A redditor posts some pics of a cat they met outside, calling her a stray. The whole thread quickly gets filled with "ackshually it's not a stray" type of comments, mixed with plenty of compliments and appreciation for the pretty kitty. Pretty tame stuff, until some users decide to spice it up by engaging in one of most controversial cat subreddits' topics: should cats be allowed to roam outside?

Full thread

The spiciest chain starts with this comment: "Just because a cat is outside doesn't mean it's a stray". To which another user responds: "Yeah! It just means the owners are irresponsible ♥️". Fighting ensues, downdoots start flying, comments get removed, the chain gets locked (not gonna quote/link every comment, the chain isn't that long, just follow one of the two links above).

Some other spicy bits:

A brave user says it actually might be a stray - Gets called a cat thief

"Yeah well maybe the original owner should've taken better care of their cat. A pet should not roam around freely."

"She’s somebody’s beloved and well cared for pet, not a stray." - "can't be that well cared-for, it's outside the home."

And there's this comment, calling OP unhinged and voicing suspicion for their account as well as dislike for their usage of double question marks - To which another user notes that the commenter might be the unhinged one, not OP

Edit: rearranged the links for more convenience, putting the main drama chain closer to the top.

#The Context:

/r/trueratediscussions is a sub who’s mission is to “discuss beauty [and] its implications.” A user posts a series of pictures of muscular women and asks the sub what men think about women with this body type.

The conversation quickly collapses into a discussion over male obesity, who is truly triggered, and eating ass.

#The Drama:

The conversation turns to one Redditor’s ass:

I feel like closeted gay/ bi men are into this. Not knocking it, but I think traditionally hetero men probably aren’t actively searching this out. 🤷‍♂️

Bruh that’s fragile masculinity. Women don’t have to be small, petite and submissive

This opinion is just a reflection of the men you talk to.

Jesus fuck, you’ve been on Reddit for 16 years?? I don’t think I’ve ever seen an account as old as yours. Does that mean you have hella bitcoins bro?? 😮‍💨

You are so right bro. Imagine being like this other guy and saying “liking a certain type of woman is for gay/bi men” 🤯🤯 holy fragile male ego

As a feminine looking hetero male. Sure bro, sure. It definitely wasn’t just an opinion based on personal life experiences.

Aaahh. There’s the issue. You’ve got smaller arms than her.

Just go to the gym dude? Get fuckin sauced out of your mind and grow them little noodle arms

That's what boys tend to say. Men enjoy strong women, both mentally and physically.

My last GF ate my ass 😎

Did she chew out all the masculinity you had left and so now you think only gay men like strong women?​

I was simply sharing a personal opinion. Not generalizing. What’s more fragile? Being afraid to share your thoughts? Or being so upset at someone else’s thoughts that you start attacking their identity? 🤷‍♂️

Others say they have different priorities:

You've got a bunch of "men" jealous. Keep.going.strong!

What is your goal with this comment?

What Goals??? It's just a comment.

"men" yeah sorry if I have more to life rather then spending my teen years in a gym for like 6 hours a week

People debate obesity:

Not my type but better than plus sized.

OMG same. would take a muscle mommy over a fat man. Almost 40% of American men are obese and it's hard to find a decent looking guy out here in a sea of landwhales.

Edit: we weren't talking about fat people but the commentor I replied to brought it up. I'm just following the conversation ¯_(ツ)_/¯

That's... rude, lol.

that’s the point

That user is obviously being sarcastic, but it was unnecessary when ppl are just expressing their opinions on a rating sub lol. Like so triggered bc some guy said he prefers muscle over plus size?

[Continued:]

im just sayin

[…]

She was throwing his own answer back in his face. He said the same thing, just specifically about women, and with less words.

I'm sorry but why is a thread where someone surveyed what they find attractive, the appropriate place to "throw something back in someone's face".

You do realize that pretty much translates to "I'm acting in bad faith in this conversation and trying to gatekeep another persons personal preferences" right?

This is just childish and petty.

No one asked anyone if they found plus size attractive. The subject was muscle mommys. If you feel the need to insult an unrelated group of people for no reason, you’re an AH.

Lmao okay yeah thanks for confirming you're taking this personal. The OP gave a list instead of a single preference which should have nothing to do with you but you took it upon yourself to take offense.

This wasn't an attempt at bullying, this was a statement in answer to the question. You can take your toxic ass attitude and see yourself out thanks. This is some next level insecurity.

They could have said I would prefer a muscular woman over an overweight one. Would that have been acceptable to your fragile ego?

She was throwing his own answer back in his face. He said the same thing, just specifically about women, and with less words.

Exactly. They love to criticize fat women but don't like it when we mention American men are just as fat. We just don't hear about it because women aren't as critical of weight in men as partners.

Except women make a bigger deal about height/hairline. Please be so serious, this has been discussed in this sub too.

You’ll get picked one day too, babe. Hope you don’t mind if he’s chubby.

[…]

This right here is probably the most toxic thing I've seen a woman do to another woman on reddit.

Oh how dare she have a reasonable take she clearly must be a shill for the patriarchy.

The brightest red flag anyone has ever seen.

Incredibly misogynistic to assume any woman who disagrees with you is a “pick me.” Sorry but we aren’t all a monolith. If y’all are going to make a fuss about height, then I don’t see the problem with a man having a body type preference.

Don’t dish it if you can’t take it.

A slapfight breaks out over if someone is “triggered”:

OP is asking for opinions on a rates sub. Don’t know why you’re so triggered by one user’s opinion lmao

But opinion was on muscles mommies. Not please give us a ranking of body type preferences. That’d be like a yo where the weebs at post? & someone chiming in to say, not for me but at least they’re better than blank other race. It’s a pot shot. Like that’s not even the topic. Just took an opportunity to grab the mic to shit on someone else for no reason.

I see what you’re saying, but they just said prefer this over plus sized. That’s all they said. They didn’t make any other implication; it sounds like y’all are projecting your own insecurities about your body size onto this random user

And I was agreeing with them. I too prefer this over plus-sized men. Why get triggered over that simple agreement and reply to all of my comments?

The only person triggered is you, since you made such an exaggerated statement about “landwhales” and shit when all that person said was they preferred one body type over another.

Sounds like you’re unhappy with your body size and feel the need to project it onto other people.

[Continued:]

Unfortunately no, otherwise I'd get to feel all special and victimised. I'm sorry if the landwhales comment offended you and you replied to all of my comments.

stay triggered lmao. The insecurity is seeping from your comments. One dude’s comment had you triggered just yikes

Damn I should have just ignored all your other sad and desperate replies to me like I did at the start. Ironic calling me triggered when your numerous replies scream the opposite, just yikes. Gyms can cure the landwhale affliction, try that. Good luck.

Nobody more insecure than overweight women istg lmao. Sounds like you need the gym more than I do.

Pretty well-known that people who get upset over absolutely nothing have other issues going on, I hope you get the help you need

Dude I said I'm not fat. Quit trying to force me to be fat just so you can pretend to have a comeback to say.

"Pretty well-known that people who get upset over absolutely nothing have other issues going on, I hope you get the help you need."

OMG same, brother. Getting upset and mass-replying to each of a person's comments under a thread that wasn't even directed at you in the first place shows just that.

[Continued:]

Isn’t it hilarious that people always assume you’re fat just because you don’t like the hypocrisy of how much women are vilified for their weight and men aren’t 🤣

Men are criticized for their height and hairline, for women its weight. This is not a hard concept to grasp.

I didn’t even reply to you, you wouldn’t’ve even gotten a notification lol, are you really here scanning all these comments?

#The Flairs:

• “The subject was muscle mommys.“

• “You’ll get picked one day too, babe.“

• “I am JOKING for those who are God’s least favourites.”

• “Child, your brain has only just set.”

Dems will keep losing elections because they're afraid to say no to their own activists.

