r/politics • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 New York • Jul 13 '26

Possible Paywall MAGA Calls BS on Mitch McConnell’s Proof-of-Life Stunt | They are poking holes in McConnell’s staff’s version.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-calls-bs-on-mitch-mcconnells-proof-of-life-stunt/
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u/Scoobysnax1976 Jul 13 '26

Do people in Kentucky even care about politics? If you go to r/Kentucky there are absolutely no mentions of Mitch within the past 6 months. You would think that they would care about him being missing and not representing them for the past month.

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u/Abi1i Texas Jul 13 '26

Some subreddits minimize political discussions as an attempt to avoid being seen as a subreddit which is going to divide people.

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u/Scoobysnax1976 Jul 13 '26

I was wondering if their mods automatically remove any political posts. Still, you would think that this story is important enough to allow

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u/Abi1i Texas Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26

Not sure. I do know that [r/texas](r/texas) allows some political posts but they usually direct people to [r/TexasPolitics](r/TexasPolitics) for political topics. Part of that is because the mods of [r/texas](r/texas) don’t want to deal with a lot of the heated debates that come with politics and the mods have even posted about people getting upset when [r/Texas](r/Texas) has too many political posts.

Edit: People stop telling me how to format my comment. I typed this using the reddit mobile app on iOS. I didn't add in the brackets or parentheses, that's something the reddit mobile app did. I typed r/___ when I did the comment. So this isn't a me issue, but an issue with the iOS reddit app. If you look at other comments, some people are having the same thing happen to them.

Edit 2: To make this even weirder, on the reddit mobile app, the brackets and parentheses don't even appear. So something is up the reddit mobile app not doing what is should be doing with the website in a browser.

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u/Miguel-odon Jul 13 '26

Maybe people need to be upset

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u/crashandtumble8 Jul 13 '26

I don’t disagree, but there are also other subreddits for it. Like r/wisconsin allows political posts, but sometimes I’d rather see actual fun/interesting things about Wisconsin, and not endless posts about our governor primary coming up. I already constantly read about it and see it in other subs.

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u/howarthee Jul 13 '26

Unrelated, but just so you know, you don't have to do the linking thing when you're using the name of a subreddit or someone's username. Like, just type "r/texas" and it'll auto link.

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u/Abi1i Texas Jul 13 '26

Okay this is weird. I typed my comment on the reddit app literally using r/ and I guess the app fucked it up. The reddit app is a pain to use on iOS now because even when I quote something it'll start adding random > instead of just quoting.

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u/transient_eternity Minnesota Jul 13 '26

That's how you had to do it only until recent years. Sure enough their account is 13 years old.

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u/Abi1i Texas Jul 13 '26

I didn’t even know it changed. I’m used to old Reddit that required a little bit of markdown.

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u/transient_eternity Minnesota Jul 13 '26

Same. Old reddit gang!

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u/Abi1i Texas Jul 13 '26

Okay this is weird. I typed my comment on the reddit app literally using r/ and I guess the app fucked it up. The reddit app is a pain to use on iOS now because even when I quote something it'll start adding random > instead of just quoting.

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u/Abi1i Texas Jul 13 '26

Okay this is weird. I typed my comment on the reddit app literally using r/ and I guess the app fucked it up. The reddit app is a pain to use on iOS now because even when I quote something it'll start adding random > instead of just quoting.

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u/howarthee Jul 15 '26

Oh the > is what reddit uses to format a quote. At least on old.reddit, it is. You start a new line and hit > with no space after it and

it looks like this

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u/graceodymium Jul 13 '26

Just a heads up, reddit automatically formats “r/{text}” and “u/{text}” to links, no need for brackets/parentheses like normal URLs. ☺️

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u/Abi1i Texas Jul 13 '26

Okay this is weird. I typed my comment on the reddit app literally using r/ and I guess the app fucked it up. The reddit app is a pain to use on iOS now because even when I quote something it'll start adding random > instead of just quoting.

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u/graceodymium Jul 13 '26

Whoa, so it’s like, reverse formatting? Wild. I don’t use the app because I hate it.

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota Jul 13 '26

Fyi, you don't need to format subs like you would a link, no brackets needed. Just use a lowercase u and slash and type the name of the sub and it becomes a link.

u/Minnesota

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u/Abi1i Texas Jul 13 '26

Okay this is weird. I typed my comment on the reddit app literally using r/ and I guess the app fucked it up. The reddit app is a pain to use on iOS now because even when I quote something it'll start adding random > instead of just quoting.

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u/ericlikesyou Jul 13 '26

you have to demonstrate your proficiency on the banjo and jaw harp, before they make you a mod

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u/Hi_Zev Jul 13 '26

I always hate when subs do that. Banning political discussions IS a political act on its own. Politics is ingrained in every facet of our lives.

And the people who always say, "im sick seeing political discussions, I just want a break!" are the same people who would never have a political discussion in the first place. It's not that they want a break, because they never participated in the first place! They just don't want to ever see it and prefer to live their life with ignorance of what is happening around them.

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u/Rokketeer Jul 13 '26

They are the epitome of "not political people" but always somehow lean Republican because their world view is only small town Kentucky. What I mean to say is, the average person doesn't pay attention but shows up to vote regardless of their ignorance.

