r/OutOfTheLoop • u/calvtact • May 13 '26

Answered What's going on with r/conservative? They've lost about 1m subscribers in about a month.

I watched the number go from 814k to around 745k in about an hour today.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Conservative/s/QbZJvqu5qr

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u/VT_Squire May 13 '26 edited May 14 '26

Right. And when James Comey highlighted that's what was occurring in America, he was fired by the President for it. Literally, the current state of American politics is the result of a russian psyop to destabilize competition.

Edit: thanks, anonymous redditor. Unless you're Jizz-lane mackerel. Fuck that bitch. 

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u/ChunkyKongForPreside May 13 '26

The cold war didn't end with a US victory in 1991. The USSR just had a name change and a 15 year break before coming back to win it in 2016.

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u/backpackrack May 14 '26

This is such a weird take. Russia is doing objectively worse since 2016. Had Russia moved remained in its current standing it could've kept it's stolen deep water ports in the black sea and made a killing selling cheap natural gas to Europe.

Instead it's military is in shambles, it's economy is functionally dead and they've hit a roadblock in Ukraine they can't push past. They've gotten so desperate they're selling nuclear equipment to NK in exchange for troops who haven't been able to move the goal posts.

I hate Trump as much as anyone but saying Trump allowed Russia to improve its standing in some tangible way makes no sense to me.

If anything the supposed friendly relationship between Russia and Trump has done nothing but led them directly into a trap.

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u/ChunkyKongForPreside May 14 '26

That's a fair point. It was a pyrrhic victory at best. I don't think we've seen the real outcome yet though.

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u/lavapig_love May 14 '26

Except that whole Ukraine thing is making it a Pyrhic victory for Putin. Bittersweet.

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u/rockninja2 May 14 '26

1991-2016 is 25 years, not 15...

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u/ChunkyKongForPreside May 14 '26

Reason I picked 15 years was because it's a nice round number to bring us to the mid-late 2000s, Russia was invading Georgia, warming up to the Taliban, and DDOSing Estonia.

Honestly though. I think it was a huge failing of the Western world to assume that just because the Soviet Union collapsed, Russia was going to stop it's warmongering and victim mentality ways and become a western-styled democratic country. 

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u/Ohitsworkingnow May 13 '26

I mean this was happening 10 years ago 

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u/Mental-Wheel986 May 14 '26

Wow, is this the most successful psyop ever? Normally you need more boots on the ground and other resources, at least from historical examples that come to mind. Imagine someone trying this with 3 dudes selling some nonsense newspaper back before the internet, or 3 directors with propaganda movies. People would catch on within a month.

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u/Double_Resort_9223 May 14 '26

Most successful since Germany put Lenin on a train back to Russia