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The two week old article is about a recent event that occurred within the last month, here is a section of the article:

Published 12:05 PM EDT, July 14, 2023

A Capitol riot suspect who had guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition in his van when he was arrested near former President Barack Obama’s Washington home has been indicted on federal firearms charges, authorities said Friday.

If posting an article that is older than two weeks is considered "old content" deserving of being removed, then the rules on the sidebar should represent that. I'm not sure which mod removed it so I'm making this a general post instead of talking to the mod that removed it directly.

Curious what conservatives think about this development.

I've seen some random videos of Tucker saying that suicides are way up, economy is way down, addiction and crime are rampant and the cost of living is insanity where nobody can really thrive in this environment.

On the otherside, inflation is slowing, people are working and it feels we're slowly getting back to some normalcy.

What's your personal perspective on how life is right now/since 2020? Is that the biggest factor for determining who you will vote for in 2024?

My comment will only mean something if you understand that I am actually a moderate. I have voted for both parties. I don't vote for politicians. I vote for policies. Policies that I think make sense and actually work. As a for instance I am against the banning of abortion, but think there should be some time limit based on when the fetus could survive outside the mother. I think that's a moderate position.

When I first took a break from reddit and came over to lemmy I just lurked around. I didn't sign up. I wanted to see if it would actually get off the ground. Present were the usual political groups mostly all expressing democrat/progressive opinions. As with reddit this is expected since these types of communities are comprised mostly of young people who are mostly on the progressive side of politics.

On the conservative side there were only a few groups as would be expected. Reddit also has few but they are allowed to exist and most use a flair based system. So if conservatives what to discuss policies they are not overwhelmed by non conservatives. Simply put you need to message the mods and tell them why you are a conservative to get flaired or auto mod will hold your post or comment pending mod review. I do not think lemmy has this feature. I think that communities dedicated to a specific political view should not have to be brigaded by those who disagree with them.

The thing that I found interesting on lemmy is that the few other conservative groups were all banned along with their creators and mods. This was documented via the mod logs. I of course never read every post or comment but I never once saw someone threatening others or calling for violence. Apparently they were banished because of their political views. I no longer remember the group name but one of the banned groups simply posted news articles that called into question some democrat party policies.

Coming full circle I'm not really interested enough in politics to join any political groups. I just wanted to post my observations as to how lemmy seems to handle them.

They could only remove illegal content and spam. What do you guys think?

I'm new to Lemmy, and trying to get a gauge on the community. Unfortunately, it seems that it's just gonna be another heavily left wing website, but hoping that the smaller pockets of users will be reasonable.

What are the issues that the Conservative community here cars about most?

The U.S. Supreme Court's recent term ended with a flurry of conservative-leaning decisions that have been met with shock and disapproval, particularly from the left. This conservative trend is seen as a reflection of the 6-3 conservative majority established during Trump's presidency. Noteworthy rulings include siding with a web designer who refused services to same-sex couples, ending affirmative action in colleges, and dismissing President Biden's student loan forgiveness plan.

Justice Samuel Alito has outstripped Justice Clarence Thomas to become the most conservative justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

“"None of this matters if we don’t win. There is no substitute for victory. We cannot continue with the culture of losing where we lose winnable races." —@RonDeSantis #RD24 🇺🇸”

https://twitter.com/TeamDeSantis/status/1672647439516413955