World of Warcraft has recently released a patch where a relatively big name dies in a raid. This has been met with some loud reactions from the fanbase. Is it Blizzard writing like uninspired bureaucrats again, or fans having negative media literacy? Who knows, as it's always a coin flip, and it's also often both.

But one thing for sure is that it created some lively discussion. r/warcraftlore is a self-explanatory subreddit. While there are interesting lore discussions there, its userbase also contains a big amount of anti-fans -- people who used to like the story but have come to persistently hate it and very loudly. Many of these are criticized by other users in the sub, with it often being mentioned that a lot of these anti-fans haven't played the game in years or don't pay attention to the story of quest texts.

One such occurance happens when a user creates a thread titled: The Writing never needed to be good - It just needed to be BADASS.

It starts with:

People who are annoyed at the constant, but rightful, criticisms of wow's narrative and EVERYTHING in the story - always say "well, warcraft was never nuanced really.. well warcraft wasn't ever that complex."

I would say, yes you have a point. But the biggest point that's missing - is that it's not ever HEROIC or COOL anymore.

It's never a story focused of OVERCOMING ODDS and displaying GREAT DEEDS and it's never presented as HOLY SHIT, BAD ASS SACRIFICE. SLASH HEADS OFF OF THIS GUY. KILL ENEMY TO SAVE FRIEND IN THE SHOT.

And after some more elaboration of the same nature, it ends with:

People just want to see our heroes being heroes and do cool shit. With some grit. With some ACTION.

A-C-T-I-O-N. HOW IS THIS SOMEHOW A DEBATE? HOOWWWWW!?

MAKE THE MARY SUES DO COOL SHIT, MAKE THEM LOSE A EYE OR LEG. THEN MAKE THEM GAIN A NEW TRAIT AND MAKE THEM SAY COOL SHIT. MAKE THEM FACE CONSEQUENCES.

AND DO IT WITHIN, i dont know, 3 hours? It's not insane. LET US SEE GROWTH. LET US SEE ACTION. LET US SEE IT. NOT HEAR IT. FUCK ME.

Some users digress.

+ Sorry this isn't the incel 14 year old subreddit

++ (OP) discord incel 14 year olds have more interesting thoughts than whatever 30 people wrote for WoW for the past decade and a half.

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+ To be fair, Warcraft never had a good writing. I've played whole wc1, wc2, wc3 games recently and I was like "yeah, I see why I liked it when I was 8-14yo, but now this is just cringe". There were some good scenes from the epic fantasy point of view, but nothing felt really good, apart from that (and overall night elf vibes in wc3).

++ (OP) It doesn't need to be high art literature or as song of ice and fire. It just needed "Saving Private Ryan's" level of presentation and action and FUN.

Brutal deaths, heroic sacrifices, fun characters that are likeable and iconic. How have we lost that.

+++ Because:

1. Things evolve and change. I'm okay with more complex emotional stuff. I'm not okay with retcons and inconsistency.
2. Corporate writing. That's all.

++++ (OP) You know when you dont clean your home, it "evolves and change" is it for the better? No.

Complex Emotional stuff? Like what? Insecure brother and mary sue sister? Wow, VERY complex.

Thousands of years of war solved in girl's hangout weekend? So COMPLEX. WOWWW.

A villain who has ZERO motivations other than "i felt unsafe as a cosmic entity who can teleport anywhere and be anywhere i want." and must now devour the world and become a Supereme Deity.

That's your "more complex emotional stufff" ? You lost me at ALL of that bullshit.

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+ Was Liadrin not a complete badass in the fight? Was Arator not a complete badass in the immolation cinematic?

++ (OP) Imagine telling the entire story in that tone. We like it when warcraft is back to itself, not obssessing over "emotionally conversations that you hear in a therapy gathering".

When Arthas scorned Uther for not following his orders, it was painful. You can just feel how betrayed they BOTH felt. Less is More, is STRONGLY missing from the creatives.

+++ In the OP you say it's never heroic or cool. I point out you're wrong and now you switch to it not being entirely heroic and cool. Weird.

"emotionally conversations that you hear in a therapy gathering".

For those of us that don't attend "therapy gatherings", what does this mean?

++++ As I've come to learn, it's best not to expect anything other than CAPS LOCK and unintelligible complaints.

+++++ (OP) (posts a long rant, ending with) Explainyourself. How this is so nuanced and complex compared to Arthas and Illidan, and Thrall's founding of Durotar. Please, I want to hear you out, genuinely.

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One user particularly has an extended critique of OP's argument and attitude:

This is genuinely one of the most embarrassing attempts at literary criticism I've encountered on here.

You've managed to reduce your entire understanding of storytelling to whether something makes you shout "HOLY SHIT, BADASS". Your idea of character development is apparently someone losing an eye, getting a new outfit and decapitating an enemy. And then, astonishingly, you invoke 'show, don't tell', a principle you clearly don't understand, as though it means characters should stop talking about their motivations and start hitting things. Illidan's transformation has meaning precisely because of his emotional turmoil, resentment and relationships. Remove those and you've got a purple man eating a skull before killing a demon. Congratulations, you've stripped the scene of everything that made it interesting.

And Warlords of Draenor? Really? An expansion whose admittedly spectacular cinematics accompanied a narrative so incoherent that Grommash, having initiated an attempted conquest of Draenor, gets to triumphantly declare that Draenor is free? Apparently, none of that matters provided someone delivers a sufficiently cool one-liner.

What's particularly dire is that you're presenting an almost comically adolescent preference as some fundamental truth about Warcraft. Nobody objects to spectacle, violence or heroic sacrifice. I adore all three. But the notion that emotional complexity is merely irritating filler between sword fights is precisely the sort of opinion I'd expect from a fourteen-year-old who thinks maturity means more blood and louder shouting.

There's something profoundly sad about the possibility that you've spent decades consuming fiction without ever developing your appreciation of it beyond what you thought was cool as a teenager.

After this thread, OP creates yet another thread titled: People who like the retail story and claim it's "complex and nuanced", which is sitting at 0 upvotes as of this moment.

He rants there quite a bit, starting with:

Explain to me how?

And ends with:

Explainyourself. How this is so nuanced and complex compared to Arthas and Illidan, and Thrall's founding of Durotar. Please, I want to hear you out, genuinely.

Yes, he copy+pasted this post body to a previous comment I linked (time stamps confirm it's not the other way around).

Some comments from the new thread:

+ Your first paragraph proves your own ignorance and desire to complain.

This is not me defending blizz or the writers. But showcasing your inability to consume the story in any way… it is factually incorrect and your dismissiveness tells me more about you than is needed.

++ (OP) I wrote what literally happens in the game.

+++ You don't.
Everything you complain about in this post is either false, or is explained in game.
Maybe not as well as it could have been, but it is touched on.

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The extended commenter appears, and comments rather longly on why they disagree. However, it starts with this edit (which I can confirm to be true):

+ Edit: everything from OP is appearing as "deleted" to me, so I'm not sure if I've been blocked, or the post has been deleted. I can't respond to any comments, but thank you for the kind words.

++ Pretty sure they blocked you.

Great response. Well written and nuanced.

++ (OP) Yeah and those are your answers. But they dont reflect what's actually being shown. You've admitted its all shit, and yet you still stand for it as something debateable. Stop it and accept whatever you're trying to salvage this entire time, was in fact garbage.

+++ Most of the things they are talking about are 100% in game mate.
It isn't hidden or anything.

And this person hasn't even said "it is all shit" either.
Are your reading comprehension that low?

++++ He doesnt want to discuss, he just wants to have his tantrum. We should just ignore him

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+ "disney"

You had no intention to hear anyone out.

++ (OP) When someone gets offended at 1 word. You had no intentions of anything beyond tribal behaviour.

+++ Who's offended? You can tell someone's intentions by the language they use. If you wanted an open and good faith discussion your entire post wouldn't have been worded the way it was. You also proved my point by completely dismissing the person who succinctly answered your points.

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A commenter tries to explain the difference between disliking or critiquing vs. losing yourself in an outrage.

+ you sound like you are in a rage, man. And mind you I am no retail enjoyer either.

And uh... I don't know. People find those small things to like and that gets them to accept the whole package, I suppose. Which is fair, it's how I approach Warcraft most of the time. Like cutting away and ignoring that strange looking side of the potato. That being said each potato after one another seem to have that strangeness increase.

Criticizing blizzard writing is one thing but idk if criticizing people's taste is called for in this instance.

++ If you see someone eating bricks, you ask "hey why aren't you just eating food"

They go "but bricks are delicious."

You would call them, a fool.

In this instance, you're a 3rd person who goes "Hey man, just let him eat bricks. Like... cmon dont be a dick." And that's why we have 10+ years of shitty warcraft storylines LOL. Because enough people went

"It's okay to eat bricks. Shhh.. it's okay.. just swallow bricks. We support it."

+++ And I do call them a fool, but I try not to go farther than that. The people who enjoy retail lore know what it became over the years and are sticking by it, there is nothing more that I can say that isn't just being plain fucking mean to them and idk I don't want that for some reason that even I can't discern.

I don't understand it, but it's what it is. I know I stick by what I like and have not much faith in Blizzard in the first place since Legion ended. I don't even play retail, therefore I don't get mad at it anymore unless it's so bad it makes me turn my head around and mark it as such.

++++ (OP) the 30 people who likes this garbage because they have nothing else but this game as a identity/hobby are offended when people criticise, rightfully, that it sucks and that they deserve better storylines, it's OKAY to let things be bad and not speak up.

Hmm.. i think the wow's culture really have seeped into people. Cowardice is the new virture for these people. The Story itself has made them into cowards like the story's premise LOL. Infantilized adults, who love an infantilized universe.

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Some singular comments:

+ why should I explain anything to someone like you, especially in a manner you asked them? Those are questions with very obvious answers, from them I see you have no clue about story and you do not have media literacy

+ Explain to me why anyone should bother when it's pretty apparent that you wouldn't be open minded enough to consider, let alone accept, any explanation that was offered to you.

+ “Please, I want to hear you out, genuinely.” => Proceeds to block people who give proper and nuanced answers

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The situation is still very fresh and ongoing, and the subreddit is small, so do not comment in that thread. Pissing in the popcorn shall result in Guldan stealing your fleshly appandage.

Context: Maya Higa is a Twitch streamer mainly known for starting Alveus, an animal sanctuary that, instead of having constant visitors stressing out the animals, primarily does a 24/7 livestream allowing viewers to watch the animals go about their day. In a recent stream she came out as bisexual (though it should be noted she's talked in the past about having relationships with women) and the clip is posted to r/Livestreamfail, with the 0 upvote 315 comments post full of people excited she's comfortable publicly coming out

Full thread

not trying to be that guy but i feel like every woman online is bisexual

They're so bi but only ever date men. They just want to be different so badly.

I think the point is that there is a lot of pressure on women to be something because intersectionality teaches them you are only allowed to speak if you are something so if you have kissed a chick like a lot of woman have then you can come out as bi and be allowed a bigger voice within circles adherent to intersectionality.

The brutal moment when they look at lesbian vs gay male divorce rates and still think it's the men.

Announcing to the world that you're also attracted to women while in a committed relationship is weird behavior. Anyone would rightfully feel emotionally betrayed if their partner said they were attracted to other people.

This is why a lot of people say that coming out as bisexual is just a cry for attention or just virtue signaling to be a trendy ''not cis/het'' person, it's so common that it's has become a stereotype for liberal white women

after she gets engaged. But hey, she said the thing! Now she gets internet points!

I'm yet to meet a bisexual woman that actually dates women

The head moderator ateam1984 has already been caught using a grok generated profile picture and posting incredibly inflammatory and racist posts, but as we approach the midterns, ateam1984’s true colors are coming out. Look at this string of recent posts. This account is a bad actor trying to stifle the black vote. Either a russian bot, elon musk puppet, heritage foundation, or similar.

Check out these insane posts and comments. Community members reject this moderators sentiment and call them out for their insanity and the moderator accuses them of either not being black or thinking black people are stupid. Community members show the moderator in charge that black people are not stupid and will not fall for his bullshit

”Don’t vote blue”

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“We can vote. Or not vote” - last picture

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“White liberals don’t care about you”

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“They need your vote more than you need to vote”

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Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1x73h24/flying_cars_are_real_tesla_roadster/

Context: R/Singularity is a subreddit for people predominantly from the effective altruist/rationalist subculture, who believe in the inevitable creation of a super intelligent "god" AI that will either wipe out humanity or create a utopia for us

HIGHLIGHTS

guaranteed that it isn't a real roadster inside ... a super light drone in the shape of a car the sheer weight of lithium batteries or fuel would make it impossible to drive the compressed air or propulsion also indicates there is absolutely no space in the vehicle cough if it ever was one this is as much a physics problem as a realism problem source I did space stuff update: wow really did many of you fail physics in high school?

This guy goes into the physics problem in a lot of depth. He says it would take 30 kg per second of flight and he thinks it's unlikely it could store more than 5 seconds worth. The demo above is 3 seconds, so I would guess that used the full tank. https://youtu.be/4PRi4B1APj0?t=887

Full tank and hollowed drone. He's 90% correct in that accounting for thrust but fails to cover the transient pressure differential of the vehicle. Displacement is a bitch.

No, for his calculation that assumes 2,000 kilograms mass

Right, but I am adding on top of his calculations did air displacement. The vehicle is flat going horizontally up and down requires a significant amount of displacement from the air around it. There is roughly 14.7 pounds of per square inch of air above you. About 68 tonnes of atmosphere. In this case I am estimating that per second of jump the vehicle has to displace 184 lbs per second of upward velocity. The horizontal wall needs a lot more. This would say for the demo to work the vehicles true weight with everything inside of it is 600 to 700 lbs. Hardly anything in it. His math is right, I am pointing out the drone weighs less than the 2000lbs estimate to achieve the feats we saw.

Are you saying the trust must also overcome the force of drag? I don't think drag would be very significant here compared to the much larger force of weight of the vehicle. To jump 5m you only need 22mph vertical speed.

drag is large when the surface area is large

Imagine having so much money that you can casually suggest let’s have the car kickflip over traffic then just before you go in to the khole you shut off internet services to any country you want just for angering you. Fuck Elon.

I'm no fan of little Musky boy, but wasn't it the Whitehouse that shut off internet? Starshield not Starlink.

He didn’t even do it lol. Even tho they deserve it. The White House did. He doesn’t control starshield.

But in the past he did do shit like geofencing to block Ukraine from attacking Russian targets with drones that relied on Starlink. So even if it wasn him doing it this time, he’s done something very similar before.

So criticize him for that, why make shit up

Make shit up? Ever consider that the lying weasel is lying? Good luck in your foam car with a bomb in it and no seats and probably stunt cables attached.

Are the stunt cables in the room with us rn? I am sorry I can understand dislike and hating Elon, but god damn take me out back and put a bullet in my head if I ever become soo bias and delusional that I can't accept reality or admire a good piece of engineering simply because a dude I dislike made it.

i just fucking knew obese Redditors are gonna hate something as cool this...

Oh sorry man I don't get impressed by a marketing stunt and immediately call it for what it is. A stunt with gas propulsion that we've known how to use for decades and decades and its utterly fucking useless in a car.

bot account

Oh fuck I'm a bot? Did skynet did get me in my sleep?

if ur not a bot stop acting like one

bot

I just watched it. I can’t believe we all saw the same thing, and some of you actually think this is real. *yes I figured out I posted my comment in the wrong subreddit. Eventually. I left it up for fun but you can really stop replying now. 😆

And the hundreds of invitees who witnessed it with their own eyes?

the whole ramp setup was wayyy in the back behind a stage. the crowed watched the same edited video you seen on the internet. there was nothing live happening image

They watched it in real time and took their own videos on phones, it's all over the internet lol. But keep the conspiracies coming, some of them are quite entertaining. Like the one with suspension cables 🤣

they took videos of the screens showing the video you seen on the internet. there is no view of the car doing it off of a screen. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OkJaxvpeQYM if you want to prove me wrong, simply paste a video that's NOT of a screen showing the edited video.

https://youtube.com/shorts/tTL2CkUzqLo?si=tDMW1tZ_LUgb2MOj Watch till the very end when they zoom out. Like really, this took 30 seconds to find omg. Trolls put no effort in these days.

