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* (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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