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/r/Tennessee doesn't want people posting about the Tuesday election

Edit: Oops, it is /r/Tennessee, not /r/ProgressiveHQ

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Man, fuck reddit. If you aren't a conservative anything can get you modded or banned.
- Its fucking wild seeing people still talking about how biased reddit is against people on the right. Go onto any big subreddit and you'll see their no politics rule means no left wing politics.
  
  Yup. They whine constantly when they're the ones getting left alone to say whatever horrible racist shit they want.
  
  got to fan that flame as much as you can, the entire US right-wing identity is built around making "the left" suffer.
  
  It worked to keep gun sales hugely high volume and high profit for decades. "The dems are about to take away your right to buy guns, go buy them now while you can! We've said this every election for the last thirty years, but this time it's serious!"
  It sucks so bad that it's such a long-term effective strategy. Fighting it would mean figuring out how to regulate both social and traditional media to reduce engagement bait lies, but I don't know if we have a path to that.
- Same with Lemmy but in reverse…
  
  Given that conservatism is just bigotry in a trench coat, I've no issue there.
  
  Structurally, I don't think anything is stopping a conservative safe space community from being spun up on one of the more neutral instances. But if conservatives have mainstream safe spaces already on x, Facebook, reddit, and smaller more extreme places like patriot.win, why would they come to lemmy?
  "Conservative" can mean a really wide variety of things to people who identify that way. Like the other reply to you, I am not sad there aren't lemmy communities dedicated to celebrating bad things happening to brown or non-Christian people. But it does seem like a hole to be missing discussions of fiscal responsibility (actual responsibility, not the "two Santas" scam) or how to effectively increase the proportion of children in two-parent households (actual increase, not the "redirect welfare money from poor people to middle-class marriage counseling").
  US conservatism broadly used to have policy pieces I agreed with, but the fake implementation in the times and places they have had power has made me really disillusioned.

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