This looks cool, but I see no practical reason for this. Like jumping over traffic? Is that the goal?

Who cares if it’s practical? It’s cool to just do things.

The roadster was always going to be an expensive car that only rich people could afford. The added cost for this feature hardly matters.

Nobody is going to buy a car with JATO rockets on it just to use in the middle of nowhere a few times except like 8 people on the entire planet. If someone used this in traffic they should be in prison for 10+. There's literally zero reason for any of this to exist other than as a stunt for PR, it isn't going to be a feature you can buy.

Don’t generalize it’s weak and dumb 100% of the time. There will always be a market for innovation and outliers. When the final roadworthy product is revealed I’m sure all those features will become far more clear similar to self driving. Plus this is a visionary concept that actually worked! We don’t know what the use cases will be but will be known in due course….driving over water….some form of flying….applications put into other products such as military use…etc.

If you’re gonna be down there for a while praising Elon, maybe you should buy some kneepads

r*tard

If it was some Chinese company announcing this Reddit would be collectively kneeling and head bobbing with their mouths open as a ritual to the "genius" of the Chinese researcher and manufacturer. But since it's American tech then Reddit wants to handwave it like it's no big deal. Just wait. A year or two from now China will have a clone and this place will be swooning over it.

If it was a Chinese company doing this people would be calling it a dumb stunt too. Because it's a dumb stunt.

Redditors are ridiculous, this is cool af😭

It's just compressed air lol it's amazing what impresses some people

Compressed air has nothing to do with why it's impressive. Back in the day, did you see a robot doing a backflip and say, "it's just motors"?

You know we've had hovercrafts since like 2008 right? Not trying to be a Debbie downer but between stuff like that and the rockets that land themselves this is technologically less impressive. It's really just doing what things like missiles have already been doing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_Kill_Vehicle

Wow really? A car is less impressive than a fucking rocket that lands itself? No shit sherlock. You are truly regarded. The technology already existing doesn't make it less impressive. Pretty much all technology you see in any product has already existed for quite some time before someone uses it in a product. Mobile phones and touch screens existed long before the iphone was released in 2007 yet the iphone was fucking cool and impressive.

Fucking propaganda. Lame as fuck.

And hardly "flying". More like jumping. Can we stop saying this thing flies.

If that's not flying, then the Wright Brothers were poseurs.

It's not sustained flight. When SpaceX can keep a minivan in flight for 20 minutes with a full cabin of people, we can be impressed then. As it is, this thing is a poseur. It's really just a satellite maneuvering system adapted to 1G mode for a car. Great for Hollywood stunts but otherwise rather pointless.

The Wright brothers' first flight lasted 12 seconds and covered a distance of 120 feet. The are the universally held as the pioneers of controlled flight. The Tesla Roadster surpassed their flight. The car flew. Whether it has useful applications is up to the purchaser. I could avoid many traffic jams with that technology. I'm sure that legislation will be passed to prohibit such behavior, so it ultimately doesn't matter.

Let's have a little thought project. There are about 35,000 commercial airliners in operation across the globe. There are about 8,000,000 Tesla cars around the world (give or take whatever has been taken out of service for whatever reason). Let's say 25% of people trade in their old cars and get the rocket version. So we now have 2,000,000 Tesla Jetsons................

You're a hater. Nothing I say will convince you. I'm neutral on TSLA and have never held the stock directly. Elon Musk has been involved with several projects that have been very successful and have made many people lots of money. I take that at face value.

Never thought so many people would be angry about a flying car yet here we are. Reddit you are without a doubt the most insufferable site on this planet.

But it doesn't actually fly... It hops. How long could this thing possibly stay up for? It's using cold jets, which need a fuckton of compressed gas...

The absurdity of trying to downplay a car hopping and flipping with cold jets though.. some people really can't just say "that's neat." edit for the replies: Things can be admittedly interesting without praising it. It's obviously impractical, but there's no argument in it being cool to look at.

The absurdity of demanding collective fapping for a viral stunt too obviously impractical in the real world over actual innovation.

Stuff like this is accompanied by a ton of innovation. This is Tesla we're talking about, not Ford.

Stuff like this is accompanied by a ton of innovation. This is Tesla we're talking about, not Ford.

Conflating reliability and innovation, and Tesla is a hot topic keyword so it gets written about for every little thing

Could you imagine if a Palestinian invented that? 1 billion upvotes

I hope you enjoyed your days off.

Guess you missed the update on that story. Or maybe the update hasn't been added to your database yet.

I see Elon’s efforts to sow discord in the UK are working on you.

"I see Elon’s efforts to sow discord in the UK are working on you." You C++ Elon’s efforts to sow discord in the UK are working on me you mean?

“You C++ Elon’s…” Did you have a stroke? Or is that some cockney slang I haven’t seen in a Guy Ritchie movie yet? Watching brits whine about unwelcome visitors is peak historical irony.

"Did you have a stroke? Or is that some cockney slang I haven’t seen in a Guy Ritchie movie yet?" No, it's a programming language... "Watching brits whine about unwelcome visitors is peak historical irony." Watching former colonial subjects remain salty is top entertainment. I only wish we'd owned more countries so the jokes had a bit more variety.

People in America drive like fucking idiots… you think giving them the ability to fly is going to make anything better?!

Can't wait for my house to be destroyed because some dumbfuck flew their car into the roof.

It'll be a rich dumb fuck though. You'll be able to sue them into oblivion.

I mean, a flying car crashing into a house would presumably be handled by insurance. If you sued them in addition for something not handled by the claim, then the reality is they could afford to keep you in court longer than you could stay solvent, but I know people here don't like to see the truth if it doesn't sound as nice as suing some rich asshole "into oblivion."

You're right. Not sure what the purpose of the little quip at the end was for though.

It wasn't directed at you, I've just been on reddit long enough to know that most people here tend to upvote whatever sounds good, not what's based in reality. If a comment is factual, but it disputes something that gives people a brief dopamine hit like a justice boner, witch hunt, etc. then it stands a good chance of being ignored or outright downvoted.

maybe stop trying to engineer your comments for the most engagement and just be real man, that's the problem with this site

That makes no sense lol if I was trying to "engineer" my comments for engagement then I wouldn't have disagreed with the original comment...

Is it unnecessary and ridiculous- sure. Do I dislike Elon, yes. But that’s still pretty damn impressive and takes an immense amount of engineering and talent/skill to achieve

I have to agree. But before I give him too much credit, let’s see him get this in people’s hands. He’s made some big promises before and I know he tries to fill them but sometimes it’s impractical. This should be a million + dollar car in that configuration.

This is just a publicity stunt. Nothing practical or useful about it other than showing the power of thrusters

Still, its fucking cool. SpaceX thrusters on a damn car. Its the only flying car design I've seen that looks like a normal car instead of a glorified drone with propellers everywhere

It's not a flying car though? It's a car that can jump and do a barrel roll. Pretty neat. Not legal outside of displays like this.

Nothing can fly then. Everything jumps and lands. Nobody’s claiming this will be a road vehicle lol. Just enjoy some cool tech.

Nobody huh? Elon literally said in the demo: This will be on the road.

Here with the popcorn to enjoy the disaster this will be, they can’t even do cybertruck correctly…

Im really not a tesla fan boy and don't care for Musk. But outside of the cyber truck, tesla and spacex are quite successful

tesla is only kept up first by subsidies and then by keeping chinese companies at bay spacex - i agree but before grok

The subsidies ended last year and they still had one of their best selling quarters in Q2, so now what?

"tesla is only kept up first by subsidies" i guess most Elon nut huggers i cant read Q2 was price cuts, inventory clearance and an oil-price spike, and the regulatory credit money is down two-thirds. Let’s see margins on the 21st. And the China point stands lmao, BYD still outsells them globally, and in the US they don’t even have to compete with them.

rich bringing up BYD when the entire Chinese EV market is propped up by subsidies

BACKGROUND

LitRPG is a relatively new fiction genre wherein game elements – RPG – are present in the story – lit – itself. As you may well guess, the genre tends to attract certain nerdy groups for a variety of reasons, whether it be the D&D-esque fans there to see stats personified in what they read, or the self-insert power fantasy enjoyers who long for gameified escapism. Though the exact beginning of the genre is hard to pinpoint, from what I have gathered it was predated by light novels & web novels over on NovelUpdates and cultivation novels more present in the Eastern sphere.

/litrpg is a subreddit revolving around the LitRPG genre; there is also its companion, /progressionfantasy, though the latter doesn't necessarily include the stat game windows that LitRPG is known for. The space(s) leans politically progressive in recent times.

THE DRAMA

/litrpg's Discord server was run by the Subreddit mods and a few selected Discord only mods. I won't go in detail describing the mod team, but our two main suspects here are user wistel (nicknamed Wisintel) and user SnowGN (nicknamed Snow and Coldbringer). Wisintel was the sub's founder, but took more of a laidback role over the years while staying top mod... that is, until today.

I guess this is goodbye

Wisintel's post starts with him languishing over the sub's past and his role as a founder. It follows with the unexpected announcement that the mod team had collectively removed him as top mod without notice – keep in mind that you cannot remove a subreddit mod without them having been inactive for at least 3 months. Wisintel goes on to write that this was done because:

> [...] a couple of our new mods, people who have only been members of the sub reddit for a couple years at most, disagreed with the political views of one of the mods who has been here since the beginning.

This mod is Snow. Snow is a close friend of Wisintel's. Wisintel finishes the post by writing that he felt heartbroken from the action and was honoured to have founded the community.

The post has garnered around a thousand and a half upvotes at the time of writing and almost the exact same amount of comments, which isn't weird for a post like this, is it? I mean, a sub mod who has been there since the founding – 12 years ago, by Wisintel's claim – being ousted by some uppity newcomers is bound to cause a stir, right?

One of the mods involved in the ousting replies with a pinned comment shedding light on the situation.

> [...] Snow (the Discord server owner) has been making over-the-line comments in a hidden Discord thread. We felt this wasn't okay, and we went out of our way to make a new Discord rather than attempting to get him to step away from the current one. [...]

As it turns out, Snow wanted to pass the server to Wisintel. Wisintel was not informed of the new server and the mods had lowered his status as a Subreddit mod. Once it was made clear they would not pass the server, Wisintel wrote the post above.

The mod shares that the team had not intended to intervene with Wisintel's post, but wanted to clarify that this was not a united power grab from their end.

SNOW'S COMMENTS

So, what did Snow say, anyway?

As it turns out, a lot.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZYQLHf-Ao-G7MQwbf0E1NEd9mACuTv8YetSK5m6UzFw/edit?usp=sharing

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ACKt-zc2NBL51NUVASklxLFayntK7aCpsvpoyxWP5O8/edit?usp=sharing

The server had a sort of private channel where members would discuss politics for fun. In these channels, Snow shared some.. interesting views, to put it mildly.

> Also, Epstein wasn't trafficking in actual kids, but teenagers who were willingly recruited and paid for their time. This matters. Why you guys are treating this as literal babyfucking is absurd.

> Furthermore, even if Trump is on the list, I wouldn't care. Better a pedo than a communist.

> Today, we've got roughly 1000 issues more important to America moving forwards than whether or not Bill Gates and Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew were diddling kids. These guys are mostly all retired now and sunsetting hard. Epstein wouldn't be the first American high level insider crime to be covered up. Not the most important by far, either. Like I said: get over it already. Focus on the things that matter today.

Other than these comments, Snow had some rather controversial talks about Hitler, Renee Good, The Great Replacement Theory, and of course – we can't go without the classic – trans people. Feel free to read them on your own.

THE REACTIONS: MOD TEAM, SNOW AND WISINTEL

One of the discord mods, Claire, had posted an explanation before the current pinned comment which I will link here.

Claire explains that Snow had driven the Discord server towards being a so-called "ghost town".

She and Snow have a somewhat personal interaction when he responds to her below, which I will also link, as this post has gotten too long.

Wisintel responds to Claire's comment. Curiously, he never writes that he condemns Snow's beliefs, only that he doesn't condone them.

He has also commented on a right-wing conspiracy post in the past, as another commenter points out.

The mod team uploads a post advertising the sub's new Discord server, and somewhere in the comments Wisintel copy pastes his own goodbye post. You'll have to scroll a bit to see it.

THE REACTIONS: R/LITRPG USERS

Some users are predictably poking fun at the situation.

Reddit mods never beating the allegations.

Ah yes. LitRPG my favorite political subreddit and discord server. This makes sense.

This litrpg has twists and turns that are very shocking

Others have some words to say to Wisintel, whether indifference or jabs at his character.

This post reads like an old E/N post from Something Awful… It means Everything to you… it means Nothing to me.

Hey, why don't you mention those political beliefs that were a problem? Surely it isn't anything that would get you shit on.

Accepting pedophilia is more than just a political disagreement. You went to bat for a fucking monster. Deal with the backlash. You earned it.

A mod weighs in and explains that, yes, Wisintel was an absentee founder, contrary to his claims that he was active, writing that Wisintel has not taken any moderator action in about a year. Elsewhere in the thread, there are others saying that he has been inactive for 5 years or so, but I'm unable to find those right now.

Someone writes that this was still a power grab by the new mods, and that things were running "fine" before this happened. This starts its own thread of drama.

We do not trust you. You aren't even Reddit moderator on this subreddit. And the mod who posted about the new discord, so presumably one of the major coup players, /1ncite didn't even join this subreddit until Mar 6, 2024.

Another user is apparently of the same mind.

"Something else that matters to who you are as a person is the way that you do things. The underhanded coup tactics being used here make me pretty leery of the new "leadership" and does plenty to destroy community trust. "Oh, he might have disagreed with what we were doing, so we sabotaged him pre-emptively just in case" is not terribly compelling to those of us who fear book-burnings in a book genre subreddit. Given this sub's rules and enforcement around avoiding AI witch hunts, it's troubling seeing a different kind of witch hunt full of collateral damage embraced so enthusiastically."

User demoran, to absolutely no one's surprise, writes that Snow's takes were reasonable, and there's many among his number.

"Gotta say, coldbringer seems to take some reasonable positions on the issues he was talking about. Maybe you just didn't like that he was talking about them at all without either condemning Hitler and Nazis unconditionally, or supporting trans unequivocally.

That also appears to be discord talk, not stuff here.

Seems to me like you went on a power trip and stole this sub. Are you going to ban me because I'm not "on your side" as well?"

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Those messages aren't evil. What is wrong with you that you can't handle disagreement?

That is just sad, you should be ashamed of yourselves.

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The fucking gall to stand on your little soapbox, outright say "yes, we usurped them for wrongthink", and still pretend that you're the good guys in this story.

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Typical reddit shit. "Our ideology is all that matters and we're going to ruin a sub so people we disagree with can't have fun"

You guys would have been concentration camp guards if you were born 100 years ago

Most of his supporters are under Claire's previously pinned comment, down voted to hell – for once, rightfully so – and free to peruse.

CONCLUSION

The /litrpg community is still relatively niche, but hopefully without some few bad apples as of now.. regardless of how many were exposed today. The new Discord server seems to be doing well, and the subreddit is otherwise calm. I hope the drama was to your liking (since this is also my first write-up.)

