A community to discuss conservative politics and views.
Rules:
No racism or bigotry.
Be civil: disagreements happen, but that doesn't provide the right to personally insult others.
No spam posting.
Submission headline should match the article title (don't cherry-pick information from the title to fit your agenda).
Shitposts and memes are allowed until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.
No trolling.
ETA:
For accuracy, the chart is old (2014) and references discretionary spending instead of mandatory which is where programs like SNAP (Food Stamps) generally fall
However, even accounting for all that properly, at the time of the meme, food stamps would have still been just 2% of the federal budget. Thus the spirit of the meme is still good.
If this community is going to continue to exist, memes like this may need to be reworded. The old community was a fount of bad faith and it's easy to respond to bad faith with more of the same but moving forward we probably need less call outs and more discussion, less finger pointing and more understanding.
Last week's mods didn't want that. Their goal seemed to be (and this is the best faith I can put on the situation) the representation of under represented viewpoints, i.e. conservative viewpoints. Unfortunately that resulted in an extremely useless echo chamber full of circle jerking, JAQing off, bootlicking, whataboutism, and sealioning.
I can't tell you how excited I am about these mods having their power taken away, but we can't replace them with the same divisive tactics and say anything has improved.
Oh, man, I was curious about how people would actually act on this community, but it seems I decided to not check on the one week it got from zero attention, to overflowing with bad behavior, and felt down!