This is America. This is the foundation that holds up the Trump government and the Republican Party.

As a Canadian, I read that conservative reply and just think "Holy shit is this a dumb fucking American."

I'm really glad that these are the types of Americans that don't cross the border because that means leaving their emotional support gun at home.

And cheer on dictators who offered $5k for each American soldier they killed.

It's just a cult - they don't stand for country, freedom (lol), military, or anyone but themselves. Conservatism at it's core is caring more about yourself than others.

Buddy China alone outclasses USA in trade (they're even under sanctions)

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.” Hannah Arendt.

You are right: They are no longer a part of our reality.

They exist in a twilight zone of their own making; able to be convinced, either by their paternalists or their own community, of any lie.

The rational were pushed out or scapegoated over time until only madness remained—as it does now.

The only good thing about cults of personality is that they tend to collapse when the personality does. One of the bad things is that they tend to take everyone with them on their way to collapse.

Funny, it's exactly what Putin said about Ukraine. That and "It's not a real country," which Elon Musk recently said of Canada.

I mean, it tracks with their view of the Ukraine situation as well.

It also tracks with the general conservative mindset that the "in group" is protected by laws, but not beholden to them; while the "out group" is beholden to laws, but not protected by them.

Which all tracks with having the mindset of a toddler, free of any shred of empathy, where, until proven otherwise every other person in existence is by default just an NPC without agency or self-determination.

Exactly. The only ones allowed to post (and have their comment seen) are the ones vetted by their mods. It’s a true echo chamber; every thread is flaired users only—and the only way to get a flair is to be “gifted” one by their mods.

It’s the blind leading the blind.

Let's be real, it's russian bot-rot too.

Has anyone found the secret spot where conservatives act normal and explain their reasoning? Please don't make me install nextdoor

Yeah, seen my fair share of conservatives fail to preface their shock and disagreement with something with a lengthy apologia and get the banhammer for being a 'brigadier'.

I hope they skip ahead to the last chapter, the kys-in-a-bunker section specifically.

Seriously why hasnt reddit banned that subreddit yet? Is not like they ARENT ban happy in other areas!

But I guess fucking fascism is A-OK!!

It was a highly-awarded reply to the top comment, so it was the second comment you would see by default sorting (though it starts minimized).

But yeah to @OP this is not America or what Americans think. That sub is pure Russian disinfo and astroturfing. You could argue that it represents the administration and current policy, but most of the actual people here recognize this as lunacy, even on within the Putin echo chamber.

If you spent time on other platforms like Threads you’d see a lot more of this being continuously spewed. It’s why I deleted my accounts on several services. While this might be a cherry picked example from that sub, the far right revisionist take is far, far more common on popular social media than you think.

I don't need r/Conservative as an argument for my hate. Listen to Rogan, or read any one of the dozens of other threads at that sub. Or even look a bit deeper in that post.

That happens when r/conservative gets to the front page where they are pant’ed/ brigaded.

They do not reach those numbers on their own, and the most heinous shit is defended by the mods with the same voracity as Reagan

A shotgun is a really excellent choice. You don't have to be crazy accurate at close quarters, but you can still reach out and touch someone (remember, they're used for hunting Duck, Turkey, and Deer; games have to massively nerf their range because they're OP in real life). The ammo is pretty much everywhere and pretty affordable compared to some others. Also, if things don't kick off, you're not stuck with some mall ninja kit.

Accept the annexation and in 10 years the entire US government will be run by Canadians. Just look at their entertainment industry, they can't resist our Canadian charms.

turns out an ideology that ignores real problems and always seeks out groups to villainize isn't a good way to make long term friends

Ahahaha Canada.com? How much more blatant can it be that the site is American?

For real. The issues occurring in the US are various, but the vast spreading of disinformation in the US is crippling. Don't let unchecked lobbying (aka bribing of politicians) occur in your country, don't let "news organizations" spread false realities.

So what the people in charge of America are telling the fascists to think.

If they were truely conned sure. But most of these guys just thought the pain would be placed on others, not them. They're fine woth others suffering, but the tears start to flow when they experience anything negative at all.

These people have swallowed a lot of big lies and the fault is with the liars.

These people are adults and are responsible for their beliefs and actions.

I agree that someone conned deserves compassion. You got tricked into sending someone money? Im sorry, even if it was dumb of you, im angry at the scammer.

But when you get scammed and the person who scammed you says theyre using your money for atrocious hateful acts, say making someones existence illegal, and you double down and say "well actually theyre right let me send more money, " you do not have any sympathy from me.

The con they got suckered into is American Exceptionalism, and it's not Trumppy that suckered them. He's a victim of the same brainrot.

These guys are reveling in it, and I have no sympathy for those that choose "we're just better than everyone else" as part of their core identity.

r/republican is no better. They literally spout the lies trump spews and believe them 100%

It usually gets upvoted to the moon. It's infuriating.

The talking points might be, that supremacist US attitude is not. It's been there for decades.

Its not the Russians or Trump there is big part of the US that is hostile to anybody but their, imagined, version of America and places no real value on others even allies.

There is so few actual people left in that sub. It’s just ai comments and absolute staggering amount of Astro turfed propaganda

ChatGPT can be more empathetic than /r/conservative members so they are worse than AI. The whole subreddit fails Turing test.

Would it surprise anyone if it was a Russian run subreddit. Heard moderation is heavy handed to quickly snuff out dissent with people having their conservative flairs taken away if they dare question dear leader who drinks the sun and eats the sky.

Many of them are, but sadly, many of them are actual people that are just that fucking brainwashed.

Fascists love AI generated slop, because it cuts the artist out of the art, so many of these might be real. Please be noted that platforms now often defend AI bots from countering, as they're now hiding comments with common jailbreak phrases (which are also trivial to filter by the bot operators).

Added one. Couldn't see how to add more. I can appreciate that no one wants to give them traffic. It doesn't really matter because commenting there is highly restricted even if you have a reddit account in good standing. And the entire subreddit is incredibly fragile - you'll get permabanned for putting up anything that counters the tsunami of horseshit.