason why RINO is a term that is currently used by the GOP
2 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 04:47
And yet here you are telling a complete stranger based off of one vote why a candidate appealed to them. 😉 of course, rinos exist... they can eff right off as well. Long live our Constitutional Republic.... though at this rate, it won't. And at this point we could use getting shaken up and some actual real hard times to either cure us or have someone else become the global power house.
1 u/tacticalman4566 09 Feb 2024 04:52
So they deserve to not be considered republicans because they disagree with where the party is going/not agreeing with the Trumpist hivemind? Isn’t that  an example of putting someone that disagrees with them in a box 😂 
3 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 05:06
Obviously that was going to be your take. To once again just take something I didn't even say and twist it. You really have nothing else other than that trick huh? I mean it's trash and easily seen. But you really only have that one don't you? 🤣
1 u/tacticalman4566 09 Feb 2024 05:40
Is it not? You said that I wanted to push my agenda and put every one that disagrees with me in a box then I brought up how republicans are called RINOs for not being trumpist as an example of pushing an agenda and putting everyone that disagrees with so and so in a box. Every political party/ group does that, it’s not exclusive to one party/group. For example a lot of republicans call people who disagree with them leftists, or woke or, what ever popular buzzword that can be used as a negative adjective. Wouldn’t that be a prime example of putting those who disagree with me in a box? Or, is it different?
0 u/GunsNGamesYT * 09 Feb 2024 18:17
That is not what a liberal is, that's what a right libertarian is. A liberal is closer to being a centrist, they put money above all but believe they should be the ones in control because they are the "third way" -- would recommend you research third wayists.
2 u/vintagesoul_DE 09 Feb 2024 05:33
It's leftists. I'm a classic Liberal and get banned from those places because I'm to the right of them. Anything to the right of them they consider evil.
1 u/Meatyeggroll 08 Feb 2024 21:16
Smells like cope.
1 u/CherryShort2563 08 Feb 2024 22:46
Absolutely. These are the people that still believe Bowling Green Massacre didn't happen.
1 u/Therego_PropterHawk 09 Feb 2024 00:06
Eh. I got banned by alt right on r/conspiracy ... people like their safe little bubbles right or left. Fwiw, I skew more nihilist so idgaf, we'll all be dead soon and none of this matters.
4 u/Shadow2-1 09 Feb 2024 00:24
Just go on r/facepalm and see how left wing leaning they are lol
1 u/No_Cook2983 09 Feb 2024 01:07
Next think you know they’ll be banning books! …oh wait…
1 u/sololegend89 09 Feb 2024 01:15
How many (R) legislators and activists have been behind defunding libraries and banning books in school districts?? This type of idiocy is why people make fun of right wingers. Literally too stupid to have a conversation with.
2 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 03:50
When chomos like to push sex to kids in their school libraries... yeah that's an issue.
1 u/tacticalman4566 09 Feb 2024 04:16
When you call a group of people that aren't like you chomos imma rightfully assume that you aren't the brightest tool in the shed
2 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 04:30
Pushing sex to children... especially in grade school is a grooming feature of chomos. And I'm not going to apologize for that.
1 u/tacticalman4566 09 Feb 2024 04:40
Is sex ed pushing sex to kids?
3 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 04:43
Another lie... the books that we all know are being pushed are not educational at all. So let's not pretend like that's what you really mean here.
1 u/tacticalman4566 09 Feb 2024 04:48
Ion think you understand the question so let me spell it out for you so that your slow ass can understand. Would Sexual Education count as “gooming”? like actual sex ed not some silly little book 
3 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 05:03
I've seen this game before, and you tend to only read what you want to see vs. what's actually there... you didn't respond to the real issues, and you are asking me now only in this reply if sexual education is grooming. I know your game boy... you keep asking shit and never answer when asked. (Everyone who doesn't agree with you is some Christian whacko or some crap... how utterly cliché and very 2004) Are the books that bring sexual fantasies and push all forms of sex to kids in a story format to make it enticing and attempt to cause sexual curiosity and arousal ok to be in a school library (not a non-fiction class session about reproductive anatomy or safe/sex education in a very specific taught environment with parental consent using carefully approved literature)? If that question doesn't also answer your question, then you are not anywhere close to being as smart as you think. Please prove me wrong by actually answering the above question intelligently.... I won't hold my breath. 😊 Bottom line in case you miss it. 5 year olds or hell even older don't need access to books that teach or promote sex or teach about sexuality... let them be kids ffs.
1 u/tacticalman4566 09 Feb 2024 05:29
Any smart person would know that this isn’t a real issue that Americans have to worry about. Sure get rid of the truly explicit books but this whole issue is just pure virtue signaling 
3 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 05:38
And yet... it is an issue. And the Regressive Leftists wish to have it all in schools for children to take in. It is happening, and to deny it at this point is to condone it because there is irrefutable proof you can watch with your own eyes.
1 u/tacticalman4566 09 Feb 2024 05:43
Leftist have real issues to worry about instead of pointless fear mongering from people that don’t won’t to reform education 
3 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 05:48
Yeah.... how's that gender affirming care by cutting off the breasts of little girls going for the Left? Real groundbreaking stuff there. Considering that whole suicide push is only to promote a being that will forever be a slave to big pharma for the hormones among other issues.... let's not even go down the fake penis path. Think John Money was great, huh?
1 u/tacticalman4566 09 Feb 2024 06:00
Ever heard of gyno before? Tons of men get breast reduction to cure it, and have you ever met a woman that gotten breast reduction to spare themselves for back pain? And you mean Neo-penises right? Something that the majority of trans men can’t afford nor is it widely assessable. I can tell you have no original thoughts about any issues that this country is going through nor the intelligence to interact with groups different in you. It would be funny if their weren’t hordes of “freethinkers” like you voting and making policies.
3 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 06:10
Little girls getting double mastectomies was exactly what I said. Keep on attempting to troll though. It's adorable at this point. ❤️
1 u/tacticalman4566 09 Feb 2024 06:20
Transmen don’t get mastectomies they get breast reductions… Unless these hypothetical little girls all have breast cancer from some odd reason no reputable plastic surgeon is going to doing anything to a kid. Like I said before you don’t have any original thoughts your simple and easy to control perfect tools for the elite
3 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 06:24
Except you know... the proof passed on by their sick parents.... they showcase it. You're not even good at setting a trap. Saw this coming a very long ways away. Find the pics yourself. They exist and the Regressive Leftists are very, very proud to mutilate children.
1 u/tacticalman4566 09 Feb 2024 06:35
You say leftist but me starts to think that you have no clue about anything about leftism let alone politics. Is this true?
3 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 06:38
Whatever you say to get yourself through the day auth-lefty.
1 u/tacticalman4566 09 Feb 2024 06:41
Auth-lefty 😭 you have to be a whole ass child dawg. No one is gonna take you seriously if you go around calling people that
3 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 06:43
It fits exactly how you've been acting. 🤣 lace that bitch up
1 u/tacticalman4566 09 Feb 2024 06:46
At this rate your scaring all the bitches 
3 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 06:50
What's next? A mother joke?
5 u/hillbillytendencies 09 Feb 2024 02:02
I referred to Elizabeth Warren as a dumpster fire and that was the end of that. Was a Massachusetts resident for 28 years at that point and knew a dumpster fire when I saw one.
2 u/Tha_Sly_Fox 09 Feb 2024 03:18
Reddit leans heavily left, i keep trying to remind myself this country isn’t largely extreme right or extreme left but Reddit certainly makes it feel that way
2 u/Jackofallfables 09 Feb 2024 03:26
I swear Reddit makes my hackles rise every time I go on. The amount of idiots and hypocrites along with the moderators who espouse leftist dogma pisses me off.
1 u/tacticalman4566 09 Feb 2024 04:17
I doubt that he vast majority of mods are actively supporting a dictatorship of the working class
2 u/slippyman888 09 Feb 2024 06:48
It’s because they have an army of bots
1 u/ReputationNo8109 09 Feb 2024 04:10
After looking through this guys comment history, I’m surprised he’s not banned from Reddit entirely. Guarantee he has a Russian IP address. This post is just for more attention so he can spread more worthlessness.
1 u/BigJakesr 09 Feb 2024 04:13
I got banned from r/conservative for having a bad opinion of Trump, sp it goes both ways.
1 u/MonkeyNihilist 09 Feb 2024 06:31
But but r/conservative doesn’t block anyone at all
14 u/Away_Read1834 * 08 Feb 2024 17:06
I mean this has been know for years that Reddit mods and admins are nothing but left wing lunatics who rage against fascism and then act as the biggest fascists of all. That sub needs nuked. Anybody who belongs to it should go play in traffic
-2 u/realistthoughts † 08 Feb 2024 17:07
Well put
-4 u/BitterWest 08 Feb 2024 17:49
Honestly they are just as bad as the conservative subreddit. They spend some much time bashing each other, all while essentially using the same words to insult each other.  It’s so tribal very little nuance. 
3 u/Bovinae_Elbow [OP] † 08 Feb 2024 18:05
Both can be wrong, would love a space where the two worlds can meet and discuss topics.
2 u/BankForward969 08 Feb 2024 20:47
I agree with you bro. I find it deeply concerning how two sides can so abrasive my hate each other for assumptions that they only think one way.
3 u/Bovinae_Elbow [OP] 08 Feb 2024 21:06
It’s the sin of painting with a large brush.
1 u/Therego_PropterHawk 09 Feb 2024 00:11
Large bushes are so 1980s.
1 u/MinuteAd2523 08 Feb 2024 20:47
Genuinely haven't been able to go on r/conservative since the '16 election. Every other post is "Girl attacked by Migrant in X City", "Trans person arrested for SA of a minor in Y State". Like what do either of those things have to do with the policies of conservatism, lmao.
1 u/dropkick941 08 Feb 2024 22:12
Lol, "just act like a hateful bigot to be mocked, don't post any kind of supporting evidence that could make your view look rational."
1 u/AleksanderSuave 08 Feb 2024 22:25
The current discussion is Ukraine war, and Tucker Carlson interviewing Putin, but nothing like unsubstantiated lies to prove your point about how much a sub dislikes immigrants. I’m sure with how much they just can’t stand immigrants, they must have really struggled giving me the “conservative immigrant” flair /s
4 u/Dry_Egg_1529 08 Feb 2024 23:39
Sharing an article about an illegal immigrant raping a girl means you hate immigrants? The only people that hate immigrants are democrats when said immigrants don't vote Democrat. Same with black people. Might want to address ol Joe " if you don't vote Democrat you ain't black" Biden before complaining about other racists lol
1 u/HenryClaysDesk 09 Feb 2024 02:07
He was based af for saying that.
1 u/Dry_Egg_1529 09 Feb 2024 02:42
Fax tho
1 u/HenryClaysDesk 09 Feb 2024 02:07
Yeah, no it’s just as big of a dumpster fire.
-7 u/iforgotmypen 08 Feb 2024 21:56
"I'm not allowed to scream the n word at someone I think is a diversity hire? Clearly leftists are the REAL fascists"
2 u/Away_Read1834 08 Feb 2024 22:45
Oh no I offended the 12 year Reddit account that Actually belongs to that sub… Did it take you all day to come up with that made up scenario in your head?
1 u/iforgotmypen 08 Feb 2024 22:49
I've been banned from /politics since 2016
2 u/Therego_PropterHawk 09 Feb 2024 00:12
Straw men take a while to create.
