Turns out it transcends politics. /r/conservative censors me over opposing war with Iran.

94    22 Jun 2019 02:31 by u/KaleMunoz

https://www.reddit.com/r/Conservative/comments/c2xhex/trump_iran_made_a_very_big_mistake_by_shooting/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app I was banned for “sh*tposting,” Rule 5. I started off with some humor and sarcasm, but I was making a sincere point. Most importantly, this style of rhetoric is present throughout the entire subreddit, so that can’t be why I was banned. Further, it wasn’t a flyby insult and run. It resulted in follow up conversations in which I assumed good faith of all participants. I reached common ground with one person. To be clear, and I let the mods know this, I was speaking as a conservative. There are libertarian and isolationist wings (not always the same) within US conservatism and they have a rich history. I belong the the rarer, but still recognized, anti-war conservative school of thought (this is the theme of The American Conservative, not my favorite publication albeit). This is also a school of thought Trump has at times promoted! I was not coming in as a liberal attacking Republicans. This was before Trump changed his mind on Iran. I wonder if people are getting banned for wanting more with the run now?

38 comments

19 u/Oh_hamburgers_ 22 Jun 2019 02:45
Hey they banned me when I complained about the Syria strikes as well, though I was a little drunk and I think I called one of their regulars a retard.
-15 u/AshenOn 22 Jun 2019 02:51
> I called one of their regulars a retard. Where's the inaccuracy?
14 u/xxb4xx [M] 22 Jun 2019 03:43
To be fair, I'd be warning you of the same thing here. Make your point, but stooping to name calling says that you've got no valid argument left.
-3 u/Oh_hamburgers_ † 22 Jun 2019 03:46
Or the person you're arguing with stoops to literal retard levels of mental gymnastics to justify their position and you drop the niceties. This was after like 15 replies.
3 u/AshenOn 22 Jun 2019 03:51
See I knew that's what it was. I knew because I got banned from there for calling someone a "civ-nat dope". Pretty tame, but hey, that's /r/IsraeliConservative for ya.
-4 u/AshenOn 22 Jun 2019 03:47
The point is that most of /r/Conservative is just that. It's an accurate description, it may be insulting but there is something to be said about the blunt truth.
11 u/xxb4xx [M] 22 Jun 2019 03:50
Much the same could be said of r/politics. Depends on what side of the spectrum you are on. Political arguments are all retarded. Arguing the sides is you playing the game.
-4 u/AshenOn 22 Jun 2019 03:56
r/politics is different, they're the far left and very firmly so, whereas r/Conservative is just a gatekeeper to any true right wing ideology pretending to be right-wingers themselves. ​ In a weird way I respect r/politics more than I do them, those guys don't ban their own, no matter how bad they are.
2 u/KaleMunoz [OP] 22 Jun 2019 05:31
I don’t like the word being used, but I’m banned from conservative and I can’t stand /r/politics. Actually, my posts in politics auto-fail to post now. I might be banned, but nobody’s notified me.
4 u/xxb4xx 22 Jun 2019 06:41
Being banned from r/politics isn't really an achievement though.
1 u/KaleMunoz [OP] 22 Jun 2019 21:27
No, it isn’t. I have no idea why it happened if it did. I certainly wasn’t trying to. I even try to find common ground with people on there, so I wasn’t out looking for trouble.
5 u/KaleMunoz [OP] † 22 Jun 2019 02:52
I think I may have gotten banned from /r/Republican for making the case that blowing trillions of dollars on violently social engineering other countries isn’t fiscally conservative. They got me on not speaking ill of other Republicans, which I did. I wonder if they are consistent with that rule when Republican infighting occurs.
3 u/Oh_hamburgers_ † 22 Jun 2019 03:09