Our OG Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Screenwriting/s/iwsJ2cZn9j

Response to a Comment explaining they hated it and didn’t make it past Page 2: https://www.reddit.com/r/Screenwriting/comments/1mktsjs/comment/n7lpyf8/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=2&utm_content=share_button

Response to another Comment from (supposed) Industry Veteran, literally saying the exact same thing: https://www.reddit.com/r/Screenwriting/comments/1mktsjs/comment/n7mgtpw/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=2&utm_content=share_button

Trying to be reasonable: https://www.reddit.com/r/Screenwriting/comments/1mktsjs/comment/n7nfpsl/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=2&utm_content=share_button

“Well, it’s a sketch show”: https://www.reddit.com/r/Screenwriting/comments/1mktsjs/comment/n7lnryl/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=2&utm_content=share_button

A User giving a pretty detailed Explanation: https://www.reddit.com/r/Screenwriting/comments/1mktsjs/comment/n7o5e7m/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=2&utm_content=share_button

Crashing out over someone accusing them of using AI, and tbh I do think this one was reasonable: https://www.reddit.com/r/Screenwriting/comments/1mktsjs/comment/n7n42nr/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=2&utm_content=share_button

Dumbass who thinks he’s Funny V Dumbass who thinks he’s Smart: https://www.reddit.com/r/Screenwriting/comments/1mktsjs/comment/n7z15xt/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=2&utm_content=share_button

Being relatively understandable: https://www.reddit.com/r/Screenwriting/comments/1mktsjs/comment/n7nfk6b/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=2&utm_content=share_button

Defending yourself: https://www.reddit.com/r/Screenwriting/comments/1mktsjs/comment/n7r9wq5/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=2&utm_content=share_button

Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/antiai/comments/1x6ib1i/a_weird_person_using_ai_for_life_advice/

so we okay with posting private chats of people, including their names online? Is that not more weird? How is this even allowed.

I wonder if this is the main reason so many techbros are so defensive about AI - it means in their delusional world someone actually listens to them and puts up with their weirdness

He uses AI that poisons our waters. He deserves this!!!!

I don't know why, but I find this 50/50 split of creepy semi-sexual messages and questions about statistics hilarious.

Why was he asking the definition of paedophile 😭😭

I’m not gonna sit and make fun of some poor college student who needs friends, is lonely, and was convinced chatGPT could help him out a little bit

Maybe consider reporting concern to the University. Clearly something concerning is going on here. If it might involve sex crimes, maybe a center on campus for victim/survivor support and education might be informed on how to approach this.

r/books has had a smattering of I/P related drama recently but this one is the most buttery.

https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/1x6pku2/palestine_book_by_alana_hadid_and_jenan_matari/

Context: After a previous story about an author having their book pulled in Britain for financially supporting Palestine Action, this post gets made. The linked story

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/oct/15/alana-hadid-book-palestine-penguin-cancelled

details how disagreements between the publishers and the writers regarding how the Oct 7th attacks were classified led to the publisher being unwilling to publish without changes and the writers pulling the book due to the required edits. The two repeating issues of censorship and I/P collide. The thread is locked and many many comments nuked by the mods.

Regarding the 7 October 2023 Hamas attacks: “The writers’ manuscript argued that people under “colonial domination” have the “right to resist”, but Random House urged them to incorporate arguments that the attacks that day violated international law. At an impasse, the authors withdrew their book.”

Justifying october 7th is like saying, "maybe the school shooter had a point". Killing kids and young adults at a music festival and then parading their dead bodies through the streets with women and children cheering by the tens of thousands was bad. It shouldn't be tough to say that.

Then I have to ask you, do you think there was any justification for the slave revolts in America where they killed ther slave ownerrs and their families? What are your thoughts on the Haitian revolution?

Kill the slave owners, not the children. What would you have wanted?

"hey guys just remember when you're fighting for your lives, trying to escape slavery, be sure in the chaos to not hurt the kids of the slave owners or else I'm gonna have to not be on your side"

This guy gets mad when he reads about slave revolts

Slaves were good to revolt, if the slaves decided to rape and murder children would you be cheering?

Plenty of children died during slave revolts, both black and white. Half the people who die died in Nat Turner’s rebellion were children. Was it wrong to revolt?

If the slave revolters intentionally killed kids I would say that is bad, would you?

Why should the oppressed play by moral standards their oppressors do not themselves abide by? Why is only one side guilty of an action the otherside has committed a thousandfold more of?

If both sides are killing kids they're both guilty of killing kids which is horrific and unjustifiable in any circumstances. Mental that this needs spelling out for you.

What’s up with so much of this sub supporting censorship of authors as of late? It’s weird af

Zionists unfortunately have been tolerated in many spaces for a long time, and they will defend literally any act—no matter how profane—that supports the racial domination project that is Israel.

It's really amazing, the most supportive and submissive media environment predisposed to their cause and even an inch of pushback immediately leads to cries of an unfair double standard. If nothing else you have to respect the message discipline.

Read the post, the authors were given an inch of pushback by being asked to call October 7 a terrorist attack but apparently that was too much. Palestinian supporters refuse to agree that attacking civilians is wrong, and they cry victimhood everytime anyone says that terrorism is wrong even though they support Palestinian statehood.

this is a lie! I read the article, the specific issue was the publisher editing the final manuscript to describe October 7th as against international law, which the authors challenged under the UN-recognized right of occupied groups to resist their occupiers by any means necessary. Zionists, i've already muted comment this don't bother with the hasbara :)

Defending October 7 seems like a good reason to scrap the deal. The authors refused to include language that would have described the day as breaking the rules of international law.

I don’t see publishers making the same demands of writers who paint all Israeli action as justified and refuse to acknowledge Israel’s war crimes

Show me a children's book that says that lol

You know how many children’s books and adult books there are that have refused to condemn, let alone mention, the crimes Israel inflicted on the Palestinians?

I mean if the authors didn't bring up October 7th then they wouldn't have had this issue

If we all just mailed our wallets to Israel none of us would have any issues with them.

Wow you guys really need to get out of your basements. Imagine thinking someone that is against civilians being killed, kidnapped, and sexualizing assaulted means I'm for civilians being killed, kidnapped, and sexualizing assaulted.

I mean, at this point, bringing up October 7th at all while the genocide is ongoing and the hostages have all been returned for over a year by now is a bit- “what about the civilian lives lost during the Warsaw Uprising?” Yes bad things are bad, but context is key

You shouldn't need to tell an author what they can and can't say. People under colonial domination do have a right to resist, this is already carefully crafted soft language. Telling them to talk more about how bad the resistance was, is kind of pointless and unnecessary. We all know and agree that was bad, but it feels like a lot of the time when you say "You have to say that over and over again", it feels like you are instead using it to justify other actions.

They don't have a right to kidnap rape and murder civilians though.

No one does.

Exactly. Israel doesn't and Hamas doesn't

Yes, but you are missing the point. It only every seems to work in one direction. You could write 100 books right now about how bad Hamas is, no problem, but write a single lukewarm sentence about Israel and you better have at least 10 Hamas is bad before it. It is just a double standard.

Do you think Random House would publish a book by Ben-Gvir which said Palestinians should be expelled to Jordan and the entire West Bank and Gaza Strip annexed? I don’t

[r/legalcatadvice](r/legalcatadvice) is a sub where cat owners post and comment as if they are cats with a nonsensical legal grievance. An example would be this post (not related to drama, just an example because I didn’t really have the words to describe this niche sub)

Seemingly out of nowhere, a mod of the sub posted an announcement, stating that the sub supports the use of AI for the purpose of making silly pictures of their cats. I’m assuming they were getting a bunch of reports or something. Here is the mod post. As I’m sure you can all imagine this was not a very popular decision

Some snippets:

Top level comment removed, OP defends the use of AI in posts as not low effort

There shouldn’t be any argument about AI, like there shouldn’t be any argument about racism

Top level comment removed, replies saying they don’t want to see AI slop either. Back and forth ensues

Plenty more to see in there, please no pissing in the popcorn!

Main post: https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueUnpopularOpinion/comments/1x5x65f/ms_rachel_is_getting_pretty_annoying/

Trueunpopularopinion is a right wing sub and today somebody posted that Ms. Rachel is "really annoying" which led to a predictable discussion. Honestly don't really know who she is but this will be fun

Thread 1

-She is more troubling than annoying. I don't know what her children's content is, but her outspoken politics have shown that, unlike Fred Rogers, she doesn't support all children. Fred Rogers knew how to show support for everyone without demonizing anyone. She needs to learn from Mister Rogers how to choose her words more carefully to not mistakenly appear antisemitic, which she has done.

--Yeah, explain how on earth she "doesn't support all children". This is just a flat out lie.

---She platforms people who want Israeli children dead.

----"She platforms people who want Israeli children dead." Ok, if thats the case please provide the evidence. I will gladly agree with you if you show me evidence of her platforming people that want israeli children dead.

-----Ms Rachel hosted Motaz Azaiza and called him a friend on her Instagram. Motaz Azaiza filmed parts of the October 7th attack live (meaning he knew it was coming) and then publicly stated he wasn't going to release dome of his footage for fear that it would put targets on the heads of the Hamas terrorists he was with. And don't just take my word for it, take his:

“I saw the vehicle of the Al-Qassam Brigades, and there were [Israeli captives] there,” Azaiza recalled. “People got out, watched, beat them, hit them, and I followed them and filmed. But I did not publish those videos. Why? Because I did not want to ruin the lives of the people who were filmed.”

He filmed Hamas terrorists beat Israeli October 7th hostages and then withheld the footage to protect the terrorists

(more comments of them fighting)

--What evidence do you have that she doesn't support all children? She explicitly says in many posts that all children deserve to live and thrive.

---She platforms people who want Israeli children dead.

----Cite your sources. I've never seen or heard her say anything like that. I follow her on most social media accounts and my kids watch her shows on YouTube. I'll be waiting on links or you're wholesale making stuff up.

-----I'd love to hear your response to the comment below yours regarding Motaz Azaiza. Rachel is despicable, bro. Just as despicable as the very people she is fighting against.

Thread 2

-trying to hijack a platform of teaching kids how to tie their shoes, into a full blown radical pipeline is pretty fucking evil

--It’s literally her own platform. And being against killing civilians is hardly fucking radical (yes , even of those civilians “cheered” something you don’t like. And if that isn’t true , then were valid targets for a whole fucking lot of groups.)

---if you stop looking it with the lens of she must be the purist angel in the world, it is pretty obvious she is trying to pipe kids into radical leftism this is a fucking kids platform, it has no business trying to do anything political, any sort of common sense would tell you this

---She platformed a Palestinian journalist who withheld footage of Hamas committing atrocities against civilians to protect their identities

--I keep seeing people say this but she isn't hijacking that platform. Her youtube channel is still for children, the things she posts are so far from where a normal 4 year old would see that its irrelevant. She has the right to publish what she wants on her social media if or say in public, she technically has the right to post that on her channel as well but she doesn't.

---So you think a KKK member who drops the N bomb all the time and says we should kill them so long as their 'shows for littles' says none of that, its okay?

----No I don’t think that’s ok. I also don’t think that is a fair comparison seeing as how that is not even remotely close to what she has said or done. I do think people are allowed their political opinions on their platforms however.

-----This is a few times now, she liked the "Free america from the jews" "Kill Israel" and platformed pro hamas journalist Motaz Azaiza who condoned the octover 7 civlilian massacre and she did it RIGHT after his statements.

She has repeated Hamas statements numerous times too, such as using a child with cystic fibrosis in her condemnation of jews, err, she meant ISRAEL yeah, that's what SHE clarified the deception as.

Then, like a hypocrite, she got caught with her foot in her mouth saying all of this stemmed from her support of children in war zones, but REFUSED to acknowledge jewish children victims while continuing to push already debunked propaganda pieces created by Hamas.

Again, its a pattern. She can have her political opinions, but I don't think she should be embraced as a 5 and under educator, same as that Queer Kids Stuff predator Lindsay was doing.

Thread 3

-Remember when she liked a comment saying Jews controlled America, apologized saying it was an accident, and then completely undermined her apology by positive replying to another comment saying that the whole thing was a trap by Jews to trick her into liking the original comment

--I mean aipac is a thing.

---So is CAIR, do Muslims control America? The AARP has a strong lobby, so old people run America?

----...Poor choice with that last one, just look at Congress.

--Assuming the context is how you phrased it, why is that even an offensive comment? Unless the comment was intending to be offensive, who gives a fuck?

---If you said that in early October 2023, that would be considered a far right antisemitic trope by most left wingers. Now, the same left wingers are happily saying and defending the same antisemitic trope. Can you not see how that is a fairly bad thing to say?

Thread 4

-SHe spreads unfounded and disproven racist conspiracy theories and openly supports terrorists and terrorism.

--Found the Zionist.

---You good with Hamas, champ?

----You good with bombing children, bud?

Thread 5

-What a terrible person for checks notes saying kids should be alive and not bombed. Lol. What an agenda!

--Because she only speaks out about one side harming kids and not the other. I'm tired of people putting Palestine on a pedestal when they are far from qualifying.

---You mean people who hurt kids like... Trump?

----I don't know why trump is brought into this lol. We are talking about Ms Rachel here, my kid used to watch her still sometimes does but has outgrown a lot I think, we aren't in America so trump shit doesn't apply to us.

--How do you feel if Rachel went on video to dance with Donald Trump and introduce him to children as a friend?

---I don’t even see the point of this hypothetical. How would you feel if Donald Trump went on video to dance with Biden and introduce him to people as the best president ever? We can both throw out pointless hypotheticals lol.

----It's only a hypothetical in so far as you are not aware that Ms Rachel did that very thing, just instead of with Trump, it was with Mamdani.

Over at [r/FoodLosAngeles](r/FoodLosAngeles), a sub which, as the name suggests, covers the food scene in Los Angeles, a user asked for a "List of PE-backed LA restaurants"

The seemingly straightforward question bifurcates into two separate and unrelated sets of drama that are nonetheless very Reddit in nature.

(Edit: DV’d = downvoted; I should have more self-awareness)

Drama #1: Not spelling out acronyms

I don't have any restaurants to add to the list, but is it really too much trouble to write out "private equity"?

>PE is a pretty widely accepted abbreviation. We use AI, USA, IYKYK all the time so I don't see why PE is an issue [DV’d]

>>I'm on this subreddit pretty regularly, and this is the first time I've encountered "PE" as an abbreviation. I guess that just means I have to hand over my "chronic lurker" award over to you, since you clearly are more ITK.

>>>whats itk? more intelligiant then kings?

>>>>Inbred Theatre Kids, c'mon dude everyone knows that. Aren't you In The Know?

>>>>>Everyone who knows anything knows ITK is Inbred Theater Kids. People being willingly obtuse in this thread, IMMFSC

>>>It has nothing to do with this sub or “chronic lurking” or Reddit. PE is a widely used abbreviation. [DV'd]

>>>>

PE is a widely used abbreviation.

• Physical Education
• Professional Engineer
• Public Enemy

etc... are all much more common uses of "PE" than Private Equity.

>>>>>Yeah we are all so worried that physical education is going to take over restaurants and businesses. Also your google AI search does not say those are “much more common.” [DV'd]

>>>>>>I didn't use Google AI for that. I used my own personal experiences, because I'm not a lazy troll who relies on AI for their comments. Just give up dude. This is not a good hill for you to die on.

>PE is pretty well known. Add in “PE-backed” and it’s pretty obvious no offense. It’s not some outlandish 5 letter acronym that no one says in real life. [DV'd]

>>I just added PE to my email signatures for Professional Engineer. I know we aren't the most exciting people at a party, but it was humbling to see a wall of comments about how much we suck.

Drama break: People having fun and/or generating flair material

Physical Education? We are against exercise now?

