r/LeopardsAteMyFace • • Feb 26 '21

Meta A guide to this sub's explanatory comment rule.

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Recently, we noticed an increased amount of nonsensical explanatory comments with no relation in any way, shape or form to the theme of this subreddit.

The "leopards ate my face" theme is embodied by this quote in the sidebar.

"I never thought leopards would eat my face", sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party. Revel in the schadenfreude anytime someone has a sad because they're suffering consequences from something they voted for, supported or wanted to impose on other people.

This statement made out of 3 parts, not in that order.

  1. Someone voted for, supported or wanted to impose something on other people.
  2. Something has the consequences of consequences.
  3. As a consequence of something, consequences happened to someone.

In your explanatory comment, answer these 3 elements and include the minimum amount of information necessary so your post can be understood by everyone, even if they don't live in the US or speak English as their native language. If you fail to identify them, it will be difficult for a moderator to understand if this post fits and it will probably be removed. If you complain about it, we'll just send you back here.

The explanatory comment is not the place to write a pretty poem nor is it the place to promote books. Copying this post, copying large parts of the article and nonsensical comments will get your post removed under rule #3. Keep it stupid simple.

To help you get started, here's an example.

  1. Helen, Roberto Beristain's wife, voted for Donald Trump, who vowed to impose deportation to illegal immigrants such as her husband.
  2. Voting for Trump, who vowed to deport illegal immigrants such as Roberto Beristain, has the consequence of having illegal immigrants deported and families separated.
  3. As a consequence of voting for Trump, Roberto Beristain got deported and Helen's family was separated.

You should absolutely make sure that it is easy to match your explanatory comment with the provided format or your post will be mercilessly removed. If, however, you can't match your explanatory comment with the format, then you should just delete your post and save us the effort.

Additionally, we've identified several types of posts that do not fit the theme of this subreddit.

  • Bye bye job: People losing their job, a business, a scholarship, an admission or a similar kind of opportunity due to their actions online or in person, but those actions don't imply that they vote for, support or want to impose something on other people that then had consequences on them.
  • Distinct enabler and victim: The person who voted for, supported or wanted to impose something must be the same person who's suffering the consequences. For example, if a parent is not vaccinating their children and then those children get sick, then those children are innocent victims of their parent's abuse. They didn't vote for, supported or wanted to impose being vulnerable to preventable diseases on anyone, so the post doesn't fit the subreddit's theme.
  • Fuck the law: When someone breaks the law and then suffers the consequence of the law, they probably didn't vote for, support or want to impose that law on other people in the first place. Includes all the r/CapitolConsequences.
  • Future consequences: Yes, Trump is going to do bad things once he's in office. But he's not in office until 20 January 2025. This subreddit is not about future hypotheticals.
  • Hypocrisy: Someone says something but then does the opposite.
  • Lesser of two evils: Posts must induce schadenfreude, but it is not the case when someone is forced to make a tough choice because the other choices are equally terrible or worse.
  • No consequences: Being shocked, feeling regrets, getting criticized and panicking are not consequences. A consequence refers to a real-world event that has actually happened to someone.
  • Self-aware wolves: Someone accidentally describes themselves but they're not self-aware enough to realize it.
  • Sudden betrayal: In the case of a betrayal, the betrayer must've been known to betray people in the first place.

r/LeopardsAteMyFace • • 13h ago

Trump Katie Zacharia Is Ousted After 5 Days as White House Press Secretary- NY Times

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r/LeopardsAteMyFace • • 16h ago

Trump 'Everything got worse': Gen Z express frustration, regret after Trump vote

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r/LeopardsAteMyFace • • 19h ago

Trump Self-described “hardcore Republican” farmer said he’s suffered more under Trump than under any other president.

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r/LeopardsAteMyFace • • 15h ago

Meta People with the Surveillance State on their nose horrified to learn they’ve been surveilled

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r/LeopardsAteMyFace • • 15h ago

Trump Trump says new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia should ‘reconsider’ job

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r/LeopardsAteMyFace • • 6h ago

Trump So sad. He didn’t think Trump would crack down on immigrants so hard when he voted for him!

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r/LeopardsAteMyFace • • 14h ago

Trump Press secretary excited to work with Trump, gets fired in less than a week

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r/LeopardsAteMyFace • • 21h ago

Trump Trump Voter Who Called Him 'Big Daddy Trump' Says He Is Being Crushed by Insurance and Gas Prices

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r/LeopardsAteMyFace • • 13h ago

Trump Did she last one Scaramucci?

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r/LeopardsAteMyFace • • 20h ago

Trump An Oklahoma rancher voted for Trump three times. Now soaring diesel prices are taking a toll on his business and "It's probably the most stressful time in my life"

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r/LeopardsAteMyFace • • 20h ago

Risky behaviour Chile farmers in Republican-leaning Pueblo County, Colorado reflect on a difficult growing season due to climate-change-affected reduced mountain snow, which is lowering the amount of water available for their farms

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r/LeopardsAteMyFace • • 1d ago

Predictable betrayal Reform UK's Sarah Pochin discovers that the far right has a problem with women.

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r/LeopardsAteMyFace • • 1d ago

Trump When your political identity survives everything except your monthly expenses

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r/LeopardsAteMyFace • • 1d ago

Trump 20+ "paragraphs" of 3 time voter regret. Also do they not know you don't need the address of the White House in a FB post?

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r/LeopardsAteMyFace • • 1d ago

Predictable betrayal SNAP benefit recipients in rural Hanover County, outside Richmond, Virginia, find themselves seeking help from food banks, which themselves are suffering from lack of supply. Hanover County voted for Trump at an almost 2-to-1 margin

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r/LeopardsAteMyFace • • 1d ago

Trump Three-Time Trump Voter Says He Can No Longer Afford His Favourite Steak as US Inflation Hits 3.7%

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r/LeopardsAteMyFace • • 2d ago

Risky behaviour Right-wing influencer tries to start a fake scandal about James Talarico; he is now in legal hot water

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r/LeopardsAteMyFace • • 2d ago

Trump Someone should have honestly seen this coming.

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r/LeopardsAteMyFace • • 2d ago

Trump Going Hungry in Trump’s Economy

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r/LeopardsAteMyFace • • 2d ago

Trump "Trump campaigned on a promise to cut energy bills and attack inflation, but many voters say their expenses are rising faster than their paychecks."

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r/LeopardsAteMyFace • • 2d ago

Trump Fisherman Who Voted for Trump Three Times Says He'd Switch as Costs and Canada Trade Fight Squeeze Industry

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r/LeopardsAteMyFace • • 3d ago

Trump Laura Loomer: ‘I haven’t got anything from my sacrifice to Trump’

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r/LeopardsAteMyFace • • 3d ago

Healthcare They Pushed an Anti-Abortion Pill Law. Now, They’re Being Sued Under It.

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r/LeopardsAteMyFace • • 3d ago

Other Conservative Indian Americans starting to believe there is anti-Indian sentiment in the Republican Party

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