I believe that the great Reddit migration has begun. During this transitional period, we need to keep a few things in mind.
What are the reasons we left reddit?
Insane censorship of any sort of conservative viewpoint, which now doesn't even contain conservative viewpoints, but anything that is anything to the right of far left views. This was done by the administration of reddit and u/spez
The complete lack of any type of tolerance for conservative views in any of the subs. This is evidenced in the auto bans literally just for posting on our dom, and in the shill downvoting of literally every post and comment therein.
As I see it, those are the 2 main reasons why we have left reddit.
Now, with any fleeing from a political extreme, there is a tendency to push to the complete opposite extreme. This ends poorly for everyone, and ultimately ends up with two extremely separated sides, neither listening to the other, but both doing the exact same thing, yelling and screaming at each other for no reason. This accomplishes the grand sum of not a goddamn thing. We cannot become that.
This doesn't mean that we can't be proud Kekistanis, Trump Supporters, rightwing shitposters, etc.. Hell that's the main reason I joined T_D. We have to ALLOW the opposing side to have a say here. We have to be what r/[redacted] SHOULD HAVE BEEN. This means allowing the free flow of ideas and debate. This is what lead to THE FOUNDATION OF THIS COUNTRY. If we don't allow that, then this is all for naught, and we're steaming piles of shit.
This does not mean allowing people to be downright insulting, on either side. Yes, that means not going to other threads and throwing cuck at everyone we disagree with. When someone comes here and calls you a racist/bigot/cockholster with not even an attempt at a supporting argument, you call them an asshole and move on to better things. When they call you those things with an attempt at a supporting argument, you rip that argument to shreds intellectually, and move on to bigger and better things. When someone knows you on a personal level, calls you those things, and supports it with examples of your own actions/words, pause, examine if that is actually true about yourself, and either change it if it is the case, or tell them they're delusional and move on to bigger, and better things.
In this transition period, we cannot allow ourselves to become what we hate. We HAVE to be the bastion for sensible thinking and debate on the internet, or else there will literally be no place for it.
To the liberals who may be reading this, I hope that you can feel free to post your ideas and pose debates here. However I am not God and the keking may in fact be too much. If that does happen I pray that we can find somewhere to hold actual intellectual debate, but I do hope and pray first that we will hold ourselves to a higher standard than the rest of the webz on what will be our new home.
With that out of the way,
SOMEONE GET TO WORK ON MIGRATING COAT BOT GODDAMN IT IM COLD
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[–] 9157412? 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
All you say is the way /v/politics is now and always has been here (except for a brief attempted coupe a while back). Congrats on leaving that cesspool. If you feel more comfortable in a Trump only sub for now, then by all means stay, or join the same censorship loving mods from r/the_donald in their sub, but I strongly urge you to explore the main system owned subs here on Voat. They are the real deal.