The dude is literally a representative. It’s in his title. If his constituents feel a certain way, that’s how it is

Wtf is a "leftist" policy? Abortion. The majority of people want it legal. Healthcare? Universal Healthcare is also wanted, as long as you label it something like Medicare for All. Gun control? Same.

He's being disagreed with.He's asking for a debate but then calling it "shutting down the debate" when he gets disagreement. That isn't honest, that's bad faith.

The overwhelming majority of people who voted for Trump aren't Nazis. On top of that, the notion that there aren't extremists on both sides is just naive.

It proves the point that he's a bigoted piece of shit with a screw-on toupee.

OP shares what they judge to be an interesting origin story for a comic book writer

Full thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/comicbooks/s/iffohu9hvZ

Extra short version: the guy joined the CIA after 9/11 and later became a comic book writer.

The trouble starts when the (at the time of this writing) top commenter says they are conflicted, as the CIA is “the most evil pack of bastards and the greatest threat to world peace and human flourishing since the Reich.”

https://www.reddit.com/r/comicbooks/s/vs0Z86WC8V

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Who is more evil, the CIA or Russia?

https://www.reddit.com/r/comicbooks/s/5H3aloJKUG

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User complains about conflating the CIA with a government that tortured and murdered millions, then immediately agrees that the CIA has tortured and murdered millions.

https://www.reddit.com/r/comicbooks/s/RRzwkZHA8I

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Slapfight further down that thread: are they a shitty intelligence agency or a competent one?

https://www.reddit.com/r/comicbooks/s/SYAC6Ba7wU

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Which perspective is more murican:

https://www.reddit.com/r/comicbooks/s/ky3yFxlysU

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It’s actually the USSR, and biologists will tell you that world peace is a fiction

https://www.reddit.com/r/comicbooks/s/Se49NOoeeO

—

The juiciest stuff is the earlier linked threads, which I got very deep into reading before remembering I was on a comic book subreddit.

Also, this is only a couple hours old, so there’s sure to be more coming than just what I’ve linked here.

Edit: fixed a couple links and tried to make it more readable.

• Why is a disagreement a phobia? I think labeling someone as a -phobic is just as bad

  • peoples’ identities are not up for disagreement.

    • Agreed. I'm not here to argue. You are who you are but when you're attacking me for -phobia. Then we have an issue

    • They certainly are

  • You don’t get to disagree on our very right to simply exist, that’s not up for debate. You either support us being able to live freely as we are, or you’re against us. This isn’t an issue where you can sit on the fence about because that complacency is exactly what people like Trump and JD Vance are counting on to let them pass their draconian anti trans laws

    I'm against

• How do you “disagree” with someone’s existence? That’s what makes people a bigot.

  • I want to be a dolphin. You can't question my existence. Bigot.

• Anyone who wants to complain about “wokeness” immediately loses all credibility in my eyes. What does it take to get you to simply care about other people regardless of their connections to you?

  • Wdym? I respect all people, I don't hate anyone. I just dislike wokeness and how it's made society and the left 10x more hostile to even slightly right of center views.

    • What the ever loving fuck are you talking about? The left hasn’t been violent at all! I see right wing people threatening to shoot liberals all the time, and insult and degrade us for not subscribing to their political views. Trump himself has even stated many times he wants to eradicate all trans rights, and his staunch supporters are the most right wing people there are. I see nothing but hate and ignorance from the right, meanwhile liberal people like me want to do nothing but help others and actually do something for the people rather than politicians and corporations

• Perfect, a data set soley based on opinion 🤦‍♂️.

  • [Their based on state house bills that have past or governor action. The sources are literally all hyperlinked

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/final-pre-election-2024-anti-trans?r=4obtkp&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true](https://np.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1h2b9to/adult_transgender_legislative_risk_map_november/lzi6mct/)

    * [And who's opinion decided the risk based off these laws? Frankly using the word risk to describe laws that might limit bathroom use to their designated gender seems pretty extreme don't you think?](https://np.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1h2b9to/adult_transgender_legislative_risk_map_november/lzi7gv3/)

   * [And just to be clear I'm not saying I agree with any laws being passed, just that this data set seems to be more interested in fear mongering over delivering real statistics.](https://np.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1h2b9to/adult_transgender_legislative_risk_map_november/lzi7muh)

• “Do not travel” is hilarious. They aren’t throwing trans people into vans and making them disappear lmao

  • Trans Floridian here. No they aren’t making people disappear but they are trying to criminalize us and hurt us.

    • Doesn't your drivers license say "sex" and not "gender"?

    • I’m moving to Florida from mass. Instead of bitching about it move states. They do that weird shit up there you will fit right in

    • can you summarize this? I don't wanna read it

  • Would you recommend a Black person travel to Mississippi in the 1950s? I mean, they weren't likely to be thrown in a van but I can't say they would be remotely welcome there and I would not suggest they go there.

    • Mississippi had a large black population in the 1950s lmao. They still do.

    • Don't equate what trans people are going through now to southern blacks pre civil rights act. It's not even close on multiple levels.

An article was recently posted to r/movies discussing a phenomenom in which marketing for recent musical movies, such as Wonka, Color Purple and Mean Girls, appear to hide the fact that the movies are, in fact, musicals.

Sadly a lot of the juicier comments have been deleted, but still some are up

There’s a stigma against musicals. Especially on film.

• A very well earned stigma. They’re awful. EDIT: You can name as many musicals as you like, that doesn’t make it a good genre. Categorically, musicals are like snuff films: Yes, some people love them, but that doesn’t make them art. - this user's follow up comments are deleted but can be found here

• I wouldn't call it a stigma. That implies that the negativity associated with something is undeserved, like "the stigma of mental illness" or "the stigma of poverty". In this case, the negativity is earned.

One users lists movie musicals that people liked, leading to an argument to whether they really count

Because people like me go, "oh shit it's a musical? Pass." - 110 children

Love that some people are unable to grasp that people just aren’t into the genre for no specific reason. Acting like people need to justify why they don’t like it.

Wicked, Moana, and Mufasa are going to going to combine for like $3 billion over the span of a few months, and people in this sub will still be saying “nobody” likes musicals because they personally don’t like musicals.

Because most of us would never go see a musical if we knew it was a musical.

This thread is such a great example of "I personally don't like a thing" being generalized, as typical Reddit is want to do, into "most people don't like a thing."

Because not a lot of people enjoy musicals.

Because nobody wants to watch them. Every time Hollywood comes out with a musical movie, it does terribly.

Thread sorted by controversial, but it's mostly just repeats of the previous arguments

Basically title, Musks believes that too many game franchises are owned by massive corporations that use the medium to push their ideologie, and is planning to start his own to counter this. noticeably with a focus on AI, from his own tweet:

"Too many game studios that are owned by massive corporations. XaI is going to start an AI game studio to make games great again!"

However the reddit sub about him has mixed opinions on this. Insults, flame wars, a mod, in 4 bite sized snacks!

Full thread sorted by controversial

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Musk vs the world:

"Lol he thinks he a common man fighting against 'giant cooperation."

"Someone has to do"

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Inevitable drama about woke games....

"Crazy how they're the vast majority of gamers then, since all the woke games are flopping hard."

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one chain ending in a mod giving their approval

So many woke games that are flopping yet you can't list any

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No idea what the deleted post this person is commenting on had, but it sure created some drama:

"Elon derangement syndrome is the nee Trump derangement syndrome I see"

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le pronouns:

"What the heck does “prioritising pronouns in gameplay” even mean?"

Edit: Formatting

Background: Insulin comes in a self-contained syringe called a "pen." It has a reservoir of insulin and the actual needles are sold separately so they can be screwed on, used, and unscrewed to be disposed of.

The needles are clearly and explicitly recommended to be single use, but this is apparently a controversial suggestion as this thread in r/diabetes begins with someone asking what the things floating in their insulin are. When OP says they don't change their needle every time, it begins:

https://www.reddit.com/r/diabetes/s/lfe5r0batW

Nobody told you to remove and/,or change the needle with each use?

