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.
what would lenin do?
What would Stalin do?
Get drunk?
continue to rot.
what’s wrong with vladimir lenin, and his ideas of democratic centralism (open debate with unanimous voting) and a vanguard party?
Isn’t Lenin famously not rotting with how much his body has been preserved? You can still go see it on display in his mausoleum.
Seems like a coincidence. If the power was out in St. Petersburg, however…
Everyone who isn’t a current /r/conservative user already knows this.
Not surprised and the shills persuaded Reddit to ban me. Oh well, it was a blessing in disguise. F-Reddit and their Moscow connections.
Obviously by agitprop, Putin wants to be the first to win the new Cold War without even firing a single shot.
It may be working in the short term but in the medium term MAGA may be imploding as real people get their faces eaten by leopards and become disillusioned with the movement.
That doesn’t mean much. It just means the next snake oil salesman that appeals to their base emotions will win their dumb hearts.
Regular, factual and continued education is the only way out of this mess. Note the present dismantlement of said Department.
A bomb only explodes for a few miliseconds. The problem is the damage it does persists.
This case it’s a dirty bomb.
Also it’s a cult of personality meaning it requires active maintenance by the leader, meanwhile Trump is actively melting and may not even have enough of a personality to count eventually.
Reminds me of an old soviet joke:
Q: Now that Stalin has died, what happened to his cult of personality?
A: The personality has died, that is true, but the cult lives on.While that may be true there is a near universal fact I have observed with cults. When the original leader dies they bleed manpower well that or they fracture like a khaganate, though that can be stopped with sufficiently competent successors, I greatly doubt anyone can hold this particular mess together.
I think Trump’s main leverage was the Epstein files and the people that thought they would be “exposed” for associating with him. Trump learned from Roy Cohn (there’s someone to read up on… the guy was an absolute POS) to lean into people that were a bit dirty and use their shame (something Trump has almost none of) to control them. Couch Fucker Vance has squat and if Trump croaks or falls totally apart, the House and Senate are going to eat him alive once he assumes the Presidency…
China’s way ahead.
Indeed. They have our infrastructure by the balls. As soon as we try and stop them from taking Taiwan, if that even happens, we will stop having water power and gas in short order.
After 8 hours without water hospitals stop working. Think about that for a minute.
Wait what
In what way does China control the infrastructure? That’s concerning
Is it like, they make the software and can killswitch it?
So, water and power infrastructure use shitty old industrial control systems, are most if not all are on the Internet, run at a financial deficit, and are generally not well maintained. They don’t have the time, funding, manpower or knowledge to decrease their attack surface nor to operate manually rather than via the junk ICS they’re using.
They (volt typhoon) practiced in mennasotas infrastructure and iirc sat in there 300 days and they had full control. They’re using several novel attack vectors, have as of August, built a presence in police, fire, hospital, electric, power, and gas infrastructure.
https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/cybersecurity-advisories/aa24-038a
https://cybersecuritynews.com/amazon-catches-north-korean-it-worker/
https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/cybersecurity-advisories/aa25-343a
The gun is loaded. They’re still working for more complete control. The timeline is 2027ish, or whenever China attacks Taiwan and the US steps up.
The attack is expected to be everywhere at once, that way neighboring towns won’t be able to give aid because emergency services will be overwhelmed. Mutual aid agreements will fall apart.
Did you know that hospitals stop functioning entirely when water is cut for 8h? A hospital COULD function with water trucks, but not in the case of concurrent attacks.
CISA lost 1000 of it 3300 staff, and they were overtaxed before.
It’s bad. Get a lifestraw or Sawyer mini.
I’ve not even touched on salt typhoons pwnage of telecom and network infrastructure.
Get a Meshtastic radio and a couple handhelds. Baofeng makes very approachable stuff.
The US military is self sufficient, but neither they nor the nat’l guard are equipped to help with this kind of attack.
I can’t really share much more right now but there are plenty of reputable sources available online for all this. Just don’t start googling before bed. Do yourself a favor.
Would this be dangerous for China to do? It IS a war crime to deprive most of a nation of water.
But would China actually be in real danger, or would the UN just yell at them and do nothing?? Or would there be a war against China?
That’s a real good question, one to which I don’t have an answer.
It seems to me like there would be a great deal of risk for them to do that.
But then, why are they making so much effort to position themselves to shut off water, power, and gas?
Maybe they’ll use it as a prelude to an outright attack? It’s hard to know for sure. This seems like at least part of their motivation: https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/international-relations/xi-and-putin-s-taiwan-invasion-files-leaked-full-scale-2027-plan-confirmed/vi-AA1SB2cc
But surely they have some secrets.