1 u/Dry_Egg_1529 09 Feb 2024 00:02
Strawman argument. Next. Like do you guys really believe this shit about Republicans or are you really this fucking stupid
1 u/iforgotmypen 09 Feb 2024 00:35
I've just noticed a trend when people complain about censorship they're usually talking about forming an ethnostate or executing trans people and that's why their accounts get banned.
1 u/Buy_The-Ticket 09 Feb 2024 00:57
Facts
3 u/Dry_Egg_1529 09 Feb 2024 01:18
Not facts. Literal bigotry
1 u/Dry_Egg_1529 09 Feb 2024 01:18
Where did you notice this trend? If me saying I don't want a book that shows a boy giving oral sex to another boy in school libraries would you call me transphobic? Just trying to get a baseline here
1 u/iforgotmypen 09 Feb 2024 01:39
You can see this shit everywhere in "conservative" spaces. They downplay their insane bullshit with stuff like "this grandma walked in the capitol on January 6th and now she's facing thirty years in prison!!!" then you look up the case and she smashed a cop in the face with a fucking ice pick. And you DEFINITELY see it all over reddit where people whine about catching a ban somewhere, they say something like "I was banned for going against the leftist narrative!!!" then you check out their comment history and it's some unhinged white nationalist bullshit about drowning immigrants in razor wire
1 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 03:58
They don't believe it, they just want to win so they keep pushing the narrative. Politics became a team sport back in 2012. I voted for Obama first term 2008 and fell for his charisma and lies... that was the deeper inlay of the country's political division due to false hate claims based on identity politics. All the attention grabbing became a lust for power and still remains to this day.
2 u/AikiBro 08 Feb 2024 22:06
>I just block anybody who responds to me :)
1 u/No_Pilot_9103 08 Feb 2024 23:20
Response
1 u/Therego_PropterHawk 09 Feb 2024 00:10
But see man. I get the anger but "go play in traffic" is just so unproductive. Be part of the solution... we can do it!
13 u/ClotworthyChute 08 Feb 2024 20:53
Reddit left wingers have zero sense of humor. It’s easy to see their frowns in each comment. Don’t taunt the animals. 🙂
-2 u/HenryClaysDesk 09 Feb 2024 02:06
I mean, let’s be real right wing circles are just as fragile. You criticize the Cheeto man too much and you’re getting banned.
4 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 03:54
3 day old account and 237 karma.... yeah. You really have been through it all. Don't want to hear if it's an alt account either that just makes it worse. The left karma farms and posts absolute cringe sjw trash. Very similar to below. "I might get a lot of hate here... but I hate Donald Trump! Eff those tRumpers! We are the Resistance! Whooooo!" *Fist in the air -Typical Regressive Leftist Sheep 10k upvotes in 2 days time😂😂
3 u/MoisterOyster19 09 Feb 2024 06:34
Right? I've criticized Donald Trump multiple times on r conerservative and never been banned once. There are multiple criticisms of him. Only people here suppressing speech are liberals
12 u/AikiBro 08 Feb 2024 18:20
> the sub meant for all Americans to discuss politics Where did you get that silly idea?
6 u/SnooWonder 08 Feb 2024 21:29
Well if you own a sub like "politics" it should be for all politics, for any user who can sign up fo reddit. Of course that's not how this works. \> Reddit can be better. Hahaha. This made me laugh.
1 u/Ashurb4nip4l 08 Feb 2024 21:31
I like how no other countries are involved. Just the USA, lol!
1 u/Gtrfgg 08 Feb 2024 23:58
RAHHH 🦅🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🔥🔥🔥
1 u/im_rod_i_party 09 Feb 2024 03:37
Right wingers want to have equal representation, everywhere, even when they're wrong
6 u/MotivatedSolid 08 Feb 2024 22:12
Reddit is a left wing extremism safe-space. You will have people openly claim to be pro-communist here. Or they’re socialist but secretly communist without even knowing it. I hate it. And I’m not even right winged; my ideologies when it comes to elections is never automatically aligned to just one candidate because he is left/right.
-2 u/_Foulbear_ 09 Feb 2024 00:17
You got a problem with people having beliefs different from your own?
2 u/MotivatedSolid 09 Feb 2024 00:18
It can get annoying when people brigade a particular subreddit or interject a political stance into a conversation when it’s not called for
1 u/_Foulbear_ 09 Feb 2024 00:25
What does "Brigade" mean? What behaviour would you consider acceptable for leftists on Reddit?
1 u/MotivatedSolid 09 Feb 2024 00:27
Nunya
1 u/_Foulbear_ 09 Feb 2024 00:30
That's what I thought.
1 u/MotivatedSolid 09 Feb 2024 00:30
What did you think exactly?
1 u/wherethegr 09 Feb 2024 03:23
“Brigade” in this context is when people go to a subreddit to participate in bad faith in order to silence something they disagree with. Such as the perpetual coordinated attack on r/conservative to downvote and report any actual conservative viewpoints and replace them with upvoted liberal comments.
1 u/_Foulbear_ 09 Feb 2024 09:13
Man, y'all are so desperate to be victims. That is the wildest part of your ideology to me.
1 u/wherethegr 09 Feb 2024 10:23
It’s against the TOS
2 u/BlackHandDevilot 09 Feb 2024 06:35
You mean, you research the candidates and issues? You're clearly a witch. BURN THE WITCH!
1 u/I_Said_I_Say 09 Feb 2024 22:53
Who's the left wing candidate in America?
4 u/DetroitsChaos4678 † 08 Feb 2024 18:41
Left wing? Liberalism is firmly on the right. Only in America is it falsely claimed as leftist.
3 u/Impressive_Ad8715 08 Feb 2024 19:59
You’re gonna need to explain this a bit more then… so liberalism and conservatism (basically opposing viewpoints) are *both* on the right? What exactly is the left then?
1 u/Adventurous-Bee-1517 08 Feb 2024 20:04
The American Democratic Party would be considered right of center in basically every other country in the world.
1 u/UnfairAd7220 08 Feb 2024 20:08
LOL! Its neo bolshevist. Wake up.
3 u/Own-Pause-5294 08 Feb 2024 21:16
Satire?
1 u/Impressive_Ad8715 08 Feb 2024 20:12
So, again.. give me *examples*. I hear people say this all the time but it makes no sense lol. The American Democratic Party would be considered “on the right” in Africa? In Latin America? In the Middle East? Does “the rest of the world” mean Western Europe to you? Or else you need to explain what policies make the American Democratic Party “on the right”. And what policies do “real left wing” political parties have?
1 u/Adventurous-Bee-1517 08 Feb 2024 20:18
You hear people say this all the time but never think to Google it yourself? Okay so some examples would be healthcare and education, those are two areas the Democratic Party would be considered right of center as those are provided by the government in many countries, prison reform would be another.
3 u/luckycharming1 08 Feb 2024 20:24
Those are economically left wing, yes. When Americans talk about “leftists”, they are referring to *socially* left wing people, not always economically left wing people
1 u/Adventurous-Bee-1517 08 Feb 2024 20:26
That’s simply not true. Economically the American Democratic Party is right of center compared to much of Europe.
1 u/Thedudewhosmokedpot 08 Feb 2024 21:10
But the democratic party believes in those things here. They just can't get it passed. It's not like they believe differently  
1 u/Adventurous-Bee-1517 08 Feb 2024 21:12
No they don’t. A subsect of them do but the vast majority do not. If they did Bernie sanders would’ve won the nomination not Biden.
-1 u/Thedudewhosmokedpot 08 Feb 2024 21:21
The democratic party chose Hilary before hand. They got into trouble for this, if your old enough to remember.
1 u/Adventurous-Bee-1517 08 Feb 2024 21:22
Yup and again if a majority of the dems supported what you say they do they wouldn’t have chosen her either. You’re arguing against yourself at this point and seemingly don’t realize it.
1 u/Thedudewhosmokedpot 08 Feb 2024 21:25
Your wrong. They thought she was a more moderate candidate and they were hoping they would steal some republican votes. They didn't think Republicans would vote for Bernie at all. That's why they chose her. Has nothing to do with their beliefs. They just didn't think Bernie could win.
1 u/Adventurous-Bee-1517 08 Feb 2024 21:30
So, you think Democratic voters across the country thought well Bernie sanders is closer to what I believe but I’ll choose Hillary because she’s closer to what Trump supporters believe. Jesus. You have a good day, guy, this is going absolutely nowhere.
0 u/Thedudewhosmokedpot 08 Feb 2024 21:31
Voters didn't get the chance. The establishment chose Hillary.
1 u/Adventurous-Bee-1517 08 Feb 2024 21:31
lol sure thing, sweetie, whatever you say.
2 u/luckycharming1 08 Feb 2024 21:25
I know. Which why I said that leftists in America are *socially* leftist, not economically leftist
2 u/Adventurous-Bee-1517 08 Feb 2024 21:30
Ahh ok I misread it.
1 u/luckycharming1 08 Feb 2024 22:02
All good 👍
1 u/Impressive_Ad8715 08 Feb 2024 20:24
Lol no I have googled it… and basically everything listed as being “leftism” or left wing aligns almost perfectly with the American Democratic Party - from economics (welfare state) to environmentalism, to social progressivism, to secularism… the Democratic Party, mostly, supports healthcare reform. It’s definitely the truth that the American Democratic Party is *very left wing* in much of the world. You could even say that the American Republican Party is left of center for a good portion of the world lol. People definitely bring out the “the American Democratic Party is right of center in the rest of the world” quote to try to make it seem as though, we’ll jeez if *they’re* right of center, then the republicans must be *ultra mega right of center*
2 u/Adventurous-Bee-1517 08 Feb 2024 20:25
This is one of the most ridiculously dumb things I’ve ever read on reddit. Thank you.
1 u/Impressive_Ad8715 08 Feb 2024 20:31
It must be your first day on Reddit then lololol. You’re not gonna provide a rebuttal? The American Republican Party *wouldn’t* be left of center in the political spectrum of Iran? Or Saudi Arabia? Or Zimbabwe? Or Egypt? Should I go on?
1 u/Adventurous-Bee-1517 08 Feb 2024 20:32
No rebuttal necessary. I try to avoid dumbasses as much as possible.
1 u/Impressive_Ad8715 08 Feb 2024 20:35
Lolol exactly what I thought. Just run away now. No need to defend your position when it gets challenged
1 u/Adventurous-Bee-1517 08 Feb 2024 20:36
You didn’t challenge anything. You’re just an idiot and there’s no need to discuss anything further about it with ya.
0 u/Impressive_Ad8715 08 Feb 2024 20:38
Would the Democratic party be right wing in Saudi Arabia? That’s called challenging your assertion. Are you gonna defend it? Or just name call when you can’t?
1 u/Bovinae_Elbow [OP] 08 Feb 2024 20:46
Don't waste your time, the person you're dealing with is as useful as a wet blanket.
1 u/Impressive_Ad8715 08 Feb 2024 20:54
The thing is, I wouldn’t even argue if he said that the American Democratic Party is right of center *in most of western europe*. But Western Europe isn’t the center of the damn universe that represents all of humanity lol.
1 u/TopRealz 08 Feb 2024 20:58
You wanna say *‘arguing with this person is about as useful as a wet blanket’* not to refer to the person themselves that way This is why you got banned,, personal attacks are gonna get you banned
1 u/Impressive_Ad8715 08 Feb 2024 21:13
How about the guy calling me an idiot, dumbass, etc? Are those personal attacks?