I’m changing the needles of course, maybe not every time, but atleast every second or maximum third time. And no, noone told me that I need to remove the needles every time after I used.

Please do not reuse needles. If you're having issues affording your copays fot needles I'm sure there are programs and such that you can sign up for. Reusing needles can cause tissue damage, increases risk of infections, and also is more painful. They are one time

I’ve reused needles for like 20 years and had none of these issues

Looking at your downvotes and I’m thinking people really change needles every time. Some lying diabetics here, they probably wipe their skin with alcohol and let it dry before injecting. It’s just insanity there is what they recommend and what’s real, my endocrinologist just says don’t tell me.

Type 1, edit: I am 52

My guess is they're type 2 so they might only take a couple injections per day unlike a t1 diabetic that's doing injections...i dunno a dozen or so times per day depending the day? I've had diabetes for 20 years and used pens for a long time and never had anything like this happen despite only changing needles on the pen maybe once or twice per pen til it's used up. Many times i never changed it lol. Obviously, I'm not telling people NOT to change the needles, but...no way i would've changed needles with every use when i used to use pens.

I appreciate your comment. Was caught off guard by how many downvotes this received. I’m a T1, I’ve been doing this for a long time and will continue to do so. Of all the things in life that are controversial, I didn’t expect saying on a diabetes sub that I reuse needles without problems to be one of them! I think I relate to people a lot better on the sub specifically for type ones.

Reusing needles is NEVER advisable. No matter how many times you do injections, or what type of diabetes you have. You open yourself up for infection which is a much larger and more dangerous risk for diabetics. Im sure lots of people do it, but absolutely none of them SHOULD do it! Its disgusting and super unhealthy and risky to do. You should be prescribed enough pen needle tips to cover how many injections you do a day, if you cannot afford them there are programs that can help cover the costs. And do NOT leave the needle tip on the pen as it keeps a direct line open to your medication to allow bacteria to contaminate it as well. Please, please, please, coming from someone who has had abscesses from reusing needles, DONT DO IT!!! Its not worth the horrendous infections, giant scars left behind after they lance them, or risk of spreading/not being able to fight the infection, or antibiotics becoming useless against it as you use them too often!!!

The instructions on the box of needles you’ve had 10 years to read does.

lol I don’t change every needle on my pen every time. It’s hilarious people act like it’s gonna kill you. I do change ounce a day every morning & sometimes if something happens like I poke the lid sometimes. You should change it as much as you can but skipping, or even like me ounce a day ain’t gonna hurt you unless you have other problems.

You need to change the needle every time you use it. Put a new one on just before injecting and remove it and throw it away right after. You are risking serious infections leaving the needle on. Also, keep your insulin in the fridge all the time when not in use.

I've been T1 for 38 years and only replace the needle with the cartridge. Literally zero problems.

Keeping the needle in leads to contamination because it keeps it open - even through the small gauge. Pulling the needle immediately allows the self healing rubber stopper to more effectively keep it closed.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/s41PEb0QDg

This is false Putin literally said he hopes Kamala wins. Stop lying man... this is why democrats lose people.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/IkE45fF8Oe

America glorifies being a stupid asshole. It makes perfect sense that the party of stupid assholes is gaining ground. It's a miracle they don't win every single election.

my dude, he’s talking about trump.

No, he clearly said stupid asshole, so he meant Harris.

If the righteous compassionate >enlightened party keeps calling everyone else stupid assholes, maybe one day their righteous message will succeed 🙏

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/LY59mQEEth

The left is still in full blown denial. Wait until 2028. Will probably look like Reagan 84.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/N2brYKISko

They will all regret it

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/RbF89f5GEM

Turns out that promoting DEI, puberty blockers, mass illegal immigration, >censorship, war with Russia, political persecution and weaponization of the legal system, gaslighting about inflation, undermining democracy with no primary and selecting the candidate based on race/gender, and labeling half the country "nazis" and "fascists" didn't resonate with most voters.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/f5k4QhLKtR

HAHAHA get fucked Reddit. So loud, so proud and so wrong

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/tnK8Pua3mG

Real wage growth under the Trump administration(2017-2020): 8%

Real wage growth under the Biden administration(2021-2024): -0.5%

Source - FRED Real Wage growth chart

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/ypvSKLqxgL

Amazing, we are so back! Trump and team better deliver!

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/TT65rJSKGE

It’s the woke bs. Sorry. I hate saying that. There are a small few who actually enjoy the forced diversity, BLM, transgender bs. Most of us are sick of it. Keep your personal life private. I don’t care about your pronouns. I don’t care about your gender fluidity. We have wars going on. Economically, only a few are benefiting. Immigration is out of control. Homelessness is out of control. The cost of everything is out of control. That’s what matters to people.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/srAT4tWKb9

Hope those cheap eggs are worth it. I also hope everything you voted for happens to you.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/R8Puzf3m58

“Am I out of touch?”

“No, it’s the voters who are wrong.”

https://np.reddit.com/r/skeptic/comments/1h15djv/elon_musk_just_publicized_the_names_of_government/?sort=controversial

HIGHLIGHTS

• The government shouldn’t be giving people who can afford EVs $7,500 to buy them. It’s absurd and costing us hundreds of billions of dollars. It’s just a corporate giveaway. End it.

  • Same can be said: The government shouldn’t be subsidizing the fossil fuel industry. It’s costing us trillions of dollars. It’s just corporate giveaway. End it.

    • Not charging carbon emissions or not charging a company for merely existing isn't a subsidy.

  • lol, if you think $7500 is a lot you should actually do some research and check out how much charity every red state gets at the expense of blue states. chump

    • I think $180,000,000,000 is a lot, which is the estimated amount of EV credits from the IRA. I live in Florida. I believe we pay $6* to the federal government for every $1 received. Correct me if I’m wrong- New Mexico is the only state that currently receives more than it pays. Edit: I love getting downvoted for objective facts. This is why you guys just got your ass kicked by a reality TV star.

  • The point is to make EVs more affordable so that some of the people who would have been priced out of them could be able to buy them lol.

    • How is that working for solar?

• Musk should be deported. Fuck him.

  • Haha. Yea, let’s deport the brilliant guy producing many 1000s of jobs, and let’s keep you.

    • Sounds good. Did you not read that he’s about to cost millions of jobs in America?

    • Are we not currently reading an article about how many jobs he wants to cut?

    • Your username tells me everything I need to know about you.

• We the people deserve to know who is running our government, what they do and what we are paying them. I can see how people view it as attack but do audits ever feel kind or nice? When we are audited by the IRS? Are we supposed to enjoy that as well? No but we provide receipts and move on with life. Can't provide receipts that you are rightfully earning that six figure salary and many of these workers are making 150k-300k a year, many of whom are just holding advisory positions and pulling in those tax dollars. Then yes, We the people should not fund that position. That's my whole Libertarian view on the matter

  • Yeah, and to audit them, you put fucking Billionaires in charge, not people who are actually supposed to know how to attain efficient workflows in government agencies which differ quite a bit from private companies - especially those run by raging narcicissts... DOGE has two heads... All I'll ever need to know about its own efficiency. This entire administration's two sole purposes is to keep Donny and his friends out of jail and to funnel as much money as possible from you, the people to them, the Billionaires. Enjoy!

    • If the Government were efficient. I would agree with you. And exactly. You don't care about efficiency. You just hate Musk and Trump.

• What a clickbait article. 4 names of people with high paying DEI/climate jobs.

  • And their position matters why exactly? If this was some guy a “dirty lib” hired who was doxxing federal workers you’d be throwing a bitch fit.

• Why is this in skeptic? Why is this entire subreddit just an extension of r/politics rage?

  • I guess we shouldn’t be skeptical about the men that the new president has chosen and their subsequent behavior. Wrap it up everyone! St John got his feelings hurt!