That does make me wonder what China’s outcome of that would be. At this point, the US has alienated so many allies, I have to wonder if we’d still have their full backing or if it would be conditional on tariffs.
Edit: Just saw this in a chat: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3337652/chinese-military-simulated-battles-near-mexico-cuba-and-taiwan-cctv-report-shows
The US is in a precarious international situation here
Some countries would side with the US, and some would oppose China but not side with the US
I hear there was a power outage in Zhenjiang and everyone I didn’t like on the Internet disappeared
Nice try Xi.
Good job, OP. You’ve successfully disinformed 1.5k Lemmitors who upvoted this. Hope you’re happy contributing to Lemmy becoming a conspiracy-brained ingroup.
Removing the conservatives who dissent might backfire on them bc they might end up thinking they’re not considered “conservative” anymore and find other ppl to hang out with. And the reddit shillbot page will just be talking to itself. One can hope
Honestly, it probably is 70% bots and illegitimate posters at this point. Doesn’t matter though, if they still browse r/conservative while banned they’re getting fed from the teet of the outrage machine.
I remember when Russia cut itself off from the internet for like 3 days, and virtually every social media site I frequented was a lot calmer and nicer for those days. It was surreal seeing how fucking much of the internet is just Russia.
Not only that, but these two users post with the same pattern: 4-5 posts in a burst and then staying quiet.
Makes you just want to build a script that tracks and analyze these accounts but I would feel to totalitarian doing that. I just block them.
That’s not totalitarian, it’s just journalism
That’s why reddit made its API access exorbitantly expensive.
I wonder if r/arrestputin on Reddit or c/arrestputin here in Lemmy has any creditable information about this.
That’s depressing
thats just conservative media as a whole its a psyop to make people not pay attention to real issues by distracting gullible people by making them believe silly conservative ideas that ultimately end up biting them in the ass later. Its just business to these outlets and influencers, theyre paid by how good they are at painting a picture even if it isnt backed up at all by reality.
Mmm I wonder what that means 🤔
Conservative_memes is full of indians posting about American politics. You used to be able to see posting history until reddit wanted to protect the spammers
I assume by Indians you mean Russians. It is all known than Russia is the country behind all of this
India and russia are pretty close, for whatever reason, I’ve had some distant family move to russia, and they talk about it how immigrants talk about america here? Like an opportunity.
Indeed, all foreigners are actually Russian
Russian ppl themselves seem like any other ppl in any other country?
Could be Russians also spamming Indian subreddits.
I wrote a post about it on Reddit calling it out, and it got taken down. My investigation was finding a dozen posters who posted a lot of “libtard”-esque posts with Biden or Kamala in conservative_memes, and then having lots of posts on like Bollywood, Indian food, and Indian politic subreddits.
Yeah, it would have to be Russians: only Russians are capable of being evil
Even the Russian bots are outsourcing to India.
Conservative used to actually be kind of split. I remember back in the day, maybe around 2010 or so, could have been later, there were a bunch of people who said things like the state staying out of marriage is a conservative position. I guess more of the libertarian type folks but still, it was more ideologically diverse back then.
That ideological diversity did not just fade on its own. Over the past decade it has been actively pruned away. Spaces like r/conservative now routinely permaban anyone who steps outside an approved line, including the kind of libertarian arguments that used to be common. What remains is a tightly controlled echo chamber that presents itself as grassroots discussion while functioning more like propaganda. Given that shift, it is hard to take it seriously as a place for real conservative debate.
Real conservativism is monarchism. It’s hard to take ANY US conservatism seriously because it’s just liberalism but with a PR spin.
Algorithmic flattening comes for us all.
The brand of wackadoo on /r/Conspiracy used to be different, too. Less hostile and agenda-pushy, just sort of anything that didn’t belong in /r/UFOs or whatever. Now it’s just /r/Conservative with no filter.
That change was actually really sad to see. Conspiracy used to actually have some fun conspiracies, even if most were ultimately a bit too outlandish or unprovable. Now it’s just your standard deep-state conspiracy shit.
You’re telling me their sever doesn’t have a battery backup? Unlikely
Blackouts often take out infrastructure the internet relies on. A battery backup only helps if the Internet still works.
But Moscow’s MAN, which that server relies on, doesn’t have full-system battery backups (nobody’s does). A broad power outage is going to take down any non-critical digital infrastructure, just because that infrastructure does not have it’s own dedicated backbone with failsafes to rely on.
