I think all of us on this subreddit who have been here for any length of time will notice the almost constant stream of new accounts complaining about a "Pro-Trump" bias on this subreddit. Let me humbly submit for your consideration that at least some of this is an operation to D&C /r/conspiracy. Here is the strategy as I see it, let me know if any of you notice this shit or I'm just crazy:

• In every single comment thread, when someone expresses skepticism or doubt about the "Oh my fucking God! Trump colluded with the Russians!" narrative, immediately accuse them of being from /r/The_Donald or having a political bias. Speak of the collusion as if the only possible conclusion you could draw from the evidence is that Trump is corrupt; discredit anyone who expresses doubt in that narrative by ad-hominem accusations.

• At least once per day, post a text thread bitching about the "Pro-Trump bias" that exists on this sub. Anyone and everyone who tells you to get lost or questions the validity of that accusation is a Trump supporter and should go back to /r/The_Donald.

• Any discussion related to John Podesta, Loretta Lynch, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice, or others from the former Administration is "what-aboutism." You are not to allow any discussion of the Obama Administration's flagrant corruption without making it about Trump/Russia. Every single thread that relates to Pedogate is to be derailed by "Dude...this is just a pro-Trump distraction from the Russia collusion." Do not allow the userbase of /r/conspiracy to have a discussion about anything other than Russia collusion. Anything even remotely related to DNC politics is a distraction from Russia.

Of course, I'm not accusing every single poster who is anti-Trump of being a shill...that's fucking ridiculous. There are plenty of great reasons to distrust Trump. There are absolutely reasons to discuss Trump/Russia collusion on this subreddit - it's shady and I'm not trying to dismiss your legitimate concerns. But let's not kid ourselves here - there's something else happening here, beyond "the userbase of /r/conspiracy is naturally divided along political lines."

We know that certain organizations who have explicit ties to David Brock/the DNC absolutely do astroturf places like this. I think there is an Operation going on here, and it's a brilliant one at that. Mods are backed into a corner where they either ban the astroturfers and their D&C threads and look political in the process, or allow it to continue and have this sub degenerate into /r/politicaldiscussion 2.0 where we constantly rehash the fucking Russia thing over and over and over again in every single thread. I think the mods are doing a good job of handling this by taking a hands-off approach, but I'd like to at least see what the community thinks about this. Anyone else think this shit is a bit suspicious? Anyone else think it's intentional?