  • This exact post is also in the “news” sub as well. Actually, both posts were one after the other. Wouldn’t be surprised if OP has multiple accounts and is just posting this BS wherever.

    • Damn Trumps new America is going to be overrun with people like this. Absolute brain dead conspiracy theorists who are not grounded in reality at all. America is so fucked

  • Reddit is a left wing website at this point. It’s been astroturfed and wherever that’s not true, the people who’ve experienced brainrot from scrolling this website too much are doing the work themselves. Zero self-reflection, genuinely belief that everyone working for the government deserves their jobs and no one could possibly be a bad hire. Despite the government going further and further into debt and effectively accomplishing nothing for the price of their salaries we think it’s wrong to fire people. The government is a business, a shitty one. I’m not saying cut everything, I’m certain Elon will make some mistakes, but acting like there isn’t fat to cut is delusional.

    • The fat to cut is the entire MaGA trash movement.

• Yes, slash more!!!!

  • Just because you’re unemployed doesn’t mean you should be cheering for other people to be. Aren’t you the “get a job!” people? Why are you so happy to see people losing theirs?

    • They only have a job because they feed off of the productivity of others. They then have used said jobs to lord over the populations with their influence. So yes you deworm and get rid of the parasites. And yes you are happy when you are free of said parasites.

• Trumps America is really shaping up! This country deserves whatever it has coming to it at this point

  • How funny will it be if we are doing better than ever in 2 years, and there is and end to all the major conflicts around the world.

    • At that point I’d be convinced we are truly living in a simulation. Absolutely nothing that the felon has done the past few weeks instills any hope at all. It’s just one cluster fuck of nonsense after another

    • Right, cause his tariff plan worked brilliantly the last time he tried it in 2018

• Director of Climate Diversification (she/her). advisor on environmental justice and climate change. If these are the titles he's calling out. Great! Sexist fake jobs for culture warriors.

  • You think climate change is part of some imaginary “culture war?” Go on …

• Names are public info. Find better things to whine about.

  • If you can’t figure out why sharing those names to his millions of rabid, childish fanboys is dangerous then I don’t know what to tell you. Typical

    • I wasn't asking.

  • The hypocrisy in this comment is just oozing out of every crevice.

    • Am I the one whining?

• Every government employees name and compensation is easily searchable public information. Y’all are really digging for things to cry about.

  • The issue is him painting a target on random people and basically directing his army of shit heels to harass these people just doing their jobs.

    • He directed people to harass them? If that’s the case I agree it’s inappropriate.

  • Do you know what the term “doxxing” means? Nevermind, we already know the answer

    • Is it when you publish publicly available data?

Original Post on r/Wellthatsucks

Girlfriend got angry and tried throwing the spoon she was eating with at me and uhhh…

There are a few jokes, but comments soon become worried for OP's safety, with OP trying to defend his girlfriend while being heavily downvoted

That's domestic violence. Get some help.

https://www.thehotline.org

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Reading through your (OP's) replies I just have this to say.

I have a friend who used to say the same shit as you. Then one day she put him in the hospital when a cast iron pan went upside his head. Good luck with is.

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Bruh, you are in an abusive relationship. Force her to buy you a new TV, then put it somewhere she can't get at it, then break up with her and find someone who doesn't throw shit at you. Judging from some of your other comments, you may be dealing with some abused spouse syndrome. People who actually care about you don't 'jokingly' throw stuff at you hard enough to fuck up a TV.

OP:

We’ve never screamed at each other or hit each other, we’re doing okay i’d say

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An extended comment chain gets angry with OP

Commenter:

This can’t be a healthy relationship if someone throws a spoon

OP

It’s the healthiest i’ve had, she jokingly threw it lol

Commenter:

So was it jokingly or was she angry as you said in your headline? It can’t be both.

OP:

It is both...

Commenter:

Good luck being an abused spouse. It can’t be both, and if you actually think it is, you’re a fucking idiot.

OP:

woah why being so aggressive? i’m sorry that you’ve been in a abusive relationship but we are very happy and healthy together

Commenter:

Why aren’t you asking that to your lady who throws shit? The point is, you wanted attention for the broken tv, either lied straight up or you’re trying to have it both ways because as soon as people asked if you were ok you covered for her and are now adamant that she was both or neither and that you have some amazing relationship. I feel sorry for you.

The entire post is like this, with OP saying that they have a good relationship, and reddit claiming he's a battered spouse or a lying attention seeker.

OP elaborates maybe alimony/spousal support could be taken off the table?

OP assures the thread it’s not about coercion, and guesses that what women are looking for is a “protector and provider”

Another redditor says while no fault divorce is better than the alternative, doesn’t it also cheapen marriage?

Full thread by controversial

https://www.reddit.com/r/4chan/s/pqeOkK0Bz5

Why have a suicide hot line specifically for any one group of people?

"Sorry that you're feeling suicidal, but you aren't trans so get fucked"

https://www.reddit.com/r/4chan/s/ePni15gB1c

Same reason there are detergents specifically made for toilet bowls: that's where shit is most likely be

One commentor dares to be empathic

https://www.reddit.com/r/4chan/s/PUCjEidbyK

I fail to see the issue, Noone would call if they weren't trans with that intention, they'd just call another line lol

https://www.reddit.com/r/4chan/s/IP8VrinCVj

Yeah that’s why women’s sports and women’s prisons are for biological women but don’t hear of hotlines created for women who are cheated out of medals and opportunities and those traumatised in prison seeing penises or worse, being raped.

https://www.reddit.com/r/4chan/s/IP8VrinCVj

Because it feels better to know someone who understands what you're going through. You obviously know that you're just so politically aligned with one side that you'll be hyper bad faith in every argument.

https://www.reddit.com/r/4chan/s/WowqfWeGHp

Why is 4chan so obsessed with trans people? It's exhausting

Some people disagree

https://www.reddit.com/r/4chan/s/FGJitIZ1Ej

The issue is the it's pointless. If someone is suicidal then it shouldn't matter their race, sexuality, or gender identity, they should just call the normal hotline. Why should you have to call an entirely different number just because you are trans?

https://www.reddit.com/r/4chan/s/n8o4SHFshN

Lots of hang ups I hear

https://www.reddit.com/r/4chan/s/5W2NIjfIhA

they have 59% success rate.

https://np.reddit.com/r/GenZ/comments/1h0rb6y/with_99_of_the_votes_counted_not_only_did_gen_z/

HIGHLIGHTS

• I'm proud of this generation 🥲

  • The majority still voted for dems and you’ll likely see a lot of these republican gen z voters go dem next election after trump fucks the economy with tariffs.

    • The tariffs are largely just a threat

  • Let’s see how proud you are when these tariffs drop

• Blame Uninformed voting…. and indoctrination from Right Wing talking heads. I’m convinced a hefty chunk of those that voted for trump (here as well) have no idea of his policies or the fallout that said policies entail. Oh edit: how on earth could I forget there’s also the alt-right pipeline!

  • I'm just tired of the left blaming me for the problems of this country. Even now Democrats refuse to put the blame on themselves for a terrible campaign.

    • Who is blaming a 20 year old lmao, what on earth bubble are you in

    • Eventually you just need to come to terms with the fact that the voters are trash people. Garbage in garbage out.

  • Translation: if you don’t agree with me then you’re uninformed or stupid or under a spell. I know best. And you cannot be trusted to have your own opinion.

  • I love the condescension and irony that so many on here have and show. “Everyone ELSE is wrong and stupid! Not me though! I’m not wrong! I’m informed”. Especially when indoctrination sources are 90% left. Movies, video games, legacy media, even public schools from kindergarten through college. But dat right wing indoctrination doe…

    • If you tell the typical Trump supporter we are producing more natural gas and crude oil under Biden then we did under Trump they won't believe it and insist Biden cut oil production. Trumps campaign largely hinged on blatant misrepresentations of reality such as this, as well as issues like Inflation.

