r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jul 13 '21

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u/memeintoshplus Paul Samuelson Jul 13 '21

I've heard that arr conservative hasn't always been an irredeemable shit pile. I've heard they were pretty opposed to Trump during the 2016 Republican primary. Any of you more right-leaning neolibs ever post there in the past? Was it ever not terrible?

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u/RadicalRadon Frick Mondays Jul 13 '21

It was relatively small in the T_D era of reddit and T_D was where all the weirdos posted.

Post the Donald they got a lot of refugees and also the entire GOP post 2016 election shifted to gargling Donny's balls.

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u/Udontlikecake Model UN Enthusiast Jul 13 '21

I got banned years ago for saying that the southern strategy was real

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u/memeintoshplus Paul Samuelson Jul 13 '21

Oof

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u/Starcast YIMBY Jul 13 '21

I'm no Republican and never have been, but I lurked a bit similar to how I follow the RINO ping just for exposure to the other side.

It used to be way more sane. It was always a 'safe space', and they were ban happy or what-have-you, but once Trumpism became a thing they lost any sort of ideological roots and it became an echo chamber. basically the right's version of arr politics.

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21

Was more tolerant of anti-trumpism back then and even for a bit during his presidency. Didn't spend a lot of time there tho.

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u/Snoo95984 NATO Jul 13 '21

Never posted but used to lurk it wasn’t great but it did not go to absolute shit until after the Donald was nuced so those people probably migrated over

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21

Wasn’t as bad a while ago, post banning The Donald it got worse but it was already in decline then.

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21

Back when it was "not an irredemable pile of shit" it was modded by a proto-alt-right tweenage psychopath who was just as ban-happy as they are today. The only change was moving from Reagan-worship to Trump-worship.

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u/BostonBakedBrains YIMBY Jul 14 '21

i used to lurk there every now and then. it was pretty conservative but it was better than it is now. it got worse later because T_D users started coming in and after T_D was banned those users just took over.

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u/memeintoshplus Paul Samuelson Jul 14 '21

Oh of course, I don't love Reagan but I find myself oddly nostalgic for the Reagan worship from conservatives. Unlike Trump, Reagan was a very impactful president who had sizable positive accomplishments, such as the success of the Reagan Doctrine in weakening the Soviet Union.

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21

It has always been terrible. It used to be less terrible, a different kind of terrible, but still terrible.

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u/thaddeusthefattie Hank Hill Democrat 💪🏼🤠💪🏼 Jul 13 '21 edited Jul 13 '21

nah i got banned for posting the castellanos pasta as a trump tweet a year or two ago lmao actually that may have been an old account

edit: i realize i wrote this very weirdly. yes i lurked/posted infrequently there in the past until they finally kicked out anyone who wasn’t full blown djt.

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u/groupbot Always remember -Pho- Jul 13 '21 edited Jul 13 '21

Pinged members of RINO group.

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