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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I don't understand the mentality behind this. Is it just a case of "They're doing a thing so we'll do the opposite"? What exactly is the goal here?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

That's pretty much been the entire conservative movement's MO for 30 years now.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

undefined> “They’re doing a thing so we’ll do the opposite”

That's their gameplan most of the time.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Opportunism - they just want to profit from the black out to push their own sub. As often, the conservative principles (or in this case rules) are not so important if you can gain any success by ignoring them.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

They don't understand. So they're going against the popular movement. Fear is a bitch 🗿

[–] AvrgJoe 14 points 1 year ago

I think they hope all the other opinions will go away and they'll get their favorite thing, an echo chamber.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do, they’re fucking stupid

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Couldn't have said it better myself!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't hate it. I'm sure some truly vile shit will get posted. Might be enough to get them banned off the site lol.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Again? The real nutballs went off to form patriots.win, after they hilariously lost their preferred domain name in an act of negligence (and/or ignorance.) I could see them pulling the same trick again, forming up a Lemmy node that no one else would federate with a 10' pole.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

patriots.win

Good god I'll be cringing all week from this

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I see you're not familiar with American conservatives. This is how they operate. They're just not always so open.