Particularly Fark Dems. Progressive bad, compromise with Republicans, especially on pro-business things good, according to them. And Drew, who reinforces the narrative with heavy-handed moderation.

Show me fewer ads, be less annoying about it, don't be repetitive, and especially let me specify what in an ad is annoying and block it. Showing me the same pro-Cheetolini/anti-Dem ad EVERY F*CKING AD BREAK = F*CK YOUR SERVICE, ENJOY μBlock+πhole

I mean that's sort of what you can do with the face space by clicking ads and saying hide all from Account X and messing with ad prefs. But the first problem is that it's more ads than posts, and the second is it rapidly becomes the same ads over and over.

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Queen takes knight

The banhammer is a tool to be used in conjunction with a good set of rules equally enforced, not a comedy stick wielded by a biased person to enforce an agenda, or based on a "I knows it when I sees it" policy interpreted differently by each mod or not enforced when their friends are being asshats

*looks at Drew's friends, er I mean the Fark "Moderators"*
Yeah, there are certain things that are needed for moderation to be successful and for people to not burn out doing it, and they include a damn good moderation policy and support from above. Not 4chan-style "do whatever we want".

And if you can't get a W while at least making a token effort to not look like you're cheating and playing dirty, then say fuck it and go full on playing dirty and dare anyone to stop you, impose maximum damage and costs and declare yourself the winner anyway.

Hell I am literally watching that go down with Michigan fans right now, and rabid Ohio State fans denying the existence of their side's historical faults and fuck-ups. Decorum, sportsmanship, and the rules don't matter, there is no "being better" except by getting a W...

The heart of the GOP is now composed of the The. Worst. Fanboys. EVAR. It is literally the worst people you ever see in sportsball rivalries. Their team could rape kids on the team logo at midfield live in front of them and they would deny it, blame the refs and league, and accuse the other team.

And the inmates took control of the asylum out from under the old school conservatives, as the "reasonable" Republicans looked at the things the Party was saying and doing and left when something crossed their personal lines.

There is a big case to be made that certain forces lost their minds at Clinton winning and decided to recruit all the lolbertarian and fundie nuts they previously avoided and thus dragged everything rightward in the past 30 years, helped by centrist Dems too.

Reagan and Bush I may not have liked PBS/NPR/CfPB but they did realize they served Americans and helped make us great. After them though came the assholes with completely pre-baked brains, nothing can shake them from their indoctrination, no thinking allowed.

All that said, yeah, Reagan and Bush the Elder at least had some semblance of couching their bullshit arguments in "patriotic" and "Constitutional" wrapping. Dubya started tearing down the curtain and Trump wiped his ass with it then set it on fire.

The remaining "conservatives" are either part of or pander to religious nuts (violating separation of church and state) or part of the military -industrial complex. Both are happy to make government bigger and more intrusive and spend money for their own ends.

Unfortunately they are either extinct or in hiding, because everyone who looks like one is a lolbertarian type who wants either no government or no spending except on things that only benefit them specifically.

If there was actually an honest-to-FSM "small government fiscal conservative" still out there, an old school "is this something the government should do, is this something that it makes sense for the government to spend money on?" type, that would be a reasonable conservative to work with.

hey @mattythemouse.bsky.social gonna be HILARIOUS when Drew has to shut down Fark because the Centrist/GOP Collaborator Dems his stable of Official Fark Approved Trolls defends goes along with repealing 230 and thus makes him liable for their personal attacks against liberals, right?

And guess which crowd was in a thread posting variants of the r*t*rd slur but I cannot report?

Not that I would know. I served a sentence without a single reply back from Farkback or Drew, so this is complete news now that my sentence is up that shadow banning exists.