    • more educated people are left wing. cry about it

  • It is indisputable that a significant number of voters barely engage with politics outside of election day. In blind polling 80% of American's preferred Harris's policies. Multiple states voted republican whilst passing ballot measures like abortion rights and minimum wage increases. This is not new - it happened in Florida in 2018. If the average voter was fully aware of the policy platforms of both parties this wouldn't keep happening.

    • It is indisputable that life was better with trump than it was with Biden and Harris. Any link to the stat you posted? I hate to be “that asshole”, but you know, as well as I, that stats are often biased and the source matters. It’d be interesting if what you said was true. Especially since many of Harris’ policies were unknown, due to being either unaddressed or contradictory from interview to interview. You’re assuming people are voting against abortion rights when they vote for trump. That’s overly simplistic and anyone thinking that way isn’t doing much thinking at all. As an example, I know many people who voted for trump, yet are pro-abortion. It’s not that they voted against abortion. It’s that they voted to keep the 1st and 2nd amendments, stop this DEI and woke bullshit, fix the economy, and fix the border. Priorities here. I’ll trade abortion rights for all that. The same applies to minimum wage.

  • The left owns every major media and entertainment establishment out there but yeah let's blame right wing indoctrination. If right wing talking points worked it's because democrats couldn't counter them well enough and their actions over the past 4 years speak louder than the words they tried to get in now

    • name one leftist that owns a mainstream media company just one

• I’m just so utterly lost at what I’m seeing right now. People were upset because prices for things were too high, and today the president elect announced plans that are going to make those same prices higher, I literally bought gas for 2.99 today. Is there something in the air that I just don’t understand, what the actual hell is going on??? Are we all this SERIOUSLY misinformed and lost??

  • Honestly, Gen Z seems like the straw that broke the camel's back, when it comes to this election. It seems like many of us voted on vibes or were misled to an extreme degree.

    • I voted for Trump because Kamala was such a terrible candidate. I wanted change, and Trump was the candidate for change. Not Kamala Harris.

  • you are at least

  • We are SICK of woke just let us live!

  • We look at Europe and don’t want to be like them. It’s that simple.

  • The President elect proposed a 25% tax on corporations, the catch is it only applies if they're 1) large enough to import, and 2) they choose to import from two countries. Mexico and Canada. As opposed to Kamala, who wanted to tax unrealized gains, create a wealth tax, hike corporate tax, hike capital gains tax, and raise minimum wage. All of that significantly increases the cost of doing business. Which candidates' policies do you think would raise prices more?

    • The one that wants to tariff the shit out of everything coming across our borders?

• This is only because Kamala Harris failed to generate enough enthusiasm to make democrats come out to vote.

  • We had four years of the Biden administration. Four more would break us.

The post

Note: the original text was deleted, a commenter was kind enough to repost it here.

Things pretty much immediately go south as the vast majority of upvoted comments disagree with OP:

"While she was fucking pregnant…. Jesus"

"She probably feels it reflects badly on her because we raise our children to be good people and to never be intentionally cruel."

"Your POS son is lucky his wife is working towards forgiving him."

Dig a little further down, and more varied / nuanced / aggressive opinions reveal themselves:

"I was with the wife until the part about refusing to see her grandchild. So the poor daughter in law gets cheated on and is probably forced to stay because of money and she can't even rely on grandma to help?"

"Sounds like OP has cheated on his wife, since it's 'not criminal' or worth 'getting an electrical chair.'"

"Disowning should be reserved for more unforgivable actions like rape or child abuse. Cheating doesn't really hit that level for me."

"This comment section is wild"

"She’s overcorrecting, you’re being cheated on."

Comments are still rolling in, get 'em while they're hot.

It's hand perfume!

OP: Those little B-pure sprays have less than 10% alcohol! They are not SANITIZING anything! I have customers saying "oh well with it being flu season it's so handy to have them in the car!" Bullshit!!! You just like the way it smells and it's trendy!!! Sanitary stuff smells sanitary! It doesn't smell like a vanilla bean farted!

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Okay?

OP: So just say the REAL reason you want it and don't act like you are preventing something!

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Anyways, looking at the bottle (b-pure Watermelon 2oz), there’s nothing that indicates it’s only 10% alcohol, in fact it says “Ethyl Alcohol 70% v/v” and I don’t understand how, in the case it’s ineffective, that makes any buyer idiotic. Customer’s are stupid, but so are cooperations.

OP: Exactly! And it's 70% by volume. So once they add the other crap that volume level decreases. That's why real hand sanitizer doesn't smell like "lovers in a field of dreams!" Or whatever scent they are selling you on. You bought that bottle in your pocket because you like the way it smells and since you work there you like having something everyone else wants!

No, 70% by volume means that 70% of the liquid is ethyl alcohol. If there is 100 mL of liquid, 70 mL is ethyl alcohol. Hand sanitizer can smell good, companies have made it smell good for years. For fucks sake cologne is 60-80% alcohol. Alcohol is a solvent that has cleaning properties, we dissolve shit in it all the time. 70% alcohol is considered the gold standard for cleaning by the CDC. Google is free clown.

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Most people are pretty upfront with their intentions they’re just misinformed people instead of being agitated maybe correct the misinformation if you’re so concerned.

OP: I'm not telling you that you can't buy them Hun! It's your money! Anyone who WANTS one doesn't give a shit about what I have to say! They just know that I called them out so they try to justify it. Don't act like what I am saying is New News to you. You know why you buy them!

are you ... okay?

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why do you care so much? Gonna give yourself an aneurysm and for what?

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dont buy it if you dont like it hope this helps😊also you shouldn’t work at dt if you just call customers names all day long just for buying something you offer.

The r/HouseOfTheDragon subreddit is the location for all things related to the Game of Thrones spinoff show on HBO. OP posts a link to an interview with the showrunner, Ryan Condal, about whom the sub has complicated feelings, to say the least. Condal pointed to how his team framed the central familial conflict as a "Greek tragedy about this one family."

Full thread.

OP is not pleased.

Title: In new interview, Ryan Condal claims HotD is a "Greek Tragedy", clearly demonstrating he has no clue what a Greek Tragedy is.

The basic issue is this: you can't just say something is "Greek Tragedy". Greek Tragedy is based around a certain value structure that is entirely absent in the show, it has a format structure that is completely avoided in the show, and the characters don't resemble Greek heroes whatsoever.

If anything, Martin wrote it as a satire of such, but, again, clearly more Shakespearian

The rest of the sub reacts with confusion.

THREAD 1

You could elaborate why you think this is more Shakespeare than Greek and maybe people would see your reasoning and not immediately downvotw you

>> (OP) Listen, it's not my fault if Condal wants to use big words to impress people without knowing what they mean and mislead people in the meantime. Any educated person would immediately be able to see the mistake.

Greek isn’t a very big word sweetie but bless you for thinking it is.

THREAD 2

Well, Rhaenyra could be seen as a flawed hero I think. I don't think he was being as literal as you're taking it lol

>> (OP) I mean, Condal bandies about these kinds of phrases and grandiose notions quite often. I'm pretty sure he just surrounds himself with people who agree with him, and nobody ever calls him out for how uneducated he sounds.

Okay, I just don't think that qualifies as grandiose notion. It seems like it was just a random comment.

>> (OP) Eh, the showrunner of a big tv show like that not knowing/understanding what a Greek Tragedy is is not a great look for HBO in general.

THREAD 3

Some commenters point out that Condal is probably just talking about a general flawed character. OP argues that classical Greek heroes weren't actually flawed. For instance:

An example is in Oedipus Rex where Oedipus discovers the truth about how he has killed his father and married his mother. The "flaw" isn't that.

THREAD 4

Still other commenters agree with OP philosophically, if not in practice. Yet OP continues to fight the good fight, even against his allies.

I fully agree with him, but he is a pompous asshole. 

