I remember when Russia cut itself off from the internet for like 3 days, and virtually every social media site I frequented was a lot calmer and nicer for those days. It was surreal seeing how fucking much of the internet is just Russia.
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Not only that, but these two users post with the same pattern: 4-5 posts in a burst and then staying quiet.
Makes you just want to build a script that tracks and analyze these accounts but I would feel to totalitarian doing that. I just block them.
That's not totalitarian, it's just journalism
That's why reddit made its API access exorbitantly expensive.
Maybe 30% - 50% of content on any subreddit is bots / shills?
Dead internet theory and all that.
It certainly seems like the same old comments over and over on reddit these days...
50% actually, its growing i suspect.
Conservative used to actually be kind of split. I remember back in the day, maybe around 2010 or so, could have been later, there were a bunch of people who said things like the state staying out of marriage is a conservative position. I guess more of the libertarian type folks but still, it was more ideologically diverse back then.
That ideological diversity did not just fade on its own. Over the past decade it has been actively pruned away. Spaces like r/conservative now routinely permaban anyone who steps outside an approved line, including the kind of libertarian arguments that used to be common. What remains is a tightly controlled echo chamber that presents itself as grassroots discussion while functioning more like propaganda. Given that shift, it is hard to take it seriously as a place for real conservative debate.
The brand of wackadoo on /r/Conspiracy used to be different, too. Less hostile and agenda-pushy, just sort of anything that didn't belong in /r/UFOs or whatever. Now it's just /r/Conservative with no filter.
That change was actually really sad to see. Conspiracy used to actually have some fun conspiracies, even if most were ultimately a bit too outlandish or unprovable. Now it's just your standard deep-state conspiracy shit.
Algorithmic flattening comes for us all.
Dollar for dollar it seems like it might be cheaper to bribe trump with bitcoins than run an internet disinfo campaign. But what do I know?
It's not about Trump. Presidents come and go, but the population and society stays for the next election and the next president.
Are you telling me that we live in a society?
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Everyone who isn't a current /r/conservative user already knows this.
Conservatives need brand new online communities that do not push them farther into the brain rot. Seriously are there any good online communities for them still around?
Conservatives need brand new online communities that do not push them farther into the brain rot.
That's an oxymoron as conservatism is already a brain rot
Yup because they’re anti education.
I feel like "conservatism" has lost all rationality. I do get that it's totally possible that "not rocking the boat" could be a good solution to society's progress for some niches but 99% of the time it's absolutely irational.
In fact, most conservative issues like "traditional family unit", "gun freedom" are better approached through progressive frame like incentives to celebrate local culture and protecting human rights like rights to self defence - these are fundamentally progressive thoughts that actually solve the issue in a real meaningful way rather than just hiding behind in-action.
I really try to understand conservatism as a thought movement but there seems to be no actual thought behind it. I genuinely don't get it.
It looks contradictory but there is logic to it. They want hierarchies, just like there was before - where Christian white men are on top and everyone else has no rights. Those are the “traditional values” they want to uphold. If you filter everything through that lens, their actions start to make sense. Technically this isn’t called conservatism (since this isn’t about a monarchy), but that’s the label they gave it.
But that's not conservatism per se, it's just fascism
The problem is they like the brain rot. It would be like taking away booze from an alcoholic. It can only be done if they accept they have a problem.
i would wager that these quickly get perverted
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