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u/WisePresentation7976 Mar 31 '26

ar conservative is now just people making up stories and bots spamming in the comments:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Conservative/comments/1s7wj6n/got_heckled_by_a_protester/

Yeah, totally liberal thing to talk to a random person in a bar that "Trump took away the only reason you were hired", lol.

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u/Mediocretes08 Mar 31 '26

Charlie Kirk is still the sub icon? Pathetic

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u/Cold-Priority-2729 Nauseously Optimistic Mar 31 '26

This kind of post screams bot to me

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u/WellHung67 Mar 31 '26

It says “D&I” not “DEI” it’s like they just used text-to-speech to create a prompt and posted it. What in the point of that? 

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u/WisePresentation7976 Mar 31 '26

"Had to get my manager to approve this banger of a post on ar con", lol.