>yeah, exercise is woke!

>>And gay!

>>>And it’s coming for YOU

Drama #2: Who cares if private equity restaurants are good?

What if the PE back restaurant is, gasp, good? [DV'd]

>Good lord dude, get off your knees, you’re in public.

>Good for shareholders? [note: this gets into a back-and-forth about the user's investment and Reddit history]

What if Holbox and howlin rays is PE funded? You gonna boycott? [DV'd] [context: the former is a Michelin-starred street food restaurant and the latter is a well-loved hot chicken establishment]

>[OP] well yeah, basically. I would just go elsewhere, because if they were PE-funded, it would be a matter of time before their prices double and quality halves. Not trying to get attached to brands owned by vampires

>>What makes a private equity owner more of a vampire than your normal profit-motivated owner? (Hint: there isn't one) You could also, and I know this is crazy, but maybe stop going to places *if* their prices double and quality halves. It's almost like transactions are a two way street. [DV'd]

>>>[OP] Some owners prioritize more than just profit lmao

To those saying ‘but PE isn’t always bad Reddit is so dumb!” The point is transparency. I won’t cancel a business I like because it’s owned by PE but I do like knowing if it is or not.

>Sure it's nice to know if you're interested in tracking the potential decline due to the PE stereotype but we all kind of know the purpose is because people want to boycott those restaurants. Hot take: I only care about the product and service the restaurant provides and not how the investment group behind it is structured. If a PE backed restaurant gets worse, I simply decide not to eat there anymore. Even hotter take: Choosing a mom and pop to eat over chipotle doesn't make you a better person [DV'd]

>>None of those are hot takes. Patronizing establishments run by those in my community benefits my community. PE does not care about community. PE cares about extracting value from everything they touch. Who wants to give more money a system like that?

[Deleted comment]

>PE Has entered the chat

>Name one thing PE has improved

Who cares? I avoid restaurants with bad food. I frequent restaurants with good food. Dorkish behavior to make food about politics. Or whatever weird problem you have with private equity [DV'd]

>What an astute, cool foodie you are. The entire point is that PE getting involved has a proven track record of food getting worse, we also want to avoid bad food. Where did anyone make it political?

>>Every Reddit-pilled comment here is “durr I don’t like PE because PE bad and underpay workers and boo hoo”. Like shut up. If the foods good I’ll eat there. If it’s not good I won’t.

These ban lists are stupid. If a restaurant is bad it will eventually die, we don’t need go around making lists of restaurants that wanted to get paid and sold out. Dork behavior. Unnecessary [DV'd]

Drama break: If anyone cares, there was at least one commenter who did answer the question.

And lastly, the most damning of accusations:

Tartine is owned by private equity and real estate developers 

>They still can’t afford a bread slicer though, the main reason I avoid them.

1. post where the car drives up a curved slope, inverts, then uses thrusters to fly itself down

2. post where the car jumps up and over 5 other cars while doing a 360

Post 1

Musk is dumb, but this is genuinely cool

This won't be sold

How bout one that doesn't catch fire?

"Redditors being negative as usual"

also countless comments calling it ai/fake

Post 2

Quit posting this crap

More doubt that it exists (with more of an audience, and argument, this time)

the gay gif

• This is objectively cool as fuck! (-5)
  • But how is it gay (-1)
  • I guess in the same way that any gay man must penetrate the surrounding air with his sleek hard gravity defying metalic 4 door trapezoid before he slams the momentum shifting exhaust thrust of downward gravity resisting jet propelled hip thrust for maximum jaw gaping awesomeness. (-1)
  • So it’s not gay then? Because nothing about that (other than the gay man bit, but that was forced in) is gay (0)
  • I'm sorry did you ask why a car flipping was gay and then reject the answer that it had nothing to do with gay only to go back to please link this to homosexuality? Only to reject that because it was a cool response?

Still some newer posts, and given the time of the day, they're pretty fresh. Might see more drama later

Tried to capture the highlights - sorry for formatting errors, first time posting on the sub - PLEASE go check out this thread and the user it's a rabbit hole. This is just the tip of the iceberg.

OG Post: "End of an Era"(two images)

I was collecting my man's bottles but he recently quit so this is the final stage of the alcohol bottles, now he drinks Pedialyte!

He used to drink 2 pints a day, I'm happy for him, I knew he could do it.

Your post history is crazy 💀 THAT is the real collection

What the actual fuck 🫪 I wonder if he knows he keeps them…. Edit: fixed pronouns. Apologies.

OP: I'm a dude but yeah he does know. I'm pretty sure he found out about the Pedialyte too because originally he threw it away but I retrieved though I'm almost certain he saw it in my bag when he was trying to help me find something.

Wait he threw it away and you took it out of the garbage can? Why? What the fuck

OP: Because I wanted it, also it was recycling and in the hotel we were staying at so it's not like an actual trash can full of stuff

omg happy for him. You should toss out the bottles you’ve collected though, especially if he’s coming to your place. I’m not an alcoholic, but I feel like having the bottles around could remind him of his problem and possibly even tempt him.

op (male) is in a very sexual “relationship” with a man who’s old as dirt, and who also “doesn’t believe gay people exist “. op will defend this til their dying breath. they’re exhausting

OP: He's 32 years old, how is that old? I'm not sure why you phrase it like that either I'm in a relationship with him. It's simple like that idk why you are trying to twist it into something weird

bc aren’t u like 20

OP: He doesn't get tempted like that, last time he saw it he was like wow that's a lot and it's not even half of what he was drinking. I wish I could've collected all of them.

What will you do with them, though? Do they just sit on a shelf or something? You should find a purpose for them so they’re not just like collecting dust somewhere. Make a sculpture. That would be sick

OP: Yeah I was thinking of making something out of them though I'll probably keep one bottle for just memories

You should def find a purpose for ‘em. Turn a negative into a positive

OP: I never saw it as a negative

Whats the significance of collecting these? Genuinely curious

OP: I just miss him a lot and it reminded me of him. Now I just have the one Pedialyte bottle because that's what he drinks now. It's harder to get the Pedialyte bottle because he doesn't finish those around me as much

Where is he?

OP: How am I supposed to answer this question

Usually people live with their SO. So like, is he dead, or in rehab, that kind of thing.

OP: As much as I wish he lived with me, he doesn't. He lives with his brother. Me and him met almost 3 months ago and we've just been together ever since

That many bottles in 3 months and you keep them? lol

OP: He had way more, these are just the ones I was able to get

god not you again i knew immediately from the first pic get HELP PLS

Main post: https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueUnpopularOpinion/comments/1wy55t1/hamas_literally_livestreamed_their_rapes_and/

Trueunpopularopinion is a right wing sub and today a user said that "large portions" of the west support Hamas and that pro-Palestinians claim that anyone who disagrees with them is a nazi. This lead to some interesting discussions

Thread 1

-Would love to know the overlap of people rushing to call the Cornell 7 monsters, and the people defending Hamas.  

--Very few people in the West are defending Hamas aside from some communist extremists.

---I see it all the time On Reddit These idiots think Hamas are you "freedoms fighters"

----Someone can be a freedom fighter and a terrible person. In fact, it's pretty common jn history. Nothing is that black and white.

-----They are terrorists. That's the difference

Thread 2

-(Very long comment from a pro-Israel liberal)

--But the people who believe your first example would absolutely not agree to kick out all the migrants causing problems in Europe.

---Because a refugee crisis is not the same thing as a military invasion. Tell me, who's been forcibly removed from their homes by migrants in Europe?

----Everyone that had been killed or raped by illegal immigrants. Or do those people not count?

-----Of course those people matter, but individual crimes are not state actions unless they're backed by a state entity. These refugees aren't even all from the same country, nor have they tried to establish a government in Europe.

------So no matter how high the Terrorism or rape figures have gotten we still have to let everyone in that knows the magic word "assylum"

----See what I mean?^ There are other ways foreigners can terrorize a country, but I guess the dramatic increase in rapes of European women and girls don’t matter to you.

-----Racist trope as old as time. Gross. (-5)

Thread 3

-Not defending the terrorist organization, but I’m fairly certain little kids and pregnant women weren’t the ones cutting peoples heads off in the videos you’re referring to.

--They support them though.

---How do they support them while simultaneously are being used as shields? Because "hamas uses them as shields" sounds like they don't have a choice.

----Cheer for them, hide them, house and feed them. Remember, over 60% of Palestinians supported the 10/7 attack. The ones actually trying to commit Genocide are the Palestinians. I don’t feel bad for hospitals and schools being targeted when most of them support Hamas

-----You’re misrepresenting the poll. It asked whether Hamas’s decision to launch the October 7 offensive was correct. It did not ask whether respondents approved of killing civilians. The pollster explicitly warns against making that leap. Even if someone expressed support for the attack, that would not make hospital patients or schoolchildren legitimate targets. A poll is not a license to attack civilians.

------I disagree

-------And you can do that.

Thread 4

-I suggest you to google image search for „bullets headshots children gaza xray“ and then report back what you have to say about that, please. Looking forward to your response!

--Hamas using children as human shields is horrific, I agree (OP)

---If someone is hiding behind a child, you dont shoot the child in the head, tf

----And that's why Hamas use them. So the bleeding hearts will go "but you can't kill them". Sometimes you have to break eggs to make an omelette.

-----Bleeding hearts is when you don’t shoot children in the face.

I am stealing this brief description of r/AntiSex from this drama post a few years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1axl71h/the_systematic_persecution_of_antisexuals_an/

r/antisex is a very bizarre, small, isolated, but rather active subreddit that is against sex in all/nearly all its forms. Most of its users are asexual so it's best to conceive it as a sort of asexual supremacist subreddit, although there are a few (presumably unwell) “sexuals” in there too. I highly encourage you to check it out for yourself, it’s quite the rabbit hole.

Here is also a link to the subreddit's FAQ: https://www.reddit.com/r/antisex/comments/tanu5c/faq_for_newcomers/

The subreddit's sidebar description is as follows:

A subreddit for the discussion of antisexuality/antisexualism.

Antisexuality is the broad class of ideas that oppose sex and sexuality. Notable related examples include sex-negative feminism, the anti-porn and anti-prostitution movements, voluntary celibacy, and some sex-repulsed asexuals. This is not an incel space.

This sub is intended as a space for developing anti-sexual philosophy, and a safe space for those that are sex-repulsed.

Now for the drama. I've bolded some of the particularly juicy bits that might make for a good flair:

Why would heterosexual women have sex?

All sex is nasty, but sex between a cis man and a cis woman is the ultimate act of power imbalance. Women have everything to lose and very little to gain. The mere act symbolizes humiliation and even masochism. A woman gets stabbed repeatedly in her orifice by a dirty, grotesque appendage. The orgasm gap is a well-documented fact. Add to that the risk of pregnancy and the innumerable types of STDs (so many women have STDs and they don't even know it). Why on earth would a woman have sex?

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Because they enjoy it? 😭

Honestly I agree with you even though I hate the whole thing and it disgusts me. It shouldn’t be hard to understand that people do specific things because they enjoy it.. so I don’t get the replies here.

I find it incredibly ironic that users in a subreddit dedicated to an extremely uncommon view of sex one that many outsiders would look at and think, "there must be something wrong with these people" are so baffled by the idea that others might genuinely enjoy things they don't.

Apparently we're supposed to dismiss women's own experiences when they say they enjoy sex. It can't possibly be sincere, there must be some conspiracy, social conditioning, or other nefarious explanation at work.

I am not baffled by the idea that MEN enjoy sex. I specifically asked about women. Women don't reach an orgasm with penetrative sex. You, like all men, desperately want to believe that we crave dick and that we live to take dick in our vaginas. That is not true.

I love how you are here arguing about something you clearly have never researched or looked into in any meaningful way.

Heterosexual sex is patriarchal and phallocentric. I'm a woman and I don't like penetration. It's degrading, invasive and overrated.

Thanks for letting me know your opinion on this. You are allowed to not like something most heterosexual women like.

Most don't, they just do it to please the man. If you ask them, you'll notice that a lot of the "pleasure" they get from penetration is psychology. The vagina only has nerve endings in the entrance because that's part of the clit. Actually, penetration should not be the main focus when it comes to women.

Just a reminder for the 15th time in this thread, the majority of women report enjoying penetrative sex.

This is a fact. You are factually wrong.

Before you say:

"Its a conspiracy, my vibes and feelings tell me they are liars!!! They are just saying they enjoy it, but they actually dont! Trust me bro!"

I dont care what your vibes and feelings tell you about what other women think.

They report that because of the psychological aspect, but anatomically, a phallus is not needed for women's pleasure. At all. And the psychological aspect and engagement is because women have been socialised to like penetrative sex. We have been expected to like penetrative sex. And due to patriarchy, we are psyched into believing we like it. But penetration is and will always be for men's enjoyment.

Bro, I’m an asexual man and your arguments against her are literally proving her point. I don’t disagree that women like heterosexual sex but the reason they bring up for it is usually a) the ✨experience✨ and b) the "pleasure" of pleasing the man and being wanted. Be serious dude, if you were told that you gotta eat out your wife all your life and only get your balls simulated in return, yeah, your balls are gonna feel good but would you really be enjoying it and wanting to stay in that relationship if you never reach orgasm? No, realistically most men don’t say shit like sex is for the experience and the orgasm isn’t the end goal but women do because they will be having penetrative sex all their lives and this does show that women are conditioned for penetrative sex. You would never do that because you ain’t conditioned to.

No. Orgasm gap.

I know plenty of straight women who say they have orgasms during sex with men. I’m a lesbian who’s never had one with a partner and likely never will. The orgasm gap is a statistical analysis of data, not a reflection of every woman’s lived experience.

Irrelevant to my point.

That doesn't mean every woman doesn't orgasm.

People still enjoy sex even without an orgasm.

Being unsatisfied with many of your sexual encounters doesnt mean you don't enjoy sex.

Its a literal fact that a majority of women report that they enjoy sex lol.

This must have been written by a man.

Genius level response.

I know its hard to think outside your own worldview, but a majority of people do in fact enjoy sex.

Most women complain that the sex is dirty and nasty. Most men are unattractive anyway and their appendage is nasty.

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Because what most people dont know is sex has more biological reasons other then to have kids. Sex Removes harmful mutations and slows their buildup In other words sex helps the prevention of cancer

Sex promotes DNA repair and genome maintenance. Sex is one of only a very ways for us to fix our damaged DNA. mind you, damaging your DNA is as easy as being deficient on vitamin b12 or vitamin b6.during sex lost DNA segments are getting reloaded and deletions restored. Its a lot lile data recovery on a computer.

Sex helps to expell overproduced cortisol. Cortisol is the hormone thats the reason why too much stress will eventually be deadly. When we are stressed we produce WAYYYYY too much of it with not a lot of ways to get rid of it again. But during sex we expell a lot of it

Sex helps balance brain chemistry aka helps with mood disorders

In short sex maintains genomes, repairs your DNA, strengthens your immune system, balances brain chemistry,helps preventing cancer , expells cortisol and is also a healthy escape from reality.and all of us humans escape reality one way or the other from time to time, sex is at least a healthy way to do so

All made up.

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Why do women have PIV sex?

I genuinely don't understand it. The vagina has to be stretched the first time a woman has sex which usually hurts and is painful, even with foreplay and a lot of lube. Then it has to be regularly trained (stretched) to get used to it. Then women don't even orgasm from PIV intercourse. It sounds painful, dangerous and useless all around. I can't imagine it feels good. Maybe women gaslight themselves that it feels good because even they say that they can't orgasm from PIV. But then I seriously wonder what the point even is?

