r/memes • u/[deleted] • Jan 24 '23

Palpatine approves !Rule 1 - ALL POSTS MUST BE MEMES AND NO REACTION MEMES

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u/Auglicious Jan 25 '23

Anyone who claims to be passionate about free speech is until you disagree with them. Then they can't take it. See Elon Twitter...

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u/supremechode Jan 25 '23

Or r/politics

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u/Vlad-V2-Vladimir Professional Dumbass Jan 25 '23

Any political subreddit. A couple of the conservative ones don’t even hide it and have an actual rule saying that leftists will get banned if they comment

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u/supremechode Jan 25 '23

I didn’t even know there were conservative subs. r/politics and r/politicalhumor plague the popular page.

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u/bageltre Jan 25 '23

r/conservative

Expect to get banned like instantly (if they let you comment to start)

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u/Vlad-V2-Vladimir Professional Dumbass Jan 25 '23

r/ConservativeMemes as well (which as far as memes go are pretty bland or hateful)

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u/RustedRuss Jan 25 '23 edited Jan 25 '23

I’m going on a ban any% speed run wish me luck

Edit: took about 1-2 minutes to get removed but apparently they don’t ban you they just don’t allow comments if you don’t have a flair.

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u/Vlad-V2-Vladimir Professional Dumbass Jan 25 '23

You’d probably get banned if you were a leftist who got the flair, anyway, but no one is stupid or self-hateful enough to spend that long in that subreddit lol

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u/RustedRuss Jan 25 '23

Yeah I don’t even know how to get flairs in communities I like

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u/MoneyMagnetSupreme Jan 25 '23

Says everything about whether or not reddit is politically neutral (it isnt)

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u/Smofinthesky Jan 25 '23

that's the same for pretty much every big subbreddit tho. Which are predominantly leftist.

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u/awesomefutureperfect Jan 25 '23

What you mean is that you define right leaning as behavior that breaks the terms of service, because conservatives have no idea how to exist in civil society. Conservatives used to be able to fake it until all their role models they copy all their behavior from lack all maturity, basic public morality, and stopped attempting to pretend like they care about their country or democracy or every American. Nobody is stopping conservatives from talking about fiscal rectitude or family values or strong national defense or free market capitalism, because it would be hilarious to watch them pretend like they cared about those things when their actions are explicitly against all of those things. No, conservatives are downvoted for saying ridiculously stupid things and they are prevented from being hateful and insanely dishonest. It is weird that you feel persecuted because people aren't forced to tolerate just how horrible conservatives are.

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u/Lots42 Jan 25 '23

Or...and bear with me here...conservative speech is usually hate speech.

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u/RustedRuss Jan 25 '23

They don’t ban you afaik. I don’t visit especially political subs often though so idk.

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u/HoosegowFlask Jan 25 '23

Political subs are the worst. "ThIS iS nOt a DEbaTe SuB!"

Even people that agree with each other 99% of the time are going to have disagreements. Especially when you talk about specifics and not general platitude bullshit.

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u/StillNoSourceLmao Jan 25 '23

Not really, getting downvoted =/= censorship kid

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u/otm_shank Jan 25 '23

Does /r/politics claim to be particularly free speech? Or ban people much? What are you trying to say?