c/conservative has been left modless. I’d like to request to moderate and clean up any misinformation on this community.
I am consistently online here and prepared to take on the responsibility.
Thank you for your consideration!
The requested community link is [email protected]
Additionally, I’d also like to request [email protected] as for that one it seems a spam account created it and has since been abandoned for months
ETA:
Given the controversial nature of the comms topic, I have decided to add a proposed set of rules that I was thinking about, to keep it strictly parody without going off the rails:
- 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.
- 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.
- Highlight Contradictions: The best content points out inconsistencies and hypocrisies in conservative talking points. Creative commentary is encouraged.
- Public Figures Fair Game: Politicians and pundits can be satirized, but no targeting of private individuals, doxxing, or harassment.
- No News Zone: Memes only, news should be sent to the nearest relevant comm
- Clear Satire: Make your satirical intent reasonably clear. We’re here to mock bad ideas, not accidentally spread them.
- Relevant Content: All posts should relate to conservative politics or ideologies in some way.
- Community Respect: Disagree with fellow members all you want, but personal attacks aren’t welcome. Save the criticism for the ideas, not each other.
- Moderation Discretion: Mods will use reasonable judgment in applying these rules. We’ll be fair, but firm.
- Remember The Purpose: This community exists as a pressure valve—a place to process through humor the often frustrating world of conservative politics.
I spoke about this in another thread, but it seems like a very delicate balancing act to find the right moderator for that kind of community. To be a conservative is to be tolerant of fascists and Neo-Nazis to some degree. In the current political climate, it is inevitable that any right-leaning community will have elements of these abhorrent ideologies. I don’t think fascists and Neo-Nazis should be tolerated to exist in any space. No community as a whole is made safer by their presence, quite the opposite. So any moderator of a conservative community either must not be a conservative themselves or be one of the seemingly minority of conservatives that utterly disavow nationalists and bigotry, but this would put them in a position of poorly representing the community they moderate.
It’s a tricky situation. And I’m not sure if there’s a solution that both makes sense and permits a conservative community to exist.
That is unfortunatly the truth for a lot of conservative parties around the world these days, but I don’t agree that one personally has to do that to be a conservative. So I really disagree with that sentiment.
However I do agree that it is a very tricky situation indeed.
I’m not so sure. I think there are conservatives who truly believe themselves to be intolerant of fascists and bigots but, first and foremost, they are not representative of conservatives as a whole and therefore may not be best suited to represent and moderate a community of conservatives, and secondly, I’m reminded of the German saying about Nazis at the table. If there is a table of ten people and a Nazi sits down with them and no one leaves, there are 11 Nazis at the table.
I’ll admit that this is a fairly American-centric view of conservatives and while it may be as you say, similar in other parts of the world, I honestly don’t know enough to agree with any certainty.
Half the problem is that the word fascist is completely overused. And the other half is a lot of people on Lemmy here convinced themselves that deporting illegal immigrants is fascism, when it simply isn’t.
Trump is not a fascist, never was.
Frankly, Lemmy is not a place for differing opinions, it’s a place for the far left to circlejerk.
All I want to see out of this is honesty. If it’s not for conservatives, then don’t act like it is.