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A community to satirize conservtive and right-wing "ideals".

This community (now) exists as a pressure valve, a place to process through humor the often frustrating world of conservative politics. Above all, this is NOT the place for serious conservative support/viewpoints/arguments. There are other places on Lemmy for that if you desire it.

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  2. Parody With Purpose: This is a space for humorous takes on conservative politics. We welcome satire, but draw the line at content that promotes racism, sexism, homophobia, or other forms of bigotry.

  3. Memes Over Manifestos: This community focuses on humor and parody, not serious political debate. There are plenty of spaces for earnest conservative discussion, this isn’t one of them.

  4. Highlight Contradictions: Sometimes the best content points out inconsistencies and hypocrisies in conservative talking points. Creative commentary is encouraged.

  5. Public Figures Fair Game: Politicians and pundits can be satirized, but no targeting of private individuals, doxxing, or harassment.

Children of public figures under the age of 14 are also off-limits, a 16 year old has enough free agency to break with or adopt their parents views. An 8 year old kid doesn't.

  1. No News Zone: Memes only, news or other serious content should be sent to the nearest relevant comm. Meme's of current events, however, are encouraged.

  2. Clear Satire: Make your satirical intent reasonably clear. We’re here to mock bad ideas, not accidentally spread them. If you're unsure how it will be taken, feel free to DM the mod team ahead of time or explicitly tag it as satire in the body.

A note on ChadMcTruth: Chad's content is 100% satire, but his work can sometimes be hard to tell, but if he posted it be assured, its satire.

  1. Relevant Content: All posts should relate to conservative politics or ideologies in some way somewhere in your post. Either in the title or the meme itself.

For more general political memes please see !politicalmemes@lemmy.world

  1. Community Respect: Disagree with fellow members all you want, but personal attacks aren’t welcome. Save the criticism for the ideas, not each other.

  2. Moderation Discretion: Mods will use reasonable judgment in applying these rules. We’ll be fair, but firm. These kinds of comms have a tendency to get off the rails, so we might seem overzealous in moderation sometimes.

  3. For the moment, i'm allowing properly tagged NSFW content as long as its funny and relevant. Don't make me regret it.

And above all, HAVE FUN!

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[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I kept waiting for a punchline, but no, Stossel is just that stupid.

Housing and Urban Development: Have a mortgage? It's insured thanks to HUD. Don't like homeless veterans and elderly sleeping on your doorstep? Thank HUD

Department of Labor: should federal law enforcement employees get a pension? Should veterans get training to enter the workforce after their service? OSHA and mine safety? Think it's useful for the government to know how many people are unemployed at any given time? That's DoL

Department of Agriculture: do you like not starving to death because too many farmers grew cotton instead of food? Would you like to continue to have a wide rance of fruits and vegetables available to you at any season? Do you trust that your food won't give you a disease when you eat it? That's the DoA

Department of Education: Do you believe in democracy? The founding fathers were all very clear that democracy demands an educated population. Do you want to lose all our industry to China or India because our populace it too stupid to work with modern technologies. Yeah, the DoE was created in 1979 largely because rural education was so disastrously bad. That's what the DoE is for.

Department of Commerce: patents, copyrights, and other IP protections? DoC. You know how you can look on your phone and see the weather or get a warning a hurricane is coming? That NOAA, part of the DoC. Want foreign countries to have quantum computers and AI software more advanced than the US? R&D run by the DoC ensures that we get those technologies first. Besides, regulating commerce is explicitly stated a d a federal duty under the Constitution.

Medicare and Social Security: That was made because people literally got tired of hordes of elderly and sick dying in the gutter. Literally.

Food and Drug Administration: Jesus Christ.....didn't anyone read The Jungle?

The DEA. Stossel supports defending the police. You heard it here first.

Privatize Amtrak? It's not like there have been any prominent recent stories of privately operated trains exploding and poisoning whole towns...

Privatize airlines? Yeah, I'm sure Spirit can be trusted with stopping the next 9/11.

Stossel you colossal idiot, all of these things were built for a reason and that reason is often written in the blood and tears of Americans.

[–] TJD@sh.itjust.works -5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lmao sounds like an amazing advertisement for keeping the government shut down

[–] PizzaMan@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I hope this is sarcasm