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This is one sample visit to the conservative subreddit. It's an appalling example of the impact of disinformation. When you need to be reminded of who the enemy is and what they think, visit here. You will see that there is no gratitude or mutual respect, and there never was. There was never any concept of mutual benefit. And now, with Trump leading the cult, there truly is no depth to which they won't go, and no decisions from Trump that won't be retroactively justified.

These people are dangerous, and they don't give a shit about any alliances, friendship or partnership. And they control the levers of power.

Edit to add a screenshot. Not sure how to add more, but it doesn't get any better as you go deeper. What's clear is that this relationship is over, and we need to move on.

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[–] spinhoser@lemmy.ca 1 points 39 minutes ago

It has been interesting to see "Canadian Conservatives", some of them top commenters, get viciously turned on by /r/conservative while lamenting about how this is hurting PP and the Conservatives movement in Canada.

[–] crapwittyname@lemm.ee 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

James O'Brien isn't my favourite talking head, but I do like his idea of having contempt for the conmen and compassion for the conned. These people have swallowed a lot of big lies and the fault is with the liars.

[–] Zizzy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I agree that someone conned deserves compassion. You got tricked into sending someone money? Im sorry, even if it was dumb of you, im angry at the scammer.

But when you get scammed and the person who scammed you says theyre using your money for atrocious hateful acts, say making someones existence illegal, and you double down and say "well actually theyre right let me send more money, " you do not have any sympathy from me.

[–] crapwittyname@lemm.ee 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

You're 100% entitled (and right) to feel that way. But there are a lot of lies these people have been fed, often from birth, about for example white supremacy etc. that only education can really erase. Education is withheld by the same liars that profit from the hatred they whip up.
Now I'm not advocating for the softly, softly approach with them, I'm all for punching Nazis, and it's ultimately up to the individual what to believe. But these drones aren't the right target, it's the monsters that made them that way and hide behind them, the people in power advocating for e.g. religion and ethnonationalism to increase their power and profits. They are the root cause. And their first victims are these ignorant sheep forming a human shield around them. If I were to explain how much contempt I have for those people this would be a massive text wall that probably breaks Lemmy TOS.

[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 19 points 4 hours ago

Wow, so glad this brave American here could teach me so much about my own country. Let me just call up my drug dealing ~~prime minister~~ governor and demand that he fix Canada immediately lest we face more punishment from Poppa Cheeseball. Thank you r/conservative, I'd be so lost without you proper Americans leading the way.

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 10 points 3 hours ago

I'm closer on the Mexican side of the country, but I'm gonna really miss having friendly neighbors. Sorry we've been so shitty lately to our northern and southern friends.

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 21 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Its funny seeing this stuff in r/conservative getting down voted as hell.

[–] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 1 points 42 minutes ago

r/republican is no better. They literally spout the lies trump spews and believe them 100%

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

It usually gets upvoted to the moon. It's infuriating.

[–] thefluffiest@feddit.nl 22 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Wouldn’t be surprised if this was Made in St. Petersburg™️. And American ‘conservatives’ just lapping it up

[–] formulaBonk@lemm.ee 1 points 45 minutes ago

There is so few actual people left in that sub. It’s just ai comments and absolute staggering amount of Astro turfed propaganda

[–] freeman@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 hours ago

The talking points might be, that supremacist US attitude is not. It's been there for decades.

Its not the Russians or Trump there is big part of the US that is hostile to anybody but their, imagined, version of America and places no real value on others even allies.

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 47 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

That’s not America that’s r/conservative

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 17 points 6 hours ago

So what the people in charge of America are telling the fascists to think.

[–] AlolanVulpix@lemmy.ca 69 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

This is what happens when you have unchecked disinformation.

Let's prevent that from happening by not spreading American owned media pretending to be Canadian, that infiltrates Canadian culture and politics.

[–] Habahnow@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 hours ago

For real. The issues occurring in the US are various, but the vast spreading of disinformation in the US is crippling. Don't let unchecked lobbying (aka bribing of politicians) occur in your country, don't let "news organizations" spread false realities.

