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A community to satirize conservtive and right-wing "ideals".
This community (now) exists as a pressure valve, a place to process through humor the often frustrating world of conservative politics. Above all, this is NOT the place for serious conservative support/viewpoints/arguments. There are other places on Lemmy for that if you desire it.
Rules:
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Always follow .world instance rules
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Parody With Purpose: This is a space for humorous takes on conservative politics. We welcome satire, but draw the line at content that promotes racism, sexism, homophobia, or other forms of bigotry.
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Memes Over Manifestos: This community focuses on humor and parody, not serious political debate. There are plenty of spaces for earnest conservative discussion, this isn’t one of them.
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Highlight Contradictions: Sometimes the best content points out inconsistencies and hypocrisies in conservative talking points. Creative commentary is encouraged.
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Public Figures Fair Game: Politicians and pundits can be satirized, but no targeting of private individuals, doxxing, or harassment.
Children of public figures under the age of 14 are also off-limits, a 16 year old has enough free agency to break with or adopt their parents views. An 8 year old kid doesn't.
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No News Zone: Memes only, news or other serious content should be sent to the nearest relevant comm. Meme's of current events, however, are encouraged.
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Clear Satire: Make your satirical intent reasonably clear. We’re here to mock bad ideas, not accidentally spread them. If you're unsure how it will be taken, feel free to DM the mod team ahead of time or explicitly tag it as satire in the body.
A note on ChadMcTruth: Chad's content is 100% satire, but his work can sometimes be hard to tell, but if he posted it be assured, its satire.
- Relevant Content: All posts should relate to conservative politics or ideologies in some way somewhere in your post. Either in the title or the meme itself.
For more general political memes please see [email protected]
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Community Respect: Disagree with fellow members all you want, but personal attacks aren’t welcome. Save the criticism for the ideas, not each other.
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Moderation Discretion: Mods will use reasonable judgment in applying these rules. We’ll be fair, but firm. These kinds of comms have a tendency to get off the rails, so we might seem overzealous in moderation sometimes.
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For the moment, i'm allowing properly tagged NSFW content as long as its funny and relevant. Don't make me regret it.
And above all, HAVE FUN!
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Why is this downvoted so much? (purely rhetorical question, of course, this is Lemmy we're talking about)
Let's unpack. Vance, the Vize vize president (sic!) of an American administration that basically sold the position of the president to the richest man in the world, obviously degrading the value of the public opinion (read: democracy) in the process. Also, it should be noted that this degraded well-known narcissist Trump to Vize President, just wait till he finds out...
Regardless, this representative wants to critizice Europe's/the EU's democracies. This representative of the U.S., a country with a two party "democracy" and part of the one of the two parties that is way more involved in antidemocratic practices such as purging voter registration or gerrymandering. Which in and of itself is a bit... wondrous, but still, valid criticism should be accepted from everywhere you may get it from. You just have to keep in mind where you got it from and what could be possible intentions of the entity criticizing you– if Putin warns you that no, you should definetly not start having a working military or being energy independent again you should at least think of in what way he may seek to profit from telling you that.
Vance probably does not want to actually further stabilize the EU, or actually help them in any way– just a wild guess.
Still, this says nothing about the quality of the criticism itself, and, if you just care enough to look it up, his general points in this case are valid: Allegations of Russian election interference in Romania stand without proof and the EU is in many ways inherently corrupt and actively antidemocratic, e.g. the EU parliament still has no right to propose new bills, rendering it functionally useless as a parliament.
Members of the EU Parliament are getting well payed, especially as abuse of funds of the EU parliament is generally accepted– as long as you don't, never speak out against the antidemocratic nature of the democracy game you're playing.
Von der Leyen ptomised multiple times to introduce such a Parliamentary right of initiative– and never did so, while being the person profiting of of a powerless, as she can basically continue her reign over the EU unquestioned.