TLDR: Chalks started flying after a user posted on r/Teachers with a hot take on neurodiversity and received more than 1.5k upvotes.
Link to the original thread

Context and background: The user, who self-claimed as a "case manager with a masters in Special Ed and 10 years of experience," posted on r/Teachers that neurodiversity "is a get out of jail free card and shifts blame from bad parenting to not reaffirming students' shitty behaviors."

"Going to start sending IEP paperwork late to parents that use this term and blame it on my neurodiversity," wrote the OP, "whoever coined this term should be sent to Siberia."

Obviously, Judy Singer, the Australian sociologist who coined the term in 1998, is not going to Siberia anytime soon. According to the Cambridge Dictionary, on the other hand, a "fad" is "a style, activity, or interest that is very popular for a short period of time."

Onto the drama: Many politely disagreed with the hot take.

"No, it's a reflection of flaws in a system that has ample room to repair. Blaming it on disability whether or not you think it's 'applied appropriately' is just factually incorrect."

"Hot take: neurodiversity isn't a fad; we just have a different understanding of the kids who used to be considered stupid or lazy. I personally think it's wonderful that we have a deeper understanding of learning needs now. Thing is, we didn't change our educational system beyond adding clunky IEP's on top rather than embracing Universal Design for Learning, smaller class sizes, more specialists, and on-staff mental health professionals. Because all those things cost more than we're willing to spend on our children, on our future… how embarrassing."

"I don't understand what you're saying here that neurodivergence is a fad? It was quite the process to get my kid diagnosed with autism ... As a testing coordinator, I do understand it is more work to have many kids who need accommodations, but it isn't their fault. In my day these kids would just drop out or be sent to alternative schools," a user wrote in the comments, which was awarded with a "poop."

Some also attempted to discuss the current state of the U.S. education system and IEPs from educators' perspectives.

"In a lot of places, it is mismanaged. It isn't supposed to he the get out of jail free card, but it ends up being that way. In an ideal program, we'd just be finding ways to help them meet their obligations, "a user wrote." In reality, because we are understaffed and overworked, we can't realistically add that to our workload, so it becomes the out of jail free card."

"My favorite is when I take modifications for a student and just use them for an entire class, and I'm told that now it isn't a modification. So if I make a class more inclusive for all of my students as opposed to making it obvious that my neurodivergent students need extra help, I’m part of the problem? Yeah okay."

“Removing consequences from students is the problem,” a neurodivergent professor commented and shared his story and experiences. "Bullying neurodivergent students won't fix this and only exacerbates the problem since students like me really do need different resources, skills, and support."

A user wrote the problem is the number of parents who "don't put the energy in to help their kids with these neurodivergent behaviors," not children with ADHD, autism, etc., as they always existed. The OP then attempted to "clarify" his claims.

"This is the point I was trying to make but I guess it's coming across as me saying disabilities are a fad and not real? It was geared toward the parents thinking they're the professionals and not biased parents who think everything them and their child do is right and the school is always the issue," wrote the OP, who then claimed that commenters were taking his title as face value "without reading the text box."

While many engaged in civil discussions, some posts were less than civil.

"Student who need speical accommodations should probably just be in their own classes."

"Neurodivergent is a dumb term. Most of these "modernized, inoffensive" terms are. I also think food insecurity is dumb. Lots of terms like that. Just call it what it is instead of trying to make it inoffensive."

"Agree 100% but be careful saying that shit on Reddit lol"

"I concur. I probably have about a dozen kids wearing headphones in class because it's 'too noisy and affects their tism'," wrote a teacher who buried the lede -- he was referring to students who are neither autistic nor have IEPs, 504s, etc., but just having headphones on.

"One of my buddies, a special ed teacher, asks parents if they have a finished basement. Because that's where their kid will be living until 35."

Some users were horrified by what their colleagues/teachers were thinking and by the direction the consensus of the teacher's subreddit was taking.

"Neurodiversity is not remotely a fad. Blaming people for things they can't control is a terrible mindset," wrote a user whose flair claimed as an elementary Special Ed teacher in the state of New York.

"Yikes, as someone studying to be a special education teacher, it is not great knowing that I'll have future colleagues like you who won't respect the various needs of our students. Neurodiversity is an umbrella term that covers a wide variety of disorders. Calling neurodiversity a "fad" is inaccurate and downright harmful," a commenter wrote. It got two "poop" awards and flooded with others claming she lacked classroom experiences that will teach her otherwise.

"It's not a 'fad.' Neurodiversity is an actual thing that exists and is observable. Would you say the same for anyone in your class who was LGBT, disabled physically or a different race? Would you call that a fad and blame them for everything?" a user was horrified by the increasing toxicity in the subreddit wrote, after a homophobic comment about "fads like the bisexuality explosion of the 2000s"popped up.
"The sub decends into increasing ableism with one-half upset they have to teach, and the other just outright saying they also hate their queer and physically disabled students," the user continued. "Jfc what is wrong with this sub?"

"It's really not and kinda alarming you have this perspective. I fully understand public education lacks funding that can make accessibility more time-consuming, but calling neurodiversity a "fad" is abist as shit. School is already difficult enough for neurotypical students, so think about how difficult it is for students with learning disabilities or mental health issues- we know because the education system has been failing these students for decades!"

"'Neurodiversity fad' is a red flag statement 🚩. I understand disagreeing with people misusing and abusing the term, but the term is important for those it describes. Clearly we still have a long way to go here when it comes to acceptance considering these type of black and white posts are still popular on this subreddit."

"As a neurodiverse person who is also a teacher, this is a terrible thing to say. Please take your anger out on your lazy admin, not your students."

"You could always stop teaching if you don't like working with kids…"

"Jfc what's happened to this [sub]reddit?"

"No wonder teachers aren't revolting at the rise of fascism. This post has 1k plus upvotes. SMH."

"Get out of teaching now, boomer"

And then there are the trolling and bad-faith comments.

"This is proof the Department of Ed should go."

"Watch it OP, you're coming dangerously close to committing a social justice wrongthink."

"At least SPED and 504 will disappear once the dept of ed is closed."

"IEPs will be a thing of the past if the DOE goes away."

In one reply, the OP claimed he would take down the thread. As of this post, however, that hasn't happened, and the OP has since gone quiet.

Thus, is it just a case of terrible word choice on OP's part, or do the 1.7k upvotes as of this post reflect the subreddit's public opinion on neurodiversity? You decide, and enjoy the popcorn.

comments

What a load of horseshit.

Aboslutely agree.

ah, because the BJP is so perfect

When I start to see any single party staying in power for a time that long in the same place, I start to question if it's really holding its power in a democratic way.

West Bengal almost never throws out incumbents

The rampant political violence might have something to do with that.

They turned a state that was number 2 in India in gdp and industrialisation into a wasteland

Their reforms focused on ending feudalism and improving things in rural areas and for poorer people.

They actively worked to shut down existing thriving factories with labour unrest and extortion.

"democratically" doing a lot of leg work there, if you read about how they conducted elections

fair but not always free, pretty common in India and around the world tbh

Not really, they were absolutely pinnacle in terms how they made an art form out of booth capture, rigging and "chappa" vote

If it's not Democratic it really doesn't qualify as Communism

Communism is often predicated on taking power through violence and leadership based in an (enlightened) vanguard.

r/Star_trek was a "free speech" subreddit around star trek intended to counter the main subreddit which seemingly accepts absolutely no criticism or negative discussion around star trek.

A while back (a few months to a year ish) r/Star_Trek was banned, depending on who you believe the sub was banned for one/all of the following reasons.

• The single moderator didn't moderate and allowed clearly inappropriate content to fill the subreddit.
• The single moderator had a highly questionable post history, blamed star treks issues on diversity and was himself banned.
• Paramount paid off reddit to ban the subreddit. (based on comments in the sub currently)

About 1 day ago the subreddit suddenly became active again under a now deleted user account. It filled with posts like.