1 u/TopRealz 08 Feb 2024 21:30
Yes they both are. In fact I had already reported him
0 u/kurtu5 08 Feb 2024 20:48
So you avoid things by not avoiding them and making comments?
1 u/Adventurous-Bee-1517 08 Feb 2024 20:49
I told him why people say it. The fact he’s a dumbass came up afterwards. He has access to Google, if he’s really interested in why people say it he can Google it because I avoid dumbasses.
0 u/kurtu5 08 Feb 2024 20:55
>because I avoid dumbasses. oh, so you say.
1 u/Adventurous-Bee-1517 08 Feb 2024 20:59
You seem kinda like a dumbass too
1 u/kurtu5 08 Feb 2024 22:20
You say alot of things.
1 u/Impressive_Ad8715 08 Feb 2024 21:15
lol bro is mad. Everyone’s a dumbass now
1 u/PollutionMan69 08 Feb 2024 20:28
I mean I say it and when I do I discount countries that are Dictatorships or something close to it... But yeah, that discounts a lot of countries...
1 u/Impressive_Ad8715 08 Feb 2024 20:36
Soooo like I said, basically just Western Europe then? Talk about eurocentrism…
1 u/PollutionMan69 08 Feb 2024 20:53
You aren't going to change anyone's mind by ultra straw man arguments my man. I dont think it makes since to include places where people can't vote because it's nothing like are our government... and it's pretty true for most of the Americas/Europe/Australia/South East Asia.... Obviously not every country but a lot of them.
1 u/Impressive_Ad8715 08 Feb 2024 20:57
Ok, but that’s like *maybe half the world*? It’s not a straw man when I gave him literally half the globe, if not more. Several southeast Asian countries have the death penalty for drug dealers? Would that be a left wing policy?
1 u/PollutionMan69 08 Feb 2024 21:20
Yeah I'm counting first world democratic counties more... it seems logical to me. Asia does stuff like legal prostitution and free healthcare but they will kill you from having some pot... it could probably be argued either way where they fall.
1 u/Impressive_Ad8715 08 Feb 2024 21:25
But that was point to begin with… it’s not “the rest of the world” if you don’t count any of the countries that don’t fit your argument. That’s using exaggeration to support your position. That’s like me saying “the Republican Party is left wing in the rest of the world… but not counting Western Europe… or Australia… or New Zealand… or parts of Asia… or parts of Latin America. If you just discount half the world, then it isn’t “the rest of the world” lol
1 u/PollutionMan69 08 Feb 2024 21:47
I guess the way I say it is the vast majority of developed countries... I don't ever see anyone one say "Literally the rest of the world." Almost all the contries I exclude are ones that 95% of Americans would agree they dont want to be... I just dont see why anyone would include
1 u/kurtu5 08 Feb 2024 20:43
> we’ll jeez if they’re right of center, then the republicans must be ultra mega right of center
2 u/Usual-Vanilla-Stuff 08 Feb 2024 20:25
Maybe try looking up the platform of the Democratic party. Please cite, specifically, what planks within the Democrats' platform that you find to be on the right of center when compared to Europe or "the world."
1 u/Adventurous-Bee-1517 08 Feb 2024 20:26
Health care education and prison reform. Literally what I stated in the comment you’re responding to. Any other questions, chief?
1 u/Usual-Vanilla-Stuff 08 Feb 2024 20:27
What makes the Democratic party's views right of center on these issues?
1 u/Adventurous-Bee-1517 08 Feb 2024 20:28
In much of the western world those things are provided by taxes. Prison reform is about rehabilitation and not punishment like it is here.
2 u/Usual-Vanilla-Stuff 08 Feb 2024 20:28
So you didn't look up the Democratic party's platform
1 u/Adventurous-Bee-1517 08 Feb 2024 20:29
I don’t need to.
2 u/Usual-Vanilla-Stuff 08 Feb 2024 20:29
And that's why you are ignorant.
1 u/Adventurous-Bee-1517 08 Feb 2024 20:29
Aww someone’s big mad they were wrong
0 u/Thedudewhosmokedpot 08 Feb 2024 21:11
The democratic party believes in paying for those things by goverment. So therefore they believe in the exact same thing they do in Europe. 
1 u/Impressive_Ad8715 08 Feb 2024 21:20
The guy is a troll
0 u/Impressive_Ad8715 08 Feb 2024 21:19
Now he’s qualifying it with “*most* of the *western* world”…. Started off as “the rest of the world” 🤣
0 u/ChristIsLord862 08 Feb 2024 21:13
This myth of private prisons in the US gets touted around reddit like wild fire. There are 8% of the entire US prison population in private prisons. The rest are government run units. So please explain to me what needs to be done?
1 u/Adventurous-Bee-1517 08 Feb 2024 21:14
I’m not sure what you mean by that to be honest. Prison reform isn’t about private vs public it’s about how they are used.
0 u/ChristIsLord862 08 Feb 2024 21:15
Private prisons isn't a term that gets tossed around constantly on this website? Shall I search the term in the bar at the top and show some examples mr instant downvote?
1 u/Adventurous-Bee-1517 08 Feb 2024 21:16
I’m not sure why you would search it or why you are bringing it up. I didn’t say anything about private prisons. You’re getting downvoted because you’re being hostile for some unknown reason.
1 u/tacticalman4566 09 Feb 2024 04:06
real left wing parties aren't capitalist while right wing parties are(liberals).
1 u/AleksanderSuave 08 Feb 2024 22:34
Sure, but the same nuance applies to the current democrat party. By textbook definition, Biden would be a moderate in America, while AOC would be a true “leftist”
1 u/Adventurous-Bee-1517 08 Feb 2024 22:42
Yes current Biden is def more center/moderate. Prior to 2020 I would’ve described him as right of center. AOC is def closer to a true leftist but she hardly makes up the majority of the dem voting block.
1 u/AleksanderSuave 08 Feb 2024 22:46
The problem is one group (moderates) will age out much sooner than later, and the future (extreme leftists) will likely replace them. I’m not interested in pursuing the direction of the green new deal, or other leftist policies proposed by AOC or her “SQUAD”. I have nothing against improving health insurance or free college education in the US, so I’m not exactly “right” either, but I would prefer not to be taxed any more than we already are, for benefits we don’t actually get.
1 u/Adventurous-Bee-1517 08 Feb 2024 22:49
Ok
1 u/BankForward969 08 Feb 2024 20:48
The devils in the details
2 u/SparrowOat 08 Feb 2024 20:17
Lmao no
1 u/inscrutablemike 08 Feb 2024 20:48
The rest of the world uses "liberal" to mean Enlightenment advocates of individual liberty. Americans call leftists "liberals", and I've never heard of a good explanation why. Probably for the same reason our Nazis call themselves "Progressives".
1 u/AikiBro 08 Feb 2024 22:11
> and I've never heard of a good explanation why. Have you ever looked for one? You seem to be throwing around your ignorance of history like a badge of pride. I looked this up very easily.
1 u/inscrutablemike 08 Feb 2024 22:20
And you're just being a bitch in public. That doesn't inspire people to care about your opinion.
4 u/tinderthrowawayeleve 08 Feb 2024 19:57
Ban aside, you were posting quite a bit defending Trump in there. Opposing trump isn't inherently left-wing or even inherently pro-Democratic Party
1 u/Bovinae_Elbow [OP] 08 Feb 2024 20:01
You have option A or B, it is the system we have. I am sure you feel the same way, where you measure out who dislike the least.
1 u/tinderthrowawayeleve 08 Feb 2024 20:03
Yeah. The system isn't the issue here. I'm saying your framing of what's left is very skewed and that opposing what you say about Trump isn't necessarily left-wing. I'm not even saying that how you decided to support Trump doesn't make logical sense
1 u/AleksanderSuave 08 Feb 2024 22:20
The “never-trump” brigade isn’t inherently left-wing? Boy, I’ve learned a lot today.
1 u/tinderthrowawayeleve 08 Feb 2024 22:26
I'm not speaking about the state of subs on here and what they accuse people of. I'm saying what is true about politics. There are Republicans who hate Trump. There are conservative and centrist independents who hate Trump. It's not an inherently left-wing position, even if there are people who quickly jump to calling people "MAGATs" or label them as a Trump supporter
1 u/AleksanderSuave 08 Feb 2024 22:53
In the US AND on left Reddit subs concerning US politics, it is absolutely a left-wing position to call people trump supporters, nazis, and “MAGATS”. Outspoken liberal media personalities like Michael Eric Dyson were literally made infamous by calling Trump supporters “Maggots” Feel free to google how many left leaning politicians refer to Trump supporters as Nazis, Maggots, and the like.
1 u/Dry_Egg_1529 09 Feb 2024 00:21
Yes is it lol Conservatives who don't like trump aren't going to compare them to insects like Hitler did with the Jews. Nice try though
2 u/MitrofanMariya 11 Feb 2024 21:03
I have been told that I am "right wing" when literally quoting Vladimir Lenin - leader of the communist revolution. Blue MAGA types are incongruent with reality.
4 u/SnaxHeadroom 08 Feb 2024 20:37
I mean if you browsing SeattleWA is any indicator...
3 u/Bovinae_Elbow [OP] 08 Feb 2024 20:45
Imagine looking at the other sub....
-2 u/SnaxHeadroom 08 Feb 2024 20:46
I'd rather see local news and niche memes than...*checks notes* bitching about the homeless while not even living in Seattle? That's 50% of the reactionary seattlewa sub.
2 u/Bovinae_Elbow [OP] 08 Feb 2024 22:26
Call me crazy, but I personally didn't enjoy having our buildings smashed out every night during the BLM riots. Also don't enjoy watching our fellow man oding in the street and watching users blast off in a park with kids.
1 u/LimpBizkit420Swag 09 Feb 2024 00:04
I mean i'd be pretty upset if my city's government allowed and encouraged a bunch of pissy, rich, property destroying 20 somethings to block off a section of the city just to flex on Twitter/Instagram and and masquerade as a third world country and then go home when they got bored
1 u/blueplanet96 09 Feb 2024 02:36
Let me guess; you frequent r/Seattle don’t you?
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3 u/Paincoast89 † 08 Feb 2024 18:17
Looking at your comment history on the post you mention and I can see why lol. Instead of having a political conversation you default to attacking the sub for being the same people, it breaks the sub rules albeit you barely break the rules. Calling a discussion that instantly defaults to attacks a political one is crazy imo
1 u/Bovinae_Elbow [OP] 08 Feb 2024 18:52
If you compare to what I was called, then not crazy in the slightest.
3 u/PollutionMan69 08 Feb 2024 20:20
Honestly the right wing subreddits are much more rediculous, hell you can't even post in r/conservative on almost all the posts unless you are a verified...
1 u/Bovinae_Elbow [OP] 08 Feb 2024 20:28
Not saying you're wrong, just wishing for room on more generalized subreddits.
1 u/PollutionMan69 08 Feb 2024 22:14
Yeah I don't think there are many, most become echo chambers.
1 u/Novel_Alfalfa_9013 08 Feb 2024 21:15
You referring to the *Flaired LUsers Only* threads? They're such snowflakes.
1 u/PrescriptionsBySulla 08 Feb 2024 23:45
Considering practically every post in this sub is from someone who got banned by leftists and there is practically nothing from people that got banned by a RW sub, I’m thinking this is false.
