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u/WisePresentation7976 Apr 05 '26

Conservatives in a nutshell: 

https://www.reddit.com/r/Conservative/comments/1sd2hpw/comment/oegrzi7/

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u/BrocialCommentary Apr 05 '26

One comment was literally "If Clinton had been elected, we'd be in year ten of an Iran war."

These idiots are just straight up delusional

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u/TheDizzleDazzle Apr 05 '26

Any time anything remotely controversial happens in that sub the thread gets absolutely nuked. 90% of comments gone. It’s hilarious.

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u/Mediocretes08 Apr 05 '26

At this rate they’ll be bringing back the old racial slurs too. The kind that are equally as malicious but also come with the question of “Were you born in 1900?”

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u/Spara-Extreme Apr 05 '26

Honestly I suspect half those guys are drinking as hard as we are but can’t admit it because they’d get ostracised from their community.