You’re playing with fire, this is how thedonald started. It was all a joke until it wasn’t. Then it became a cesspit.
It’s also how flat earthers started. 4chan started satirically memeing about flat earth. Then idiots saw it, missed the satire, and picked it up as a serious thing. At that point, 4chan went “this is funnier than any satire we could make” and stood back to watch the crazies launch rockets into the upper atmosphere.
Flat earthers have been around (heh) for centuries. It’s mostly a religious thing in order to rebuke science in order to keep people stupid. There’s a passage in the bible that refrences the four corners of the earth that gets refrenced by these people as proof. It’s a way to keep people in their cult, because the outsiders are the ones who are tricked into beleiving in round earth ftom scientists.
I’m more of a dinosaur earth guy myself
I would say that it really became a thing in its current form in the 1800s. Lots of the weird Biblical “literalism” (and I think things like Salafism/Wahhabism) come from the combination of widespread literacy and direct access to the texts + those ideologies that deny that you need anything outside the text to interpret them yourself/solo scriptura.
You can try to calculate the size of the earth yourself the same way Ancient Greeks did.
What we’re seeing now is related to shitposting being taken seriously for sure (the “birds aren’t real” thing has also been making a slow shift from stupid joke to conspiracy therapy, I think that’s how “Helen Keller” don’t real started)
I trace it back a bit further than 4chan though. You start to see it all the way back in the 90s on Usenet, pretty sure that’s around when the Flat Earth Society Forums - which were clearly mostly Poes - started too.
I think that 4chan started a lot of this apocalypse that way.
4chan was sold in 2015 and that’s when it took a hard right turn.
Damn, sounds like a familiar story now
The Flat Earth Society was founded in 1956.
4chan’s downfall was mainstream media telling everyone that Nazis were on the site, so all the Nazis who were watching mainstream media went to 4chan and without moot running it, they were allowed to fester.
Yea, but I’m a mod Who’s Built Different™️
oof ouch my hubris
This one was already serious. The worst that can happen is it goes back to what it was before.
!conservative@lemmy.world because there is no clickable link here.
Write it down as 700TB and it will be more accurate.
And C: instead of system32, to represent everything that was created using programs that rely on system32.
Nah, if you are deleting everything on your PC, you’d better report it as 700EB or 7HB…
On some level I’d like there to be an actual conservative sub since I like to check in on the Reddit alternative’s goings on and what their takes on this or that is. But I can understand why some wouldn’t want to share a platform with those people. Some of the stuff is pretty bad
The fatal flaw of the internet is that you can find people who are into similar obscure stuff that you’re into, but that also means the nazis can also find each other
There’s like 2 others, and a whole instance. .ee and SJW each have a comm and hilariouschaos is the new “friendlier” ExplodingHeads instance lol
Huh I haven’t bumped into those communities
Doesn’t surprise me, the serious ones always have their wonderful links downvoted to oblivion lolol
You have to realize that the con subs on reddit are mostly engaged by Russian trolls to stoke arguments and traffic. Reddit periodically goes through these bans and temporarily gets rid of the trolls and the site becomes much more pleasant and quiet
Maybe if it didn’t get hijacked by crazies and conspiracy theorists after a few months.
This is peak US politics. No wonder y’all seem to be so fucked…
Having said that, best of luck with the community.
And they think they’re the untouchable good guys.
Just out of curiosity, who do you think “they” are?
They are y’all.
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After the last couple days, I want nothing to do with these fucking backstabbing traitors.
I agree, but most Lemmings seem to be completely intolerant of right of center views. I’ve never seen any content in that community that’s right of center without being downvoted into oblivion.
If Lemmings just don’t want other views here, that’s fine, it just kind of sucks when all I get is an echo chamber.
This seems to come from the assumption that right wing views have equal validity and exist on an equal footing, but they just don’t.
Right wing autoritarian attitudes are just whatever is propped up by the propaganda of the prevailing hierarchy. They’re blasted out of mainstream news outlets everyday. They don’t survive on merit, but on funding.
Like honestly, if you want to hear what conservatives have to say, go watch their news, listen to their pundits, join their social media apps, but if you’ve got half a brain then you shouldn’t be surprised that it’s just a pile of callow, self-serving bullshit. You will be disappointed. You won’t see a reasonable debate of the ideas.
