[OC] Nearly every day, two users on r/Conservative account for more than 30% of new posts. Sometimes exceeding 50%. (Take 2. 6 images)
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Posted in r/dataisbeautiful by u/Ok-Stand-2128 • 1,250 points and 88 comments

I don’t read r/conservative much but what I’ve seen is they keep banning actual conservatives because they correctly call out what Trump is doing on things where it’s not about left and right but right and wrong.

Some people are saying that it could be coincidental. OP asks why would the two accounts who post so regularly just happen to both stop at the same time on that day.

  • freagle@lemmy.ml
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    21 hours ago

    Nope. Sorry. That’s not what happened.

    The American definition of conservatism developed as a unique synthesis of classical liberal principles (limited government, individual liberty, free markets) and traditionalist social values, primarily emerging as a self-conscious political movement in the mid-20th century in opposition to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal and the perceived threat of communism

    It’s literally completely artificial PR from the political-business elite and has absolutely nothing to do with organic evolution of language. Conservatism is the US is literally liberalism. The word Conservative still means monarchist in the rest of the Anglo world, because the rest of the Anglo world is still deeply connected to their Commonwealth history.

    In the US, red scare propagandists hand in hand with business elite who wanted to maximize profits and destroy worker rights took an existing term and defined it with Orwellian doublespeak, literally saying “we’re not liberals” when very obviously to everyone educated in politics they absolutely were liberals and still are.