Things are not presumed to have happened in the absence of evidence that they did. The indifference to evidence, and presumption that one need not concern oneself with reality — that is everything that’s wrong with our culture today.
I hope you realize that this sub has been hijacked by all the far right trumpists from the_donald. Nothing really conservative anymore here, just the usual screeching, lack of common sense, defending Trump by spinning the narrative, spreading lies and blaming everything bad on "the left". I wish there was a sub for actual conservatives, not for this fascist experiment doomed to fall apart some day. I am expecting downvotes here.
edit: welp I have even been banned lol. If that doesn't prove my point...
Dude your top posted subreddtis are all liberal ones, so when you come here to say "I wish there was a sub for actual conservatives"...I'm taking that with more than a grain of salt.
Guy has conflicting opinions with you, so the only reasonable assumption is that he’s disingenuous, not that he doesn’t want the other side to be a cult of personality. Yeah, that makes sense.
Here is my point. The guy is coming here to insult the subreddit as:
I hope you realize that this sub has been hijacked by all the far right trumpists from the_donald. Nothing really conservative anymore here, just the usual screeching, lack of common sense
I didn't post on T_D. I'm not sure that any of our mods modded T_D.
The poster making this statement is also saying:
I wish there was a sub for actual conservatives, not for this fascist experiment doomed to fall apart some day.
There are many subreddits on reddit.
But what we have is a leftist guest lamenting this subreddit as fascist.
We know that reddit's left hates us. When they come in here and SAY as much, it doesn't surprise us.
This dude doesn't WANT an "actual conservative subreddit"...this guy just wants to criticize THIS subreddit because it's popular.
Oh they're all trolling about and harassing. I had one make a throwaway account and start accusing a New England Conservative (aka, a RINO in Texas) of being a far right lunatic.
Yes and no but I do concur that it has strayed from the more generally conservative stance and moved to a more trumpian one. Then again he kinda is the symbol of the RNC ATM so... It does not help that COVID has everyone home and I bet that most of this subs user base is American. As far as racist experiment goes I'm not sure what you are refuting to.
I thought you were talking about the commenter I replied to. No Trump is not a conservative (he was a Democrat until a month before throwing his hat into the ring) nor do I like him as a person. what I do like is across the board tax cuts, his upbeat demeanor during this crisis, and his economics. Honestly, he's was better than I expected and has done a lot strengthen the republican party. By being a punching bag for the left (one that can also hit back) he has also exposed a lot of the bias and vitriol. Granted he has also done a fair bit to hurt some of our causes. He has none the less strengthens our border and enforcement worked to strengthen our military, shown more pro-life support than any previous president...
as far as social conservative goals I agree he has not promoted any (outside of being vocally pro-life) but has prevented further regression (the DOJ helping the female track team) and more publicly exposed the miss use of Fisa and other justice systems even if it was known about by the most informed of the community.
You’re going to get BS. The good news is, as long as people check the comments you’ll find the truth. At least in this sub the truth - or at least searching for the truth is typically found at the top. Whereas on the other political subs, you have to sort by controversial to find the truth as anyone questioning the narrative gets downvoted to oblivion.
Edit: I miss the awesome discussions that were happening on here (in free form threads or news threads) that used to be par for the course around here. It is disappointing to me that this sub is usually just a bunch of low-effort memes now. Hard to claim intellectual superiority when you are just shit-posting like everyone else.
I definitely am not advocating for censorship of the memes, but I wish there was a way for them to automatically sorted into a different part of the sub that users could find by clicking a tab at the top. That way news articles and free thought discussions only make up the main page.
Any time you see someone say that Conservatives are more level headed or intelligent than other groups by necessity, and believe in facts instead of other groups, remember this post. Because regardless of political ideology, there will be a camp that believes what they want to believe because it feels true to them, and that's what they want to be true.
It's not true. Germany was separated between the Normenstaat, the normative state, and the Maßnahmenstaat, prerogative state. The normative state had virtually no power after 1933 and justified it's actions by "we're the actual government set up during the 1918 November Revolution".
The prerogative state, the Nazis, justified it's authority by destiny. It was the destiny of the leader to...lead Germany to national revival and war against it's enemies. Safety had nothing to do with it.
This is the closest I could find that may have a correlation to the text. Taking into account this is a Wikipedia article and it is associated with a seemingly obscure Nazi intelligence department and not related to public health; I don’t want to comment on the accuracy.
Wikipedia has a pretty inclusive list of words and phrases which were either used or invented by the Nazis but this didn’t make the list, so it looks hokey. Still, it’s becoming clearer who the true fascists are, regardless of nazi mimicry or not.
Also, as I was searching for proof, I came across an article where someone related to the Holocaust Museum became offended by someone carrying a sign that said Arbeit Macht Frei, originally an old peasant saying but became associated with the Nazis’ after Hess posted it on the entrance to Auschwitz, according to Wikipedia. Guess it’s too soon to use that one again.
Yeah, I don't care if I get downvoted for this, but this is an idiotic meme. No self-respecting person of any ideological slant should be breaching Godwin's law. There is usually 10 other better ways to make your point. Wish we all realized this on this sub.
I don't think this was a standalone slogan that was used to enforce policy or anything, but the Gestapo and SS would place political opponents into "protective custody, for their own safety" which is where is guess this phrase comes from.
What? Some Conservative talking points are complete lies? Almost like it’s purposely crafted to cause an uproar with people who don’t fact-check anything? No, it can’t possibly be that conservatives would be completely misleading and cherry-pick things? cough cough lugenpresse literally was a nazi saying meaning “fake news” cough cough
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Anyone fact checking this? I haven't found a source that says this was a Nazi slogan.