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It does not feel good. It feels fucking terrible. Like a nightmare that never ends. It’s so painful

Then why do ladies feel they get empowered by sex and stuff?

because it’s a white liberal feminist framework that is meant to mantain structural power dynamics intact and portray intimate proximity with a historical and current opressor as liberation without questioning anything of material substance

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These comments are NOT it No, sex should NEVER hurt or be uncomfortable the female body is capable of full body orgasms men are just socialised into being selfish and not giving into our needs in bed. Women aren't "doomed" into bad sex. Like be antisex all you want but don't try to make it that all women are meant to suffer during sex, we're not. It's supposed to feel good, amazing even. We can be anti sex without minimising women's bodies

Okay, then explain why the first time always hurts for women even with the most and best prep. Explain why men ALWAYS get off but for women it takes so much "you need a sex partner that's not selfish", "you need to find the right position" blablabla... If sex was that great for women just like it is for men, we should be able to orgasmn as easily as men and orgasm every single time we have sex just like them but we don't.

Could be many reasons such as fear regarding sex, vaginismus, ect

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Give me some scientific resources saying women are doomed to pain during penetration. The pessimism here is insane

Keep gaslighting and deluding yourself. Your cognitive dissonance is insane.

Keep staying miserable I guess, meanwhile I'm here enjoying my dildo 👅

I'm not miserable, I'm asexual. Ew. No one wants to know your masturbation stories. Have some decency. WTF are you even doing here then? Are you aware that this is an antisex sub?

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I am very sex negative but some of y'all very clearly have vulvodynia or vaginismus, and most women do not

I'm an asexual virgin. I don't know what sex feels like. But from a logical and scientific standpoint my view makes perfect sense.

Plenty of women do orgasm from intercourse alone. Women who are not asexual feel an urge for penetration which overrides any initial pain, which isn't perceived the same way pain would be in other contexts in other parts of the body, due to the arousal. And that's IF there is any pain on first intercourse, which there sometimes isn't, and even if there is, it quickly stops occurring.

In short, one large reason most women have sex is because they feel a compelling urge to do it beforehand, and then subsequently they find the activity feels good.

Most women are pressured and coerced into sex in the first place. Do you have proof that proves that pleasure overrides pain?

I know from personal experience & I know that statistically it's unlikely that I am a freak of nature. I don't think my friends throughout life have been lying, either. However, I cannot prove to someone else what physical sensations exist in my own body. This is an example of a truth that cannot be proven, just like I can't prove to you that I thought about elephants yesterday.

So you're saying you experience pain but it is overridden by your pleasure? There is a study that says 95% of women that are sexually active experience pain during PIV intercourse.

No I experienced minor pain the first couple of times.

There are studies that say literally everything

So you admit that you experienced pain the first time(s).

im 37 now, married for 9 years and have kids. I cannot emphasize enough how inconsequential the existence of mild pain the first 2 times is, for non-asexual women.

Pain is pain, no matter how mild it is. Men NEVER experience pain when they have PIV sex. Women still lose, point proven.

Men experience pain with PIV if it is too dry, too tight, or if they pull out too far and reenter at a bad angle and hit a bone. Like, pain bad enough that they will stop at least briefly if not altogether.

That's bs.

No, ask any grown man, or hetero woman

You're more sex-positive than you claim to be.

Nah, sex positivity is all about consent & eradicating shame. I think sexual shame is an important evolutionary adaptation & I do not believe that consent makes sex moral.

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Penetration is overrated, degrading and invasive.

I genuinely don't understand women who enjoy it and I'm a woman too. From what I've read, it seems like it's mostly psychological and it's sad women have to psych themselves into it to benefit men.

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There are women who enjoy penetration. In fact, most women enjoy it. It's how humans are still around today.

There's nothing wrong with not enjoying it, but to say "women have to psych themselves into it to benefit men" is lunacy.

Most women do not enjoy it, that's just false. Biologically there is just not enough nerve endings in there. The center of pleasure of a woman is the clitoris. If you're a man, you're deluding yourself into thinking most enjoy it. If you're a woman and genuinely enjoy it, you're part of the minority.

Most women like sex lol. It's ok if you don't, but understand that's a minority position.

Sex =/= penetration. And if we're talking about female satisfaction, lesbians win there.

This is not a very well-informed reply. The clitoris is a surprisingly large organ going from the visible outside part all the way to the vagina (including the vaginal canal), and has way more nerve endings than the sensitive parts of the penis

The clitoris goes around the entrance of the vagina and that's it. It doesn't cover all the vaginal canal. I think you're not that well-informed if you believe it does (and if you're a man, of course you'll look for ways to think that because it benefits you).

The clitoral area sits so close to the anterior vaginal wall, and is so sensitive, that penetration stimulates it either way, and modern sexuology is trying to do away with them being distinct structures instead of an interconnected erectile complex. Or that's what professors teach at universities anyway, but maybe they're misinformed.

Edit: I am indeed a man. I am also gay and have a strong dislike for misinformation.

The anterior vaginal wall is the zone where the G spot supposedly is, which is not usually stimulated by PIV sex. Specially not with a penis, because to stimulate there you need something that curls (a finger is ideal for that because most penises aren't curved, so in fact, a penis is not what would naturally stimulate it). The spot is also supposedly near the entrance, so no big object is even needed. And even then, not all women have sensitivity in that so called G spot. So it is not even a universal thing.

There is literally no anatomical reason why PIV should be the standard of heterosexual sex (besides reproduction). The only reason it is is because it's central to male pleasure and we have lived in a patriarchal society for millennia (but we don't need that anymore and it's about time to get rid of patriarchal constructs). In fact, men and women's centers of pleasure are different and in an ideal and more equal world, penetration shouldn't be expected in heterosexual sex (at least not always and definitely not as the main thing).

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Women benefit from it too, like, wtf. Do you think women do not feel pleasure? Biology is not mysoginistic, YOU are by saying this

Women do feel pleasure, from the clitoris, not from the vagina (or at least not from all the vagina because the nerves are only at the entrance, so a phallus is not needed at all for feminine pleasure). Patriarchy has socialised women for engaging in penetration because it's what benefits men the most.

You're accusing a social construct of giving people their biology? That very strange. What you all here are doing is finding excuses for your lack of sex drive. It's ok if you are afraid of sex or don't want to have it. But understand that normal people do like and do wanna have it. Live and let live. Otherwise you're not better than the "bigot patriarchy" you supposedly fight against.

Biology says the vagina cannal is not the primary source of pleasure for women, the clitoris is. A lot of women have reported they feel nothing during penetration too. And I know you will say "B-But that doesn't mean they don't feel pleasure", true but look at the nature of that "pleasure" from what they report: it points out to psychological pleasure and that... that's actually the result of socialisation and patriarchal influences. Why? Because penetration is the main course of men's pleasure. If women were truly made to naturally enjoy penetration (like men), they would enjoy it physiologically too.

If you're fine with women being influenced by patriarchy to like something just to please men, then congrats, you're fine with patriarchy.

Just gonna drop something here. Not all women are made the same and some naturally have more nerve endings than others. I'm not discounting women who don't feel anything, but it's not like that for everyone and for me it's genuinely pleasurable. And my husband is very woman-focused when it comes to pleasure. Again, I'm not discounting anyone's perspective or saying you shouldn't be anti-sexual, just that your experience is not everyone's and women are not a monolith.

You are confusing orgasm with stimulation. I have trouble having orgasms just from penetration, but DO LOVE penetration and consuming that damn dick’

Yikes you serve men.

My man literally sucks my toes, licks my pussy and if I want to then I eat his dick up! And I feel extremely lustful while doing that

Okay, go be a male-centered elsewhere, this sub is not for you.

OK, I got you. I am in the wrong sub. But I cannot let you speak around fake facts.

It's not a fact, it's your subjective experience. But there is not objective and factual evidence about any anatomical structures that produce that experience and the exact physiological mechanism has not been conclusively identified.

You walk around and tell everyone that having sex as a woman is not lustful for when it comes to penetration, but a lot of women will tell you otherwise. The literal bodied feeling can be very very nice since the penis stimulates the vagina at the edge of the open

Edit: also the feeling inside can be hot as hell. I don’t want to forcefully change your opinion I just want to make sure that a woman who does experience the opposite from what you were talking about, has the right to open up so that you don’t make something up that is not common for most women

It's not common, I know about plenty who don't enjoy it. And scientifically, there is no anatomical nor biological mechanism that has been identified to produce the experience of penetration being pleasurable.

You know plenty and don’t enjoy it, seems like the bubble you are in > antisex. Because I know plenty women who like it. It is not scientifically proven, since it is proven that woman own a lot of nerves on the entry of the vagina and the penis can possible touch that with every move.

Perhaps you're in your bubble because I know plenty of women outside this sub and irl who don't enjoy it. Neither a penis nor deep penetration are needed to stimulate the entry of the vagina.

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Anal sex is misogynistic.

As a man, I have thought very hard about this because it's always the fascinated me that this is something that interests people. It finally dawned on me that straight couples that engage in anal sex are basically engaging in an act of misogyny. Of course, I mean when a male does this to a female.

It is a common lie that women are able to engage in anal sex as the receiver and get pleasure out of it. This is perpetuated by the misogynistic mindset that women are meant to be submissive. It is forcing her to be vulnerable and submissive just to feed his ego. Therefore, is misogynistic. I can't believe I'm 33 years old and I'm only realizing this now

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Likes anal sex...but is an asexual. Interesting.

I'm not attracted to men or women sexually. I have never had sex with a man or woman and never will. So yes I am asexual...

What's that about then? Also, you clearly still experience sexual desire, even have certain sexual preferences. You're not a real asexual. Why label yourself something you're not?

Sexual orientation is which gender(s) you are sexually attracted to. Or in the case of asexuality, it's being attracted to none of the genders. It has nothing to do with libido or preferences on what I do with my own body. If you want to consider me "not a real asexual" go ahead idgaf 😂

You still have not answered my question.

If you experience sexual attraction/sexual desire, you're not different from the rest of the world; You're not an actual asexual. Claiming this label doesn't make you look special.

But they said they literally said don’t experience sexual attraction.

You need to go back and reread my comment.

If you experience sexual attraction/sexual DESIRE, you are not an asexual.

They’ve literally never even had sex before

And? They "literally" still experience sexual desires - even have sexual preferences.

How does someone who has never once had sex, has no desire to, and doesn’t even experience attraction toward anyone, still have sexual desire? I don’t understand how those two things are compatible.

Since you couldn't read the original comment yourself:

I'm a woman and I like anal penetration with a dildo way more than vaginal (which I actually don't like at all).

A dildo is not a human, you cannot have sex with a dildo.

I can't tell if you're doing this on purpose or if you are actually this slow in the head.

Masturbation counts as a form of sexual activity; If you engage in any kind of sexual activity, you are not an asexual. Simple. She said she desires anal penetration over vaginal penetration; That's a sexual preference - That counts as a sexual desire. If you are unable to grasp that in the mush you have up there I don't know what to tell you. But regardless of what you say, she's not a genuine asexual.

**Masturbation is not sexual activity**. If you masturbate alone in your room and then go around saying you just had sex, I would call you a liar.

She doesn’t prefer vaginal or anal sex. She has made it very clear she does not want any sex at all.

What she does prefer is masturbating anally, which is not sex.

So you expect me to believe that it's logical to assume that because biological females only orgasm from penetrative vaginal sex 21 to 30% of the time, that anal penetration is going to have a significantly higher number?

Also, there is no such thing as anal sex done properly. It is an act of misogyny and the objectification of biological females. To believe otherwise shows indoctrination through porn or internalized misogyny

Nothing I said implied that anal penetration would have a higher number. I never made that claim. My point was that vaginal penetration isn't all that great EITHER when it comes to hetero sex.

And yes there is such a thing as PREPARING for anal sex. It involves douching and starting slow and small with tons of lube. Lmao I'm not gonna have a man tell me I have internalized misogyny for enjoying my own body 😂😂😂 It CAN be (and I'd say it usually is) an act of misogyny and objectification of WOMEN especially when it's pornrotted men wanting to do it on their female partner. But it isn't inherently misogynistic.

Do it to yourself is just the same act except that you're not being subjugated, you're self-deprecating. That's all that really means. Now I'm going to assume, and please correct me if I'm wrong, that you would say that if a straight couple besides to engage in this act and they take their time with it. They are consenting adults and I do all the research to make sure that the process is smooth and easy for the both of them. Would you say that that is not an act of massage me because they came to a mutual agreement? Or is it only an act of misogyny depending on who started the conversation? Because the way I see it, even if she was the one that started the conversation out of her own curiosity, it's still internalized misogyny.

So you think I'm self-deprecating only if I do anal, but not if I do vaginal? I'm genuinely asking because you seem to think anal=painful, vaginal=pleasure? You said in your original post that "it's a common lie that women are able to engage in anal sex as the receiver and get pleasure out of it" and I'm telling you, as a woman, that's not true and that was my main issue with your post. The truth is SOME women find anal penetration pleasurable, some don't. AND SOME women find vaginal penetration pleasurable, some don't.

For your hypothetical about a straight couple, I don't know. It could be misogyny based. I think vaginal sex could also be misogyny based. I think it should be 100% up to the receiver to decide since they will be the ones most vulnerable and submissive. I do think it's more of an issue if it's the man asking for it. Why do you think if it's the woman who started the conversation it's internalized misogyny? Also do you think it's internalized misogyny if it involves a lesbian couple instead of a hetero couple?

Oh no, vaginal sex is also misogynistic but the difference is that on a biological instinctual animalistic level, it serves a purpose to reproduce the species. And considering that there is degree of hierarchy when it comes to sexual acts, and which ones are more misogynistic than others, because vaginal sex has a purpose that means that anal sex is more misogynistic because it serves no biological purpose. Now if a woman asks to engage in it, it's misogynistic because it's internalized self worthlessness. Even if a straight couple had been together for any amount of time that you can say a considerable amount of sexual trust and communication has been built, even if she were to trust trust him enough that he would suggested, it's still massage me because even if he doesn't want to do it regularly, I suppose it's a sexual curiosity for him, he still engaging in the act of misogyny. As for a lesbian couple, that's a little bit more difficult to quantify

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Do you really think that there is never any pleasure for any woman when they receive anal sex?

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Anal, much like many things, is an acquired taste when it comes to enjoying it. It's something you have to get used to. Initially yeah it's gonna feel like taking a shit. But, much like alcohol, the smell of certain things such as musk, sweat, or weed, or certain foods like hot food, you have to power through the less fun part before you start enjoying it. How it actually works gets into how the brain works.

That said anal is much more fun for gay or bi men than it is for straight couples(aside from pegging, fellas find you a woman who will peg you) as men have a prostate which women lack. Having your prostate poked will give you one of the best orgasms you've ever had. Would reccomend.

Or, here’s a wild idea: some women genuinely don’t enjoy anal sex. They don’t have to get used to it, and many never will. This applies to many other sexual acts.

“Power through the discomfort” the man says to women.

Did... did you just not read my comment? Like I know you're not the brightest but this is just sad. Also my comment was about how ANYTHING that's an acquired taste requires you to power through the AQUIREMENT part. Like good lord please use your brain babe.

It's just sad that you're trying to make this sexist when it's just not. OBVIOUSLY some people just don't like certain things. Duh, no one with two halves of a braincell is disputing that. God it's painful to even have to write that.

When I say you have to power through it I'm speaking from expiriance lmao. I'm a Bi man who has had his prostate poked. It took a LOT of getting used to for it to start feeling good and stop feeling like I was gonna shit myself. But once I got used to it? Best orgasm ever.

I'll repeat myself, I, a man had something shoved up my butt, made myself work through the uncomfortable phase, and now enjoy it because I acquired the taste for it. Holy shit Celatine this is a braindead take even by your incredibly low standards.

Did you not read the post and comments? We’re talking about women engaging in anal sex.