• "holy shit we're back' - https://www.reddit.com/r/Star_Trek/comments/1gpyxno/holy_shit_were_back/
• "I just wanted to say it's great having the best Star Trek sub back." - https://www.reddit.com/r/Star_Trek/comments/1gq1h22/i_just_wanted_to_say_its_great_having_the_best/

Shortly after the new moderator made a post addressed the sub and asking people to fill him in on what they wanted, how things should work. https://www.reddit.com/r/Star_Trek/comments/1gqdg8f/comment/lwxf5uq/

The posts on the sub continued

• "Discovery was absolute garbage and Stacy Abrams should never have been on that damn show" - https://www.reddit.com/r/Star_Trek/comments/1gqf1j9/discovery_was_absolute_garbage_and_stacy_abrams/
• "[Not a right-wing sub] One day before this sub was banned in January 2023 … there was a poll asking its members where they line up politically:" - https://www.reddit.com/r/Star_Trek/comments/1gqc8s5/not_a_rightwing_sub_one_day_before_this_sub_was/

In these and other posts the (old) new moderator can be seen arguing with people about what's alright, what the subreddit is for. All these comments are now deleted. In the Discovery was absolute garbage post you can scroll down for some partially deleted comment chains.

Shortly after all this (some time this morning) all the existing threads are suddenly locked, the moderator panel is empty and the moderators account is deleted.

There appears to be a new moderator as of a few minutes ago.

New York state has been experiencing droughts lately, causing a few related articles to be posted to r/newyork.

18-year-old NY parks worker dies fighting wildfires

Consequences of climate change are real. Rest in peace

There have been nearly 20,000 wild fires in New York since 1973. The worst years on record are 1930-34. 1963, and 1989 were also notably bad, with there being 603 wildfires in 89 alone. There have only been 15 wildfires in New York this year. This year is actually very mild.

Don't say that! How will they blame it on climate change!

True but I think this fire was man made, no?

Stop questioning the liberal talking point. Get in line!

[Comment removed by moderator]

I take it back I hope many many more kids die due to wild fires in ny for years to come 🤗

Why is he so down voted? The article has no mention on climate change. 95% of wildfire occurrence is by humans. Seriously no idea why climate change is the topic here.

Just because a local television news station doesn't address climate change in their 30 second clip doesn't mean that having like two days of rain since August isn't the primary factor of these wildfires (This one goes back and forth for a while...)

REAL QUESTION:: NYS had zero trained fire professionals available?

Again why are you being down voted? You had a real valid question. Ppl just down voted stuff they don't want to hear or learn about now? "Instead CLIMaTe changee" and u get up votes. I was wondering that myself. Im not entirely sure if parks should even be at a wildfire. Do they even get training too? Forest fires are so inherently dangerous because they are so unpredictable. Does he have training to be there at current ongoing fire?

Because the article says multiple agencies are working to fight this and thousands of acres are on fire. Do you guys read the article or do you just ask questions and wonder why you’re downvoted? Don’t bother answering I don’t care

You angered the 15 year old Liberal mob.

Volunteer firefighter is arrested on suspicion of starting New York brush fire (Note: This is an unrelated fire from the first article)

Not surprising. Most firefighters have serious issues.

Lmfao idiot

It’s true. I watched a few Rescue Me episodes years ago.

lmao that’s not true. they’re not the police

But in the other thread (about the parks employee who died) I was ordered to jump to conclusions that it was climate change! (Which probably played a small role.)

It hasn’t rained in any significant way since like August. It is climate change that lead to the conditions that allow these fires to spread. In this case it was an asshole who threw a match into a tinder box. Other times it’s lightning, a downed power line, a camper lacking care etc. the reality is the conditions exist because we are in a drought. These sorts of events will pick up in frequency and severity, apparently in the not so distant future, so talk shit now, I’ll pray next time it isn’t your back yard or mine

Oh, like I said, climate change is a small factor. Dried-out trees and brush are a problem. But if you read the virtue signaling in the other thread, which was directed at a firefighter of all people, you'll see what I'm talking about.

BTW I fully recognize climate change as a real threat, and I strongly suspect that humans are responsible. I'm not some right wing nut climate denier.

Copy that, ill take your word for it on the other thread being a trash can. Most every thread has been for the last 6 months lmao

https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWars/s/Bug5yVrT2v

Does your Star wars flag have added stripes to mimic real world Nazi banners?

You know they were designed after Nazis right? And this was a commercially sold Star Wars product? If you are trying to insinuate I am a Nazi you are extremely wrong...

Empire really did nothing wrong.

Next, you guys are gonna complain about that. Storm troopers are called storm troopers. News!!! everybody george lucas based the Empire on nazi Germany.So if there's similarities, that's because there is supposed to invoke a sense of evil. It's done on purpose.

Please show me an actual picture of Neo Nazis using this flag and I'll take it down...

The mod post confirming that submissions sexualizing RLM hosts in any manner will be banned

The comic that triggered the mods

Most users are taking the piss, such as in this post where the comic is posted again

Another mod post recommending that the "unwanted" redditors go to other, sillier RLM-adjacent subs

A third post referencing the drama with some more discussion

-- ".....I think it's time we all logged off"

-- A bizarre sticking point for RLM fans over the years is brought up: former periodic RLM cast member, Jessi

-- "Gotta love the Streisand effect in action"

-- "The sub forgot to take their diabetes medicine this morning."

-- A fourth post praising RLM, specifically regarding the channel growing out of its earlier, "edgier" humor

-- Top comment praising Jay for his love and praise for LGBTQ+ creators and media

-- "But honestly, fuck Caitlin Jenner in general though for any number of reasons not related to gender or sexuality lol"

-- More discussion centered around Caitlin Jenner

-- One of several conversations about I Saw the TV Glow

-- "I can’t fathom living in constant fear of a harmless group that makes up like 1% of the population"

-- "As a gay man, I’d love to appreciate his growth."

-- "There's still a couple times they've fallen short."

-- "Youtubers are terrified of the woke mob."

-- The T-slur is brought up

-- "Oh my god shut up "

Children = Number of Comments under linked comment. Count seen in old reddit.

Drama (1.)

67 Children. Drama over Jedi Portrayal, Woke, & if Moral Ambiguity is needed.

• This stinks pretty badly of “woke ruined the thing I like”. Granted, you didn’t mention woke, but it seems like a political complaint more than anything of substance.
• The Jedi have always been depicted like that in stuff set before the prequels in the expanded content. They're keeping with canon, it's just that lots of people didn't engage with expanded content until it was in TV show form. 6 points.

Ahh the escapism card. Please. Grow up.

• Philosophy in storytelling is crucial, though. look outside: the World we live in is in shambles. Wars ongoing and cropping up everywhere, social unrest, all the large World powers are either turning severely autocratic or even considering a convicted felon for President... do we not need something better to look for and get inspiration from? Something more pure and heroic? Something that shows we can indeed do better? I believe we lost that art, and modern writers are completely UNABLE to inspire anyone to be better than themselves with this narrow-minded repetitive topics. 20 points. (Trump / Cop Drama below here)

ORANGE MAN - BAD! DEMENTIA MAN WITH CRACKHEAD GUN FELON SON - GOOD!

It’s like ACAB finally found its way to Star Wars. CIS men bad!

13 Children. Drama over Fire in Space.

• Why are Star Wars fans so picky about when they complain about fire in space? Space explosions have been around since A New Hope. Why do they complain about it some days, and other days it doesn’t matter? 15 points.

Why can't things explode in space?

There are two issues. The main one is the visual style of the cinematic universe and maintaining a coherent vision. We have never seen campfires in space before in star wars.

Secondly is the physics / engineering / technologies.

/

There was literally a star destroyer on fire in the OT. Star wars physics are fascinating and operate on laws different than our universe. point one: there is sound in soace, it can be inferred that star wars space is not a complete vacume.

...

The only agenda this show has is to tell a star wars story about a pair of twins, one dark and one light, showcase some jedi kung fu, and entertain people. If women of color being the main characters is such a problem star wars was never for them in the first place

Marques Brownley, known by his alias MKBHD, is a YouTuber who mainly reviews cars and tech devices. Today, he posted a video of what most are calling a 10-minute sponsored advertisement for an action camera.

