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A community to satirize conservtive and right-wing "ideals".
This community (now) exists as a pressure valve, a place to process through humor the often frustrating world of conservative politics. Above all, this is NOT the place for serious conservative support/viewpoints/arguments. There are other places on Lemmy for that if you desire it.
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Always follow .world instance rules
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Parody With Purpose: This is a space for humorous takes on conservative politics. We welcome satire, but draw the line at content that promotes racism, sexism, homophobia, or other forms of bigotry.
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Memes Over Manifestos: This community focuses on humor and parody, not serious political debate. There are plenty of spaces for earnest conservative discussion, this isn’t one of them.
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Highlight Contradictions: Sometimes the best content points out inconsistencies and hypocrisies in conservative talking points. Creative commentary is encouraged.
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Public Figures Fair Game: Politicians and pundits can be satirized, but no targeting of private individuals, doxxing, or harassment.
Children of public figures under the age of 14 are also off-limits, a 16 year old has enough free agency to break with or adopt their parents views. An 8 year old kid doesn't.
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A note on ChadMcTruth: Chad's content is 100% satire, but his work can sometimes be hard to tell, but if he posted it be assured, its satire.
- Relevant Content: All posts should relate to conservative politics or ideologies in some way somewhere in your post. Either in the title or the meme itself.
For more general political memes please see !politicalmemes@lemmy.world
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Moderation Discretion: Mods will use reasonable judgment in applying these rules. We’ll be fair, but firm. These kinds of comms have a tendency to get off the rails, so we might seem overzealous in moderation sometimes.
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For the moment, i'm allowing properly tagged NSFW content as long as its funny and relevant. Don't make me regret it.
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Why did Republicans run Trump again in 2024 with more or less the same strategy that lost the 2020 election? Was there any introspection between 2020 and 2024 or was 2024 just "2020 but even harder"? I didnt hear any chatter from the right that would indicate it was time to course correct from Trump and his loss in 2020... it was just rigged election talk and how amazing Trump is.
Politics is a messy thing, and given that nationwide presidents generally only win by like 2-3% its not like massive blowouts are happening. You could argue inflation alone was what lost the democrats the election this time around. Things like Joe dropping out far too late and Kamala campaigning with Cheney could have been the difference between winning and losing, and not any particular message
A lot of people don't buy that inflation, or the economy, was the losing issue. I know the polling says otherwise but I also think back to the people saying it in focus groups before the election. The same people didn't really seem to have any concept of what trump meant for the economy, or tariffs. I see it too with the fiscally conservative people. As soon as their guy is in office theyre all the sudden unconcerned. Maybe they aren't individually but the people amplifying the message slink off never to be seen again until the next election.
My conclusion is the democrats fail with their messaging. They can't take credit for the good they do because of in-fighting, lack of media presence, and I would guess years long attacks by corporations to drive wedges between leadership with donations and campaign funding.
Its much more of a vibes thing than a knowledge thing. Politics operates on the monkey brain level for most voters, "Eggs expensive, Biden president now, Trump business man, Change to trump" kind of thing.
They dont look into what the IRA did or was, how our inflation compares to the rest of the world, real wages vs inflation vs buying power, they dont go look at historical examples of tariffs, etc... Its just "Eggs were cheaper in 2019 than now, lets go back to that"
And I completely agree, Democrats are absolutely dog shit at getting their victories out there