Your comment comes across as dismissive of the reality that not every sexual act is going to be an acquired taste. But you think that anal is an acquired taste.

Some discomforts are just that—discomforts, and no one should have to “power through” something they don’t enjoy. People don’t owe it to themselves or anyone else to push past discomfort. That’s the response to what you were saying. And we’re talking about women, still.

Your personal experience doesn’t matter. People are different.

You clearly lack basic reading comprehension. No one has to power through anything. No one is forcing anyone into anything. If someone is being forced into doing a sexual act they're not okay with that's called rape and that's a bad thing. Duh.

Anal is an acquired taste. Just like alcohol, hot food, and certain smells. But, once again, OBVIOUSLY, not everyone is willing to acquire that taste, and thats not a problem. Most people don't need to have that spelled out to them but apparently you do. I can't stand the smell of weed, I could go out of my way to change that, but I don't want to, so, like a normal person, I'm not going to.

If you can't see why I'm mentioning my personal expiriance then you need to go back to grade school so you can learn how to read. Good lord. Its genuinely painful that you can't or won't understand the point.

Lmao, buddy, you literally wrote in your first comment, “it’s something you have to get used to.” “You have to power through the less fun part”

When we’re talking about women’s pleasure or discomfort with anal sex, your experience as a man is not going to be the same. Did you even know that women are more likely to experience anal sphincter injury when engaging in anal sex? Because they’re not built the same as a man’s.

And it’s not about forcing anyone—it’s about the underlying suggestion that discomfort should be tolerated until pleasure is eventually found.

Some people just don’t want to “acquire” that taste, and they shouldn’t be made to feel like they’re missing out or doing something wrong for not wanting to.

You now say “that’s okay!!11” but you didn’t in your first comment.

Brandi Love the "Maga MILF"

Well damn. Just like that she stopped being hot in my eyes. So self destructive. Project 2025 specifically wants to ban porn and suggests arresting all those that participate in it in jail. Everything she is as a sexual woman and who she has had sex with is something the Republicans Party hates with a passion. She wants to experience first hand, just go to a rally and tell the people there what she does for a living.

Project 2025 isn’t real and everyone know love is right wing’ed

http://www.heritage.org/conservatism/commentary/project-2025

Straight from the Heritage Foundation. Even you probably know who they are. There does exist a Republican politician running for office that does get money and not have employees trained by that foundation working for them. Just because Fox News ignores it doesn’t mean it does not exist. Every story about it is accurate. It’s 928 document that lays it all out.

It’s real when it in acted, just cause you can fun a document of it doesn’t mean anything, it’s a matter of congress, the president, and the courts to determine this as law. Then this also have to got through states votes if it executives

It isn’t real and it the only talk point the democrats party has cause they still with the idea that help Obama be president not put quality on the ballot

lol. That’s the thing, a whole lot of it is management level stuff. Congress and the President have to simple do nothing to get a lot of it done. Kind of like how Trump put Dejoy in charge to fuck up the post office. Just put a believers in charge and let them do the rest. Which is literally written into the plan.

Also love how for your team it’s make believe but if a Democrat even said out loud they want to do a thing, you would accept as gospel that it would happen. See all of you with your “they are going to take my guns!!!” Every two years for the last 100 years.

Why are you assuming what party im in; im a libertarian

So how is he going to be sex work nation wide if it that simple for you to put in exist.

Plus, why would trump ban porn he like the shit, stormy Danials hello.

Libertarian is a conservative pretending to be neutral.

Libertarian far away from a conservative. Libertarian don’t want state intervention

Your votes speak for you and we both know you go R all the way down the list. Quack like a conservative, believe the same stuff as a conservative and vote like one, you are a conservative. But whatever makes you feel better. I know the meaningless distinction matters to “libertarians”.

Okay, you can say that, but the left has done nothing to get my vote as a libertarian. Even with things I disagree with within the republicans party the democrats have nothing to show from the past four years(especially in California) and have nothing plan for the future

Waste of time to try. Even your love of an incomplete wall proves that. You’re MAGA pretending otherwise. Trying to convince cult members is a waste of time and resources. After all a plan does not count until it does, depending on who says it right? That kind of thinking is trademark MAGA.

Instead of lying to yourself, just go buy that MAGA hat, put on the real men wear diapers, and buy a couple Trump coins like you really want to.

What I was talking about was the failure of trump building the wall and the possibility that project 2025 can be as much of a failure as that. depends??? If it doesn’t happen and have no resources who gives a damn

Okay Redditor, im a libertarian. You just cant live with the fact there people dislike the left and how you are treating me is why some people are vote red. You even thought of that. You even talk about left-libertarian too

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Why are there so many libtards here

If you use the term "libtards" unironically, you have literally outed yourself as the dumbest person in the room.

If your day consists of typing out shit like "woke," "lefty," and all the other fox news propaganda terms and aren't some dickhead trying to monetize the bullshit from other dickheads who believe all the bullshit, then you are a knuckledragger.

Have some self respect and try to grift off the other maga fuckwads while you can still fleece the dipshits. Be the wolf not the sheep, LOL.

So you're a Biden lover? 😂 Imagine being alive to witness one of these things actually claim that

LOL, that's where you maga clowns fuck up. No, I am not a Biden Lover. I don't look at politics like sports. I don't have "brand loyalty." I don't have a flag of any politician flying on my house, just the flag of my country.

If Republicans could garner up a candidate that wasn't fucking rapist FELON, who may have made some sense, who had the country's best interest in mind, I could have voted that way, but they would rather tongue the orange ballsack, so fuck 'em.

Keep crying with your CNN headlines, libtard

Keep licking that 🍊 🍄 penis trumptard

Keep getting molested by your uncle-daddy, libtard

You suck on trumps 🍄 🥒

Katrina Jade ceases being MAGA, becomes neutral

Neutrality is moral cowardice

Well... American two party system is pretty shit in this part.

Personally if i was an American. I would want a political party which has some policies from the Rep and some Dem. In total i dislike both of them. The deep end of Dems are just as bad as MAGA. Just from the other end of the line.

Wow, you got downvoted for saying any extremists from either side are bad.

Well, yeah. One side has literal Nazis on it. When you go "Extremists on both sides are bad 🤓" - you're not saying anything of substance, you're not explaining what you mean by that, and you're equating the much worse bad of one side to the other.

Other side has literal islamist protectors... You guys are just blind to that bs...

That's still not as bad as being a Neo Nazi.

It is the same level of shit...

And i did give substance you just didn't read it most likely...

I read your examples. They were vague, substance-less, and the equation was poor.

Vague? Only if you think all the bad things from your own side are good things and justified... Even though they just make them hypocrites... You already said that islamic terrorism and supporting it is better than nazism... That tells me already enough about how you're shitty person.

I do not have the words to express just how little your assessment of my morals matters.

Does anyone have a list of pornstars that aren't maga?

Dude who fucking cares ? I wish more people would keep their political views to themselves. I watch porn for tits not political views.

So you'd jerk off to literal supremacists so long as you don't have to acknowledge it? How does that even work? You'd have to not see the people on the screen as human to remove them that far from their product.

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I genuinely think people are putting too much weight on political opinions when it comes to topics that don't involve politics 1. The fact that a person has a different opinion than you, doesn't mean they are bad people 2. No matter how correct you think you are, you shouldn't cancel people that don't agree with you

We are well beyond politics at this point. If you support racism and pedophilia, you are a bad person. Zero exceptions, zero excuses. Real people are being hurt. It's not a game.

If you can present some non-out-of-context proof for these accusations that would be very helpful

Do you live under a rock or something? Are you even from the US? Did you just wake up from a coma?

Not American, not a MAGA supporter or a Lefty I want to know what leads to all of this hate

Read the fucking news then. Don't come on here acting like you know better than everyone if you have no idea about what's going on.

Yes you should.

You are one of the people that shouts and Protestes for human rights but cancels people that doesn't agree with your opinions, that's why I hate politics, all the supporters from both sides are so Two-faced when it comes to criticize their own party does

We can disagree on pineapple on pizza, we can not disagree on if skin color causes people to commit crime. Thank you for attention to this matter.

I think it's a very "out-of-context" statement, the facts are that there is a high percentage of the crimes are committed by a certain "culture", they are not saying: "you are (skin color), you are a criminal"

I disagree with people who don’t think people are people. And if you agree that people aren’t people and don’t understand how that’s different then a disagreement, then I don’t know where to begin, and I would say that you understand that your trivializing things maliciously, but I also understand that you’re an online warrior and you go on posts saying things like this because this is the only attention you get from being a terrible person.

I'm not American

Both parties are getting things out of context very often and exaggerate the actions

If you're not american then you truly don't know what the fuck you are talking about,

I live here and see daily the shit storm the 🍊 pos is causing,

There is no "both sides" there is only one party that is excusing and cosigning cruelty, newflash it's not the dems

Just from this conversation I got a lot of hate towards me from the "left camp" for saying my objective opinion as a Neutral man, and getting arguments that are lacking examples/manners

You sure have a lot posts defending Trump, calling him better than Kamala etc. And complains about the left for someone thats supposedly "neutral" lol. You ain't foolin nobody pedolover

Yeah bro you got me😂 1. I'm indian that was born, raised and still lives in the middle east 2. I don't know much about Kamala or Trump 3. All I see here is hateful comments towards a man who tries to understand why the opinion of a star affects you although you are attracted to her

Someone attempted to report the sub. Their post was taken down, though they for some reason did not provide a reason as to why that post was removed, leaving their users to wildly speculate about Reddit supporting menhating while not condoning womenhating​.

​​​Some drama under that post:

> If you made a subreddit with every post bashing on females it would be banned in less than an hour. If you make a subreddit hating on men then it gets sent to r/ all. Welcome to reddit.

>>Using females and men in the same sentence says a lot about you. Hate to break it to you, but misogynistic sunreddits exist, and this is one of them. Not the mention that a lot of the "man-bashing" is a result of men being assholes. Should women just be silent when men mistreat them because it'll hurt your feelings? Most women don't even hate men, they just wish men would stop hating women. Other women hate men because men hate women, and it becomes a sick cycle of hate that helps nobody.

>>>How dare i use men and females in the same sentence. Truly heinous behavior. And you act like we are the fragile ones. Lol Edit: Actually they are in different sentences. But whatever makes you feel better.

>>>> want you to seriously think about why you made that distinction. I see men do this a lot, and it's usually in an effort to distance women from personhood.

>>>>>8/10 times it's not that deep bro​

People on this sub are trying to ban another sub for promoting hate……. The type of comments in both are similar in nature, just with genders swapped. Do y’all really not see the irony? 😂​

>>No, no they aren’t. This sub would be shut down if it even approached that sub’s toxicity.

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>Is this sub not doing something similar?

>>Where's the woman hating here?

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https://www.reddit.com/r/AskConservatives/comments/1x13ws8/what_are_your_thoughts_on_the_pentagon_live/

Background:

Nidal Malik Hasan is a former United States Army officer who, in 2009, committed the infamous Fort Hood shooting, killing 13 people (one of whom was pregnant) and injuring 32. Hasan is a Muslim, and stated that his motive was to stop soldiers from going to Afghanistan and killing Muslims. As a result, Hasan was charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted murder, and sentenced to death.

On October 5, 2026, the Department of Defense issued a statement that Hasan would be executed via firing squad. This was followed by another statement on October 8 that Hasan's execution would be livestreamed, making it the first public execution in the United States in almost a century. Reactions to this have been mixed, with some conservatives being excited to watch it, and others (including JD Vance, of all people) feeling that the televised aspect is a step too far.

Highlights:

A step in the right direction since our culture is too sanitized. It makes me wonder if this will set a precedent for future sentences like Charlie Kirk's assassin, who is also facing potential capital punishment. There has been a lot of talk about that outcome on the right.

I think this tangibility can promote healing and closure not only for the victims, but the entire community wounded.

Yeah I'm sure the grieving will heal over the livestreamed execution discourse 15 years later.

Thomas Aquinas wrote about this but yeah, usually it happens sooner rather than later. Times are changing now though.

Is it? Pretty sure conservatives have been screaming for several decades about America’s moral decline. Do live-streamed public executions not exacerbate that?

That’s a worldview issue. For most people who are conservative, the lawful execution of a convicted murderer, especially one so vile as the Fort Hood shooter, is not representative of moral decline. It is a positive step in society recognizing its duty to delete such people with zero misgivings. And from a Christian religious perspective, which I hold, it is a tacit acknowledgment on the part of the civil magistrate concerning the fact that God requires the life of such people (Genesis 8). The right of human beings to execute capital punishment is sourced in our status as divine image bearers. In other words, in such circumstances, we have been created and appointed to act as God’s avenging angels. Our social duty is to eject murderers out of this life and up to a higher court, so to speak, for final sentencing.

Nothing you wrote here appears to address the fact that this will be a public execution. I support the death penalty, but it is abhorrent that the US government is going to literally live stream a death by firing squad.

Aside from the moral implications, do you not think this would be an extremely terrible thing that no modern Western country does?

I have mixed feelings. After the Muenster rebellion, in which crazed religious cells took over a German city and committed murder, rape, and all other manner of evil deeds, they were eventually apprehended, publicly killed, and their bodies were set in cages, high top of building for centuries. Whatever you think of that dreadful occasion, one thing is sure. It was the last such uprising that area ever saw.

I am probably not in favor of any kind of killing being live streamed so it will be treated like entertainment. That is grotesque.I have much less of a problem with there being public witnesses in the local area.

This entire paragraph reads like the thinking of someone who would ultimately progress to mass murder. Do you see no comparison between what you just wrote and the thinking of suicide bombers? They too believe that they are enforcing God’s will in deleting people that their deity finds repulsive. This is the same line of thought that probably led the Fort Hood shooter to do what he did.

I don’t see your point.

I could just as easily say that the normalization of abortion as reproductive healthcare and the dehumanization and denial of rights for unborn humans will ultimately progress to mass murder.

It actually already has.

But regardless of your opinion on that topic, any idea can be taken to an extreme.

I don’t believe in having the death penalty, but I don’t see any evidence for your point.

How does following your religious text on this topic, ultimately progress to mass murder?

It may not always, but the underlying thinking is the same. The minute that we believe we are God’s avenging angels and it is our duty to remove those who fail to fit that image, we are on the slippery slope of extremism. What usually_fuente wrote us akin to the types of things written in manifestos. If you can’t see that, I can’t help you.

The beliefs I described have been the default view in western society all the way up to about 1965. And yet somehow society rose and progressed all the while. That has a lot to do with how communities interacted with Christian scripture. I am not setting out to change your mind on that. I am simply stating it as a fact. The vast, vast, vast majority of all Christians have never been inclined toward vigilantism because the book itself speaks against it. The Bible is very clear, for those who actually want to read it, that individually motivated killing is forbidden under the New Covenant. The civil magistrate bears the responsibility of executing judgment against murders. This puts a natural limit on personal bias or malice.

Is the system perfect? No. Which is why I can be comfortable with not having the death penalty at all in states where the scales are regularly tipped against justice.

I will only add that the concern you have about certain religious beliefs, leading to insane actions is how I feel about the secular framework that is not tied to transcendent moral realism. The difference is, Christianity did not kill 100 million people in the 20th century. But secular political philosophy is did. The secularism of modern progressivism carries the germ of its own annihilation.

Why do you think it’s a step in the right direction? What is the benefit? Seems like we’d be trending more towards the cultures of the Middle East.

The Middle East has a bad rap for that because they do it for monstrous reasons like apostasy and homosexuality.

Ok but what value do you think public executions would provide?

The community is healed by a visual sense of finale. There's Christian writings on this.

Keep us posted with the link when it actually happens

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Christ wouldn’t say that.