1 u/PollutionMan69 09 Feb 2024 00:10
Oh I've been banned by a few of them. Conservative/The donald/Tucker Carlson one... probably more. I mean the conservative one you are basically pre banned lol
1 u/PrescriptionsBySulla 09 Feb 2024 00:13
Well considering that a majority of Redditors are either bots or foreign intelligence trolls trying to sow dissent, it’s not surprising that certain subs would require that. And as someone else pointed out, it’s a Conservative sub…. It’s not masquerading as neutral ground. Basically every sub that isn’t specifically right wing outright is populated and moderated by Marxists.
3 u/SnaxHeadroom 08 Feb 2024 20:39
It's almost like unpaid labor yields shitty results.
3 u/silvavenator1997 † 08 Feb 2024 21:59
It's volunteer lmao. Don't act like the mods are employees forced to work who aren't getting paid, they choose to do it.
-3 u/AikiBro 08 Feb 2024 22:07
>volunteer So unpaid labor?
3 u/silvavenator1997 09 Feb 2024 00:46
By people who are choosing to do it.
3 u/OutsideOrganization9 08 Feb 2024 21:18
I was banned as well.
1 u/stataryus 09 Feb 2024 04:12
For what?
3 u/I_hate_mortality 08 Feb 2024 22:48
I forgot that sub even exists
2 u/One_Highway2563 † 08 Feb 2024 17:19
getting banned from a leftist subreddit is a badge of honor. i want to display all the subs im banned from proudly
3 u/tinnfoil2 08 Feb 2024 19:51
I was banned from both r/politics and r/conservative. Both sides are full of self-righteous assholes, however, the right is far worse...usually out of pure ignorance or misinformation.
1 u/Bovinae_Elbow [OP] 08 Feb 2024 19:59
Yeah not a good thing, people talking is a useful effort.
2 u/HeartyDogStew † 08 Feb 2024 20:12
The difference is, r/conservative makes no claims towards being unbiased, their bias is literally built into the subreddit’s name.  In contrast, r/politics is making an implicit claim that the only politics that should be viewed are leftist politics.
1 u/tinnfoil2 08 Feb 2024 20:19
I haven't been on there in probably a year, so I assume it's worse. I also think that conservatives in general don't realize how right wing their political views actually are.
1 u/_Marat 08 Feb 2024 20:43
Could you provide an example of a generally accepted U.S. conservative opinion that is a sleeper right wing opinion? I am genuinely curious and asking in good faith, because I see this sentiment posted all over this site but I rarely see anyone cite any examples other than pointing out loud fringe lunatics, of which there are plenty on either side of the political spectrum.
1 u/tinnfoil2 08 Feb 2024 20:49
Well, believing that there is an actual left in the US is a joke. Stance on labor unions, taxation, military spending, healthcare, liking Ayn Rand, all the Jesus stuff...pretty right-wing from an honest observation.
1 u/_Marat 08 Feb 2024 20:52
We’re talking about the U.S., you have to operate within the Overton window of U.S. politics. It’s a cop out to say “conservatives are right wing extremists because democrats are right wing moderates.” I can’t address anything else in your comment because any comparison I make to the U.S. left will just get thrown out by your initial pretense that a “U.S. left” doesn’t exist.
1 u/tinnfoil2 08 Feb 2024 21:09
I understand, I wasn't aware I was getting into a collegiate debate. Pretty much answered your own question with working within the Overton window of us politics... The Republican party is a right-wing party.
1 u/tinnfoil2 08 Feb 2024 20:50
Just as an experiment, try and find someone to the right of Trump...that's not just a Nazi. Then try to find someone to the left of Biden...you can see what the spectrum is.
1 u/_Marat 08 Feb 2024 20:56
I am not a trump supporter, I think he’s a moron. But he openly supports gay marriage and his kids are married to Jews, he’s just more of a capitalist and business crony idiot. There are a multitude of political positions in a spectrum to his right before you get to whatever you’re going to erroneously describe as “Nazism.”
1 u/AleksanderSuave 08 Feb 2024 22:33
Agreed, and same here. The idea that it’s socially acceptable (and encouraged on Reddit) to label anyone right leaning as a Nazi is part of root problem of how we got here
1 u/tinnfoil2 08 Feb 2024 20:21
Also, I got into a dispute with a Reddit mod a while ago and all of a sudden my account of like 10 years was deleted...is that a thing they will/can do?
1 u/anonanon5320 08 Feb 2024 20:34
Ya, I got a sitewide ban over someone else breaking the rules but because I wasn’t promoting the pure left viewpoint I got the mega ban.
2 u/tinnfoil2 08 Feb 2024 20:43
Fun, yea I reported the mod that banned me and then my account was deleted.
1 u/Parkwaydrive777 08 Feb 2024 21:35
I got banned from a sub I wasn't subbed to or ever used, that I had seen was a ban-spree for *being in another sub* they didn't like... hindsight, shouldn't have responded at all, but replied "yall are abusing your banning and it ought to be reported" Week later I got a warning to ban my entire account by actual reddit mods for my reply, stating I was "threatening their life" lol. Gross negligence of "power", and overall weak af.
1 u/AleksanderSuave 08 Feb 2024 22:28
Was it the justice served sub? They mass banned a bunch of people for being in pretty much any conservative sub. Hilarious how that’s ok on Reddit.
1 u/Parkwaydrive777 09 Feb 2024 00:14
Yep. It was the JP sub that I'm in that got me banned, which is annoying because it removes all nuance. I like. JP for his early work about life, psychology, 12 steps, etc.. I don't care for the Twitter stuff. But yeah, Reddit being Reddit to assume first ~~ask questions later~~ never ask questions, just attack. Ironic given what they say about the right, as they lean people towards the right more than any of their "slippery slopes" people they hate will ever do.
1 u/HeartyDogStew 08 Feb 2024 21:02
I highly doubt it, unless your dispute involved an infraction against reddit terms of use (threats of violence or some such).  I’ve been banned from multiple subs and, although I never waste time arguing with mods, I have no doubt my original comment infuriated them enough to delete my account if that were possible.  If I may be so bold as to make a suggestion:  don’t argue bans with mods.  They are not going to change their mind, and I suspect they enjoy the interaction because they are in a position of power and all you can do is vent at them.  I only ever either ignore the ban, or message back “I’ll wear this ban as a badge of pride” and move on.
1 u/AleksanderSuave 08 Feb 2024 22:31
On the contrary, I’ve recently had a sub ban reversed because I pointed out that I quoted something someone else said to me, as opposed to me being the one that said it (and getting reported). The mods were still aholes about it by implying that I “baited” them, but if a person says something stupid to you, you shouldn’t be at fault for it. You never pushed the reply button for them. Everyone has free will.
2 u/Mannymoco 08 Feb 2024 20:43
What could you guys possibly be saying to have leftists ban you guys?
1 u/BankForward969 08 Feb 2024 20:49
Yes that’s the problem I’m unsure why your being downvoted
1 u/AikiBro 08 Feb 2024 22:08
r/politics isn't leftist. It's pro one specific part of the Democratic party.
2 u/hardlyexist 08 Feb 2024 20:47
Yeah it's a shame that the left is so much as a melting snowflake and the reddit mods can't leave their parent's basement and live in reality.
1 u/Putrid_Storm4461 08 Feb 2024 21:44
Honestly, man, that's the kind of sentiment that the entire site has. It's the same childish name calling from every corner of the political compass. It's so exhausting to hear so many adults who express their opinions in such childish ways. No wonder the world is going to hell in a hand basket, supposedly mature critical thinking adults are having "discussions" at the grade school level. Let's all just take civility up a notch and start working together to get things done.
1 u/dropkick941 08 Feb 2024 22:10
That's not the era we live in. There's (at least) two or three diametrically opposed worldviews vying for survival in America. There is not an outcome where they all live happily ever after together.
1 u/hardlyexist 08 Feb 2024 22:15
Oh I guess when people get banned for bs, you suggest that they act better; you must be a mod or related to one or, hopefully not inebriated. Can't you empathize with the frustrated adults tired of this childish mod behavior instead of attacking the frustration of the victims coming here to debate and learn and telling them to deal with it and just take the high road. If I was a betting person, I'd bet you are a pathetic lefty. Becareful you just might get kicked out of the basement yourself and will have to work for a living. It would at least get you off your high horse.
1 u/tacticalman4566 09 Feb 2024 03:58
Wait until you learn that every leftist has been and is a member of the working class.
1 u/AleksanderSuave 08 Feb 2024 22:19
I wouldn’t agree. Let’s ignore the name calling entirely and discuss the one-sidedness as a whole. It’s a fact that most moderation and censorship across social media is to the benefit and enforcement of the left. Elon musk literally bought Twitter to stop the above from happening.
2 u/RingoBars 08 Feb 2024 22:00
I got banned from latestagecapitalism because for offensive comments after a commentator told me I was pathetic, idiot boot-licker because I said Bush was far from fascist. I was surprised by my own indignant anger over, I can totally sympathize and find it super sucky how silo’d ap many subs are. -an uber Libtard who doesn’t think everything right of Bernie Sanders makes one an evil fascist
2 u/gojo96 08 Feb 2024 22:35
I got banned from Black People Twitter for literally saying I didn’t agree with the rioters that were burning and destroying stuff. I’m a POC.
2 u/GenericUsername817 08 Feb 2024 23:26
You dared to disrupt their echo chamber with wrongthink. Oceania has always been at war with East Asia, and don't you dare argue otherwise
2 u/Otherwise-Command365 08 Feb 2024 23:35
Reddit has been very heavy left wing with the majority of the admins being liberals. I'm not surprised they banned someone with opposing views.
2 u/GrizzMcDizzle79 08 Feb 2024 23:39
I got banned from unpopular opinions by saying a man cannot get pregnant. I wasn't rude, condescending or anything ban . worthy. Reddit is eat up with the overly sensitive
2 u/Zeus0331 09 Feb 2024 00:02
This country is so divided anymore, the ignorance shows, people have no idea how to debate with integrity, how to agree to disagree. Anymore it is all about shutting the other person down and trying to silence them instead of engaging the person in a logical debate. So sad that it has come to this and that no one remembers how to meet in the middle and realize that maybe I don't agree with the other person entirely but maybe they have a few valid points that make you think... Instead, you either agree with me or you are my enemy..
2 u/jackinsomniac 09 Feb 2024 01:21
>This country isn't near as divided as the media and platforms like these want you to believe. Reddit can be better. HERE HERE!! There's so much rhetoric going around that you can't trust the other side, you can't even talk to the other side, they *ALL* believe X,Y,Z (horrible things) and you shouldn't even bother. Any instance where I've been able to break through that, or find someone simply willing to to hear you out, it always turns out that we have a lot more in common on even hot button issues than we're led to believe. People are primed to be distrustful of the other party, it's stupid and it sucks, we can do better.
2 u/Bovinae_Elbow [OP] 09 Feb 2024 02:03
Amen, both sides want the same outcome, it’s just the path to get there that is different.
2 u/AlienAssBlaster 09 Feb 2024 03:38
The agenda being pushed is extremism on both sides, there is no more middle ground. There are people out there who know that political topics are gray and not black and white but it’s a black and white agenda that is being pushed. The left portrays the right as a bunch of old racist people with MAGA hats and the right portrays the left as a bunch of purple haired non binary they/thems but we all know that those people on both sides make up a small minority. I find myself in the middle but I get weird looks when I tell people that. Both sides call each other sensitive but in reality they both are sensitive.
2 u/johnmarson69 09 Feb 2024 03:52
That entire sub is a liberal cesspool….
