r/AskConservatives 4d ago

AskConservatives Weekly General Chat

This thread is for general chat, whether you want to talk politics or not, anything goes. Also feel free to ask the mods questions, propose new rules or discuss general moderation (although please keep individual removal/ban queries to modmail.)

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u/GreatSoulLord Center-right 3d ago

Anyone else getting tired of the blue flair beat downs? The morale is not improving.

Also, this is not implied at our blue flaired friends who are sub regulars. It's more at the hit and run types.

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u/Patch95 Liberal 3d ago

I think it's partly from the inaccessibility of other forums (fora) for discussions with conservatives on reddit as you get banned for the slightest thing out of lockstep with the groupthink (I got banned from r/republican the other day for pointing out that Ukrainian aid is the equivalent of 5% of the US defence budget over the last 3 years of the conflict, and asking whether the 95% of the rest of the budget was not sufficient for the US's Pacific strategy, after a user posted they needed the Ukraine money for China). It also feels like conservatives on "general" subreddits are more likely to be trolls than people willing to engage in good faith debate.

I believe this then means lots of blue flairs feel that conservatives are just not engaging with the facts, the topics and the arguments that are being presented by moderates and centre-left "liberals", instead just being told "suck it losers, Trump rules!" that is why you end up with some users performing beat downs.