The worst thing about getting my English degree were these people. 

>> (OP) I've demanded nothing, and I have actually not been condescending in the slightest. There are no similarities between HotD and Greek Tragedy, period. All of these arguments you are making belie a lack of care: there's no similarity in structure, there's no similarity in plot. I'm not required to agree with you.

(12 hours prior)

>> (OP) For me to explain to you what a "Greek Tragedy is" would take a very, very long time.

Other highlights/potential flairs:

• You're being down voted because you skipped all the scenes where the dragons turned to the camera and sang about what happened in the last episode.
• Then assume not everyone knows what EXACTLY a greek tragedy is.
• It's only a Greek tragedy if it was made in the Greek region of the world. Otherwise it's just a sparkling tragedy.
• Wow youre still yapping huh
• That makes episode 7... Daemon and Rhaenyra's big fat greek wedding
• I for one think OP is both an asshole and incorrect

For the unaware Genshin Impact is a critically acclaimed anime styled, open world, fantasy RPG, gacha game. Most (in)famous for its often toxic and sometimes deviant fandom.

As context, the game releases a new region each year, loosely based off an IRL culture or region and corresponding to an in-game element . With the Wind country being inspired on Germany and adjacents, The Earth country on China/Korea, the Lightning country on Japan, the Nature country on India/Persia/the Arab world, the Water country on western Europe, the Ice country on Eastern Europe, and today's topic: Natlan, the Fire Country based off Latin American and a bit of African and Pacific cultures. Recently, the game released the much anticipated Natlan region, already embroiled in drama.

However, things truly started to go downhill this week when the official marketing material for the ruler of Natlan, Mavuika, released, and people noticed the presence of highly technologically advanced gadgets.

Here a few snippets:

###Main Subreddit

• Why are people so butthurt over the natlan criticism? I keep getting posts of people trying to defend and deflect as if the tech topic isn't valid.

• I can't believe people sometimes. My dude, you have seen/fought walking robots, flying robots, robots that look like dogs, robots that look like giant worms, robots that look like spider turtles, robots that look like a REAL WOMAN that gives you primogems everyday..

• This is an unpopular opinion on EN side. Even in social media, if you check JP for example, they are 10x more hyped for mavuika and citatli because they have a different way of approaching things.

• It's a familiarity anti-bias, since this game is supposed to be a fantasy. - Sorted by controversial.

• didnt we make a literal weather machine in inazuma?

###Meme Subreddit

• This community really has a knack for straw manning the hell out of any kind of negative criticism

• People do be thinking that here in LATAM we have no cellphones or something

• God forbid if Deshrets kingdom did not fall genshin will have a nation where people shit on buckets and fking wakanda on the same damn continent lmao

• bike looks like shit , don't belong in genshin world at all .

###Leaks Subreddit

• Was the marketing delayed because of a domestic terrorist attack on China?

• Full megathread sorted by controversial

And many more, the entire community is currently down in flames (lol)

I honestly think 95% of the reason we lost was people are mad about inflation and feel like the economy isn’t where it should be.

Bingo. People have biggeer issues in their life, than dealing with gender rights/identity politics/other non-valuable BS

Weird, then, that they voted for the guy bringing up gender rights/identity politics/other non valuable BS.

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/s/OVis0tBxr8

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Cool, bro- people are about to lose their health care, be deported, and inflation is going to sky rocket. I don’t care in the slightest about this debate at all. Neither does anyone in good faith that are a part of workplace trainings that discuss it. It’s not racist to expect people to be on time for fucks sake.

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/s/rj7NvaG7zj

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You're a white person who doesn't want to hear about other people or respect difference. Fuck you. this is not articulate or nuanced. This is you whining about a changing world that doesn't center on you. Oh but that makes me a wokescold. Okay, but I have also been called that about the kindest minor ask to change a slur.

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/s/rMwrx5LVfU

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What do you mean 20 years of the lefts behaviour?

20 years of a culture which underhandedly shits on men and exalts women, zealous HR departments trying to justify their existence, modern colleges where students order their professors around, latinx, screaming racism sexism transphobe at every passing pigeon in the park, female afro dwarfs in LOTR and relentlessly shitting on people who don't like it, unhoused people, no human is illegal, who cares about trans criticism its only 5 people in the country, we have to care about trans arguments even if its only 5 people in the country, stealing from shops is racial justice, adding ketchup to vietnamese dishes is white supremacy, being on time is white supremacy, math is white supremacy, tests are white supremacy, reading Bin Laden letters and agreeing with them, and support rallies for HAMAS.

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/s/myvuEHTy10

Total War is a popular series of strategy games that combine turn-based resource management with real-time tactical battles. From 2000 to 2016, they have been set in various historical settings, such as the 16th century Japan, Medieval Europe, and the classic antiquity era of Rome.

In 2016, however, developer Creative Assembly adapted the Warhammer Fantasy license, developing games set in a fictional world populated with fantastical races, such as Dwarfs, Elves, Orcs, Vampires, Daemons, and the French. The Total War: Warhammer subseries have been Creative Assembly's bestselling games to date and have received a steady stream of updates and DLC that are going on strong even today. This, however, has created a divide between fans who love the Warhammer games, and fans who want Creative Assembly to shift their focus back to making historical games again.

Now, since 2016, Creative Assembly has released multiple historical (or semi-historical) titles, but for various reasons, they have not sold particularly well. A Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia (2018) was a budget title and was poorly received. Total War: Three Kingdoms (2019) was highly acclaimed and sold well initially, but had its support cut short due to poorly received DLC. A Total War Saga: Troy (2020) and Total War: Pharaoh (2023) were both poorly reviewed at launch, and while they did receive updates that improved the games, they struggled to find an audience. Many pure historical fans also deride Three Kingdoms and Troy for having fantasy elements, while others are adamant over wanting a sequel to Medieval II: Total War or Empire: Total War, and nothing else.

The drama here begins with OP posting Facebook comments of historical fans who are upset at Creative Assembly making more DLC for Total War: Warhammer III, which has been very successful financially.

Should Creative Assembly sell the IP?

CA is letting it flounder, and no other company is interesting in entering a niche market that already has an long time competitor.

Historic games akin to Total War would do better if CA stopping choking out corporate interest in the niche by merely existing (even while they barely do anything with it).

We have arguments over sales numbers

Sales numbers simply don't indicate that people want more historical TWs, especially compared to WH sales

This is a bullshit take.

There has been no good historical game since empire. Rome 2 was a disaster launch that ruined that game and everything since then has been sagas or eras that no one cares about. Your comparing WH vs TOB, 3K and Troy. Like that's not even fair.
Empire 2 or ME3 would dwarf all sales of warhammer. Actually so would a LOTR.

Ancient Egypt is... fantasy?

Pharaoh Total War Dynasties: Am I a joke to you?

Fantasy lite and another bronze age game. Yeah no thanks mainline historical game soon please, haven't had one since attilla

Historical fans chime in

Odd seeing people here NOT agree. The people that want Warhammer stuff have had their wishes fed a million times. Meanwhile the rest of us either get mobile game level slop, or nothing.

Someone brings up Pharaoh

They’re all acting like we didn’t get a Historical title a year ago, with a big free update this year…

Medieval 3 or Empire 2 is what community wants. Not bronze age Egypt.

Warhammer fans twist the knife

Dear historical players: cry more. TWW makes money and that's what keeps the studio open. You'd not have anything if it weren't for it propping up the entire studio the past near decade.

Full thread

A news article is posted to the r/NorthCarolina subreddit about a student group in Brunswick county pushing to reverse the ban on headwear in schools. The county pushes back, stating the reasons of security and:

Cooke said that changing the policy would not set students up for success in the real world. She noted that taking hats off is a sign of respect and it’s not a difficult task to do.

One user points out that wearing a hat isn't disrespectful to anybody.

"It's disrespectful"

To who? To what?