1 u/x246ab 09 Feb 2024 15:20
Leftwing cesspool*
2 u/cheeeezeburgers 09 Feb 2024 04:03
It's a propaganda froum. Considera yourself lucky you don't have to deal with that bullshit anymore.
2 u/vintagesoul_DE 09 Feb 2024 05:32
Politics is considered simping for the Establishment and Joe Biden. Anything else is considered fascist.
1 u/MoisterOyster19 09 Feb 2024 06:34
Which is crazy bc Biden is the most racist president the US has seen in modern politics
2 u/slippyman888 09 Feb 2024 06:48
First time? We have all been banned from that sub for thinking for ourselves
1 u/thatsilverybrook † 08 Feb 2024 17:29
It can also sway people’s opinions to think their views are extra fringe and could be election interference for those wanting to fit in.
1 u/thegreatinverso9 08 Feb 2024 17:59
>Reddit can be better. Reddit cannot be better. It's a bunch of Dunning-Kruger afflicted neckbearded know-it-alls who use their first world privilege (yes I'm appropriating their word) to live in a fairytale where they are the hero. Unburdened by the need to generate an income to payback their massive debts, the mighty keyboard warriors block people who hurt their feelings and message equally disdainful mods to ban wrong speak. The only breaks? To chug corn syrup filled soda and do virtual appointments with doctors so both their social anxiety can be pandered to and their pancreas can keep from exploding. They save water by not bathing, that's how committed they are to climate change. Don't simp Reddit or that sub dude. Congrats on the ban.
1 u/Bovinae_Elbow [OP] 08 Feb 2024 18:08
I would not call it simping for Reddit, it’s an online tool that has a broad reach across varied communities. The ability to interact with those communities could be beneficial, but more organic conversations need to be allowed.
1 u/thegreatinverso9 08 Feb 2024 18:53
It's not a tool though, that's my point. It's no more a tool with a broad reach than a circlejerk is community outreach. Social media isn't a public service, it's private business. I suppose saying simping might not have been the right word, but see it for what it is versus what it could be. It could be more than it is, but it's stuck being what it is due to the people it attracts.
2 u/MrWindblade 08 Feb 2024 18:29
He said, on Reddit.
1 u/thegreatinverso9 08 Feb 2024 18:47
Trust me, I recognize the irony.
1 u/Bovinae_Elbow [OP] 08 Feb 2024 19:07
Did that guys account just get banned? lol
1 u/Sharukurusu 08 Feb 2024 18:09
What did you say though?
1 u/Bovinae_Elbow [OP] 08 Feb 2024 18:12
What I posted in quotes to an insult.
1 u/Adventurous-Bee-1517 † 08 Feb 2024 18:44
He called someone delusional for stating that voting for Trump was a vote for ending democracy. He’s literally crying about people attacking him for his beliefs while attacking other people for there’s.
2 u/Bovinae_Elbow [OP] 08 Feb 2024 19:09
If you think Trump becoming president means the end of US democracy, you are delusional.
2 u/Adventurous-Bee-1517 08 Feb 2024 19:09
Sure thing, sweetie.
1 u/Bovinae_Elbow [OP] 08 Feb 2024 19:10
Do you also hold this sentiment? You honestly think this, or is this one of your run of the mill hyperbolic statements.
2 u/Adventurous-Bee-1517 08 Feb 2024 19:12
I think Trump is def a danger to democracy because of people like you. You worship him. So, yes, Trump is 100% a danger to democracy. I also find it hilarious that people like you worship him so hardcore.
1 u/Bovinae_Elbow [OP] 08 Feb 2024 19:19
I think you have no idea what you're talking about and personifying people to fit your narrative, but deep down you also know you are doing this. This country is strong enough to weather any government, be it Trump or Biden. Both have massive flaws and thinking that someone views the other candidate flaws greater than the one you prefer is childish.
5 u/Adventurous-Bee-1517 08 Feb 2024 19:20
Whatever you have to tell yourself, bud. One of us worships their candidate the other doesn’t. Trump is only a problem because of people like you.
1 u/Bovinae_Elbow [OP] 08 Feb 2024 19:21
No where is this said, you're just a bitter cunt.
4 u/Adventurous-Bee-1517 08 Feb 2024 19:21
Sounds like you’re the bitter one, bud. You’re crying about being rightfully banned for being an asshole.
1 u/Bovinae_Elbow [OP] 08 Feb 2024 19:24
You contextualize nothing, you bring no alternative, you provide no alternative thought. You are useless, by every metric and only propagate group think. I was a fool to imagine that you would bring something of substance.
3 u/Adventurous-Bee-1517 08 Feb 2024 19:25
Sure thing, sweetie.
1 u/Bovinae_Elbow [OP] 08 Feb 2024 19:26
English cannot be your first language, you cannot honestly be this stupid right? Please tell me you don't vote.
3 u/Adventurous-Bee-1517 08 Feb 2024 19:27
lol and you really wonder why you got banned? This interaction is a microcosm of every politically discussion you’ve ever been in. As soon as someone doesn’t placate your irrational beliefs you lose your shit. Ban was justified enjoy it.
0 u/Bovinae_Elbow [OP] 08 Feb 2024 19:33
You have honestly provided no other opinion except for that I love Trump, couldn't be further from the truth. You then act the victim here, this is no discussion. You are useless in every context, yet only insult. Just look at your comments.
3 u/Adventurous-Bee-1517 08 Feb 2024 19:36
This isn’t a political discussion. This is a discussion about you getting banned. You asked me if I agreed that Trump is a danger to democracy, he is. He’s already stated he doesn’t like the constitution and he tried to overthrow the government when he lost. You very obviously worship Trump, it’s not even a question that you do, every time someone points out his faults you absolutely lose your shit. I have never in all my years lost my shit defending a president I voted for because I don’t worship them like you do. You have serious mental health issues to be this obsessed with a man you don’t know and who doesn’t care one bit about you. You come off like an abused woman defending her abuser, it’s really weird.
1 u/Ambitious_Display607 08 Feb 2024 19:45
Lol all I was thinking the entire time I was reading your back and forth with him was basically your first 2 sentences exactly
1 u/Adventurous-Bee-1517 08 Feb 2024 19:46
He’s trying to get his fix from me because he keeps getting banned anytime someone doesn’t like Trump
1 u/Bovinae_Elbow [OP] 08 Feb 2024 19:46
"This isn’t a political discussion. This is a discussion about you getting banned.", the only fair statement you have made. If someone is left with two options and dislike the other enough to shift their vote, that is not indictive of any love or desire, it is a two party system, not more you can do. Asking for clarification does that indicate worship, yet I am not even sure you understand the words that i am using. Your approach is not healthy, and I imagine it impacts your relationships and decision making process. I am not sure you can decipher between reality and media guise. You are incoherent and imagine that this infests your personal life as well.
3 u/Adventurous-Bee-1517 08 Feb 2024 19:47
Whatever you have to tell yourself, sweetie.
0 u/Bovinae_Elbow [OP] 08 Feb 2024 19:50
Goodnight sweetheart, please look both ways when crossing the road.
3 u/Adventurous-Bee-1517 08 Feb 2024 19:51
Enjoy your ban
0 u/Bovinae_Elbow [OP] 08 Feb 2024 19:52
Will do, enjoy being alone.
3 u/Adventurous-Bee-1517 08 Feb 2024 19:52
Aww projecting your own stuff onto me. So sad, too bad.
4 u/DroneSlut54 08 Feb 2024 19:56
An INCEL says what?
1 u/DroneSlut54 08 Feb 2024 19:54
Ah - now I see that you getting kicked off r/politics has nothing to do with them being “leftists” and everything to do with you being a “cunt”.
1 u/Bovinae_Elbow [OP] 08 Feb 2024 19:57
To be fair, at this point I am okay with it. I was hoping to learn something and have my views challenged.
1 u/DroneSlut54 08 Feb 2024 19:59
Well, I think you’re a cunt.
1 u/Bovinae_Elbow [OP] 08 Feb 2024 20:03
Thanks cunt.
1 u/DroneSlut54 08 Feb 2024 20:04
You’re very welcomed you stupid cunt!
1 u/Bovinae_Elbow [OP] 08 Feb 2024 20:05
Very welcomed indeed, stay up cunt!
5 u/ClapDemCheeks1 08 Feb 2024 20:39
It's fun to see people suffer from TDS, isn't it?
1 u/azrolator 09 Feb 2024 04:36
I mean, if you're going to insult people, it's kind of stupid to pretend that it is a conservative position that got you banned. It's like when a bunch of rwnjs took to social media and started posting violent shit and hate speech and then cried their bans were political. Being an asshole or being violent aren't political ideologies. The people that can't figure it out are the reason many people are suspicious of people claiming broad, rightwing political ideologies. It's just a very bad mask to disguise a faulty moral compass.
1 u/Crew_Doyle_ † 08 Feb 2024 18:14
Leftwaffe HQ. Something odd about the Left they all seem to have a universal compulsion to attack any views outside of their dogma scope.
1 u/InigoMontoya1985 † 08 Feb 2024 19:44
The largest issue is they have no intellectual capacity for dissent. Any disagreement is merely met immediately with words ending in "-ist" or "-phobe", rather than dealing with the logical point, largely because they cache their identity within their worldview.
1 u/[deleted] 08 Feb 2024 22:13
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1 u/AikiBro 08 Feb 2024 22:12
Yes, that's the left for you - coming at ideas that that they don't agree with. That's why I like the right. They go along with ideas they don't agree with like we're sposed to.
1 u/omicron022 08 Feb 2024 19:32
> I find it very sad that the sub meant for all Americans to discuss politics Why would you think that? That sub - as with all the large subs here - are meant for one express purpose: for the left to set/control the public narrative. They ban dissent in an attempt to: 1. Give the view that that everyone has arrived at this (false) public consensus on everything. 2. Make an example of everyone that doesn't comply, so that others will fall into line.
2 u/RelevantTrash9745 08 Feb 2024 20:54
Y'all realize more than just America has access to reddit, right?
1 u/omicron022 08 Feb 2024 21:33
You get that the part after the | is a quote, right? I was quoting the comment I responded to. I realize there are shitbag leftists from all over the world banning political dissent on reddit.
1 u/OldPod73 08 Feb 2024 19:40
I was just banned from the r/Conservative Reddit because we were talking about abortion, and someone called me a baby killing psychopath. So I called him an enslaver of women. Banned. He was not. Just me. ALL of Reddit is a Liberal cesspool. And some of the mods are the worst offenders.
1 u/Bovinae_Elbow [OP] 08 Feb 2024 19:50
It is a shame that one sub leans a certain way, providing carte blanche that side when having a conversation. I like reddit to have my views challenged and changed, but when you enter in a topic where only one side is protected can be deflating. The banning from the hip approach is not a good thing. I am in a back and forth currently, and the person is out of their mind.
1 u/jimmyleejohn80 08 Feb 2024 22:00
You're not going to change your position.
1 u/Bovinae_Elbow [OP] 08 Feb 2024 22:06
That is not the case, I have am for socialized health care after exploring the overall benefits. There are many examples of this, as we grow and experience more in life, or views change.
1 u/jimmyleejohn80 08 Feb 2024 22:25
Was that change enough for you to not vote for Trump?
1 u/Bovinae_Elbow [OP] 08 Feb 2024 23:13
Not if my other option is Biden.
