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.

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[–] 17 points 9 months ago (21 children)

to explain my downvote

You should state your opinions without making aggressive, worst-faith assumptions of others. That kind of rhetoric got this republic to this point in the first place.

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  • [–] 17 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

    That kind of rhetoric got this republic to this point in the first place.

    curious what rhetoric you mean? they just pointed out that this looks like a conspiracy theory with tenuous evidence.

    the oop is attributing posting patterns changing on a US subreddit to a power outage in the middle of the night in some random city with 100k people in Russia, when it was also a holiday (Halloween) in the entire US.

    i don't think that it is aggressive to point out that this is a silly correlation that is actually disinformation when framed this way - lots of people are going to just read the title, upvote, and move on with all their predisposed biases feeling confirmed

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago* (5 children)

    You can be honest and say you have an agenda

    you’re trying to push

    just lay out the argument, I don't have patience to read flamewar crap.

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  • [+] -12 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Her argument is "ruzzia good, west bad..".

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago* (3 children)

    no, my argument is that this is comically tenuous evidence.

    its like saying that there was a power outage in New York City because Poughkeepsie has a power outage. then concluding that it is evidence of a US troll farm because it coincided with a dip in traffic on reddit during a major holiday.

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago

    Off topic, but I want to say that I appreciate you explaining your downvote. Some of the downvotes on here seem entirely senseless and definitely make one wonder, "Why would anyone downvote that?" When people explain their reasoning, not only are they contributing to Lemmy in a more constructive way, but it helps other commenters gain perspective. Thank you for adding your thoughts.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (10 children)

    When people make disinformation campaigns, whether it was their intention or not, I will respond accordingly

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    "When people make campaigns that don't match my agenda, I will respond accordingly"

    FTFY

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  • [–] -2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Are you seriously defending the contents of this post?

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Are you seriously defending Russia?

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    The other guy was disputing the objectively unlikely connection between the two posters and Russia. In your mind you somehow converted that into claiming that the poster defended Russia as such. You've stopped looking at the actual evidence and are just going off the vibes, Russia is already bad therefore every bad thing ascribed to it has to be true.

    When the weakness of the connection was pointed out to the reddit OP, even he kind of stepped back. Maybe go accuse him of going soft on Russia as well? Or take a step back yourself.

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  • [–] -5 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Until the rubles stop coming, hey Boris?

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Russia is simultaneously a shitty gas station about to collapse and just a few sanctions away, and an all-powerful entity dominating US and EU politics. Everyone who contradicts this is paid for by the state.

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