Hi all! We have a new mod on the team.

We have a new mod on the team. @wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee

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Your new mod has spent the last 5 hours getting into a 50 comment deep argument over Hunter Biden's laptop...
- Glad to hear they're qualified

Given that your new mod labels anything left of center right as trolling, this is a terrible idea, not to mention the other reasons that have been mentioned.
- Yeah...I'm curious as to how this is going to go. It'll be interesting, that's for sure.
- If you think it's a terrible idea, it must be good
  
  And why is that?
  Are you just being a contrarian for the sake of it?

Changed your mind already?
Probably for the best.
- https://lemm.ee/comment/9390373
  Guys a conspiracy theorist. Definitely for the best.
  
  That isn't a conspiracy. There is a real laptop owned by Hunter Biden.
- Oddly enough, he shows as I clicked once on lemm.ee, not twice.
  Hes a mod to be clear.
  Im going to chalk it up to federation.
  
  Strange, it still shows as removed here.

If your goal with this new mod is to further extreme far right conspiracy theories in this community you will hit that target very successfully.
Otherwise it's a complete failure.

Nice! The biggest troll in this community is making the second biggest troll into a mod!
What a serious group of people discussing serious things LMAO!
I look forward to more spurious reasoning and culture war bullshit.
- Hey I haven’t gotten banned for posts in another community yet, they haven’t achieved their final form

Which mod deleted the article post about the guy that lied about all the hunter evidence?
You guys just straight up deleting stories because it doesn't fit your narrative? Rule 2 says all sources are acceptable. That post has Fox News as a source.
- I did. It didn't fit the criteria. Posts must have a clear pro-conservative, or anti left-wing bias.
  
  No actual discussion allowed, huh? Just bury your heads in the sand and yell "nah nah nah nah" so you can't hear the truth.

Things I am in favour of conserving:
The environment
Multigenerational family structures
Indigenous sovereignty
Oral traditions
Unions
Technological progress
Trans rights
Historical records
Mythologies and religions
Pagan traditions
The Palestinian people
Ukraine
Civil rights advances
Abandonware and lost media
Indigenous holy sites
Native species
I want to conserve lots of stuff. Am I a conservative?
- Conservatives are not a monolith.
  That said, "Indigenous sovereignty" is very right wing. Welcome!
  
  Yeah I think that the white monarchist government of my country is illegitimate and that ownership of the land should be returned to the indigenous people. If the white people don't like it they can go back to England
  Also since the government is illegitimate, cops are actually occupying soldiers and killing them is ethically A-okay.
- conservative is about traditional values and personal liberty. Most of what you list would fit squarely into conservative philosophy.
  Abandonware though does not fall into politics. I am a big fan of keeping historical technology around. I may be showing my age but I miss a lot of the software from my youth.
  
  Oh, abandonware is political. The software is lost because distribution rights lied solely with the copyright holder. The abandonware we still have available for distribution today is what was pirated. Obviously, copyright is antithetical to software preservation.
  A capitalist argument on the subject of software copyright goes "the right to distribute software is owned by a company or a businessman because they invested in that software. They have the right to control what they own. If they decide the software is no longer available for distribution, it should be lost."
  But a communist argument on the subject of software says "the means of producing wealth by distributing software should belong to everyone. The people should seize software distribution for themselves and use it for the common good. Pirate software to preserve it, it shouldn't matter that a corporation doesn't want to sell it anymore."
  As a communist, I believe in the conservative approach to software copyright.

Hoooooo boy. What's next, Momo on the mod team? I sense a lot of future bans for "trolling" real soon.

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