They got in early. I remember researching the Holocaust for a school assignment in the late nineties/early aughts and the top result was a conspiracy theorist/Holocaust denial screed. An openly racist one with slurs and epithets throughout, no less. The early internet was wild.

There was also Stormfront, a white supremacist forum with hundreds of thousands of accounts. Members openly detailed their plans to infiltrate police precincts and federal agencies by having fellow Stormfronters already employed there vouch for them, with the goal of creating a network of supporters throughout the entire law enforcement apparatus to advance their supremacist agenda and sabotage any investigations into them. Looking at the news, it's not hard to imagine they succeeded.

"Legitimately the Internet was a better place before ..." it became more like TV and a corporate shopping mall, and less like a Library and a village fair.

so...never?

just because they weren't old boomers doesn't mean the nazi 14 yr olds were somehow not conservatives. If you could find any of the old longbeards from early unix forums and asked them their opinions on minorities I'm sure you'd get fun responses. They were always here, the difference is that they didn't feel legitimized.

Before nerds made it easy enough for conservatives and normies to use it. We did this.

"I hate the smell of coffee. Let's go to a coffee shop and demand it smell good TO ME" is the one I grew up with

So... Espresso is pretty great

The dems in America are a lot closer to what conservatism classically is than republicans have been in over 50 years.

a conservative is interested in keeping things as is, stable, favouring democracy (even if imperfect).

This has never been the case. People calling themselves conservatives have always been all about tearing down existing systems in order to magically replace them with a fever dream about how it was "in the good old days". Conservatism has always been a destructive and dangerous ideology.

Yeah, people always confuse reactionaries with conservatives. They are different philosophies entirely.

Why the "\s"? That sounds like a most optimal solution!

Just remove half the blocklist, and instead of having a pure bland expetience, you'll instead get extremism pure.

What's there not to like?

That's not entirely fair. I know a dude who was a tech for the US army and is conservative. Dipshit told me he voted for Trump 4 times in 2016, which is the last time we spoke. It was an, uh, interesting conversation

Also most of them defend billionaires fiercely. Its scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed with propaganda.

https://www.xkcd.com/2112/ ?

Any toxic information.

On the other hand toxic right wing misinformation? That can go fuck itself

That's what they said, "right wing content".

The only measure by which "we need police to protect people from criminals" is less toxic than "we need to stop migration to preserve the white race" is how palatable it is to centrists. Both promote causing harm to millions of people while pretending to be necessary for the safety of you and me, tricking people into supporting egregious violence against vulnerable minorities.

I'm not your mom, I can't tell you how to resolve your cognitive dissonance, but the boundary you're proposing is merely a popularity contest.

Anyone different than yourself, duh. Conservatism isn't difficult.

You would think

Then lets just censor thought terminating cliche, which makes up most of the conservative thought, and also stop billionaires funding chuds.

No, AdmiralPatrick imagined a world where no one hears anyone say genocide is bad or trans people exist.

Like all centrists.

Except they're he censorship party, not their opponents, so the only way this could be true is if they stop posting content. Utopia