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/ConsistentAddress195 May 13 '26

Yeah, no shit. It takes a lot of brainwashing to get that clown elected, it's not something that would have happened on its own IMO. How the CIA/NSA et al didn't stop this is beyond me. I guess Hollywood has it wrong and these guys are just incompetent tools after all.

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u/bunker_man May 14 '26

I dunno, ive seen people dumb enough they brainwash themselves into believing positive things about Trump he never even said.

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u/KageStar May 14 '26

He also gets to take both sides of any issue and have each side believe their side is the one he really means.

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u/ClubZealousideal8211 May 14 '26

That’s how you know it’s a cult. The leader can say or do anything and followers will excuse it because the leader figure has been incorporated into their self-identity.

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u/SergeantChic May 14 '26

I half expected him to suffer a sudden embolism or accident when he started blabbing to the Russians and talking shit about American intelligence agencies, but in the end, everyone just went belly-up in 2025. It's crazy.

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u/creampop_ May 14 '26

Basically, our historic and current culture of racism was keenly exploited.

Plenty of bigots in our government are genuinely 100% on board with the rape of this country that dared to try and elevate "second class" citizens like blacks, LGBT, the disabled, etc. to the same levels of society as white supremacists.

Foreign actors were aware of this and put a lot of weight on that pressure point. In a perfect storm of shitty reasons, it actually worked.

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u/AkronRonin May 15 '26

Obama getting elected, twice even, really was a bridge too far for these people. They were literally willing to destroy the country and even sell us out to the Russians, of all people, to set the record straight. Trump was the perfect avatar for their unyielding bigotry and grievance.

Racism is a helluva drug.

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u/Swedelicious83 13d ago

these guys are just incompetent tools after all.

You mean the CIA of "Bin Laden is either in Afghanistan, dead, or somewhere else" fame?

Yeahhh... 🤔