1 u/jimmyleejohn80 09 Feb 2024 00:15
Exactly. So you're not here to have anything changed, much less, your opinion. Making any discussion a waste of time and effort.
1 u/UnfairAd7220 08 Feb 2024 20:07
The young pioneer left pervades reddit. buck up.
1 u/TheUnclaimedOne † 08 Feb 2024 20:11
This whole website is left. There are VERY few right subreddits that I’ve seen. One of my personal favorites is r/GunMemes
1 u/CaptchaContest 08 Feb 2024 20:15
What was your opinion
1 u/ClapDemCheeks1 08 Feb 2024 20:32
Welcome to reddit, bud. Have convos like that in real life. Otherwise, it's just shouting at the clouds (yes, even the virtual cloud).
1 u/Bovinae_Elbow [OP] 08 Feb 2024 20:45
You're not wrong.
1 u/ClapDemCheeks1 08 Feb 2024 20:35
Dealing with some reddit mods is like dealing with the head Karen of the HOA.
1 u/ksink74 08 Feb 2024 20:40
This just in. There are jerks on the Internet. Film at eleven. In other news, water still wet.
1 u/wrbear 08 Feb 2024 20:41
Shouldn't it be "L/politics?"
1 u/Educational-News2334 08 Feb 2024 20:43
Join the club. Reddit is pretty trash because of the echo chambers mods have created. If you don’t align with a mods view your post is removed and account banned. If it wasn’t for the warhammer community I would have left Reddit along time ago. Politics aside Reddit mods go on power trips.
1 u/GraveYard_Grrl 08 Feb 2024 20:47
You only fit in omif you subscribe to their brand of politics - I was banned also a bit ago -
1 u/handsoffmymeat 08 Feb 2024 20:55
Maybe people are, largely, tired of hearing from low intelligence, xenophobic, homophobic, people who have ZERO policies (other than Christian policies and being anti-whatever-the-libs-are-up-to). It exhausting and becomes a stupid circular argument that is worthless anywhere.
1 u/Thedudewhosmokedpot 08 Feb 2024 21:19
Dude I'm not republican. I'm actually pro choice. But I'm also pro gun. What party speaks to me? The right brands me a left wing nut, and the left brands me a right wing nut. Just gives both parties a reason to ignore my opinions. 
1 u/handsoffmymeat 08 Feb 2024 21:20
I'm the same.
1 u/CT_Patriot 08 Feb 2024 20:57
They're all butt hurt over there from SCOTUS beatdown.
1 u/Majsharan 08 Feb 2024 20:59
I literally got banned in 16 for saying I thought Trump would win without expressing support for trump
1 u/Gr8hound 08 Feb 2024 22:09
Don’t be spreading truth over there. It’s not tolerated.
1 u/EarthboundCosmos 08 Feb 2024 21:00
I see this is where the morons hang out.
1 u/Traditional-Base7414 08 Feb 2024 21:09
I’m no diehard Conservative by any means, but the Left has gone too far.
2 u/Bovinae_Elbow [OP] 08 Feb 2024 21:12
Dude I hear you, I vote by what fringe freaks me out the most at this point.
1 u/thebolts 08 Feb 2024 21:11
Not all liberal. I was banned from r/News for supporting to kick US military out of Syria.
1 u/wearyaxe 08 Feb 2024 21:18
Just another Trump supporting whining on reddit like a baby.
1 u/ElectronicTrick888 08 Feb 2024 23:02
Just another transgender whining about non-existent transphobia like a baby.
1 u/intellectualnerd85 08 Feb 2024 21:23
Got banned for calling out Omar for talking like an Islamic fascist in regards to Israel and Jewish people. It’s Reddit and moderators have a well deserved reputation.
1 u/chezmanny 08 Feb 2024 21:28
You're not missing anything. Most of the news links there are from hyperpartisan, misleading clickbait political sites.
1 u/saga_wolf_2 08 Feb 2024 21:30
Reddit is primarily a bunch of lefty lossers.
1 u/wgm4444 08 Feb 2024 21:33
Why not try /politicaldebate? As long as you are to the left of Mao and more authoritarian than Stalin the Mods won't delete your posts there.
1 u/OutsideOrganization9 08 Feb 2024 21:35
https://reddit.com/r/PoliticsBothSides/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
1 u/KidCamarillo 08 Feb 2024 21:47
Awwww. What did the poor wittle victim post that got hims banned?
1 u/Dennis_Reynolds_IRL 08 Feb 2024 21:51
This comment thread is a bunch of crying conservatives. I love it.
1 u/armenia4ever 08 Feb 2024 21:52
Diversity of opinion and thought only matter to r/politics if matches the accepted prog left narrative on there. Get out of line and they arent interested in diversity or inclusion of alternative worldviews at all. The sooner you accept this, the easier it becomes to breathe easy, shrug you shoulders, and realize there's nothing to be done for them. They have to have a rock-bottom moment before they come out of it.
1 u/bigboilerdawg 08 Feb 2024 23:30
Just unsubscribe and mute that subreddit, and others of the same ilk. This will drastically improve your Reddit experience.
1 u/deebmaster 08 Feb 2024 21:52
The reason the left censors speech is because their ideas can’t survive in a free market of ideas. They are inferior in illogical. So to protect their feeble, washed minds, they support censoring other ideas
1 u/SWD444444 08 Feb 2024 21:55
The right wing in the United States have become terrorists. That's why it's not allowed on /r/politics
1 u/jimmyleejohn80 08 Feb 2024 21:56
We're not going to fall for the intolerance, again. You're postion hurts people (whether you know or care or believe us, is immaterial). Just because you refuse or are unable to recognize 2nd and 3rd order repercussions that occur due to your postion and policies, changes nothing. Until you can be a good citizen, we don't want to associate with you.
1 u/Raynstormm 08 Feb 2024 22:04
I was banned from WPT for saying I don’t trust obese health professionals. I was banned from unpopular opinion for having an unpopular opinion about global warning.
1 u/spekkiomow 08 Feb 2024 22:05
You're just now learning this? This place has been a meme for years.
1 u/eatingsquishies 08 Feb 2024 22:11
I got banned by my home state’s group over political opinions.
1 u/oboshoe 08 Feb 2024 22:14
That sub is a flaming dumpster fire. I put it on mute a long time ago.
1 u/Strong_Audience_7122 08 Feb 2024 22:17
First time?
1 u/jmac323 08 Feb 2024 22:21
They should change the name of the sub, wouldn’t be that big of a deal. Everyone knows it is an echo chamber at this point.
2 u/Bovinae_Elbow [OP] 08 Feb 2024 22:23
This is a great idea honestly. Know what you're walking into.
1 u/jmac323 09 Feb 2024 00:27
I suggest r/cryingabouttrump.
1 u/jmac323 09 Feb 2024 00:27
I suggest r/cryingabouttrump.
1 u/Clicky-The-Blicky 08 Feb 2024 22:38
That’s most of Reddit, most Reddit subs are a handful of chronically online losers who larp as “leftists” or “communists” and are very scared of conversations, debates, and facts.
1 u/DParadisio43137 08 Feb 2024 22:45
I'm likely gonna get banned for calling an illegal immigrant an "illegal immigrant". Apparently calling someone "illegal" is considered hate speech. I'm truly disgusted.
1 u/battery_pack_man 08 Feb 2024 22:46
It’s definitely a new thing since the great mod purge following the api closures. A lot of mods walked away and new yes men took their place. Obviously this is all in service of sanitizing the place in advance of the reddit ipo going live soon. I was have been subbed there for the whatever twelve or something plus years I have had that account and have had pretty much the same opinions and reddit demeanor the whole time and I have been banned three times from that sub since the api thing for saying: 1. Nazis should be punched 2. Quoting someone, in quotes that included the term “libt**d” which was to point out its a shitty word but just mentioning it caught a ban 3. Participating in other subs unrelated to that one. Its gone totally off the rails with its tone policing and aocially reactive speech policing that is very much out of line with what is legally protected speech. Now, reddit doesnt have to platform any speech it doesn’t want to, but at least be honest about it rather than making ip fake claims about what is and isn’t protected speech. Anyways, this comes from someone who considered themselves “far left” before “Windows” was an available product. I appealed all my bans and they were removed. But yeah there is a lot of over aggressive and unjustified mod actions all across reddit which is because they gave the slots to patsies after the purge while gearing up for their IPO. Shocker folks. Capital values more capital above absolutely anything else.
1 u/GeneralPip 08 Feb 2024 22:49
Well Reddit is a liberal cesspool.
1 u/GeneralPip 08 Feb 2024 22:51
I got banned from a subreddit because I refused to call a woman a they/them. Not sorry at all.
1 u/trythepadthai 08 Feb 2024 22:55
lol rename this the crybaby conservative thread. For all the complaining you right wing conservatives do about snowflakes ya'll are a blizzard of tears.
1 u/zergling3161 08 Feb 2024 22:57
I got drunk and got banned from "mademesmile" subreddit...
1 u/Fine-Funny6956 08 Feb 2024 23:00
“I got banned for saying something hateful and offensive. Damn leftists.”
1 u/CrackedGranite 08 Feb 2024 23:09
The far-left certainly runs most subreddits.
1 u/jpcorry 08 Feb 2024 23:11
I got banned from /news for saying that Rayna Chaiik just posts what libs do/say.
1 u/entropycleaned 08 Feb 2024 23:15
This probably won't get read or answered, but are you actually right-leaning conservative, or are you trump supporting authoritarian? Cuz that makes a huge difference.
1 u/Bovinae_Elbow [OP] 08 Feb 2024 23:40
Neither, depends on the topic we are discussing if I am left or right leaning.
2 u/entropycleaned 09 Feb 2024 00:15
And that is The way it should be
1 u/indrada90 08 Feb 2024 23:23
Nah dude your comment is pure ad hominem and worthy of a ban
1 u/Outandproud420 08 Feb 2024 23:27
I got banned from r/conservative for pointing out Trump is bad for our party and how he isn't a conservative . I'm a registered Republican and have voted Republican for over 20 years before Trump showed up. Echo chambers are gonna be echo chambers. It just shows how bad the mod teams are in their subs.
1 u/Alaska_Pipeliner 09 Feb 2024 01:08
I got banned from there for asking for sources about an outlandish claim.
1 u/Outandproud420 09 Feb 2024 01:20
It's crazy how bad it is in there.
1 u/I_Said_I_Say 09 Feb 2024 23:13
Based on your comment history, it seems more like you were banned over standing up for who you are than any criticism of Trump.
1 u/Outandproud420 10 Feb 2024 01:50
Dud they literally message you what comment got you banned...
1 u/I_Said_I_Say 10 Feb 2024 02:11
I'm guessing it happened during one of your last comments made on the sub? If I'm wrong about that I apologise. I'm referring to whatever the other user in r/conservative assumed about who you are, based on your username. I'm speculating that your response to that may have played a larger role in your banning than the Trump daddy remark.
1 u/Outandproud420 10 Feb 2024 02:49
I literally haven't had anyone say anything about my username or attack me on that level out of that sub or any other tbh. So for all the talk about homophobia etc nobody on that sub directed that at me. Most of the people are chill for the most part and didn't attack me in that way. It's just the mods being big ole babies about their daddy Trump.
1 u/I_Said_I_Say 10 Feb 2024 03:11
I saw that wasn't the first time you had spoken negatively about Trump on there. Given some of the other replies you were getting about your comments in other subs, it just seemed like their issue was more about who you are than it was about Trump. Admittedly you have engaged with that community more than I have though.
