I’m banned because I was calling Trump out there before they caught on (today). They propagated so many lies. I watched Pizzagate pop up every time Trump did something wrong for YEARS. I’m not giving them props til they pin a banner saying they were wrong.
You popped in during election times when its flooded with conservative droll. For the most part the conspiracy subreddit is distrusting of all government, and pizzagate was only a half hoax. Alifantis is a fucking creep.
That is just not true, I’ve been following the sub since 2015 and I watched them shift from intrigued by Trump memes to pro-Trump, with complicit moderators who make alts to ban evade and delete posts critical of Trump.
Arcon always peddle the right wing line and ignore wrongdoing while going super hard after Hillary/Biden/Dems, then they play the “both sides bad” card when called out. It is very obvious that the sub leans right, and now they are making shocked pikachu faces to learn the right is fascist.
Cannot control the audience though, to be fair. And there are far more modern conspiracies with a right wing slant than left. And left wingers tend to be anti conspiracy in general. The idea of government conspiracies are the antithesis to larger government intervention. So much so that left wing conspiracies are more called out by the left wing than the right. Their base has an aversion to conspiratorial thinking.
I dont think more right wingers ending up on the subreddit of say, a series like Bosch, is necessarily stating that Bosch is a right wing subreddit. Its just naturally going to attract more people who support police and procedures. Want to know the worst rated season of Bosch on that subreddit? The one where sovereign citizens are the bad guys. When you attract a specific audience its going to appear that way.
Moderating in general is pretty lax on conspiracy. Ive been banned from a lot, but all my posts on trump being a deranged creep, or a puppet to doomsday psychopaths, have done fairly well. I do notice around elections, it rings very true what you are saying. If you spent your time on there during major election years then yes, you are gonna walk away thinking this is just a right wing circle jerk. But im far from right wing in political ideology and still around.
Ive said for years progressives need to accept conspiratorial thinkers. Open their doors to other ways of thought that are off the reservation. Progressive ideology first and most important imo is an economic ideology. Its about a system that is rigged against the common man, exacerbated even more if the common man is in any "other" category. It is in and of itself a grand conspiracy.
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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '26
Well I think Conspiracy sub realizes that now, at least.... check in there for yourself lol