In the original version of this video, at around the 7:30 mark there was a 5-second clip of him doing a launch of his Lamborghini, blurring out the center dash's speed reading. What he did NOT blur out, however, was the second speed reading on the Lambo's passenger-side display showing that he went at least 96 miles per hour. Furthermore, users saw that he did this while in a 35 MPH speed limit zone as well as passing a sign indicating children crossing.

Video showing this in further detail

Reddit mirror of full YouTube video showing the Lambo incident

A few hours later, Marques edits out this 5-second clip from the video without having to take the whole video down and re-upload it, keeping its view count.

YouTube comments point this out, and Marquez responds saying the clip "added nothing to the video" without mentioning anything about the legality of what was shown.

Commenters still aren't having it and continue to criticize him, until Marquez finally caves in and issues an apology for what he calls "something pretty stupid" and "absolutely inexcusable and dangerous".

____________________

Reddit discusses...

In r/ youtube:

"Lol, this online conversation is bothering you so much that you're stalking my history? Get a life."

"Stop trying to cancel people like this. Just stop the cancel culture"

"A driving ban? For speeding? Thankfully you aren’t a cop."

"Your bio [Speed limits are government overreach] is wrong and so are you"

"Wow— truly impressive how much Mob mentality can take hold of people. Dude messed up twice in what, 15 years?? And you’re gonna call him a loser? A shitty person? How perfect are you?"

"You people are foaming at the mouth for a reason to cancel MKBHD just like you all did with Mr. Beast"

"...if you're gonna go after MKBHD, you're gonna have to go after him and every other car reviewer and car enthusiast channel."

"Oh no he drove like a asshole not much anyone can do lmao his consequences will come" [-126 votes]

In r/ youtubedrama:

"people don’t want apologies, they want drama and chaos and to see people fail"

"Geez, ya'll just want to see the downfall of every YouTuber huh? It's honestly weird how personal people are taking this."

"He’s going like 60 mph…. This is kilometers." --"He is American, so it is in miles."

In the un-official MKBHD subreddit:

"Can't wait for the drama. Now that the hate on the wallpaper app died down Reddit gotta find something new. I wonder how big this will get."

"Yall need to go touch grass"

"Maybe you can get a full time job stopping speeders and save the world"

Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/NoShitSherlock/comments/1goxilw/latino_men_just_didnt_want_a_woman_president/

A tiktoker made a video asking Latino men "why is it you can't accept a woman running the country when you let your mother run your entire lives?" I laughed my ass off.

And may these same Latino men get everything they voted for.

So they’re just too “macho” to have brain cells?

Libs loved people of color until they didn’t fall in line

Ok so we've blamed white men, now latino men, whose next white women?

Honestly, scrolling these subs gives me a weird feeling that leftist activists think all Latinos hopped the wall or something. Idk, but sounds quite racist to me.

They've repeatedly fallen for dictators over and over in history, so it's not surprising.

Love seeing a dozen posts urging people not to blame a single demographic like Latinos, POC, Roganites, etc. And then see 500 posts blaming those exact groups. This is literally the exact reason they voted against us lmao

You know, as a straight white man, it's really nice that a different demographic is being blamed for the DNC's fuckups.

I’m so glad we finally found a way to turn identity politics into overt racism. Being racist is so much easier than self-reflection, let’s keep promoting this.

In a subreddit about LiesofP a soulslike game based on Pinocchio, user TrippyPal responds to game ranking with "Couldn't care less tbh. It doesn't mean anything" and gets banned from the community.

Yes but everyone can see you abused your mod privileges, they asked and he gave an honest answer, he wasn't being rude and you removed his comment in that thread, then got him banned cause you were butthurt

Show me where I abused my privileges? You think it's a privilege having to moderate your asses? ...

Your reputation is sullied entirely by the way you responded to this thread.

I'm done being bombarded by fucking ignorant, ungrateful, online warrior ass users. You're damn lucky I tolerate it

Escalates further by harassing users into opening their DMs so he can send "proof" of reports made against TrippyPal

editing for full original thread link: https://www.reddit.com/r/JRPG/comments/1gowgug/too_sexy_for_steam_animestyle_dungeon_jrpg_tokyo/

A user posted a link to a game that was said to be banned on steam for being "too sexy". It is quickly revealed that the game was actually banned for sexualizing minors. This goes about as well as one would think.

The aforementioned comment thread is a gold mine on its own. One user argues it's low iq to compare pedophilia with attraction to drawn cp:

I don't like polish [sic] but I just find it disingenuous ti compare it to actual pedophilia I think that's the sign of a low iq person, I do think it's weird sure and it's nit my thing but it's not pedophilia, it's weird despite that.

Another upvoted comment argues that fantasizing about pedophilia through drawings can't actually be pedophilia because it's fictional, in a very convoluted string of back and forth and some golden quotes:

Correct, pedophilia is the attraction to children. Since we’re talking about drawings, not children, it’s not pedophilia.

Nobody is “fantasizing about children” — again, we’re discussing drawings, which aren’t real and cannot be harmed

Or is it possible to like something in fiction while despising it in real life?

Nothing, that’s absolutely sick. Drawings on the other hand? they’re cute and funny :) not much more I can say about that. Your argument about “attraction to kids” doesn’t work because nobody here is attracted to kids.

A branching thread of the goldmine comment devolves into "why can I murder children in video games but not want to fuck them":

One including an extremely graphic reenactment of child murder in RimWorld

You can kill kids in RimWorld. You can tie them down and remove organs and limbs while they're still alive, sell them off to slavery, or just use them as meat-shields. Shoot them, burn them to death, watch as claws/jaws of beasts rip them apart. And after they're dead, cannibalize their meat.

Or this OP chime in

Seems crazy that they're okay with gore in games like Corpse Party and Chaos;Child but swimsuits are banned.

And then yet ANOTHER branching thread of goldmine comment highlights that these twelve year-olds can't really be twelve because their boobs are too big:

Since when do 12 year olds have B to D cup breasts? I swear, aside from being incapable to distinguish exaggerated anime drawings from reality, some of the takes I read here are beyond insanity.

Hint: 12 year olds don't have D cups. Thus they cannot look like 12 year olds. Let alone exaggerated anime characters with eyes as large as fists.

This defense also shows up another time the post

From my knowledge 12 year olds don't have B or even D cup breasts. The delusions here...

There's even some bonus juice of commenters flexing that their families and friends know about their loli fetish and accept them for it:

quote 1

Record you telling your mom, dad, grandparents, and coworkers you''re excited for this game and show them the trailer, I'll buy you a copy of it if they can all manage to not look disgusted or disappointed in you.

My dear mother knew my hobbies since I was a teenager obsessed with anime and games. I turned 40 this year and my hobbies and passion for this remained. Everyone who knows me knows this. As an old man all I can tell you is that you kids will eventually learn that at some point you end up giving a f*ck what other's think about you. If you are ashamed for what you enjoy and like you are quite pathetic from my point of view.

quote 2

So show this to your dad and boss and see if they can manage to ever look you in the eye again

You keep saying this like a gotcha, but my relatives and friends know, so...🗣

Most of the heavily downvoted comments in this thread come from a lone user that seems to strike a nerve:

quote 1

That’s not the argument being made—no one here said watching anime makes random people molest children.

The argument is being attracted to kids is attraction to kids. Not that you’ll do anything with it. Or even that you’re okay with it.

Explain to the crowd what you enjoy about seeing little girls doing sexual content.

Cause I can easily explain why GTA is fun despite not wanting to commit most crimes irl. But explain to me the appeal of seeing drawn middle schoolers getting massaged.

Don’t bother replying if you aren’t going to do that. I’ll just reply “lol knew it” and then mute reply notifications

“It’s just a drawing” isn’t an answer—why do you want this specific thing drawn

quote 2

Why aren’t you into fictional adults?

What about fictional children is appealing to you over adults?

Do you confess your attraction to fictional children to real life adults? Would you be okay showing this “just fiction” to real life children of the same age? Why not? It’s just fiction

All in all, loli fans are never beating the loli fans allegations. Made for quite the read on a Monday night.