That's what I thought

Enter Frosty_Smile8801 who has very strong feelings about other people wearing hats indoors around him, and is ironically very disrespectful to others about it. This quickly devolves into shit flinging.

do you not know basic simple manners of removing a hat indoors in most situations? its disrespectful not to.

One user says that it hurts no one, and Frosty responds by saying...he'll no longer respect LGBTQ people if people wear hats indoors.

I was told it was disrespectful, but was never given an explanation to justify such an abstract claim. As such, I reasoned that claim silly and meaningless. Many people in American culture wear hats indoors, and it hurts no one. If someone feels offended by seeing someone wear a hat indoors, that's their issue to get over

it hurts no one

But it does. Bothers me. you go on to say they should get over it.

i am gonna apply that to say lgbqt (did i get it right? you know what i mean ) issues.

fuck them if they are offended if am not polite same as you seem to disregard that i care if folks remove a hat indoors or during the anthem outdoors if not saluting.

This wasn't about hats during the anthem, it was about hats indoors.

And LGBTQ issues, which affect the rights and lives of living human beings who are so often opressed and mistreated just for being who they are, are not the same as the principle of whether it's rude to wear a hat indoors or not

Frosty responds that the user wasn't raised right (just after Frosty threatened no longer respecting gay people)

its about respect and wearing a hat indoors is often times disprectful.

you respect me i will respect others. you dont get to shit on what i consider respect then tell me i have to shut up and be polite about other issues. respect goes both ways.

Now i am a decent person and wouldnt do that. it was just an example. I still take my hat off indoors and i dont put it on the table we are gonna eat at.

yall were not raised right.

its about respect and wearing a hat indoors is often times disprectful.

Why? Do you have a practical reason on why it's disrespectful other than for arbitrary reasons? (im genuinely curious)

you respect me i will respect others. you dont get to shit on what i consider respect then tell me i have to shut up and be polite about other issues. respect goes both ways.

I agree in general but if your not being harmed or inconvenienced then I don't understand where the disrespect is coming from.

yall were not raised right.

Idk man, if no one is getting hurt or inconvenienced then why get upset over trifles?

Why? Do you have a practical reason on why it's disrespectful other than for arbitrary reasons? (im genuinely curious)

Like many other manners or polite things we have its mostly tradition at this point and a way to show respect and display you were raised right.

you shake hands? greet a stranger with good day or good morning? you hold a door for a lady or old folks? give up a seat for old lady? wipe your feet or remove your shoes when going inside? Say yes maam and please and thank you?

how do you not get it?

One user what an article of clothing has to do with respect, Frosty responds questioning the user's mother and grandmother parenting abilities.

You keep talking about respect. What does an an inanimate object like a hat have to do with any of that?

same way a handshake or holding a door open or saying excuse me has something to do with it.

You really were not taught any manners as you grew up? where were you raised and if i ask you mom or grandmother would they say you were raised without being taught manners or would they say we taught the kid, he just aint so smart to remember.

You’ve got to stop using your assumptions to insult me because if you want to get low with a motherfucker like me I’m gonna drag you to hell in a handbasket woven out of your own bullshit.

You don’t have any idea how I was raised. Being raised in the south was all about respect. However, you’ve had to give it to get it. One started with being polite and respect was returned. You could count on getting the same.

Rather than having a spontaneous abortion about fucking hats, you need to concentrate on your own business or something more worthwhile.

hit a nerve? Mom taught you better and you know it.

I didnt have a fit. stated how i feel is all. You do seem to be all wound up about it.

what you covering up top you need that hat on indoors? balding? dandruff? shitty haircut? You sure are gonna make a thing over just being asked to remove your hat indoors.

Hit a nerve? No. However, you’re pretty ass chapped about a hat.

🧢 In fact, tomorrow, I’m gonna wear one to church just to honor you.

One user asks Frosty if they realize it is actually current year and not the middle of the 20th century

Do you know it’s 2024? Not 1954.

so manners then dont apply now? mind if pick my ass and fart and belch at your table while you eat since we are getting rid of manners?

the hat thing doesn't effect anyone. Your example would be effecting everyone at your table

it doesnt effect anymore than a person across the room with a hat on. you can just ignore it and move on.

Another chain in which Frosty says kids are meant to follow rules, not make them

In which decade are we living?

one where highschool kids do wtf they are told and dont make the rules.

There it is. This isn't about respect, it's about obedience. Like, how dare we encourage teens to be anything other than unquestioning automatons?

No autonomy, expression, comfort, or learning to navigate how to be an adult. ONLY OBEDIENCE!

Another user points out they have jobs where they wear hats indoors all the time and isn't considered disrespectful. Frosty responds by telling them their marriage prospects and future job opportunities will be destroyed by wearing a hat indoors.

My government job issues hats for us to wear. Seems like if we can wear hats at work, kids can wear hats in school.

lots of jobs need to wear hats. that does not change what i am talking about.

But we wear them inside and it's not rude to anyone. You mention in other comments about old timey manners but they do change over time. There are hundreds of traditions that we don't do anymore and new traditions that are only a few years old. Times change

its fine. do what you want. it lets me make better judgements on who was raised proper. You are being judged all the time.

Cont.

Couldn't care less what you think about me. Everyone has their own judgements and you can't make every curmudgeon happy.

you future wifes dad will judge you and you will care.

**Some employer might also.

ever hear the story of the dude who got the job based on the owner seeing him hold the door open for someone when they arrived and then was polite to the receptionist?**

Nah he already loves me! I already said my job gives me hats to wear but I guess you forgot that. I actually got my current job because the person who became my boss saw my work at another place and offered me the job so I guess I'm doing ok!

Lastly one users says Frosty's view of manners is old hat, Frosty responds by wondering if he was suddenly transported out of the South and into New England, and seemingly convinces the other user.

Most people don't know because the practice is as antiquated as tubes in a tv

So is many other things but we still do it cause...........its fricking polite.

i have to check. yep NC sub not NY or boston or NOVA. I aint lost. yall are.

You know what... that's a fair point

Full thread has a few other hot takes from some different users.

Some Highlights:

What about the phones?

Let's concentrate on this probably. Not phones, social media, lack of reading comprehension, basic writing.

The students through their student government petitioned their government to allow a change in dress code. There are countless civics tie ins here. I think the process is great - even though they probably won't get their way.

Would you rather the board be dismissive over student concerns and type back "lol no"?

No I'd rather the board take their earbuds out for a second and be like, "what? no that's boring" and put them back in and ignore them like literally all children right now. (No actually it's great good for them, but they're only going to advocate for dumb shit like this instead of the things I listed)

What about job interviews and gangs?

Go to a job interview with a hat and sunglasses on and let me know how that goes.

It wouldn't go well. It's informal to wear a hat in a professional meeting, but in every day life walking through a store or building? I see no disrespect.

If it is so disrepectful to wear hats indoors in general, please give me a valid reason

But you also know that 16-year olds will abuse this the moment they get the chance to. And a school, that requires interaction with a teacher, is not a leisurely shopping trip where I really don't care if one wears a hat.

Abuse a hat by... keeping their heads warm? Display slogans that would be banned under other sections of the dress code? Hide objects that would otherwise fit in their pockets?

Or are you just worried they'll show up with that bowler the assassin in Goldfinger used to kill people?

You know they were initially banned because of gang signaling and affiliation.

They are also great to conceal one's face from face from security cameras in hallways.

What about the Nazis or Fat people?

How is this still a thing? Schools should educate not be the fashion police. Let the kids wear whatever.

Heaven forbid they learn how to function in a society. That’s not good vibes now is it ?

Maybe a society where we don't make people feel bad for what they look like is better.

Ah. You mean telling the morbidly obese they can be healthy at any weight ? Or are you cool with letting kids wear swastika shirts to middle school ?

EDIT: it's very obvious some of you are pissing in the popcorn, it's a 2 day old post and all your comments are after I posted this. Stop it.