1 u/GroundbreakingAd8310 08 Feb 2024 23:31
Everyone is banned there. Unborn babies are banned there don't worry about it. I was banned for calling someone a traitor apparently this in inciting violence. Apparently their actions can kill as many people as they want but shame on us for calling them on it.
1 u/i_am_tired12 08 Feb 2024 23:34
probably because mods like using the ban hammer and the younger generations are much more left leaning so those mods are just corrupt
1 u/tghjfhy 09 Feb 2024 05:39
And lefties are more likely to spend a crazy amount of time online
1 u/Zosopagedadgad 08 Feb 2024 23:37
OP, don't be a cuck, just admit you want to repeat lies and false narratives and suffer no consequences for doing so. The whole pretending you're a victim just makes you look weak.
1 u/PandammoniumNO3 08 Feb 2024 23:46
I got banned from r/politics once for *implying* the old french way of solving problems has some merit. Then I see a bunch of other people saying far worse shit and they get nothing. I don't get how they run things over there.
1 u/longboringstory 08 Feb 2024 23:48
Just move to Twitter / X instead. You won't get censored anymore, and as Reddit doubles down on censorship, their echo chamber will eventually devour itself. Pro tip: Think of 2 or 3 speakers, celebrities, politicians, etc that you respect, go to their profile and follow them. Then click on "Following" on their profile, and follow a bunch of people they follow. The more people you follow, the more interesting your feed gets. Extra benefit: Every now and then you might just get a response from someone famous!
1 u/wharpudding 08 Feb 2024 23:51
You've got to be pretty communist to NOT be banned from /politics It was one of my first. I wear it like a medal.
1 u/General_Attorney256 08 Feb 2024 23:52
r/politics best represents the shit hole Reddit has become. You can’t even be negative towards Biden without them bringing up Trump. It’s almost just fun to watch it happen
1 u/thegnomedome_ 09 Feb 2024 00:09
r/politics and r/PoliticalHumor are for libs only. You'll be banned if you disagree with them. I got banned for after people told me to kill myself lol
1 u/HarryBaggins00 09 Feb 2024 00:14
I got banned from that marxist thread only because I follow r/trump
1 u/_Foulbear_ 09 Feb 2024 00:14
Found the fascist.
1 u/dtsoll 09 Feb 2024 00:18
The left wing are very, very sensitive. 😂
1 u/drink-beer-and-fight 09 Feb 2024 00:24
I got banned from r politics without ever posting there. All I did was join NNN
1 u/AnalMayonnaise 09 Feb 2024 00:27
Yeah and I’ve been banned from right wing subs. Boohoo, who cares.
1 u/-VizualEyez 09 Feb 2024 00:30
I got banned by r/conservative for pointing out its the same 10 bots posting all day everyday.
1 u/Unlikely-Distance-41 09 Feb 2024 00:44
I had gotten banned from r/politics years ago because I dared to suggest that child predators needed more punishment, not less, and they said I was encouraging violence or something
1 u/CajunLouisiana 09 Feb 2024 00:47
I got banned from my hometown sub which is a very conservative city but the sub is run by 4 radical lefties. I mentioned that Trump has done some good things. I know. The horror.
1 u/Whole_Commission_702 09 Feb 2024 00:51
Reddit is deep left and they had sadly made it their eco chamber. No original thoughts left on this platform. Just hate…
1 u/makemebiggerpls 09 Feb 2024 00:51
That sub isn't even leftist I literally got banned for my leftist take
1 u/Additional_Look3148 09 Feb 2024 00:56
All of the major subs are like that. Insanity
1 u/Educational_Bug1022 09 Feb 2024 01:03
Some MAGA Snowflake needs their safe space
1 u/boscoroni 09 Feb 2024 01:05
Reddit is the choir. If you don't sing the same hymn, you are kicked off the podium. It is sad that all anyone wants is blind agreement. There is no civil discourse here.
1 u/MKBADDOG 09 Feb 2024 01:05
#nuketheinternet
1 u/-Hypnotoad26 09 Feb 2024 01:08
I was banned from r/conservative when I asked them to give me 3 reasons to support Trump. That was all it took. Sit the fuck down.
1 u/Smooth-Trout 09 Feb 2024 01:10
The civility bans are a complete joke. There are no objective criteria it’s just whatever they feel like. In general the mods feelings make more decisions than anything else.
1 u/kingkornholio 09 Feb 2024 01:14
Same with “moderatepolitics”
1 u/Longjumping-Dog7368 09 Feb 2024 01:24
Reddit it literally a database of leftist propaganda and the people who own it are actively pressing that propaganda on the kids on this site. Any attempt to call it out will be met with downvotes from their bots and sheep.
1 u/I_Said_I_Say 09 Feb 2024 22:54
See them rally against this comment?
1 u/deephurting66 09 Feb 2024 01:26
I got banned from there years ago from criticizing their lord God Karl Marx in a post about socialism, same from the lazies over at anti-work
1 u/Sharrack 09 Feb 2024 01:27
Reddit is state sponsored media where any opposition is banned. Just like old joe, covid and the election. 👍👍👍👍👍
1 u/Sn0w-000 09 Feb 2024 01:29
It's typical. There is a ton of money spent on influencing opinion so of course you'll be downvoted to hell and banned if you go against that narrative.
1 u/Skinwalker72 09 Feb 2024 01:31
you should go outside or something
1 u/molotov__cocktease 09 Feb 2024 01:36
Liberal isn't left.
1 u/TopFishing5094 09 Feb 2024 01:40
Got banned from combat/footage for posting “Allah Darwin Awards”. You not offended by the snuff videos in your community but god forbid you say anything about god.
1 u/Anon6025 09 Feb 2024 01:51
Even if one isn't banned, you're immediately jumped in response by folks who obviously have no idea what they are talking about; instead they just regurgitate the crap they "learned" at school -- knowledge that is like electroplating on a set of crap tableware. About the only strat that gives satisfaction is to just not respond to the idiots. In a number of cases, it actually drives them nuts lol
1 u/HurtFeeFeez 09 Feb 2024 02:01
Got banned from r/conservative quick fast in a hurry for not being a willfully ignorant Trump humper. Let's not forget we on the political right value free speech and hate cancel culture, at least that's what I thought we were doing.
1 u/Bovinae_Elbow [OP] 09 Feb 2024 02:04
It’s stupid either direction. Just park the vans, let dissent occur. It’s Reddit for fucks sake, you’re not saving the world.
1 u/HenryClaysDesk 09 Feb 2024 02:05
Yeah, I got the ban hammer earlier today for using the R word in politics.
1 u/Bovinae_Elbow [OP] 09 Feb 2024 02:07
Unfortunately I don’t even know what that means, the rate words are getting banned these days.
1 u/Every1GetInHere 09 Feb 2024 02:12
Feel your pain. I got banned from my state's subreddit (which is basically all politics) because I said we shouldn't show porn to kids.
1 u/Bovinae_Elbow [OP] 09 Feb 2024 03:02
What!
1 u/fistcomefirstserve 09 Feb 2024 02:15
Liberal vs conservative is the simpletons argument.
1 u/Entropy1010102 09 Feb 2024 02:15
Yes and conservative view points would be more popular on the Internet, if people would just realize that all you gotta do is "suck it up buttercup". Or maybe conservative values and policies are just that much further removed from ACTUAL personal freedom.
1 u/MAGAJahnamal 09 Feb 2024 02:27
First time? Welcome to the club, friend!
1 u/BlacklistedIP 09 Feb 2024 02:27
I was permanently banned from r/politics for citing the Oxford Dictionary definition of woman and the scientific definition of female.
1 u/crazysal 09 Feb 2024 02:28
This is a hard left liberal echo chamber. Everyone here has severely... nearly fatally over developed feelings. Any variance fron liberal group think will be met with infantile impotent rage and tears like a river
1 u/tacticalman4566 09 Feb 2024 04:05
hard left and liberal are oxymorons
1 u/crazysal 09 Feb 2024 04:05
Fair point
1 u/tacticalman4566 09 Feb 2024 04:09
leftists and liberals have always hated each other
1 u/phrygiantheory 09 Feb 2024 02:50
I got banned from r/conservative for the same thing...
1 u/Kooky-Gate5396 09 Feb 2024 03:04
I can't count how many times I've been banned on Reddit. I was on a sub that totally accepted threats and hate speech towards the right, that when I responded with a "he's got my vote" was just too much and I had to be removed. What a bunch of weak loosers.
1 u/Khr0ma 09 Feb 2024 03:08
I said Trans people have a mental disorder and they aren't changing their sex... just changing how they look. yeah, they couldn't take that.
2 u/tacticalman4566 09 Feb 2024 04:24
Oh wow maybe it's because you called a whole group of people mentally ill or something which is something that transphobic fools use to justify their bigotry
1 u/Khr0ma 09 Feb 2024 04:28
Lol, except it's the truth. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it isn't true. They have a mental disorder, and they aren't changing their sex, only their appearance...
1 u/tacticalman4566 09 Feb 2024 04:45
Spoken like someone who has no idea about what they’re talking about. Do you even know what disorder that some transgender people have? Are you aware that they change their gender and not sex? 
1 u/I_Said_I_Say 09 Feb 2024 23:03
Remember when homosexuality was a mental disorder?
1 u/Khr0ma 09 Feb 2024 23:04
And instead we have learned it's more a simple abnormality.
1 u/I_Said_I_Say 09 Feb 2024 23:17
We have also learned that transgender people do not have a mental disorder, do try to keep up.
1 u/Khr0ma 09 Feb 2024 23:21
Except they do, it's called gender disphoria. Leave the science to rational people. Instead of emotional, biased sources. Telling someone with gender disphoria that they can become something their not is no different than telling a schizophrenic to believe the voices in their head. Just because you feel a certain way, doesn't mean it's true. Whoever tried to tell you that it isn't a mental disorder is lying to you.
1 u/I_Said_I_Say 09 Feb 2024 23:38
According to the [UKs National Health Service:](https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/gender-dysphoria/#:~:text=Gender%20dysphoria%20and%20gender%20identity&text=Some%20people%20with%20gender%20dysphoria,problems%20because%20of%20gender%20dysphoria.) "Gender dysphoria is not a mental illness, but some people may develop mental health problems because of gender dysphoria." But they're probably lying right?
1 u/Khr0ma 09 Feb 2024 23:49
The NHS also holds the perspective that gender and sex are in no way linked, which is false entirely, the NHS must maintain this view for their reasoning to hold the slightest bit of water, but I won't stop there, Secondarily, depression is a mental illness which is characterized by how the individual feels based on certain situations and stimuli, or rather. "Is a constant feeling of sadness and loss of interest, which stops you doing your normal activities. Meanwhile, gender dysphoria is characterized by the UK NHS as "Gender dysphoria is a term that describes a sense of unease that a person may have because of a mismatch between their biological sex and their gender identity" Unease is synonymous with anxiety or fear, so tell me. How is it that depression, which is a chronic case of negative emotions affecting you day to day life, is a mental disorder, but gender dysphoria, which is a chronic case of negative emotions affecting your day to day life, isn't a mental disorder? Not exactly the same, but I think anxiety and depression go hand in hand in the medical field.
1 u/I_Said_I_Say 09 Feb 2024 23:59
Gee, it seems like you're using your feelings to argue against science. Someone warned me against that just a few comments ago.