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnethicalLifeProTips/s/wZUvo5UlkN

PoliticalCompassMemes is a subreddit that shares memes about the Political compass. However the subreddit is more of a libertarian subreddit that blames all the problems on leftists recently.

A post got made today about a Minnesota man who murdered his family and supposedly it was related to trump winning the election. So some PCM users blame the media.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalCompassMemes/s/Yn0kroGAUQ

So long as we keep the same energy for alt media, like when the Buffalo shooter killed out of fear of the Great Replacement, or when the Christchurch shooter did the same thing.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalCompassMemes/s/gJQliM0sPl

I hardly think you can hold anyone responsible or accountable besides the person who did this.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalCompassMemes/s/1WM5acfToj

We can hold the left accountable for the fearmongering.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalCompassMemes/s/kOWKx4jKxB

biden and kamala should come out and admit that their rhetoric about project 2025 and republicans being fascist is not only false but super divisive, harmful and in cases like this even deadly.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalCompassMemes/s/dcpczf6D8D

Why don't we see if project 2025 is actually a hoax first. I've see too many people be like "p 2025 is not real, but it actually has some good ideas". An event like this one is a tragedy done by someone who was sick and deranged, blaming it on politics is a stretch

https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalCompassMemes/s/FTHXTAYNh0

it is propaganda, you fell for it

https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalCompassMemes/s/QoCBoHSant

schizophrenia

Man with voices in his head does schizo thing. In his opinion...

why are be believing him? Why is it the media's fault?

What ever happened to crazy?](https://www.tiktok.com/@jamesronald77/video/7096808410296962309?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc)

https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalCompassMemes/s/z2MmKPM7GE

Yes, we should be intolerant.

That line was somewhere between Public degeneracy and transitioning kids.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalCompassMemes/s/MLFjoDo2Na

The left thinks the rhetoric is just fine and doesn't need to be changed and that trump deserves it. They doubled down after the assassination attempts lol.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalCompassMemes/s/yvC3A74G6x

Well yes, a control freak, psychopath, idiot, and mentally ill all at once.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalCompassMemes/s/kauVFiYTwH

You could just say American Leftist, it's quicker.

I also wanted to share this

https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalCompassMemes/s/tWvvdcida7

This families blood is on the fearmongering lefts hands.

Does that mean the families of the Christchurch shooting, the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, and the El Paso Walmart shooting are on the fearmongering right's hands?

To a lesser degree, yes.

BTW I would appreciate a thanks. I think looking at PCM makes me worse.

Update: r/KarmaCourt mods lock and delete the thread, citing excessive harassment against the defendant, calling a mistrial and sentencing both parties to purple nurples.

https://www.reddit.com/r/KarmaCourt/s/jUVapnS60L

In a subreddit about burritos and the Chipotle experience, one user offered to delete his Reddit account if Trump won the election, but failed to follow through with deleting his account. Posts across r/chipotle and elsewhere have proliferated over the past week, with hundreds of Reddit users urging the losing bettor to delete his account. Losing bettor can't help but to respond to everything, against the advice of some who tell him to ignore it/take a break until it cools over.

4 months ago, two r/Chipotle members make a bet, for either to delete their Reddit account based on who wins the election.

5 days ago, the winning bettor is reminded of the wager, and creates a meta-tagged post on r/chipotle to inform the 114,000 subscriber community, encouraging the losing bettor to delete his account.

With a karma score over 4,200, 1,600 comments and 12 awards, this is currently the third most popular post to r/chipotle in the past month. The post has nothing to do with r/Chipotle, merely the drama of its subscribers. No matter what the losing bettor says, he is flooded with responses telling him merely to delete his account. He has been advised by many to just stop engaging with the masses, go away for a few days and let this blow over, yet seemingly can't help himself and continues to attempt to justify himself and engage with everyone.

On the same day as the original post about the bet, a 3rd party posts a poll asking if people who back out of their bets should be banned from r/chipotle. The voters decide overwhelmingly YES, by a score of 105 to 38.

4 days after this, the winning bettor posts a screenshot of the poll results, generating yet another highly popular post (by r/chipotle standard), getting 1,600 karma and 400+ comments, further stirring the pot. Inquiring minds want to know who each of the betting participants are, their motives, and what is next.

17 hours ago, the winning bettor brings the case to r/KarmaCourt. As of writing, this is the most upvoted post on r/KarmaCourt in the past year. Sides are quickly taken, evidence is presented, prosecutors are identified, and a judge is established.

Absolutely ridiculous persistance from all parties on a nonsensical topic for someone to *delete their Reddit account* over a presidential election, all within a burrito forum. Should Redditors be expected to honor their commitments? Does any of this matter?

Edit: I forgot to add, the losing bettor continuously insists he's held up his end of the deal, because he chose to delete some alt account of his, not the account that made the bet. The masses are not having it.

Background: It has been a common thread in city/local area subreddits to ask about pro-Trump businesses to avoid. Pretty much all of these discussions devolve into name-calling, because apparently conservatives now find boycotts to be childish (despite "go woke go broke" being the phrase on all of their lips four years ago).

In the West Chester, PA subreddit, the search for a pro-Trump restaurant list is met with resistance, and a mod decides to embrace free speech, let chaos unfold, and even throw out a few slurs of his own to spice things up!

{r-slur}

Hey, regardless of politics, it’s really hurtful toward developmentally disabled people to use that as an insult. I’m genuinely not trying to start an argument, just hoping we can all be a little kinder in this world. ❤️

{This is a mod!} this is america

...Republicans aren't as emotionally charged as Dems. So glad I'm no longer a Democrat after I spent time doing research on various pro Democratic and pro Republican news sources...

{Same mod!!} do your own research is the motto for {r-slur s} who shouldn't have internet access. fuck off.

[Why would you want to avoid a restaurant because of the owner’s political alignment

?](https://www.reddit.com/r/westchesterpa/s/JtXiIT1lHm)

aren’t you the guys who boycotted M&M’s over the green one not being sexy enough anymore?

Except that maybe they cheated. Not saying they did, but it's definitely possible to do.

So you’re saying that they cheated? One could say that Democrats cheated in 2020. Do you remember what happened then?

It’s one thing to disagree about politics but this is about morals that are fundamental to me. I’m going to do what I can to not support people/ businesses who vote for someone who surrounds himself with legitimate racists.

Sounds like you want to live in a 3rd world country that puts its political opponents in jail. {This is wild considering Trump is talking about jailing all his political opponents.}

This post is awful. I'm appalled at the topic, and surprised by supporting responses. What's wrong with you people?

{That same super civil mod from before} fuck you

And then there's this dude popping up to say "you're an idiot" like 10 different times throughout the comment section. It's sort of like a bonus Where's Waldo.

Perky the rat is a very very very fat rat that has been a favorite of the subreddit for a while, and even has her own spin-off sub where her owner posts images and videos of her and his other rats. Today the mod announced that they have found out that Perky is almost certainly actually just obese and wont be allowing their owner to post her anymore. Most likely she is actually being overfed and fed unhealthy food, and so are all the other rats the owner has and had.

A user makes a thread claiming Perky is fine. Comments don't seem to really believe that is true. Several users are fairly upset at the mods for allowing this to happen.

The fact that the mods just took it at face value and caped extremely hard for the owner too… even going so far as to create a custom flair (Medical Issue (NOT ABUSE)) for perky posts too? it was weird and I hope they learned from it.

Yeah what makes it worse is that the mods weren't upfront about it. They could've just stickied a comment saying "Owner has told us that Perky has a medical condition, we choose to give them the benefit of the doubt and are allowing these posts."

Instead, here's a mod stickied comment from two days ago: "Mods have properly vetted the situation and deemed there to be no abuse. (...) Edit: keep reporting it losers, its staying up🤣🤣🤣🤣"

I think it's understandable that people believed the mods when they said they'd vetted the situation, because the mods have, to their credit, shown in the past to truly care about rats. So this seems like an uncharacteristically big fuck up. I truly don't understand why they would pretend that they had vetted the situation when they had not.

Either way, none of this matters as much as the health and wellbeing of poor Perky and Satan. I wish I could do something for them. Poor sweet babies.

