conservative
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 !politicalmemes@lemmy.world
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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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To be fair, their cult devotion to a widely known conman and penchant for believing crazy conspiracy theories is kind of their own doing.
Republicans or conservatives as a whole? I assume you’re talking about Trump, whom I and many other conservatives very much dislike, even if his interactions are entertaining. I’ll believe a “conspiracy” if presented with enough substantial evidence.
I of course can’t speak for every conservative, but neither can you.
I can only speak for myself, but me specifically, I'm talking about the conspiracy theorists who were tricked into believing that the COVID vaccine is some kind of evil plan to genocide everyone and stuff like that.
Of course it's their own actions.
But what if somebody is part of a cult who believes they will be picked up by space aliens and taken to heaven, but they have to drink magic poison for that to happen. Is it just the fault of the person who fell for the lies of the cult if they kill themselves? Or does the cult leader also have at least some responsibility for manipulating people and exploiting people's vulnerable mental states?
The sad thing about cults and cult-like behaviour (I'm not talking about conservatives overall, I'm talking about the "QAnon" hardcore Trump supporters) is that everyone, regardless of intelligence, can potentially be manipulated into believing the wildest stuff. People are capable of telling incredible lies to themselves, especially when they are in a vulnerable mental state.
I used to think this was just a matter of dumb people falling for dumb tricks, but I know somebody who is intelligent, but who was having a very rough time in his personal life (losing somebody close to him).
He managed to fall for a random con artist (sort of a fortune teller thing) and lost 10'000s of dollars within a short time. Before that, he wasn't spiritual or religious at all, he was as rational or probably more rational than the average person.
He snapped out of it after a couple of weeks. I'm glad that he told me, even though he was incredibly ashamed to fall for it, because it completely changed my outlook on what kind of person falls for those tricks.
So again, I cannot help but feel a little bit sorry for some of them being manipulated and exploited.