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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:

Always follow .world instance rules
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.
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.
Highlight Contradictions: Sometimes the best content points out inconsistencies and hypocrisies in conservative talking points. Creative commentary is encouraged.
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.

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.
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]

Community Respect: Disagree with fellow members all you want, but personal attacks aren’t welcome. Save the criticism for the ideas, not each other.
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.
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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Is this a c/ for making fun of conservatives? (lemmings.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The posts are funny, but I'd say that we should grift the right so that they get off big tech platforms and get into the fediverse.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I haven't paid much attention but from what I can gather it used to be a 'legitimate' conservative community, where some people posted outrageous bs, think of reddit s r/thedonald sub. A couple of days ago some people noticed that there are no mods anymore in the community, for whatever reason, so the shit posting, cons trolling began and the community all of a sudden bloomed.

I'd reckon there aren't many of them original folks around anymore, thankfully. Just scroll down, it was a very trashy community, celebrating deaths from miscarriages and such.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Apparently the mods couldn't resist their need for displaying openly Nazi shit. I think I heard there was a stickied post or something that was was out of line? Anyway, justifiably they got the ban hammer, and apparently nobody has stepped up to try and claim the community.

So yeah, let's keep the mockery flowing, I say! 👍

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

no mods right now since the community is moving to [email protected] so people are taking the opportunity to make fun of conservatives

edit proof https://lemmy.world/post/25857375

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago

The right can fuck off and die on Facebook and Twitter where they belong.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago

Yes lol, without mods users will gravitate to the most natural state for a comm

And apparently the most natural state for this comm are parody posts because those are the only posts here with positive upvotes. All the "serious" posts get downvoted to hell LMAO

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

Cool kids make fun of loser fascists.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

It should be a comm for conservatives, and it was. Didn't see many crazy takes there. Plenty I disagreed with, but nothing too batshit. My biggest complaint was articles from shit sources with shit, or no, facts.

What I did see were some posts that deserved discussion, but were downvoted to hell the moment they were birthed. Swear to god there were people monitoring the comm and automatically downvoting everything. Really winning hearts and minds there guys.*

At the least, we should be listening to what "the opposition" has to say instead our opinions on conservative thought being based on politicians and that one crazy aunt. That sort of thinking is how conservatives view liberals. They lock onto the craziest shit they see and say, "See! They're all like that!"

Used to have a conservative friend, used to. He was railing about liberals one day using his wife's friend as an example of typical liberal thought. First off, his wife was a fucking basket case, in no small part due to his treatment of her. She'd latch onto any woman who would befriend her. Second, the woman in question was the most toxic left-winger I've ever heard of IRL. That was his picture of liberals. Hell, I'd vote Trump if we were really like that!

* Best friend used to be a conservative Southern Baptist. Through years of arguing, in good faith, and kicking politics and religion around, he ended up a left-moderate atheist. I single-handedly changed his view on homosexuality being a choice. But please, do go one drowning out their voices, pushing them into toxic echo chambers. Hows that working out BTW?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

You can't change a conservative's mind online, they're not here for a discussion, they see themselves as some sort of missionary and they're here to convert us, not be converted.

Your conversions worked, because you were able to do it persistently, offline, IRL.

I really wish I could find it again, but a while back a professional deprogrammer was in a Reddit thread describing how to deprogram conservative's, their whole thing revolved around what to do IRL, so I asked how one would do it with online people like on Reddit or other forums

Basically, it's not possible, they're too closed to listen to anyone's dissent online. Best we can do is shut them out and hope someone (like you) IRL is working on them.