Super interesting, I went back to look at recent perky posts bc I did see the exact mod comment you’re referring to (“keep reporting, losers”), and it looks like it may have been deleted. Funny, that.

GDPR for a rat? Is this guy insane? I believe that when the mods asked for further proof of Perky’s condition, her owner shat himself and got all defensive because he’s most likely an abusive owner that feeds his rats too much. Poor babies.

One user also calls out the mods of another sub for still supporting the owner.

He's also trying to get support on r/ratsratsrats - It isn't working, despite the moderators actively supporting him (scum) Edit: I just got permabanned there for asking "why isn't "no animal abuse" one of the rules?" He's made his own subreddit for Perky. - It's not going to get any traction, I don't think he's going to try growing it. He's posted 3 separate videos on his youtube channel, with Perky looking fairly active and loved but he's acting deranged in them. The number of things he's trying to do other than provide the requested evidence is classic "I lied and got caught" behaviour. I have no doubt he loves Perky and his other rats but love doesn't make you a good owner. It can make some of the worst owners.

People on that sub aren't reacting well to the stickied post supporting Perky's owner.

Some users claim they were affraid of speaking up and that they were threatened with bans from the mods

It was more so how locked down the posts were. There was no negativity or questioning allowed - and this was Mod pinned to every post. I think that scared a lot of ppl, or they assumed that the guy had provided photo proof of perkys age and condition.

I assumed that the owner had provided proof. That and the threat of a ban for questioning or coming off as “negative” kept me from ever commenting.

Exactly, me too! I was worried about getting banned or suspended, so I assumed due diligence was done for that level of strictness. If it wasn't and just based on his word, that's unfortunate and disheartening.

It was so weird that people were allowed to comment on overfeeding on other posts but Perky, the most overfed rat on here, somehow had a pass for an undisclosed “medical condition” so that they could just avoid consequences. And everyone believed it?

So many people tried to speak up. One even pointed out the size of the other rats + unsuitable foods Perky had been filmed eating. All shouted down by well-meaning people. Lessons to be learned here.

More posts are made on the topic.

Some are general discussion posts.

Others are more venty. One mod claims they have contacted animal protection and given them information on Perky's owner.

Some are handling it with memes.

One user with medical knowlege posts a PSA about fatty disposits.

People also pass out tips for helping their pet rats lose weight

UPDATE: Seems the owner has now deleted all their rat content from Reddit and YouTube. I found a screenshot on Imgur that shows several pics of Perky. As you can tell she used to be a lot less fat in several pics, then in other more recent ones she's massive. EDIT 2: This link from u/swinglinepilot is even clearer.

As a hilarious twist to the GME hivemind. I'll post some threads

https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/1gl5zfx/ryan_cohen_on_twitter/

Main instigator - Ryan Cohen, post election tweeted https://x.com/ryancohen/status/1854235554386227225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1854235554386227225%7Ctwgr%5E3408ed6e4496921881a1070fdb04ecb38564afa3%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fembedly.forbes.com%2Fwidgets%2Fmedia.html%3Ftype%3Dtext2Fhtmlkey%3D3ce26dc7e3454db5820ba084d28b4935schema%3Dtwitterurl%3Dhttps3A%2F%2Fx.com%2Fryancohen%2Fstatus%2F1854235554386227225image%3D

"Its cool to be a white guy again"

Following that he begun to like pro Trump posts on various social media on how it'll be a golden age of the economy and like a few common "get fucked, libs" memes

Background - R/Superstonk was a subreddit born out of the 2021 GME craze on WSB. During that time period, WSB got an influx of weirdly pro left users who sees the stock as sticking it to the capitalists. During that time AMC, Silver, Bed Bath Beyond, etc were also meme stocks. A few users got mad that focus was bring driven away from GME and WSB OGs wanted less GME spam. Thus r/superstonk was created. Superstonk got most of the new users who lean heavily leftwing, not saying its bad, but they consist of people who are new to stocks and see it as a rallying cry and a way to bring down capitalism and get rich. Dissent is banned and every week they praise Ryan Cohen as "Daddy", Jesus Christ, and a 500 iq genius.

After his support for Trump, the users after 3 years realize the billionaire is NOT leftwing

Criticism threads I found funny, there are thousands these past few days

https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/1gl5zfx/ryan_cohen_on_twitter/lvrnojy/

Fuck Ryan Cohen what an obnoxious child. Can't believe I ever believed in him.

• This user been in the sub for awhile and looking through history he had said, "RC has done more praxis than Bernie Sanders"

https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/1gl5zfx/ryan_cohen_on_twitter/lvs3jwk

Pretty sure our goose is cooked. I invested with money I could afford to lose, so I'm not going anywhere. I also don't expect anything to happen. RC feels like a low key plant. Either way, there's nothing I can do now. Probably won't be buying anymore shares. 🤷‍♂️

https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/1gl5zfx/ryan_cohen_on_twitter/lvrnef8/

I've been out of the loop. Last time I was here RC was cool. The fuck happened?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/1gl5zfx/ryan_cohen_on_twitter/lvrfjrk/

This guy really is a clown. I’m here for the money, but RC is no different than the other billionaires. Not sure why he was held in such great light prior to the repetitive political tweets. He’s insufferable

https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/1gl5zfx/ryan_cohen_on_twitter/lvrr3uv/

At this stage, does anyone feel like we’re just being played? Wtf

There are more good ones, but I'm lazy

Hopium/defenders that I find funny

Context - There is a large portion who believe he is 509 iq and this is a play. They also think the criticism are false flags from Citadel and Wall Street with their bots and to hold the line

https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/1gl5zfx/ryan_cohen_on_twitter/lvuc9vz/

Seems like everyone here forgot about Gamestop.

MOASS is an event that has literally never happened before. A group of individual investors as raucous as us have never happened before. This level of DD/research has never been done before. Exposing this level of market fuckery has never been done before. Activism like this has never happened before. Passion like this has never happened before:

Everything about this is un-fucking-precedented.

RC, LC, GME BOARD receives $0 salary + $0 stock option = $0 compensation, and 0 seats on the board without direct investment. A billionaire's money is on the line, with other billionaire's, and billionaires like their money. Our dilution is their dilution. Sure they have more money, but it's still dilution.

In a rigged market, rigged shit happens. I'd love MOASS, so would the board - if it weren't going to be followed by tons of lawsuits looking at RC & Co. dissecting every single meme and tweet out there as if it were market manipulation - it happened from the stuff store stock, so why would that not happen after one of the biggest moments in American Market history? Don't be blind to any possibility positive or negative; play whatever game you want how you want with whatever build; however, if you are feeling defeated now, you won't be ready for the boss fight.

Level up, bitches.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/1gl5zfx/ryan_cohen_on_twitter/lvvapax/

SOOOOO many bots… can y’all not see what’s happening? They employ these bots for negative sentiment to turn us again him. CAN NO ONE SEE THIS?! Yall are letting the Hedgies win

https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/1gl5zfx/ryan_cohen_on_twitter/lvtigw1/

Drown out the shills with FACTS: GameStop is profitable, debt-free, cash-rich, with a strong investor base all over the world. No amount of negative comments will change reality.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/1gl5zfx/ryan_cohen_on_twitter/lvtigw1/

Cohen works for FREE and has turned around the company along with the amazing board of directors and execs. I'm fucking PUMPED and I just bought more shares. If you believe that Cohen is a doofus, then short it...

I MIGHT edit and post more, but I think I did a fair job showing both sides

Edits - Comments I linked after the post is made

https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/1gl5zfx/ryan_cohen_on_twitter/lvrjs3u/

The real question is why did so many of you think he was any different than the other billionaire?

Replies to that comment -

• I didn't, but I did see him as a threat to other billionaires.

• Ya hanging out with Icahn lol he’s a threat to the establishment totally. How do people get duped by rich people every time.

• I can almost guarantee he brags to his buddy’s about his fanatical group of supporters that he doesn’t give a fuck about. Anyone want another round of dilution?