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Is your vision of Christ the biblical version or the Ai meme dual wielding AR’s Jesus?

So you’re good with children being exposed to live executions?

Did you also say this about the 2026 VMAs and the Superbowl?

Who was killed on live TV during those events?

Children's brains are adversely affected both by sexual content (even when a show just talks about it) and violence. That's scientific fact.

didn’t realize people were publicly put to death as part of the halftime show. guess that happened when i went to the bathroom

Children were exposed to sexually suggestive visuals, bud. Plenty of secular neuroscience and developmental psychology research supports that exposure to sexualized material can influence how children's developing brains process sexual cues, rewards, expectations, and relationships. Both bad for children.

The Patriots didn't lose that bad.

Make it PPV for the deficit!

Is this a joke or do you really want to go full dystopia?

So you aren't interested, cool. Why not raise funds for the deficit for those who are? PPV not public. Do you even think before you post?

As a Christian, I don't like it –and I think it's particularly dystopian– but so long as people aren't MADE to watch it, it's whatever and no different morally to all the weirdly sexual stuff seen on national television, honestly.

You believe that a public execution is equivalent to sexuality on television?

They both contribute to the moral bankruptcy of society, yes.

There's a wee bit of difference in degree of bankruptcy, isn't there?

What type of stuff on tv are you equating this to?

They both have adverse effects.

Very based.

The Islamic terrorist group ISIS used to videotape and publicize their beheadings. Did you consider that "very based"? The Taliban did mass executions in stadiums. "Very based?"

The difference is he has had his day in court and due process has been followed. Do you think due process was violated ?

Did I state anything about his due process being violated? This isn't about having his day in court or violation of due process in convicting him. This is about livestreaming a public execution. We are, presumably, better than ISIS and the Taliban are we not? Do you consider America's public live streamed execution of the Fort Hood shooter "based"?

I consider it justice.

A mass murderer has his day in court had due process and has been convicted. We as a society should be allowed the justice to see that monster removed from this world.

So you approve of his execution being livestream.

I believe this is an example of "conservatives" having lost their way.

Yes absolutely. There is no doubt he did it. I welcome watching the breath leave this mass murderers body

The difference being those were innocent people. Here its a criminal. Context matters.

Innocent according to people other than ISIS and the Taliban you mean. Do you consider America's public live streamed execution of the Fort Hood shooter "based"?

Exactly. That's one of the many reasons the West is a superior culture to the Taliban and ISIS. The Taliban and ISIS are actually in the wrong there. Acting like they have an equally valid point of view in determining guilt and innocence is gross.

That being said, live streaming an execution is also gross.

Okay, agreed.

Now let the user to whom I asked my question-the red flaired rightwing conservative who states it's "very based"-reply for themself.

Good!

Are you going to watch it?

Yeah and possibly bet on the outcome.

We are so cooked as a society

Why is live streaming an execution "good"? And why do you think most of your fellow conservatives in this thread disagree with you?

I don't think he is looking for group validation. That's very much a leftist mentality.

Their down votes mean nothing I’ve seen what makes these people cheer

If downvotes meant something to me, I could go to pretty much any other sub, comment "fuck Trump/Drumpf" and collect upvotes en masse. It'd be like honey to flies. But they mean nothing, so I just do my thing.

If adherence to traditional values isn’t looking for group validation idk what is..

You know that anti-tradition circles are also ways of validating yourself right?

It’s good because we get to see justice done upon a coward and a traitor.

I understand the disagreement. I don’t think that they’re valid.

is seeing it as something barbaric not a valid argument?

Don’t like it? Don’t watch.

Just because I chose not to watch something doesn’t make it go away. The government live-streaming an execution is still barbaric.

You know what is really barbarous? Shooting unarmed people because you think your God commands you to do so.

He did just that so he will be punished.

i never said that wasn't barbaric. it will give him the martyrdom he wants. live-streamed executions are what jihadists do. do we really want to be like the taliban?

Ok, I’m fine giving him what he wants in this case.

Well, I’m not sure if you know this but the Taliban also drives cars owns guns beats meat and drinks water therefore if you drive a car if you own a gun if you eat meat or drink water, therefore you’re just like the Taliban.

There’s an important thing called context and you’re willfully ignoring it.

It's weird - but the more I think about it, why not? If the death penalty is legal, if we aren't ashamed of it, then why would we need to hide it from the public?

If you are against the death penalty, then I understand being against this. But if you for it - what is the problem here exactly?

What about live streaming prisons? Sound like a doable idea?

Sure. But I don't think anyone would want to watch.

Good.

Put it on pay-per-view.

Fantastic, one of the best things to come of this administration

Hot take. Care to elaborate?

The death penalty is nessary to ensure justice as a society. If we collectively will have the death penalty it is best that the public can see it. Some people are so craven and disgusting that we as a society need to remove them from this world.

r/Grimdank is a meme subreddit for Warhammer 40,000, a tabletop miniatures wargame, with countless novels and video game spinoffs. The sci-fi setting is (most of the time) a satire of fascism, religious fundamentalism, and British football fandom. In this universe, the religion of the Imperium of Man revolves around Emperor, a rotting corpse sustained by feeding it thousands of psychic souls every day. Those who do not worship the Emperor as a god are deemed "heretics" and are purged to death. The Ecclesiarchy, the Imperial religious administration, is represented on tabletop as a bunch of guys with chainsaws and flamethrowers.

OP:

What is stopping you from praying? Have you given it a chance? What do you have to lose? (Self empowering non political post, wh40k borrows from religious texts why this fit's here)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Grimdank/comments/1x5rn85/neuroscience_confirms_this_small_scripture_will/

I’m going to use the same argument as I use against low effort political posts: Yes, warhammer is inherently political/ theological, but posting this is like posting reheated McDonald’s in r/cooking. Also this is a meme sub and this isn’t a meme. I say this as a devout Christian.

Hitler used the same to silence Christians.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Grimdank/comments/1x5rn85/neuroscience_confirms_this_small_scripture_will/pgp2ksg/

Silencing things you don't agree with?

Silencing religious dickheads spreading their crap where it isn't wanted or allowed.

Where does it say I can't post this?

Rule 5. Posts should be humorous and related to tabletop gaming. Your post is irrelevant and should be removed.

For a game that is borrowing so much from Christianity, that seems unfair.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Grimdank/comments/1x5rn85/neuroscience_confirms_this_small_scripture_will/pgow0zp/

You do understand that warhammer shits on Christianity, right? You're kinda coming to the wrong fam base to preach too.

Or just the right one.

I think you would get more attention if you preached to a mirror. But hey! What do I know?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Grimdank/comments/1x5rn85/neuroscience_confirms_this_small_scripture_will/pgozzac/

Suggesting people to pray is apparently is a great insult in the modern world.

Are you giving food to the hungry, medicine to the sick, or shelter to the homeless like Jesus told you to?

I am the poor and hungry.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Grimdank/comments/1x5rn85/neuroscience_confirms_this_small_scripture_will/pgp0e42/

There is no god.

Maybe you should read some Nietzsche again? A guy who agreed with you, yet decried the loss of God more than any other man.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Grimdank/comments/1x5rn85/neuroscience_confirms_this_small_scripture_will/pgovv65/

Mods ban this fucking shit

Change the rules before you do.

Mods, ban the OP too, they are acting in bad faith (ironically)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Grimdank/comments/1x5rn85/neuroscience_confirms_this_small_scripture_will/pgp1ltn/

You know what I'll bite, you say WH40k borrows from religious texts. In what way and specifically what messages?

Read the bible and find out?

Dude come on, trying to have an earnest conversation here, this is what you wanted. Tell me your thoughts.

You're not trying to have an honest discussion, you're all hostile. Come on look around this thread once again.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Grimdank/comments/1x5rn85/neuroscience_confirms_this_small_scripture_will/pgp1qyu/

Read what they commented again. What you're doing right now is part of the indoctrination plan you've been put on. You're being told to intentionally go to places that will be hostile to you so your church can use it as "proof" that they're the only people you can trust. You can still break free.

I haven't had a real conversation with another human being in 15 years. All I have is Jesus.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Grimdank/comments/1x5rn85/neuroscience_confirms_this_small_scripture_will/pgp07bi/

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/1x4toay/the_day_all_billionaires_died/

HIGHLIGHTS

Yeah, that's my thinking too. When you reach the point of being able to live in every possible luxury and just want money for money's sake....that's mental illness right there

All it takes is to start a really successful company and go public. Ya don’t really have the billions in cash, but being a majority holder means your networth goes through the roof. No billionaires are holding that in cash, it’s just pieces of paper saying they own parts of companies. Companies that are hiring people and paying wages, producing products for consumers to buy.

They can still borrow money against those assets or use shares of the company as bargaining chips. If their company is worth 1billion, that still makes them absurdly rich even if they don't have that actual billion in cash . Nevermind those that are worth over 100 billion

Why does that matter? What I’m saying is they’re not “hoarding” cash like a dragon. The difference between a trillionaire, a billionaire, and a 100M is just how many pieces of paper they’re holding. It’s not changing life for anyone else. Them having it isn’t what’s keeping you from obtaining it.

The idea that billionaires having billions doesn't effect you doesn't stand up to even the slightest scrutiny. As the easiest, most in your face example - individual billionaires own or financially control most media companies (social, legacy and now LLMs). That has a huge impact on everything. The whims of individuals decide what's important to nations.

Just don’t use their products? Parents have influence over their kids. Trachers over students. Principals over the whole school. Deans over whole colleges. Religious leaders over vast swaths of the earth. The higher you go on any ladder, the more people your decisions influence. If influence is the problem, let’s assassinate anyone who can cause 1M people to tattoo themselves through any actions they have available to them. Violence, money, words, anything. Why are y’all so hellbent on financial influence?

Again, what nonsense. Even if I don't use their products, they influence societies globally. Their 'pieces of paper' mean they can increase hate towards certain groups, they can make laws more or less likely, and they themselves are barely constrained by laws because of their leverage and deep pockets for lawyers. Other people having influence does not negate the fact that they do because they have money. You said "them having it is not life changing for anyone else". That is clearly not true.

This is the most fantasy BS ive ever seen. Their spots would just be filled with someone else

You didn’t even make it to the third page?

So in this fantasy BS if you accrue over 999 million dollars you just explode? Plot hole. The point is there will always be someone. The majority of people who espouse this nonsense would take 1 Billion dollars in a heartbeat.

That’s not a plot hole. That’s how the plot works. That’s the premise of the story. Your point is that people would take a billion dollars for free, knowing that doing so results in them exploding. That’s moronic.

I think you are just assuming that rather then it being objectively established.

It’s objectively established when it talks about how every attempt at inheritance leads to them exploding

Nah that is a plot hole. Inheritance isn't the only way to get a billion dollars.

Child left behind

A real reddit take, billionaires are the singular and only problem in the world and if they are gone all will be well.

How do you suggest the world be improved instead?

How about fixing broken institutions, getting rid of corruption (at all levels, not just billionaires), educate people better and reduce hatred for example?

Who do you think is causing the corruption and hoarding the wealth that would fund those broken institutions?

People at all levels of power? You don't understand how corruption work in poorer countries and have cleanly never been to one. Institutions are broken due to a multitude of complex factors. If you think "you just get rid of all the billionaires and suddenly all institutions are fixed" this is a level of naivety that should be illegal. Life is not a children's book. It's not a movie. Nothing works like that.

I'm still not seeing any ideas beyond platitudes from you. "Fix the insitituons", "reduce hatred", how do you do that? If you wanna ignore the underlying premise of the comic, no one can have an honest conversation with you.

Because "explode all billionaires" is your idea? How do you fix all institution and reduce things like racism? You understand those are very difficult questions with bo simple answer. I'm not dumb enough to think I have the solution to solve all the world's problems or that it could fit in a Reddit comment. Idk start by even reading the Wikipedia page instead of arguing with me https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption?wprov=sfla1

Liberal hopeslop is so funny to me. I'm not a right winger or centrist but divine intervention murder isn't a good look and this would only drive the world into actual chaos and likely just trigger a global economical collapse. Massive corporations would totally fracture and die because anyone who takes ownership would explode in that instant. Pepsi for example would have to be split into 200 entirely different companies just to stay under a billion in value while over 500 brands of food and beverage totally halt. Now apply that to 11,000 companies, hundreds of politicians and political leaders, etc. Also, of course, any major movement would be forced to be governmentally owned because the second it gets too big, even if it's for a good cause, people will start to explode. The unfortunate reality is that there's is so single easy fix for the current climate and the best we can do is advocate and push for better rights for the people and globally making everyone's quality of life better.

Nonsense. PepsiCo can be worth a trillion dollars and so long as no one individual owns more than a billion dollars worth of shares, being a publicly traded company, no one explodes.

That still doesn't fix any of the problems with the companies since they would still be controlled by the rich just in the eyes of profit instead of focused, smart leaders who actually can care about the quality of the products. It would just limit their total individual ownership over everything to just 900 million instead of a billion.

Since when do the CEOs of multi-billion dollar companies give one single fuck about the quality of a product? They would sell you poison if the regulatory penalties were lower than the potential profit.

I'm not saying that they currently do or don't. It's just easier for one person to make decisions over hundreds or rich investors.

You know, instead of wishing for divine intervention to usher in a new period of less wealth inequality, a society could institute collective ownership of the means of production to eliminate wealth inequality forever. And it wouldn’t require divine intervention. You could manage it with just regular people.

This time it will work for sure. All those other people did it wrong

You should read up on the topic and learn more about it. Not saying it’ll change your mind or anything, but learning more about the things you continue to disagree with has value. I’ve done it several times myself.

The more I learn of communism the more I disagree with it. I consider myself pretty open minded

Ok. Which parts do you disagree with?

Im not him but Im talking for me because I wanted to answer this. I don't think that communism was "created" in bad faith, the opposite, it was created believing that humanity can be good and support each other. But it always happens that when tried, it gives all the power of the state to one person, which is dangerous because everything is at the will of what someone believes, lived, wants and thinks what is correct and what is not.

You should take a look at how the political system in Vietnam works. It’s a very pluralistic system.

"It threatens violence or physical harm at someone" Do... Do those people think this is real?

It's almost 100% likely that Reddit Admins are 90% bots. I made a comment warning a guy that sneaking weed into his coworker's brownies wasn't a good idea and had to fight an accusation of 'threats of violence or physical harm'. sure. cause wanting someone 'not' to get in trouble because of their own stupidity is a threat. That being said, this comic seems a little blanket and I'm wondering what your opinions are on people like Taylor Swift or Warren Buffet. Shouldn't you be less against billionaires in general and more against people who abuse the systems of Capitalism to enrich themselves at the expense of others? Or to put it another way, I'm fairly certain their are billionaires who would happily settle for only being millionaires, and that wealth and the wealthy aren't inherently evil, it's... how did the old saying go? that love of money is the root of all evil?

Billionaires can absolutely settle for being millionaires, there’s nothing preventing them from doing that. This is the dumbest part of that whole comment.

Wow, you can read. That’s what I just said dumbnuts. But you have to address the economic systems or new billionaires will keep popping up.

"But you have to address the economic systems or new billionaires will keep popping up." No because then they would die. Every new billionaire dies the instant they become billionaires.

Than be more clear in your language dipshit. That isn’t what they said. They implied a one time thing. And that still doesn’t handle the economic systems. Those potential billionaires will just stop at 900 million and finagle their finances. Keep screeching and thumping your chests though. That’ll change anything.

