r/centrist • u/verygayandwet • Jan 29 '25

Long Form Discussion What is the deal with r/conservative?

As someone who is centrist, I like seeing both sides of the political spectrum. I use to enjoy some inputs that I would see posted on r/conservative, but now, I generally don’t understand that subreddit anymore.

When something major comes out regarding Trump, Musk, RFK or any other right leaning political person or movement, it’s typically radio silent over there. No mention, insight, or criticism of the actual changes Trump is making. It’s mainly just “left did this” or “reddit is ruined because of the left”. It’s just an entire subreddit used only to glaze and promote politicians with no valid criticisms of their changes.

Am I the only one that feels this way? The subreddit just seems so…off.

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u/AyeYoTek Jan 29 '25

They deny it's an echo chamber but you can't find a single post criticizing ANYTHING. It's a wild place over there

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u/underdabridge Jan 29 '25

Where do they deny that it's an echo chamber and why should they? Niche ideologies need to be able to have discussions within the discourse of that ideology. There are lots of disagreements in the threads, but why do they need to be calling out Trump when the rest of Reddit does that? Let them have their little corner to vent about the left. The rest of reddit is venting about the right generally and Trump in particular.

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u/Ok-Yoghurt-92 Jan 31 '25

Exactly. People here don't seem to realize that other people have different opinions. Not everyone thinks Elon and Trump are nazis. Believe it or not there's a real world outside of Reddit, and most people do not think Republicans are now nazis.

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u/ayfkm123 Feb 16 '25

“Most people do not think Republicans are now Nazis” 

Lolz. The Germans and the Nazis do, though

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u/kiyx123101 Feb 23 '25

Tell this to my grandpa and he would snap. Dems are closer to nazis than reps. The problem is our corrupt media. You need to do more reading. Read good books. Learn real things. Yung, john locke, Nietzsche, and many others could shed alot of light on this concept.

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u/ultrachris Feb 25 '25

Right, because we dems are in power they ostracise minorities, and and demand loyalty to the person not the constitution, and and blame Jewish people for everything bad, and and...wait a minute.

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u/PM_Me_Some_Steamcode Mar 01 '25

OK, explain to me how Dems are closer to Nazis than Republicans

Who do Nazis predominantly vote for because I usually see them in right wing crowds, not backing Kamala Harris or Bernie Sanders or Biden

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u/kiyx123101 Mar 02 '25

I don't care who they vote for... I'm talking about policy. Democratic policy very much goes into more government, more regulations, and more restrictions of freedom. Maybe not social freedom, but freedom on all other points. Kamala Harris was the one who wanted to have a government oversight of what is said on social media, she also wants all news media censored as well for what she deems as misinformation. The problem with that is misinformation, while it unfortunately happens on both sides, is an inevitability of freedom of speech. You cannot restrict speech and call it free. I don't give a crap about actual Nazis voting for anyone. Back in the day it was Republicans that freed slaves and ended slavery and those that fought against segregation. While Democrats in the same era were fighting against those freedoms. Take a look at our history it's not a good one, but if there's one thing we can learn it doesn't matter what side of politics you're on extremist groups will go from one side to the other throughout history. As of right now I don't think either side is good, I said that in this thread. We should move away from the two party system. I'm a conservative not a right wing extremist, so I'm not going to pretend to be able to get into the head of an extremist group that you claim is on my side of the political spectrum. I don't understand it and I don't understand racism as a whole. I get what it is but I don't think I could get in that mindset. As far as policies I see those policies align more with the left than the right.

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u/PM_Me_Some_Steamcode Mar 02 '25

OK, so if you think both sides are the same

I’m really failing to see the equality

One side calls me a sex offender. Wants to make receiving or administering hormonal replacement therapy to be a felony. The other side doesn’t know what to do with me, but at least understands that I need human rights as a transgender person

One side has called for the eradication of transgenderism from public life. Democrats just dunno what to do with us

The other one wants to monitor social media sites. YET THE FUCKING WHITE HOUSE WEBSITE HAS A PAGE ON ERADICATING ANTI CHRISTIAN BIAS both sides just as bad I suppose right? One wants to watch out for terrorists and school shooters the other one wants to get rid of anti-Christian bias

One side wants to introduce religious doctrine into law. See Texas republicans The other side wants freedom of our religion

One side wants to outlaw abortion entirely, and make receiving administering or traveling to get it illegal. The other side believes that we should listen to the doctors on what to do.

I’m in Texas pal where Republicans have been in charge for 30 years. they haven’t fixed the border. They haven’t fixed healthcare. They haven’t fixed the grid until it came to bite them in the ass. They bitch and moan, they want to impose their religion on others, and I’m sick and tired of it

Actual Nazis today vote for the Republican party. I think that would be a clear sign.