• Because every single person in here, thinks that they will someday be rich. They want to be like RC and therefore will provide a pass bc they will be just like him. Ironically, this is what the magats think about Drumpf.

• Well, I’ve seen his interviews while he did the Chewy IPO and he seemed like a really chill and down to earth dude. Plus, end of 2020 and beginning of 2021 with all the pictures around the stores. He felt like a different dude. Not sure what changed.

• Name another company with similar valuation whose CEO pay themselves 0$ per year

• not all billionaires are bad. so what happens after MOASS , u become a billionaire bec of GME shares, so now u become the bad guy? i hope i become a billionaire with MOASS

https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/1gl5zfx/ryan_cohen_on_twitter/lvsb6yq/

I wonder if all this is his way of telling us he’s not our friend /

Chill out w the weird ‘daddy/papa/RC is my dad’ stuff

Don’t invest what you can’t afford to lose

Etc, etc

Investing is a financial investment. It shouldn’t be emotional.

• He’s never been our friend. He has a vested interest in turning around GameStop. We have a vested interest in GameStop not going under. That’s as far as we come to being on the same side.

MOASS is bad for GameStop as a company. At the same time, the threat of MOASS is useful for ensure GameStop has everything it needs to survive.

RC, for the moment, will do his best to ensure MOASS doesn’t happen while simultaneously ensuring it will still be on the table.

Long term, I believe the best path for him is getting institutions dependent on GMEs success while slowly working to help them unwind their positions.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/1gl5zfx/ryan_cohen_on_twitter/lvrnb3g/

Maybe it's a strategy. Being a hateful misogynist bigot clearly gets you rewarded.

I dunno, it's been a shitty fucking week for me since Sunday. The last thing I need is this GME insurance policy to evaporate after spending years to build up XXXX shares. The world is upside-fucking-down.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/1gl5zfx/ryan_cohen_on_twitter/lvrjfza/

It's time to be honest, most of America clearly loves this shit. It might not be so bad for business

https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/1gl5zfx/ryan_cohen_on_twitter/lvrjbnn/

I find it hilarious that ANY of you think RC ever gave a shit about you or what you thought. He's a billionaire - his only interest has been, is, and will be, to himself and his investment portfolio. We've all been useful idiots and stooges to increasing how much money he has, and at the first sign he might lose some of it he will drop GME like a bad habit.

So it makes sense that RC wants to follow in Musk's footsteps and troll the fuck out of everyone since it's worked so well for him.

LMAO

https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/1gl5zfx/ryan_cohen_on_twitter/lvrzq54/

Pretty Fly for a White Guy came out on 9th of November. Do with that information what you will.

League of Legends, a 16-year old game still receiving frequent supports and updates, is consistenly known for having a poor client. In the game, there are friends lists to play with your friends. Some social features, such as clubs, have been removed in recent years. The game annually makes billions in revenue. Riot is league's developer.

Original Post

It makes the game look bad.

My friends already stopped playing.

If Riot thinks they get to decide for you how private you get to be, then Riot deserves to lose players.

Wahh wahh im scared of my own friends and this is somehow Riot's fault

The people who don't understand how saying no over and over to the same person are socially awkward, saying no so many times is hard.

Your friends not taking the hint is exactly the social awkwardness that people

are talking about lmao

So now we're not blaming people people who want to appear offline, we go

after their friends? Cool

Maybe find friends that aren't (mentally) 12 then

and why not remove them from friends at that point? Unironically if you feel

the need to have offline mode because someone seeing you online makes you uncomfortable, you should probably remove them from friends

It's not that hard to say no

Some people want to relax sometimes (paragraph)

Is this a spot the fallacies excercise?

They literally lost me for a good 5 years because they didn't have this and I feel bad saying no to friends when they invite me.

Sounds like a personal problem

Or that riot could just be like every single other online platform with a chat function which obviously did not make a feature to cater to specifically me

You need therapy, not league

They could find you playing games on op.gg(site that tracks league games)

[It's like PTO. I need a day off]

[that's psycho]

No, i dont spare you. If you dont want to play with someone then you just saying NO. If you dont like to play with someone, delete them from the list. It's problem in your head because you dont know how to say "no".

Literally just say "I want to play on my own right now". It's really that simple.

I do this constantly and people get upset after multiple days of refusing to queue normals or flex with their silver elo friends while I'm fighting my balls off in diamond games

If your friends get upset that you want space, they’re not your friends

[Well that's their problem, not yours. (15 children)]

(https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/1gncml9/why_is_appear_offline_still_not_a_feature_in_2024/lw9pn7l/)

Saying no hurts your friends' feelings. You're being defensive.

No I just don't think it's that difficult to actually communicate with your friends instead of trying to hide from them.

Touch grass

I can actually communicate with my friends as an adult LMAO

Your view is a simplistic reddit r/relationships view. Things are often more complicated (paragraph)

This is my first SRD post, looking for feedback.

Almost every single thread has a mountain of downvoted replies to it with petty bickering between users from top to bottom!

We moved from the Iowa side in July. It was such a relief to sell our house in Davenport in September.

Yet, do you still go to Iowa for gas?

I go to Costco for gas, as I have every time I have filled my tank in the last 14 years.

You sound like youre full of shit cuz costcos been here like 5 years maximum. It's also only in Iowa.

One user accuses them of being a Chicago based Sock Puppet account

On one comment thread where someone mentions being happy they left Illinois to go to Alabama, one commentator goes full Crassus Saying the Governor wants to be a King for referring to the citizens as his

Yea im sure your wallets are thanking you for the higher taxes ….and shittier roads

Fresh and ongoing drama, a fun read while having my morning coffee

Main comment thread is here

Some notable quotes:

Didn't know Eleanor Rigby was still alive, sheesh

If you’re going to try to troll people, at least be good at it. This is so low effort.

you’re entitled to your opinion but you seem like an absolute awful person to be around or friends with lol

Girl you post in astrology subreddits regularly, you can't be serious right now (in response to "Santa is fake and a weird concept in general")

I wish that whatever happened to you to make you such an angry, bitter, and spiteful person had not happened so that you could have had the chance to feel joy, love, and genuine happiness. My hope for you is that it is not too late for you to find that in this life.

(TikTokCringe is not only for cringe TikToks btw)

UPDATE:

There are more reports coming from across the country of ballots not being counted according to multiple subreddits. This is a developing story and additional updates may come as similar reports appear in city/state communities.

In Utah:

In circle of friends who are all in their late 40s and have voted since they were 18, none of them have ever been called or emailed. This election two friends got phone calls questioning their signature. Another tracked their ballot and it wasn't counted so he emailed the county clerk. They responded with problems with his signature and said that he needed to feel out a form to correct his ballot and have it counted. I find it very odd that in all this time no one I knew has been contacted and this year three people I know were. They all voted for the party not popular in Utah.

In Kansas:

Voted on 10/25 at our county courthouse. It hasn’t counted. Neither has it for my adult children or husband. Is this a timing thing? Or something fishy.

In Florida:

When “his” ballot showed up at my place it had someone else’s name on it. He tried calling half a dozen times and they kept saying someone would reach back out to him about it, but they never did. [...] I wonder how many other people shit like this happened to.

In Pennsylvania (Dauphin County):

There’s hard evidence that Trump suppressed votes in the election, recounts (are already happening?) might happen. - Post that OP shared gets deleted on X, Mirror of OP's screenshots

In Texas:

My roommate and I voted at the same place, I earlier than him. Found his name, didn’t find mine. That’s concerning.

I tracked my ballot up to the delivery and thought it was all set to be counted. I checked again on election day and my ballot ceased to exist, so I guess it was tossed and didn't count. When I go to check online it just says no such ballot exists, like I never sent it.

__________

ORIGINAL POST:

Backstory: During the 2024 US presidential election, OP attempted to cast a mail-in vote for his home state of North Carolina while being out-of-state in MN. On November 6th, he realizes his ballot was not yet received. The following day, he posts to r/WellThatSucks:

"My mail in ballot was received after the election, despite being sent 2 weeks prior to Election Day. Obviously not changing anything but really makes it feel like my rights don’t matter. For reference, 99.89% of ballots in the last election were delivered to local boards within a week, so seems I am very unlucky and USPS shat the bed."