The cynicism/defeatism in the comments is very frustrating. Edit- The current economic system had my mom's cancer treatment cost 120,000$, student loan debt is crushing me, I've seen multiple recessions, wars based on rich wanting to make money through defence contracts, grocery shopping now is a nightmare, and y'all want to just whine and act like we can't do anything because getting rid of the billionaires won't really change anything? Stay home then, and sulk. Just don't drag others with you

The economic illiteracy to take this comic seriously is also frustrating, it's not 1000 guys that make sure teachers don't get paid "closer to their worth" or insurance is for-profit. These are structural issues that don't get fixed by putting an extremely high cap on individual wealth. If people don't understand any economics beyond "billionaires bad" it's kinda correct to be defeatist. Cattle that will be ruled by slopulism til the end of time.

Billionaires bad is the biggest problem since we cant do anything else until they are sorted

Utter nonsense, and the real defeatism.

America only thrived when we taxed them into ovlivion, which is why we aren thriving now

Bruh. This is proving the other guys point

That billionaires shouldn't exist? Thanks!

Figure its a typo, but you're right billionaires should exist!

Billionaires are parasites on society. Why would we want them to exist?

Hot damn, the amount of bootlickers crawling for a crumb or a sniff in this thread is insane. yeah, it's not a well thought out worldview, but the vehemence with which some of you are deriding it could be studied by psychology for years. They're not going to annoint you into their special club just because you defend their honour online. They wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire. They hate you as much as they hate the people who hate them. Go enjoy your own life instead of spending it angry on behalf of billionaires who wouldn't care if you died in front of then.

We’re trying to save your souls and our own. Hatred and envy are poison.

You’re not trying to save shit, you just hope you’ll be a billionaire one day too so you let these jerks run rampant.

No, I have no intention of becoming a billionaire. I’m just content and not covetous.

Oh, so just a wanker then

Another person trying to sell “if we kill all the bad people, there won’t be bad people anymore, and things will get better” as a serious idea.

Who said anything about killing? It could just be illegal to own that much money

Did you miss the part where every billionaire exploded. They’re pretty dead.

I think you missed the part about this being a comic, not a political pamphlet. Billionaires exploding was just rethorical

It would be nice though!

One can hope..

So, the real question everyone is thinking: how can we make this happen?

easy. those billionaires are billionaires because everyone else made them billionaires. Zuckerberg is only a billionaire because you use Facebook. Bezos is a billionaire because you like the convenience of Amazon. they are billionaires because "normal people" promoted them to that state.

"how can we make this happen" does not mean " how did we let this happen"

both have the same answer. stop using their stuff. if everyone stops using Facebook/Instagram, Zuckerberg will lose everything. if no one uses Amazon anymore, so will Bezos. and so on, and so on...

And ton of people who work in those companies would lose their jobs, what a great plan. You can't really affect billionaire by ignoring their product, they already had the wealth, boycotting company or straight up doing something with it would only hurt regular people who are far from being even the middle class.

"And ton of people who work in those companies would lose their jobs" they can work somewhere else. and if there are no more jobs, doesn't that mean that those billionaires are actually a net positive because they created those jobs for those people?

there is not a single downside to all billioneies dying

Yes it is, what about gave newell? He is a billonare he whould die too

He would rip us off more too, if he could. He just does less sht than other billionaires, so he looks good compared to them.

How dare you to speak like that to the hand tha give you anual gane discounts, a good support system and good comunication with the comunity💔 gave aprecieates the ocean life and his consumers thats why steam its the best plataform to bouy games and vavlve the wet dream for working

Gabe isn't some wholesome philanthropist, he is a greedy billionaire. You can't be a good person and own one of the biggest yachts in the world.

Bruh, he owns a yatch because like what i said later he likes ocean life and he lives in the yatch to study and watch the sea life you dumbass

I don't care what he does on it, you can't own a yacht and be a good person.

/r/science

Really interesting paper that definitely lines up with my (older Gen Z) experience. I wonder if there's some relation between this and the "Gen Z hates sex" narrative in the media these days. Would really like to see larger/international studies on this subject.

So.. now they get to experience what women have felt about sex for a very long time re: shame?

And ironically, the actually predatory men aren't anxious at all, in fact, they think they're in the right. You hear about false accusations all the time online, but take a step back: Who do you know in real life that's had that happen to them?

The problem is, a lot of young men will see anonymous comments like “My friend of a cousin’s roommate was called a creep because he looked at a woman weird” and decide that’s all it takes to turn them away from dating forever.

We’re never getting replacement fertility

Depends on who 'we' are. The ones that reproduce will have the genes that are able to thrive and reproduce in the current environment. Over a long enough timeframe they may reach replacement fertility. Everyone else will be culled by the Darwinian filter.

/r/psychologyofsex

I’m sure it will have no effect on performance anxiety…

That's not necessarily women's problem though so it doesn't matter.

Interesting. None of the 20-30 year old gay men I know feel this way.

I get the concern about consent . I've never ever seen any consent education that says Women must also ask Men for consent

Of course everyone must consent to each other, men and women . But most men are physically larger and stronger than most women.

/r/conspiracy

Sorry, but a study based on 32 interviews across a 14 year age gap is just not worth considering. I could pick 32 people at random and ask them if they drink and if 28 of them say they don't, I am either in a non-drinking country or it's a coincidence. 32 is just too small a sample group to consider. I have two sons aged 18 and 21 and they definitely don't see sex as a hazard to manage, we have raised them to be open and honest about sex and to be respectful and considerate with women, but they certainly aren't anxious about it. The language used here sounds like alpha male bullshit, or they are asking men who have no confidence in life in general.

Wtf is "getting consent wrong"? Omg. Weird that STDs and pregnancy aren't in there. Then my favorite "sex is like trying to diffuse a bomb"...

[r/amioverreacting](r/amioverreacting) mod removed user’s post and comments, claiming that “pedo” is a slur. When the user asked why it was removed, he was muted.

Edit: a Mod of that server has entered this comment section and claimed there is “missing and twisted context,” so here is the original comment with the “context” that should allegedly lead a reasonable person to claim that“pedo” is a slur:
The “Missing” Context

When users posted screenshots the situation itself in “amioverreacting,” the posts were deleted, and they were banned.

One quote from the screenshots that particular drew contention for implying that pedophiles were a “protected class”:

“We understand that you may not personally consider the word or language you used to be a slur or believe that you intended anything hateful or bigoted.
That does not make it appropriate for this subreddit.
We moderate the language being used, not whether we believe the person using it is racist, transphobic, ableist, homophobic, or otherwise a bigot. Slurs and identity-based insults are not permitted here, including terms that some people use casually or do not personally consider offensive.
You are welcome to disagree with or criticize someone without using an identity, disability, gender, sexuality, race, or other protected characteristic as an insult.”

The posts:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AIO/s/AEGTpJOv1C

https://www.reddit.com/r/AmIOverthinking/s/WDor1Mg0Xt

Here is the immortal post on the user’s page, which cannot be deleted by moderation:
https://www.reddit.com/u/DueDistribution5502/s/NTIHPPXisb

[r/amioverreacting](r/amioverreacting) since has shut down its server and is only allowing verified posts.
[r/aio](r/aio) (where the post blew up) has similarly disabled reposts and deleted the post.

This is the Moderator Statement exactly as it was originally posted from [r/amioverreacting](r/amioverreacting):
“Moderator Statement: Clarification of Our Rules and Ongoing Harassment
Earlier today, a moderator responding to multiple conversations incorrectly identified the word "pedo" as a slur. That was a mistake, and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
Our automated moderation system uses a prohibited-word list containing primarily discriminatory slurs. It also includes terms we prohibit for entirely different reasons, including
"pedo." Because these terms are caught by the same filter, they receive the same generic removal message. In this instance, a moderator repeated that classification incorrectly.
We were wrong to call it a slur. We are not wrong to prohibit its use in this community.
We do not allow accusations of pedophilia, nor do we host discussions or debates about child sexual abuse, grooming, or exploitation. These are extremely serious matters. Unsubstantiated accusations can cause tremendous harm, and genuine situations involving the abuse or exploitation of children are not questions of whether someone is overreacting. They require appropriate intervention and support, not a Reddit comment section debating their validity.

Our volunteer team handles hundreds, sometimes more than a thousand, reports daily. Expecting moderators to manually investigate every use of a prohibited word, particularly when none of those uses would be permitted, is unreasonable. Our filters are necessary and functioning as intended.
We have also seen demands to identify, punish, or remove the moderator responsible. We are volunteers and human. A mistake in explaining a decision does not justify publicly targeting someone or invalidate an otherwise correct moderation action.
We are not changing our rules, weakening our filters, or removing moderators over this incident.
Criticism of moderation is permitted. Harassment, personal attacks, and organized attempts to disrupt another community are not. Brigading is a violation of Reddit's sitewide policies, not simply a disagreement with our subreddit rules. We are now dealing with outside interference, including vile and entirely unfounded accusations directed at our moderators not only here but on other subreddits and in modmail. As well as actual threats.

We will not make this community less safe simply to avoid having our moderation team subjected to false and vile accusations. Our responsibility is to protect this community and the people who use it, not to abandon longstanding safety policies because enforcing them has made us targets of harassment.”

It has since been slightly altered after substantial backlash and them freezing comments on the post, but so many people screenshotted, shared, and commented on the original post that it’s more relevant than the update. Also, they froze comments on it and massbanned people before updating, so any backlash to that post is drama on a different subreddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AIO/s/AEGTpJOv1C

https://www.reddit.com/r/AmIOverthinking/s/WDor1Mg0Xt

Here is the immortal post in case they make it where you can’t see it:
https://www.reddit.com/u/DueDistribution5502/s/NTIHPPXisb

I've posted about this sub here before. Exact same OP of both drama posts as well.

In the clip posted to the sub, Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed answers a question from a pro-life conservative about if he should vote for him. The main powermod of the sub asks if AES is a real ally or not and to "send receipts", causing some people to question OP's intents (each linked comment is the powermod's comment):

How come when this sub pops up on my feed it’s usually showing something vaguely anti progressive? I get being skeptical but if you think the right has something better for us you have to rethink where you stand morally…

This sub doesn’t exist to toe the line and make white people comfortable. Wrong sub for that.

Don't start this shit because the alternative is MUCH worse

Vote for whoever you like. Black people like myself can ask questions and demand answers and receipts. We aren’t children who have to do what we are told…or else. You can’t scare me. My ancestors lived and survived so I can have a voice to ask questions of anyone. The alternative is to that is much worse.

You’re asking the wrong question. Is he a better ally than the guy he is running against is the question you should be asking.

I’m asking what I’m asking. I will not be bullied into being told who to vote for the states are too high as they are always high. Nothing new. Those were old enough to see seen this cycle before.

Wtf kind of question is this? Kinda weird, OP

You don’t want me asking questions? Why ?

We're not gonna have any allies if we put each thru a historical purity check in order to be down. Also, do your own research.
What allies??? Show me allies of Black people. I’ll wait

Yeah and we ended up with Trump because of talk like yours. I would take the lesser evil of Kamala or Hilary or Biden every God damn day over the nightmare we have now.

The Democrats ran Biden. You would run him again I suppose. Brilliant. (OP)

I would vote for a sentient pile of shit over Trump. Fuck ICE. Fuck Steven Miller.

I figured you’d vote for anyone even if they aren’t an ally and will do nothing for our people. Got it. You’ve proven my point.

Detroiter here, he has my vote. Even if I didn’t agree with him, my other choice is Mike Rogers, and that’s not really a choice at all.

You vote for him because he’s gonna pass reparations? Make racism illegal? Make the KKK a terrorist organization? Make racist hiring practices and income inequality criminally illegal? Or are you just voting because of fear of more MAGA? I’m not saying who to vote for. I’m just hoping we get more for the vote than we have gotten over the past hundred years

Overall there are TONS of people calling that powermod out for what they think is astroturfing/agenda pushing.

UPDATE: the powermod posted a pinned comment on that thread where they are getting slammed.

For reference, the new mod has a LONG history of taking over womens' spaces and shilling his business. His first "official post" as a moderator was to ban discussion of sexism, which is a very relevant topic when it comes to healthcare as women face multiple layers of hostility and sexism in trying to get care. Conveniently, when this rule was criticized, he then deleted that post as well.

Several people have caught bans (we are discussing this elsewhere) for pointing out his authoritative and dismissive tone towards anyone and everyone with concerns, ranging from a simple "why was no one involved in this decision" to "why is a cis man telling us how to manage our emotions" (in his first action, he told us to go outside).

I can't even provide much in the way of proof of what's happening because he is deleting everything he doesn't like. Even posts talking about moderator code of conduct have been deleted, he's hidden himself from the moderator list (which is now just him) so that people can't report him directly.

People with no history of offenses are getting temporary and permanent bans despite the fact that those are lower on the tier and require more offenses to be the given moderator action, so he is breaking his own rules.

On a personal note I haven't seen any slurs or anything of that nature thrown his way, mostly just questioning why a man is in charge of a female space, why no one was asked about this, why specifically he is against the discussion of sexism in healthcare.

https://www.reddit.com/r/hysterectomy/comments/1x430mr/comment/pfhsoi1/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

A link to his "official first action"

OP:

https://www.reddit.com/r/whatdoIdo/comments/1x3xc4s/my_girlfriend_of_7_months_has_been_telling_hotels/

(OP is 33, his gf is 25)

Opinions vary about what, if anything the lies mean about his gf's character, and if the brownie and special treatment is worth it:

All that lying for a free brownie? It’s not like you are getting a chilled bottle of champagne. What about if you ever get married, the novelty of someone doing up your room will wear off. I would ask her to stop doing it going forward. It’s classless.. low mentality … all for a free brownie

I can see that I'll be in the minority here. I agree with the others that have posted thus far that its not the case that she is trying to rush the relationship. Her objective is free stuff. There is an integrity component. She lies easily. This is not lying to for some noble cause, say like saving the life of a child.

This is an integrity issue - same kind of person who claims their dog is a service animal, every day is their birthday, their grandmother died yesterday, and so on. I think a large part of our population sees no issues with this and a large part of our population bemoans the loss of ethics in our society today. I have dated someone who was like this - fudged on their expense forms at work, told little white lies here and there, and was always trying to work the system for free stuff. He claimed it was cultural since he was from another country.

She's being clever, you're being silly and over thinking. My wife use to do this all the time and still does. Doesn't always work but when it does, it's pretty cool. We've had free room upgrades, free drinks, meals etc.

Omg shes a genius, ima start doin that 😬, ofc they wont care to fact check 😏….also its my bday guys …. Just go along with it OP, your GF has whimsy

I feel like she deserves so much better than a bf asking reddit if he should be concerned 😭 she’s a rebel and she’s getting you free fancy stuff. What a legend.

Various users seem to think the bigger issue is OP mentioning that this is "moving too fast" to involve even fake mention of marriage/honeymoon in their 6-month relationship:

33 years old, and you're consistently worried about women "moving too fast?" Buddy, the clock is ticking.

to be fair he is probably one of those dudes that likes the 18-25 range and thinks that means he has more time

If you ate that brownie and are still complaining I hope she leaves lmfao You’re 33 and this is the second time things are moving too fast..?? 🫠😬

And finally, the evergreen sub-drama of the "age/generation gap" between a 25 and 33-year old appears, along with insinuations that OP likes "younger women" for untoward reasons or can't date someone his own age:

Are you feeling like your 25-year-old girlfriend is being childish? Perhaps you should follow that train of thought a bit longer.

Stop infantilizing a fully grown adult woman. At 25 you are old enough to be fully graduated with a Bachelor’s degree. 33 and 25 is a perfectly reasonable age gap. You’re delusional.

You'll never see the men on Reddit rise up quite so aggressively as when you suggest they shouldn't date younger women lol

Date someone your own age?

You sound like you have commitment issues and that’s why you’re dating someone in their early 20s. You seem like the problem

“i’m worried about the maturity of my girlfriend who is a full generation younger than me” - you, guy who can’t get girls his own age