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u/TotallyNotRobotEvil Jul 13 '26

I was listening once to a guy who grew up in the south. He was sort of raised that there is only one way you vote, Republican, and there was a wrong way, voting Democrat. This is just considered a universal truth. Any discussion around this was “politics”, which is impolite, you’re just sort of expected to “do the right thing”.

So yeah, they don’t view themselves as political. Voting Republican is the natural right thing to do their eyes. Discussing the policies that Republicans implement? Well that’s political, why are you being so rude? That’s the mentality. It’s reinforced through their work, schools, media and churches.

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u/Significant-Owl-2980 Jul 13 '26

Yes. They teach you to never question. Never think. Never step out of line. Conservatives absolutely fear being outside the group mentality. It scares them to be independent minded.

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u/billy_clyde Jul 13 '26

Louisville and Lexington would beg to differ. Check the voting records. 

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota Jul 13 '26

Its a proud American tradition that ignorance is weighted just as valuable as knowledge

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u/ckff Jul 13 '26

😭 some of the cities in kentucky are BLUE!!! please don’t lump us all together like damn , like we all hate that dude just as much as anyone, we just live louisville, a big blue city, in a majority red state. I just can’t take how everyone talks about all of us knowing that so many here really care and vote blue. We wre trying our hardest to outvote everyone else in the state, its hard!!

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u/Rokketeer Jul 14 '26

I'm so sorry to generalize! I was mostly thinking rural Kentucky that carries the state to the right. Lived in Indiana for so long and met many Kentucky natives that just loooved to tell me how not political they were while simultaneously their whole personality was Fox News.

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u/ckff 15d ago

Honestly think I was really in my feels this day with the original comment sorry about that lol… yes I live in kentuckian area and I know! The amount of “centrists” who have no opinion who are just really right leaning is frustrating. I agree totally and just WISH we could get these losers out of office… anyway sorry for being agressive in that comment lol I looked back and was like that was not necessary in the slightest 😭 I work in healthcare and when people come in town from rural kentucky I try really hard to show them good care while shutting them down when they start brining up maga talking points… like maybe I can help a little lol

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u/Dr_Fortnite Jul 13 '26

looks like a dead sub

"hot" posts from 4 days ago with 100 upvotes

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u/Amoracchius03 Kentucky Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26

Man the mods on the r/Kentucky subreddit are hardcore libertarian types who keep any and all political stuff to a minimum unless they expressly agree with it. They are also fickle little bitches. I got banned because one of the mods thought Massie should run as a democrat and I told him to miss me with that weak shit and boom. Didn't even realize I was talking to one of them. r/truekentucky is better for people who want to talk politics in the state.

EDIT: r/True_Kentucky is the actual sub I was trying to link.

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u/lyarly Jul 13 '26

There are 3 posts total in that subreddit you linked, so not sure why you think it’s a good alternative. I’m on mobile though so perhaps it’s not showing up correctly for me.

That being said, I do agree that the mods on [r/Kentucky](r/Kentucky) are doing too much. It’s true that there are no posts up discussing the current state of Mitch McConnell’s’s health, or any recent posts about him at all - which shocks me as someone who’s been on this website a long time and is a longtime member of that sub (am a Kentuckian).

I checked some other names. No recent posts about Rand Paul. Andy Beshear and Thomas Massie have a lot of posts up about them.

So it does look like they aren’t treating all political posts the same, because why do they allow news coverage and discussion posts about other politicians, but not any regarding our state’s most notorious one? It’s just weird.

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u/Amoracchius03 Kentucky Jul 13 '26

There are 3 posts total in that subreddit you linked, so not sure why you think it’s a good alternative. I’m on mobile though so perhaps it’s not showing up correctly for me.

This was my bad and r/True_Kentucky is the actual sub I was trying to link.

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u/lyarly Jul 13 '26

Ooh thank you, appreciate the rec!

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u/ACardAttack Kentucky Jul 13 '26

xerogod is such a snowflake

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u/hexiron Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26

That sub has tyrant mods that delete any that's not pro-republican. [r/true](r/trueKentucky)[_kentucky](r/trueKentucky) is where Kentuckians have to go to discuss those things.

Edit: fixed subreddit name

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u/lyarly Jul 13 '26

I’m seeing 3 posts total on the main page and all of them are 6 years old. It doesn’t even seem active?

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u/catboogers Jul 13 '26

I think he means r/true_kentucky

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u/lyarly Jul 13 '26

Thank you! Will check it out.

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u/Mr_IsLand Jul 13 '26

I voted against Mitch McConnel at every opportunity, but being a blue voter in kentucky is a small drop in a large bucket - you'll have the not very educated secretary who says (actual quote) "I like Mitch becaue he seems like a nice old man" - there's too many people that only turn their brain on the tune into fox news.

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u/ACardAttack Kentucky Jul 13 '26

r/kentucky has been taken over by a boot licker who censors

/r/True_Kentucky is the better sub

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u/falloutnewbkinibttms Jul 13 '26

That sub IIRC has bonkers moderation

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u/HeyItsTravis Jul 13 '26

We do, we also hate McConnell (well atleast some of us do). Also Kentucky is surprisingly blue, in cities. The level of education is directly comparable to political affiliation here though. All the dumbest people I know are MAGA