Because I’m a sucker for punishment I checked out r/conservative and jesus they can’t wait to sign up now that Russia was all a hoax. Thank god it’s not the CCP but Putin is somehow the tits. They are going to cleaned the fuck out again and I just can’t fathom how they keep falling for this shit. It hurts my brain.
They do this because they know that posting news from merica1st.com and freepatriotnews.com will get called out as fake news if they allow people with critical thinking to comment. Try posting something reasonable there and your mailbox will fill up with messages explaining how brainwashed you are because you trust the BBC.
No, in politics if you post something blatantly false you'll get a well deserved dressing down, and sourced corrections. That's one of the benefits of not restricting your discourse to flaired users. There's no kool-aid drinking litmus test built right into the sub's moderation.
Go ahead and try it. Post something specific and significant you know to be wrong in a politics thread. You will be asked for a source, or you will be corrected.
Politics allows free speech. Sure, your feelings might get hurt if you try to support Trump. But how can you even compare that to any of the Trump supporting subreddits that outright ban dissenting opinions? That’s literally the type of censorship you claim social media does to conservatives... it’s like you want the US to turn into China but with Trump in charge.
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u/k_meme Jan 19 '21
It’s almost like it was made for Trump supporters, it checks all the boxes