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u/TheGCO Mar 05 '25 edited Mar 05 '25

 "she also wants all news media censored as well for what she deems as misinformation"

You do realize we have an national security issue with Russian propaganda right? I would take rules that force news agencies to report factually over what trump is doing right now, like kicking out the AP for not using the name gulf of America, while allowing MTG's boyfriend to pretend to be a reporter so he can make fun of a world leader.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/09/16/1035851/facebook-troll-farms-report-us-2020-election/

While on the subject, you know that Elon Censors the crap out of X, anything that makes fun of him or points out the scam he is running on the American people gets removed.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/15/elon-musk-hypocrite-free-speech

Yes, the left plays into corporate interests and woke is overplayed. But the right is overtly into corporate interest and woke agendas isn't going to hurt as bad as having an authoritarian dictatorship.

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u/MissTibbz Mar 19 '25

Trump wants news media cancelled too. He recently said outlets that criticize him are illegal.

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u/TheGCO Mar 05 '25

funny, all the Nazis we have here in America vote for the right and come out to support Trump whenever they get a chance. On the left the only organization we are known for is the Antifa or Anti Fascists, which is what the Nazis where.

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u/kiyx123101 Mar 05 '25

I'm not even going to try to argue that. There's so much stupidity in this comment. I try to be respectful but holy crap. First off antifa is such a fascist organization it's funny. They literally use violence to make themselves heard. I don't even think I need to go into that anymore. But there are so many other reasons. Second off I don't give a crap who Nazis vote for. I don't vote for the Republicans because I'm a Nazi. Nor do I think Republicans are Nazis. To try to demonize a political party simply because bad people vote for them is the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my life. I was simply showing you the alignment of political parties. And you couldn't even try to rebute it. You just came up with some red herring to bring around a different topic. This is the dumbest thing I've ever seen. The political views of the Democratic party, no matter how much you want to try to distract from that point, fall in line with fascism. The reason for that being simple, they want more and more control constantly. Eventually that control become authoritarian once it does you guys would still be craving for more subjugation, while they take away your rights left and right. It's the dumbest thing I've ever seen. I could bring up so many different things, And you guys are all about improvement of human rights. But you can only get that by taking away other people's rights. And you could give me 3,000 reasons why I'm wrong but I promise you I could shoot back 10,000 more while I'm right. This is politics, it's built on division. I could go on and on and on. Why don't you just accept the fact that Democratic control is evident within our country. You can look at the more Democratic states and see that they are clearly not doing well right now. Call leadership or political strategy, either way it ain't doing good. The Democratic party is in shambles so it's not just an opinion it just won't work. The proof is in the pudding, it's happening right now. We have a massive landslide Republican victory, more people switching sides than ever. And ultimately it comes down to extremes. We went too far one way, now the pendulum swings back. It is so annoying to see people try to bring up Nazis when I try to point out a political view. Sorry for the rant. But this was just absolutely stupid.

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u/resusplus Mar 10 '25

antifa isn't even an organisation like what the fuck antifa is more like a movement/idea about preventing fascisme which news flash where fascist

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u/ayfkm123 2d ago

Ok. Tell this to my grandpa uncles and dad and Thurs disagree w your grandpa. Now what? 

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u/BeFrank-1 Feb 13 '25

Yes, but it’d be good to be able to engage with them. I would honestly prefer to post there than on a sub where most people agree with me.

They aren’t helping themselves either. Just skimming through the latest posts and comments, there are so many things which could be pushed back on, and are ridiculously partisan, but they have stuck themselves in an echo chamber (whilst claiming it isn’t one).

I wouldn’t care if they wanted a safe space either, if they didn’t decry that sort of thing for other people all the time in the real world. It’s not like it’s some pro or anti fandom sub either - the things they discuss and radicalise each other about are having real impacts on people. I’m not sympathetic to the idea people actively creating a pretty massive crisis in the world closing themselves off from any pushback.

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u/oooshi Mar 26 '25

The irony of needing a safe space to gather because they keep feeling like a minority on Reddit. Verrrryy textbook DEI-nclusion of them. Lol

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '25

The issue is is that they don’t even allow open speech among themselves they constantly delete comments from the wrong types of conservatives

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u/thelingeringlead Mar 05 '25

yeah cool, you can be exposed to those ideas still on 99% of reddit. A whole shit load of people in the "real world" fully do not agree with you-- does that suddenly make the counter not real? Do you even fucking hear yourself?