Like this is an open system. Anyone can make an instance. You know why right wing instances just… aren’t? Because they can’t stop themselves from being bigots, which most people hate, actually, and gets them yeeted, so they don’t thrive here. It’s not some conspiracy or bias, it’s just what happens when assholes aren’t shielded by some big daddy corporation. They can’t hack it.
Fascists feeling unwelcome is exactly how things should be.
Communists feeling unwelcome is exactly how things should be too.
Depends on the communist.
Tankie? No thanks. Anarcho-communist? Please, come on in.
Communists aren’t destroying the US government as of now. Unless you consider the Russian assets on the right as communists?
Communists aren’t destroying the US government as of now.
Neither are naz… uhh never mind
Communists have killed millions. So unless you consider nazis okay, since they aren’t destroying the US government as of now, then they deserve the same treatment.
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“No true Scotsman” fallacy. All you are doing is rebranding communism as “something else”. And yeah, they were communist countries.
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It’s not our fault that the actually reasonable conservatives were already drowned out by the raving lunatic fascist mobs.
gestures broadly at US federal government
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We have an echo for the chamber, that is true, but the antidote is not right wing views, the right wing has lost any credibility after Trump.
I’m probably center left for lemmy, and that is what we need more of. Lemmy is heavily moded by very VERY left people that like to ban anyone that dares disagree
Show me a right of center viewpoint that isn’t hateful or in bad faith and I won’t downvote it.
Go on X and hang with your treasonous fash friends then.
“Right of center” means the insufferable liberal types on LW.
I don’t trust this.
It appears legit anyway. Haven’t seen any posts in that !c from the usual trolls, it’s only funny people now
There’s a couple guys still trying to post shit from Breitbart but they get downvoted so badly now they never appear on hot.
We’ll see in the longer term… in the meantime I socialized a few memes.
It’s true, you can trust me >:)
Nice! I unblocked it.
aww. I was enjoying /c/conservative being run on anarchy principles.
I’ve looked through the history and I could only find a post “it’s now unmoderated as well”. How did that happen in the first place?
I think you might be on one of the others, .world is the one going satire lol
For various reasons, .ee version they were removed because they weren’t taking care of things, SJW version was just abandoned and I think .world was also abandoned
So essentially what you mean is that the sub was abandoned and you got made mod by the admins? Interesting
Yea, but I did have to petition for it and it took over a week for them to make the decision
You can petition for abandoned comms at !support@lemmy.world most of the time it’s much faster than a week, it was only that long because of this one’s… controversial…nature lol
I added your accomplishment to my list of headhunts.
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Come on come all its time for cm002 to post the exact same shit that’s already all over Lemmy but now in another place!
Y’all already have the entire goddamn website dedicated to shitting on conservatives 24/7. Making yet another place to do it is just repetitive and unnecessary.
I don’t care for most conservative bullshit either, but at least it was nice seeing the random post that wasn’t exactly the same as every other goddamn sub on this site.
You’ll just have to get your two minutes hate somewhere else, it’s not a big deal.
Oh looks it’s Mr I can’t identify a conservative if my life depended on it pancake man.
You still bouncing around and being wrong about people today?
Lol. Holly shit, talk about bouncing around being wrong about people. “Mr. Pancake man” is most definitely a woman. Like … nevermind.
Yeah unlike you weirdos I don’t stalk every single profile I talk to so I can go into every conversation knowing dirt about them.
Edit: typo
Ain’t no dirt involved here. That’s a weird take, tbh. And telling. Naw, it’s just really really funny that you did the thing you accused others of so blatantly and immediately. That’s all.
Yeah except I never claimed to know anything about them aside from a user name. they claimed incorrect things about me in another thread awhile back then dipped from the thread.
It was a 50/50 on the gender and statically my odds were better assuming it was a guy. Oh well.
Seems like they made the better bet given the odds, but oh well indeed. Still pretty funny.
Dude just block it if you don’t want any exposure. Curate your own Lemmy.
How am I supposed to curate my own Lemmy when conservative subs are turned into crappy meme factory’s poking fun at the conservatives which is already what all of the other subs fucking do.
This is like building a Starbucks across the street from another Starbucks and then telling me to find coffee somewhere else when all the fucking coffee places in a 10 mile radius have already been bought out and converted to yet another goddamn Starbucks.