__________

While plenty of users are reporting the same thing in the comments of both threads, some also imply that this issue goes beyond just mail-in votes:

I voted in person the day of and mine still shows I didn't vote in SC

I returned the ballot in person to the county elections office. Never been marked as received either on BallotTrax or on the voter registry. It feels like a real "fuck you" when I log onto BallotTrax and see "your vote counts" at the top of the page where they tell me the vote was completely ignored.

My husband voted in person and it is not showing that he voted

__________

Another user reveals: "My mom and I voted together yesterday. Mine (dem) isn’t showing up. Hers (rep) is. WTF" - The user in question then posts their own thread in the r/northcarolina subreddit.

__________

Users become more suspicious...

I have a feeling a lot of mail in ballots weren't counted

The ones that “failed” signature verification. The ones “received” late. I believe that this was a fair and free election, but was it?

Call me crazy but my conspiracy theory is that this was done by design because more democrats vote by mail.

Yeah something fucky is happening

I mailed it. Contested. I dropped it off. Contested. This is voter suppression.

__________

...And drama inevitably ensues:

"Cope"

Unless there's you and another ~195,000 just like you, it's not going to make a difference in the outcome.
- You just confirmed how stupid you really are. Thanks for the laughs.

See, Republicans had the same criticisms in the 2020 election but they were called crazy
- You're literally making both sides of the argument in the same comment thread. Feel free to continue on without me. I'm sure you'll have a long and productive discussion. After you're done, look up "cognitive dissonance".

Here we go. Lib stop the steal.

You people are insufferable

"Cope" (The same user replying to a different comment)

Its almost like everyone warned about mail in ballots, but yall didn't care about it when Biden won. Double standards. Why are you booing me, I'm right.

This thread has me rolling. Every single one of you in here saying Trump cheated were laughing in 2020 at how stupid anyone would have to be to suggest it. Oh how the tables have turned.
- You do realize that Dems have 15 million fewer votes this year. It was supposed to be record turnout to dump Trump. It’s a legitimate concern.

Background

The subreddit /r/cyberpunkgame is your one-stop shop for all things related to CD Projekt Red’s (CDPR) single player dystopian game called Cyberpunk 2077, which was released December 9, 2020. The game, after several delays, had a disastrous launch, with gamers experiencing major frame drops, crashes, and getting soft locked out of further progress, the solution of which would require a new game start. Sony then removed the game from the Playstation Play Store, and also issued refunds to anyone who requested one.

The blowback was so harsh that Marcin Iwinski, co-founder of CDPR, made an apologetic statement to have all criticism directed towards him instead of the game devs.

Now, after numerous patches of bug fixes, a DLC Expansion, and several free content updates, the game is lauded as an excellent single player world to get lost into.

(Note: one last thing I would like to point out is that when users google the game, rather than typing out the entire name, they’ll type ‘CP’ or ‘CP2077’. Specifically, in the subreddit, this leads to responses being memes of Walter White yelling at Hank about the abbreviation, because in other cases, CP means Child Porn. If you’re unfamiliar with the above, Walter White and Hank Schrader are characters from the TV show Breaking Bad.)

The Mod Post

This brings us to today, where the mods of the subreddit post the following announcement:

[Title] We are implementing a new rule for ‘CP’ - we’d love your thoughts and feedback

Trigger warning: child sexual abuse material ⚠️

Lately there has been a surge of people making jokes about the ‘CP’ abbreviation of Cyberpunk. I’m sure you know what jokes. This has been an annoying problem since the game launched and the reason I use ‘77’ instead.

A few days ago someone reached out to the reddit mod team and relayed how it made them feel. They are survivor of child sexual abuse, and seeing such a traumatic experience for them being made into a shitty edgy joke was hurtful

With all that said, this is the rule:

• Immature joking around and intentionally misreading the term ‘CP’ will result in a ban.

Many Cyberpunk communities have used the abbreviation ‘CP’ to refer to the world of Cyberpunk, and it's various games, since the '90s. Nevertheless, some individuals are using that abbreviation to make light of child pornography.

Child pornography is a devastating blight on the world and jokes about child pornography are not only vile, but also hurtful and triggering for victims of abuse.

This is your one, and only, warning

Edit: this isn’t banning the use of the abbreviation ‘CP’ only the same tired old joke

Users React

Our first user explains why ‘CP’ isn’t the appropriate abbreviation anymore:

There are many reasons that the currently recommended term is "CSAM" or "CSEM". ("Child Sexual Abuse Material" / "Child Sexual Exploitation Material"). It is not only more encompassing as a term since exploitation can happen in many forms, but it is virtually impossible to be confused as an acronym, and people can safely search the topic to educate themselves or report it as the new term is virtually never used maliciously.

I would encourage folks to use the acronyms CSAM or CSEM rather than the outdated CP to refer to child sexual exploitation.

Calling it CP is already popular on society, it will hardly ever change

We don't call of POC "Colored people" so be the change you want to see, friend.

...but I have never called myself or anyone POC ever.

I mean, no one cares about you. You are not society.

...I don't call myself "coloured people" either. And yes, individuals like me make up the rest of the world that isn't just America, thanks. So yeah, I am part of society. Global society.

I wouldn't expect you to refer to yourself as such. As you are a specific ethnicity, nationality, and have a specific cultural identity. You don't represent the whole.

In response to ‘be the change you want to be’ comment:

That only applies to the US ...

Mod: Uh oh, I’m not liking the direction this comment chain is going

Just pointing out, outside the US terms like PoC or colored people aren't used 🤷‍♂️

You're right. In Vietnam, we use "colored skin people". We tend to be more explicit with our description.

This user is confused on the Mod team’s statement:

I am confused by the difference between the title and the discussion in the comments. Do you want thoughts and feedback on the possibility to make this a rule, or has the decision been made and that'ts it? Or did the mod team decided on a rule and now want to fight people in the comments just for the sake of it?

Decision has been made from the seems of it. Apparently they posted first in discord to get feedback about it but not the main subreddit 🤷‍♂️. Personally I didn’t care for the jokes but like everything else I don’t like I just ignored it. Policing free speech is nasty to me lol. And the Hank memes are too legendary to die

Oh no your non existent right to free speech on a private forum is being violated.

that's preem logic here discuss about a rule on a place where some members aren't part of.... i thiNk they knew people wouldn't agree (quite visible from the replies under the post) and didn't took the risk of putting a rule against others opinion and went to ask to the most private prude circle...

Another user tells the mods to lighten up:

Making jokes is against the rules now? Lighten up.

Mod: Making this joke now is, yes

How could a "joke" about children being raped and assaulted could ever be funny?

Have you ever heard about dark humour, sometimes it helps to lighten the mood with some of the darkest things ever happened, as a valencian Valencia got flood last week with at least 200 deaths and some of them being people I know irl. I joke about it. It helps me to deal with it of course dark humour is not for everyone it is difficult to balance this kind of thing on the internet.

We all do it. It is a way in which we all grieve, but there is a time and a place where that is appropriate. This place isn't that place.

People lacking social awareness shouldn't make the mods to forbid any joke, I agree this is not the place.

Well they did and it's not at all a big deal. Those who are upset at the fact that they can't joke about child porn anymore have issues..

Censorship start always with something that almost everyone thinks is okay to censor. With time something you don't think should be censor is censor but you can't raise your voice against it.

This is ridiculous logic to be applied to a video game sub. I mean, honestly. It's rather dramatic.

And no freedom of speech does not apply to private platforms.

Are the mods ignorant?

This is a very ignorant rule

It disgusts me to see you have a problem with people getting banned for making jokes about such a serious and horrific topic.

It's called a dark joke, we used to have those before everyone got so sensitive

Claiming that you can't make a joke because people are "too sensitive" is just what shitty comedians and people who never matured past high school say to justify their bad behavior.

The sub is so butt hurt about an acronym that they're banning jokes about it, what else do I call that? Extremely curious what counts as an okay dark joke do you.

Did you not understand the post?

It is the lame jokes about the abbreviation being banned.