1 u/Khr0ma 10 Feb 2024 00:02
Lol, good attempt to deflect, I have given you a rational argument and posed to you a simple question. It is a shame you couldn't answer it. Good luck maintaining your views. 👍
1 u/I_Said_I_Say 10 Feb 2024 00:25
[With the publication of DSM–5 in 2013, “gender identity disorder” was eliminated and replaced with “gender dysphoria.” This change further focused the diagnosis on the gender identity-related distress that some transgender people experience (and for which they may seek psychiatric, medical, and surgical treatments) rather than on transgender individuals or identities themselves.](https://www.psychiatry.org/psychiatrists/diversity/education/transgender-and-gender-nonconforming-patients/gender-dysphoria-diagnosis#:~:text=With%20the%20publication%20of%20DSM%E2%80%935%20in%202013%2C%20%E2%80%9Cgender,%2C%20medical%2C%20and%20surgical%20treatments)) More than answers your "question". I'd be happy to address the rest of your bad faith rubbish, but since you haven't provided a single credible source for any of your assertions... It doesn't seem like there's much to address. The science hasn't been on your side for well over a decade now.
1 u/CSHAMMER92 09 Feb 2024 03:14
I got shoved out of a punk sub for calling Mayor Pete a "Lib." They're not Left btw they're "Party Line" Democrats. Huge difference
1 u/H4v0c4L1f3 09 Feb 2024 03:17
Yeah it's pretty bad when the only opinion that matters to them is theirs.... And they're extreme leftist opinions. I can handle people's opinions on both sides but when it comes to badgering and belittling people because you don't have the same opinion as them. And then they ban you because you have a different opinion.
1 u/Spicysquidsalad 09 Feb 2024 03:18
Almost all subreddits that start with politics or political is far left. Reddit is majority left
1 u/troystorian 09 Feb 2024 03:32
I’ve been banned from every right wing run sub for offering my dissenting opinion respectfully and trying to have an honest discourse. Don’t even pretend the right is open to different opinions, they’re a cult at this point.
1 u/Bovinae_Elbow [OP] 09 Feb 2024 04:07
Both
1 u/WallabyBubbly 09 Feb 2024 03:38
One of the more ironic subs I've been banned from was r/ScienceUncensored. Turns out that sub is heavily censored lol
1 u/Pharkelton 09 Feb 2024 03:45
What was the post you were banned for?
1 u/Winter_Cockroach8199 09 Feb 2024 03:55
I mean soon conservatives will be banned from existing in the United States. They have only their own docile selves to blame. I hate it, but the inaction has led to the destruction of conservatives.
1 u/stataryus 09 Feb 2024 04:13
Cry more, asshole.
1 u/Bovinae_Elbow [OP] * 09 Feb 2024 04:22
lol, says the antifa pussy. Stay soft and placid. 
1 u/GuyYouMetOnline 09 Feb 2024 04:46
I'd need to see the actual exchange before I make any judgements.
1 u/DownVoteMeHarder4042 09 Feb 2024 04:55
Reddit has always been heavily censored.
1 u/SlightlyOffended1984 09 Feb 2024 05:05
NO!!! life comes at ya SLOW, you BIGOT /s
1 u/AlphaOhmega 09 Feb 2024 05:09
What got you banned. "lol, says the antifa pussy. Stay soft and placid, what’s lower, your tits or testosterone." A conservative and a liar, name a more iconic duo. You know we can see your comment history, idiot.
1 u/Bovinae_Elbow [OP] 09 Feb 2024 05:18
What! He responded in kind? Take your crocodile tears somewhere else. 
2 u/AlphaOhmega 09 Feb 2024 05:19
Ah yes the old "BUT HE HIT ME TOO". Grow up.
1 u/Bovinae_Elbow [OP] 09 Feb 2024 05:22
I can’t tell if you are really this stupid. 
2 u/AlphaOhmega 09 Feb 2024 05:29
Try again, this time really spend some time on a comeback.
1 u/Bovinae_Elbow [OP] 09 Feb 2024 05:40
Sleep tight darling. 
1 u/AntiLeftist0113 09 Feb 2024 05:25
Yup they are kicking up the bans ahead of election season. Gotta make those unpopular views seem popular somehow. Politics is just as bad as whitepeopletwitter now with forbiding wrongthink. Luckily reddit hasn't figured out how to ban people on mobile.
1 u/SingleDigitSalary 09 Feb 2024 05:45
Reddit is left winged
1 u/Forsaken_Toe8627 09 Feb 2024 06:00
Reddit is definately a shit hole filled with idiots.
1 u/Ok-Jump-5418 09 Feb 2024 06:47
Even liberals get banned from liberal subs as the mods are extremist and out of touch
1 u/Old_Snow3086 09 Feb 2024 06:56
I'm pro Covid vaccines. I got banned for spreading "dangerous and deadly misinformation" because I said my wife (who has an autoimmune disease) was told by her doctor to wait a bit longer before getting the Covid shot 
1 u/Bovinae_Elbow [OP] 09 Feb 2024 07:11
That is crazy, just looking forward to the election being over. Hopefully that cools some around here.
1 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 07:23
No shit I just said that. You're a really bad bot 🤣
1 u/Interesting_Maybe_93 09 Feb 2024 07:28
I don't call pedos strong men. That's you
1 u/godkingnaoki 09 Feb 2024 07:33
Well thank God we have safe spaces like this to call them out.
-2 u/DeerHunter041674 08 Feb 2024 18:45
That sub is a leftist hivemind circlejerk echo chamber. Most of reddit is. God forbid you say you’re centrist, or right leaning, you’re told you’re morally bankrupt, you’re evil, you’re a facist… Take what those fools over there say with a grain of salt.
1 u/RetiredByFourty 08 Feb 2024 19:31
Spoken like the true fascists they are!
1 u/tacticalman4566 09 Feb 2024 02:35
God forbid you learn the difference between liberals and leftists.
1 u/DeerHunter041674 09 Feb 2024 02:36
Same bullshit, different coats.
1 u/tacticalman4566 09 Feb 2024 02:43
Because being a capitalist and being a communist is totally the same thing. God how do you not even know the most surface level difference between liberals and leftist? 
1 u/DeerHunter041674 09 Feb 2024 03:25
In all seriousness, when did I mention “Liberal?”
1 u/tacticalman4566 09 Feb 2024 03:29
When you insinuated that they were the same 
1 u/DeerHunter041674 09 Feb 2024 03:37
In my original comment.
1 u/tacticalman4566 09 Feb 2024 03:46
By calling r/politics a leftist circlejerk which it isn’t. That subredddit is heavily liberal not leftist
1 u/DeerHunter041674 09 Feb 2024 03:49
What ever, bro. I stand by my opinion. If you don’t like it, don’t read it. I don’t know what else to tell you.
1 u/tacticalman4566 09 Feb 2024 03:51
Your opinion is stupid and I’m gonna disagree with a stupid ass opinion
1 u/DeerHunter041674 09 Feb 2024 03:55
Spoken like a true triggered butthurt little bitch.
1 u/tacticalman4566 09 Feb 2024 04:08
I'm not the one that be pissing their pants when someone disagrees with their dogshit opinion based on feelings
1 u/DeerHunter041674 09 Feb 2024 04:32
You asshats are the ones with hurt feelings and bruised emotions. Me? I couldn’t care less about you or your feelings. I mean you’re the one who came at me whining and crying. You’re like one of those little purse dogs yapping away. So go piss up someone else’s leg. In case it isn’t clear, this is me telling you to go fuck off. I said my piece. So…
1 u/tacticalman4566 09 Feb 2024 04:46
Imagine acting like this when someone disagrees with you I feel sorry for your mother
2 u/DeerHunter041674 09 Feb 2024 05:34
Yeah, ok. Cry more.
1 u/tacticalman4566 09 Feb 2024 06:02
I wish I had enough empathy to feel sorry for you. I know it’s hard dealing with mental illness but you can’t just keep on acting like a child when someone disagrees with you. I’m honestly quite surprised that you managed to make it into adulthood.
2 u/DeerHunter041674 09 Feb 2024 06:05
I thought I told you to fuck off.
1 u/tacticalman4566 09 Feb 2024 06:14
It’s almost like there’s this cool little feature where you can prohibit all contact with a user. Every social forum has this nice feature, I wonder what’s it called 🤔
2 u/DeerHunter041674 09 Feb 2024 06:17
So, do it. Like I said, cry more..
1 u/tacticalman4566 09 Feb 2024 06:22
This is a public subreddit bozo you the only one making yourself look like a damn fool. Typical American.
1 u/DeerHunter041674 09 Feb 2024 06:24
I know it is. Keep being a kunt. It’s comical. Typical butthurt neckbeard bitch.
1 u/tacticalman4566 09 Feb 2024 06:33
You know I’m starting to think that this is all some weird attempt at projection. Is everything ok at the crib? Does your wife be giving you the cold shoulder? It sucks ik, but you got this!
1 u/DeerHunter041674 09 Feb 2024 06:36
Do you enjoy living in mommy’s basement beating off while sniffing the loads in mommy’s undies that leaked out that were dumped in her? Don’t worry, champ, you won’t be cucked by mommy forever.
1 u/tacticalman4566 09 Feb 2024 06:39
That just sounds like your scat fetish 🫨
1 u/DeerHunter041674 09 Feb 2024 06:40
Wait, what? You like to eat scat? Bro.. Seek help.
1 u/tacticalman4566 09 Feb 2024 06:42
Nuh uh
2 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 06:22
Lol coming from the kid who brought up his mother? Riiiight. 😂😂 how many posts or memes do you report a day while pulling your pud for everyone you get banned? You need Jesus....or some Valium... something🤪
1 u/DeerHunter041674 09 Feb 2024 06:25
😂🤣😂🤣👍👍
1 u/tacticalman4566 09 Feb 2024 06:30
Here’s the funny thing… I don’t do any of that.
1 u/selfmadetrader 09 Feb 2024 06:35
Buuuullllllllllllssshhheeeeeeeettttt😂😂😂 The entrapment is so easy to see it's comical
-2 u/DroneSlut54 08 Feb 2024 19:52
>left wing…. r/politics is liberal, not left wing. My actual left wing Socialist ass had been banned from r/politics several times. Yes, I think the echo chamber is ridiculous but it definitely isn’t a lefty echo chamber.
2 u/Bovinae_Elbow [OP] 08 Feb 2024 19:57
That is not a good thing, your opinions have space in that location as well.
1 u/DroneSlut54 08 Feb 2024 19:59
Yeah well I found out you’re just crying because r/politics wouldn’t let blurt “cunt!” at everybody. At least I got kicked off for being an adult….
2 u/Bovinae_Elbow [OP] 08 Feb 2024 20:09
There she is.
1 u/kurtu5 08 Feb 2024 20:53
> cunt irony
-3 u/SkaterWhite † 08 Feb 2024 19:49
“I don’t agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”. Those retards in r/politics have completely omitted that from their mind.
4 u/SnaxHeadroom 08 Feb 2024 20:44
As opposed to the ban-heavy, snowflake nature of /r/Conservative?
1 u/SessionExcellent6332 08 Feb 2024 21:16
I've actually seen discourse in the conservative sub a lot between lefties and righties. Also, do you seriously need me to explain the difference to you for a sub called conservative and the other politics? Obviously conservative is expected to be biased. How can you defend a sub called r/politics that bans anyone who isn't a leftist?
1 u/SnaxHeadroom 08 Feb 2024 21:32
"Leftist" is rather extreme. It's Reddit - Neo/Liberal at best lol