MrBeast's been in hot waters lately(again), following Coffeezilla's video about his shady crypto adventures. Many things remain a mystery, however, as MrBeast refused any interviews with Coffeezilla. But he got a chance to ask some questions by proxy thanks to oompaville's interview.

YTdramers are not satisfied with the interview still. Oompaville comes to r/youtubedrama...

My biggest problem with this interview is that Oompa doesn't actually push back on any of his answers and simply agrees with every response. I really question why Beast was willing to do this but completely ignore Coffeezilla's questions in regards to his crypto history.

He answered coffees questions that he wouldn’t answer the day before at the end of my video. downvoted

He seems to be trolling but is also genuine?? It's kind of uniquely funny.

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Some other dramas occur

What is it with youtubers and going onto this subreddit to mess with people after a post about them gets some attention

It’s their egos. They can’t help themselves lol.

Everyone in this sub has massive ego too downvoted

No, it’s the fact that they’re just mid-tier entertainers [...] Just keep scrolling homie. It seriously isn’t that deep or important whatsoever. downvoted

You guys take this shit way too fucking seriously. Have a break.

Guys it ain't that deep You are being played for fools

Seeing y'all so tilted by him is filling me with the joy I needed today. Thank you all. You absolute degenerate redditors.

Context

Sarah McBride is the first openly trans person to ever be elected to the US Congress. Earlier this week, Republicans passed a resolution specifically targeting her, banning trans women from using the women's restroom. McBride denounced the rule, but said that she will follow it.

r/196 is a shitposting sub, with a heavy progressive lean and a focus on trans rights.

The post

Four days ago, a user posted this, a screenshot of a Bluesky conversation titled "Massive w for liberals".

The screenshot reads

Person A: LIBERALISM WIN: transgender representative completely gives into her rights being taken away in an honorable classy way [fire emoji]

Person B: bipartisanship we can all celebrate [confetti emoji]

Obviously, people had some thoughts about this. Discussion and debate swings from the idea of a model minority, to the responsibility of individuals to represent a group, to OP's age, to petplay.

The drama

Comments

Sorted by controversial

OP comments a screenshot explaining the situation. (2.6k upvotes, 115 children)

Don't comply bitch have some fucking standards for yourself jesus christ (3k upvotes, 56 children)

Another thread debates if she's a zionist or not (955 upvotes, 21 children)

Some have different opinions

Y’all, come on. Think for a minute. it’s literally a trap. They want her to defy the rule, because that lets them censure her day 1. Breaking rules is no longer an effective way to fight the system when it diminishes your actual tangible influence over said system. She has to play the game to make the most of this, and at times that will mean strategies other than just doing the most defiant thing at every single opportunity. Don’t just take some reply guy with no political experience at his word that this is a bad move.

Edit: god, I think I forgot just how young most of this sub is. You’re on mostly the right track and I have a lot of love and hope for y’all, but you’ve got a lot of growing to do. You’ll get the nuances of this eventually. People actually out there in the world doing big things can’t always satisfy an idealist outlook. It’s just more complicated than that. Politics is push and pull, she can’t just push all the time and expect to win. (128 upvotes, 39 children)

"Throw rocks through the Wal-Mart window!" Chanted the crowd who've never thrown rocks through a Wal-Mart window. (13 upvotes, 13 children)

Instant collaboration. She'll be sure to get first pick on where she's standing in the cattle car. (33 upvotes)

The DNC when we're in labor camps but they didn't compromise their morals (83 upvotes)

Allyship means supporting her, not tearing her apart when she makes a decision we disagree with. I stand with her and hope for her success. (13 downvotes)

Are we allies towards Blair White as well? Where's the line? (17 upvotes)

Some choice pickings:

If I was in charge, I’d make Mike Johnson poop outside (45 upvotes)

Every white trans woman I know is a depressed communist. (155 upvotes)

Hey! I'm a depressed Syndicalist/Demsoc I'll have you know! (12 upvotes)

That sounds like the exact kind of a distinction a depressed communist would feel the need to make

Brave and stunning: Local congresswoman agrees to eat out of a bowl on the floor like a dog (86 upvotes)

If it was eating from a bowl, I would understand. Like anyone of us here would do it. (9 upvotes)

While you could probably smell this drama a few subreddits away— a drama that might seem mysterious to the outsider but is actually a tale as old as time. Tabletop Nerds shitting on each others miniatures.

A seemingly innocent post enough. A Redditor shows off a very expensive warhammer set up

While one would think that this post doesn’t illicit a strong reaction by most. A small army of dissenters cry out foul due to the lack of painting on some of these supposed expensive miniatures

Although this army is but a small group of Nurgles finest— they roll a nat 20 on their intimidation check and successfully get OP to bite.

While they might not win the tabletop war they will win this thread battle as the thread devolves into singling the dissenters out

I’m running out of warhammer themed comments so I guess just stay tuned for me as this one continues to unravel.

Edit: it’s a bold strategy space marine let’s see if shitting on the table top gamers works out

https://np.reddit.com/r/JoeRogan/comments/1gxzbw9/joe_rogan_rips_the_b%C3%AEden_administration_for/?sort=confidence

HIGHLIGHTS

• How did I used to like this guy. Someone so obsessed with “free thinking” is just a speaker for Russian propaganda

• All you pro Ukrainian douchebags better enlist if this leads to a hot war.

• For having so much violence in his DNA Rogan sure is a pussy.

• yes. why dont they just give up . joe would have, obviously. its good to show people that not being a coward and not accepting bullies is actually weak. thx joe. every day. he is becoming more and more man. so manly. you know ? not a little tiny bitch at all

• Joe is such a coward

  • Did you sign up? https://ildu.com.ua/

  • Supporting war from behind a keyboard doesn’t make you tough

  • Coward are the ones that writes anonimously from the keyboard in reddit supporting global war

  • I agree. Biden is a coward

• Wow, I didn't expect that from him. I just can't understand how the US went from "let's save Europe from the Nazis" a few decades ago to sucking Putin's dick 24/7.

  • Well, Ukraine had a bunch of Nazis soooooo`

• The fuck...How can you blame anyone else but the man who actually decided to launch the goddamn ICBM?

  • What happened first? Did NATO allies green light long range weapons to be used in Russia or the ICBM?

  • Oh, brother. The escalation came from Zelenskyy.

• Biden and the UK fear that Trump's negotiations to end on the war will be favourable to Putin in terms of concessions and territory. A valid concern given all the alleged links, in my opinion.

  • Could you imagine if Trump did the same thing before an incoming Dem president? let me just escalate a proxy war with a nuclear power and then fuck off.

  • So Trump is the only President we’ve had that did something to hurt the Russians, by encouraging the Europeans to buy LNG from the US.

• Joe will have Tucker on 3 more times before even considering a pro-Ukraine speaker once.

  • pro-Ukraine speaker. Reddit pushing for a pro-war neocon speaker. These millenials. smh

    * [Self defence = pro-war.  Get conquered = pro-peace.](https://np.reddit.com/r/JoeRogan/comments/1gxzbw9/joe_rogan_rips_the_b%C3%AEden_administration_for/lyl18nc/)

https://reddit.com/r/youtubedrama/comments/1gxwo2w/about_mr_beast/

Some highlights:

what a weird way to try and dodge the allegations instead of just saying you dont like him

So you're the moderator of the YouTube drama subreddit and you haven't been paying attention to the biggest drama of the year that's totally believable. Also saying things like this " Mr. Beast is free to vent his frustrations to the reddit administrator team who will almost certainly do anything to make one of the internet’s most popular figures happy." Is not helping your case.

Mr. Beast was in my front porch last night eating a squirrel and walking on all fours tweeking out. Or it was a Wendigo. I dunno, hard to tell them apart.

Why does the person who doesnt mod, come up to talk about this?

But man, getting told by a reddit mod to get a life (in so many words) has to sting for anyone.