Yeah most of my argument about the Syria strikes was just trying to argue against the faulty logic of the Syrians gassing a province that they had surrounded knowing full well that gas would bring international action against them. That, plus the fact that Trump ran on a very anti-war platform which was one of the main reasons I voted for him. The guy I was arguing with claimed to have told mods to unban me but it never happened.
15 u/ComradeSomo 22 Jun 2019 08:56
As a conservative r/conservative is a shitshow. They are Never Trumper NeoCons.
10 u/HotelMohelHolidayInn 22 Jun 2019 11:38
"dOn'T tAlK bOuT ShApIrO LIEK tHaT¡!"
1 u/OmirLaa 04 Sep 2019 22:49
I like Trump but I despise Shapiro.
1 u/Chutzvah 22 Jun 2019 17:18
Their rules even said "this isn't a debate sub." Kinda goes against what conservatism is with that rule
2 u/KaleMunoz [OP] 22 Jun 2019 21:28
Really? I kind of thought they were on the Trump train. Guess I misread that.
1 u/skarface6 23 Jun 2019 23:10
He’s wrong. A lot of users are fine with Trump. Some are even flailed “Trump conservatives”.
1 u/NutmegPluto 26 Jun 2019 18:55
Implying Trump isn't a shill
1 u/KaleMunoz [OP] 26 Jun 2019 18:56
Not me. He drained the swamp right into the White House.
8 u/dexfagcasul 22 Jun 2019 12:33
r/conservative is just as bad as r/politics but on a smaller scale in terms of bias. You have to be as far right as possible to fit in there. I’m pretty moderate but lean right so I’d get shit on a lot there until I eventually just left. The biggest conclusion I’ve come to: Reddit is a dog shit place to discuss anything political
6 u/Nederlander1 22 Jun 2019 14:53
Except one is a supposedly “generic” sub and the other obviously isn’t.
5 u/dexfagcasul 22 Jun 2019 14:54
Yeah dude the whole site is super bias. Aside from r/ShitPoliticsSays (cause it’s so hilarious) and r/MensRights I stay well away from politics on this site. It’s such a shit show
1 u/KaleMunoz [OP] 22 Jun 2019 21:28
That’s my issue with the politics and political humor subs. They should just merge with whatever the standard progressive sub is.
2 u/YamYoshi 22 Jun 2019 05:15
I called Roy Moore a dirty pedo and got banned.
1 u/Steez-n-Treez † 22 Jun 2019 03:00
Sub blocked me long ago
3 u/KaleMunoz [OP] † 22 Jun 2019 03:03
What for?
2 u/Steez-n-Treez * 22 Jun 2019 03:03
Don’t remember tho I been blocked by every news or political sub. They just haven’t unbanned me Edit: didn’t mean to triggger
2 u/dexfagcasul 22 Jun 2019 12:34
I think some people are downvote brigading and I’ve seen admins remove upvotes from stuff on this sub multiple times.
1 u/[deleted] 22 Jun 2019 14:18
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1 u/KaleMunoz [OP] 22 Jun 2019 21:34
Hard to say if I have a favorite right now. I regularly read Reason, Stream, and the American Conservative. There’s stuff I love and hate that regularly comes out of these three. But I read them the most. I read the National Review for a long time and gave up on it recently (not as a Trump supporter). I have a bunch of other conservative, liberal, and “radical” stuff in my Feedly and podcasts, but I can’t say I’m crazy about any of it. I’m very politically dissatisfied, but my work requires me to keep up with what people and “camps” are saying.
1 u/levi_c1 22 Jun 2019 14:23
Hmm. I often read on this subreddit myself, but this doesn't seem right at all.
1 u/NutmegPluto 26 Jun 2019 18:56
Of course it does, the majority of "conservatives" aren't conservative at all
-5 u/Bryntyr † 22 Jun 2019 03:02
Conservativism is so infested with Zionism and israeli puppets that its a shit hole. r/the_Donald banned anyone who complained about the Israeli flag being posted everywhere right after trump got elected. It was 100% clear that war mongering and zionism would be the way of the future for Donald trump instantly after he got power, and its been 100% true.
1 u/Chupalla_Boi † 22 Jun 2019 03:07
The absolute state of the magaclowns
2 u/fergiejr 22 Jun 2019 13:56
You not this dork above know anything about TD but what you sniff out of each others circle jerks lol He couldn't be more wrong about it being warmongers
1 u/dexfagcasul 22 Jun 2019 12:34
I used the word “viral” and got banned from tD because the mod said “I always hated that word”