They said explicitly "immature" jokes about CP would get taken down. Which is extremely subjective since any joke about Cyberpunk's name could be taken down.

Is the Hank meme dead?

This user really wants to know:

wait but serious question: can we still use the meme of Walter White telling someone not to abbreviate cyberpunk? Its basically a warning in meme form

Mod: Do we need to, anymore?

Is this instant ban - please answer clearly. I think it’s a fair question and it’s a huge part of the community. Many people have asked and either it’s too buried to find easily or it hasn’t been answered.

Like 0.01% of this Reddit makes legitimate child p0rn jokes, but like 99% of the community knows and appreciates this meme template.

Can you edit the original maybe? This is kinda important IMO.

Mod: If you use the term maliciously, or apathetically (considering you should now be aware of the potential harm) then you will be temporarily banned, or permanently in certain cases. That would depend on your past behaviour.

Respectfully, this answer is still not clear. So playfully posting the meme is ok still? There’s huge churn in the sub, and that meme is always funny IMO

Mod: I mean why do we have to keep posting it anyway? Let’s just make some new fucking memes

You ruined your credibility with this comment.

Sorry dude.

I mean why do we keep playing Cyberpunk anyway? Let's play some new fucking games.

It's a funny joke. It really isn't that deep.

Wait will we get banned for using the WW meme? I’m so confused

If I were a magic 8 ball I’d say signs point to yes

Singular Takes

HANK! DONT POST THIS MEME, IT HAS NO USE HERE ANYMORE

HAAAAANK!!

(I’m sorry)

I love it when these turbovirgin manchildren become reddit mods and let the only kind of power they’ll ever have in life get to their heads.

Lmao

This sub is a fucking joke. This really tops the cake, I’m out.

Well, the joke was getting old anyway, but… a dictatorship of a minority, seriously? So now anyone can reach you with their triggers nobody seems to share and you’ll gradually ban everything from this sub, or how does it work?

Walter white has been telling us not to abbreviate it for ages, thanks for bringing it to the main light

Typical Reddit mod behavior, not surprising. I would expect them to continue to ban different words or jokes in the future, there will always be someone who is upset/offended/triggered/traumatized by any type of content.

Your one and only warning. Wow so bad ass. This guys the batman of policing jokes

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Lastly, after 5 hours of the thread being active, one of the mods makes a pinned statement:

Mod: I’m tapping out for the night chooms, it’s well past my bedtime. Some other mods might drop in, otherwise we will pick up this discussion tomorrow

So you open the floor to discussion then say "I'm out" when people, you know, discuss it?

It is pathetic that you made this choice without consulting the community.

I was sexually assualted as a child and i think the jokes are funny. People really need to learn to lighten up a bit and laugh instead of being uptight dickheads

This mindset is the kind of thing that is moving people to rightwing culture. It's way over the top content filtering, if this is too much then anything can be offensive. Need to be reasonable about this sort of thing.

Full thread with new takes here

Reminder not to piss in the popcorn!

Edit: formatting

Edit 2: here is a link to an older thread which shows how comments become jokes about the abbreviation instead of focusing on the content the OP posted

Geforce NOW is a paid cloud gaming service by Nvidia. You pay 10 or 20 dollar a month to play the PC games that you own, on your phone, browser, or potato laptop. The Founders are special members who supported the service since beta. They get discounts, better rigs and immunity to the new monthly game time cap.

Today Nvidia announced that, starting next year, GeForce NOW will roll out a 100-hour monthly playtime allowance.

The entire subreddit is split over whether or not 100 hours of gaming time per month is enough.

"If you're playing that much, you're really playing too much, are addicted to video games, and should maybe go outside and touch grass"

"I'm a grown ass adult with a full time job and no family, i'll spend my time and however much of my time however I damn well please, thanks."

"Chuckles I'm in danger"

"3 hours a day a day is a lot of time behind a screen"

The 5% are very loud today. gets instantly downvoted. Referencing Nvidia''s "This ample limit comfortably accommodates 94% of members, who typically enjoy the service well within this timeframe."

"Trumponomics already!"

"GTFO i finish those 100h in under 2 weeks bybye gfn"

Consider this part 2 of the Latino Pile-On of criticism against Hispanic/Latino community currently occurring on Reddit due to the fallout of the 2024 US Presidential election. As per my last thread, little mention of 'other' criticised groups (Women, Black people, Cubans etc) will be brought up, as it's a whole different subject with endless examples which I cannot reasonably fit in one thread.

I should also note that I am not certain if the post is 'genuine' in the sense, or a meme/bait post. However, the comments don't give the impression of people pretending.

My previous thread on the topic is here, which discusses if minorities are responsible.. This thread is about a user who has decided in this case that it explicitly is.

One of the most surprising aspects of the 2024 Presidential election was the massive shift rightwards generally. While the majority of voters for Trump were white, there has been a serious shift in certain minority groups allying themselves with Trump. One main contingent has been Latino or Hispanic voters, who generally seem to be polling anywhere from 35-50% Trump, depending on location and sex. While there have been discussions on why this may be, the generally accepted one is that Latino/Hispanic people have been in the US for long enough that they are fundamentally American. Thus, American interests (or what people believe are American interests) take precedence. If that means being against immigration despite your ancestors being immigrants, so be it.

Some users have interpreted the shift as a failure of the Democrats to cater to or mobilise voters.

Other users seem to believe it's time for those minorities who side with the bull to get the horns.

The User on r/EthicalProLifeTips posts this question to a now 9000+ comment thread.

##I have a neighbor who's a huge MAGA fan. He is Mexican-American and his two parents are here illegally and live with him. How would I go about reporting him and getting them deported? I'm in Florida.

To give context, the level of Latino support existing in spite of the fact that Trump and his party seemingly intend to carry out their mass deportation strategy of 'illegals' and potentially 'denaturalise' Latino/Hispanic people who were born in the US.

Most people have accepted the loss with as much grace as such a shock result can allow. Many seek to point blame outwards, and an increasingly Conservative voting minority block is an easy target.

Some are hesitant. Is this a step too far? Is this Gestapo-report-your-neighbour tactics? Is this fascism? How do we know everyone they'll pick up is illegal? Is it ethically right to do this just out of spite? Is it thinly-veiled racism? How do we know this will only impact 'illegal' people?

On the other side of the debate, is it time those trees who voted for the axe got the chop? Do minorities and other communities that backed him 'deserve' the potentially oncoming tide? Have we been coddling minorities for too long? Should we be celebrating injustice or horror just because the victims 'asked for it'?

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I imagine you just contact ICE

Well as your neighbors might say, “Por que no los dos?”

Honestly where I am at right now. Fuck these people, they voted for this. They had their chances. We tried. Give them what they wanted, and may they choke on it.

Why not both?

You're being so petty but fuck it, I'm down for this level of schadenfreude right now! Spend the next two months gathering proof, then, feast on the spoils of your spite.

It’s not unethical at all. Fuck these people that voted for him. They deserve everything coming to them.

Please come back and update! Even as a Canadian, I need SOMETHING to bring me a bit of joy right now.

Real ULPT would be to break into his house, steal his passport/birth certificate so he can’t prove he’s an American citizen and report him. Bonus point if you plant fake Mexican documents.

This is the kind of twisted compliance I love. Give these fuckers exactly what they deserve and wanted

The real ULPT is to report the whole family.

If the son is a naturalized citizen he could be denaturalized and deported along with the undocumented family members he is harboring. This is what the MAGA crowd wants, I'm with you. Give them what they want.

Dont you get a reward for doing this?

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How quickly yall go from caring about them to wanting to report them because you lost the game

Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds. If you truly care about immigrants, don’t do something so evil and immoral.

OP Response: law and order, build the wall, facts over feelings... blah blah blah. I want them out of my fucking country

Average liberal in the wild

Deporting illegal immigrants to stick it to the MAGAs. What a way to show how much more decent and compassionate you are.

Unethical or just being a douche because “your team lost”?

Don’t be an asshole.

Bro mind your damn business

This is not the way to express your anger and frustration. Rise above and be better than those you disagree with.

This is not the way.