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 33 points 8 hours ago (4 children)

They all look like bot accounts with AI generated content.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 1 points 8 minutes ago

ChatGPT can be more empathetic than /r/conservative members so they are worse than AI. The whole subreddit fails Turing test.

[–] stardust@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 hours ago

Would it surprise anyone if it was a Russian run subreddit. Heard moderation is heavy handed to quickly snuff out dissent with people having their conservative flairs taken away if they dare question dear leader who drinks the sun and eats the sky.

[–] bassomitron@lemmy.world 17 points 7 hours ago

Many of them are, but sadly, many of them are actual people that are just that fucking brainwashed.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

Fascists love AI generated slop, because it cuts the artist out of the art, so many of these might be real. Please be noted that platforms now often defend AI bots from countering, as they're now hiding comments with common jailbreak phrases (which are also trivial to filter by the bot operators).

[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 32 points 8 hours ago

1.1k effective downvotes in r/Conservative, that’s amazing even for explicit libtard comments. If that sub isn’t swallowing your Drumpf Deitification, you’re really and utterly stone bonkers.

[–] IslandLife@lemmy.ca 20 points 8 hours ago

Lol, I've literally never seen that many downvotes. What a toxic sub though.

[–] iltoroargento@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 7 hours ago

Sometimes, I wish I didn't have eyes... This is one of those times.

Jesus fucking christ. Like, if I typed that shit, I'd hope someone would put me in a fucking psych ward, stat. People need some fucking help.

[–] sfxrlz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 7 hours ago

So wrong yet so smug

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 6 points 7 hours ago

Eww, that's some level10 spinjutsu.

[–] Delvin4519@lemmy.world 10 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Kinda wild. I really gotta leave and get out of this pile of a dumpster fire I'm in, and head to Canada or someplace. This screenshot is just insane. I have no words for what I'm seeing here in this screenshot.

Glad I no longer post to reddit anymore. May go ahead with a essentially full block of reddit and essentially all of Big TV outright at some point. I've thought about cutting off Big TV completely; as hearing from American news media has been driving me on the verge of outright mental insanity, but now seeing this tonight, it seems like I gotta cut Big TV outright.

I've never been so thankful and glad to be on Lemmy and Mastodon for this wild ride since the start. I'm realizing just how dire it is out there. Having to get this off my chest with nowhere to vent to. Now I just need to find a Lemmy community or something that helps with people coping with this insanity, because I might need to hide this community again otherwise for my sanity. I already had most of the news and politics communities hidden on Lemmy to manage the flow of insanity, but went back and forth on this one this week.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 4 points 7 hours ago

Time to print a bunch of 'i did that' stickers with Trump's face and put them on US gas pumps.

[–] TommySoda@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

It's like abusing a significant other and saying it's your fault that they had to do it.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 hours ago
[–] Tm12@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] RaskolnikovsAxe@lemmy.ca 9 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Added one. Couldn't see how to add more. I can appreciate that no one wants to give them traffic. It doesn't really matter because commenting there is highly restricted even if you have a reddit account in good standing. And the entire subreddit is incredibly fragile - you'll get permabanned for putting up anything that counters the tsunami of horseshit.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 10 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Couldn't see how to add more

To link multiple images, you can either

  • link to an external gallery in the main post

  • place them in the post body with this format: ![](ImageLink)

You can do the same in comments. For example if I go

![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Birds_Illustrated_Canada_Goose.jpg/636px-Birds_Illustrated_Canada_Goose.jpg)

It shows up like this

It's also best practice to add alt text in the square brackets:

![painting of a goose standing in front of some boats](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Birds_Illustrated_Canada_Goose.jpg/636px-Birds_Illustrated_Canada_Goose.jpg)

Some apps and front ends will have a little image icon that can help you upload more images into the post / comment body

[–] Tm12@lemmy.ca 6 points 8 hours ago

Appreciate it. Nice to see the downvotes.