American Girl did a collab with Harry Potter which was met with much animosity (as most things JKR are, rightfully so) but the community has protested and argued over allowing posts about this collab for the past 3 months.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/americangirl/s/I3Q3WPyhMl

A mod of 6+ years resigns when a community poll caused fracturing in the community after the overwhelmingly anti-censorship results were argued about again (nobody could win)

Source:

https://www.reddit.com/r/americangirl/s/rB1VhMlqOi

After mod resigned, all discussion of JKR and Harry Potter has been banned from the subreddit.

Source:

https://www.reddit.com/r/americangirl/s/wchBv6wE2s

They are also quarantining all mentions of Felicity Merriman (a white historical doll who’s family owned slaves) to a megathread, as people are calling for the total ban of discussing this doll in the community as well.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/americangirl/s/PqvphqMeuU

Two Chinese language subreddits, r/KanagawaWave and r/China_irl, seem to be competing to make posts about each other on r/AgainstHateSubreddits, a subreddit dedicated to calling out bigoted subs. The mods of AHS have taken notice of this and have implemented a temporary change to their rules:

>Pursuant to Rule 10 (No flooding posts), Rule 7 (Posts about regional / geographic / Ethnicity-focused subreddits must be in good faith) is going to be enforced much more strictly with respect to Chinese language subreddits.

>Also we are doing this to enforce Rule 4, "Bigots can participate in AHS, but only in over-riding good faith".

>Also we are doing this to uphold the Moderator Code of Conduct rule against Community Interference.

>Both r/KanagawaWave and r/China_IRL have been documented in the past week, and the operators of both appear to now be competing to write posts about the other subreddit.

>So, unless we can recruit someone who definitively speaks / reads Mandarin and/or Cantonese and is fluent in censorship-avoidant dialects of either,

>Chinese language subreddits where the operators are enabling or encouraging hate speech to be platformed there, should be reported directly to Reddit admins via the Moderator Code of COnduct Complaint form. https://redditinc.com/policies/moderator-code-of-conduct

Hatethissmug is a sub for hating on things made by people, not real people. Take TV shows, tropes, characters, music, all kinds of things. One user makes a post detailing how they hate mpreg:

Some users agree, some stating it's just not their thing while others say it's a form of scary body horror:

"This might be the closest i've seen someone come to understand female body horror through effectively memes"

""its disgusting ugh its disgusting female thing only" breh"

"literally, OP is like soooooo close to seeing what it's like to be a woman and threatened with pregnancy but can only equate it to "male pregnancy is unnatural so it makes me uncomfortable 😣""

"Well, I’m glad I’m not the only one"

"I agree op ngl it’s kinda gets to a point where I’m seeing someone’s fetish on my screen"

"I mean, i found funny the mpreg emoji, but thats it, a Quick laugh of something cursed

Now im gonna return to my happy lolipop world where i forget mpreg is a thing"

Others start to attack and bash op for the opinion, some even wish mpreg upon the op who says in a comment they're a minor:

"brother has no joy or whimsy"

Op: ""oh my it's so joyful seeing people have small people fuck their bodies up and go through hell level pain! How could I say anything against that pure joy!!" "

"Subreddit for hating things btw"

"And they are just hating on op"

"Man, what a cool Sim. I sure hope nothing OP hates happens to him"

"(No fun allowed soyjack)"

Op: "Literally saw a post about hating "I hate having fun" posts lmao"

"Subreddit for hating things btw"

"is this all you do all day?? get a life omg no one cares"

"You cared enough to reply to me"

"Incel post"

"The industrial revolution and your current lifestyle are not biologically correct. So what? Just because something is natural doesn't mean it's good and vice versa."

Op: "I think people forget this sub is made for you express your hate of something and your opinions, I'm fixated with biology being correct so if something goes against it I'm not gonna like it in anyway"

"Well I am expressing hate against your opinion."

Op: "Ok first of all fuck you. But that's also fair so I can't say shit"

There is also a lot, and I mean a lot of comments talking about op being accidentally transphobic which all include their own fights. Op does clarify that they were not talking about trans people at all and that trans men being pregnant doesn't upset him:

"I kinda know what kinda response I'm going to get, but, trans men exist and they can get pregnant "

"Chat, protip: there’s a way to hate mpreg as a trope without incidental transphobia. "

"What about trans men tho?"

Right now there's like 80 people on this post so there's gonna be more fighting, if I see anything particularly good I'll update it here.

A user made a post on whoathatsintresting of a man who grew out his hair to donate it to his girlfriend. Very quickly people start arguing as some say "incels" found the post:

"The men we deserve"

"The fact that this was your reaction to what he did makes me highly doubt that you deserve a man like this."

"Do you really?"

"Not all of you 💀"

"But not the ones you desire though, right?"

"Damn, the incels really can find something to be upset about at every turn."

"Well this woman desired him, so….

Also women probably don’t desire guys regurgitating incel rhetoric. Women are allowed to have preferences. I feel like the guys that say this shit all the time and get mad that some women want to be with hot guys never see the hypocrisy that 99% of the time they themselves only want to be with hot women. But fr your personality sure as shit ain’t helping you be desirable lol"

"Depends. If she's above 30, divorced with kids, then there's a chance."

"This the kinda dude that will get angry when an 18 year old rejects his 35 year old unwashed ass. "

"Reddit has taught me that she will leave him for a worse man.... with his hair attached to her head. "

"If reddit is how you're being taught about life then you really need to get off your phone and get out more"

"Real men do what they must to keep their family’s happy. "

"So real women just selfishly do for themselves and say 'F the family's happiness', or something? I assume that is what you are implying by the specifically gendered statement towards men."

"What an exhausting take. This specifically gendered statement towards men, is not talking about women in any way. Grammatically, implied, nor outright. Common sense leads one to believe that the natural opposite of a real man in this case, would be a man that wouldn't sacrifice to ensure happiness. This is either excellent bait, or you're inferring insult where none exists."

"Try harder. This is not a you moment. Honey. "

This post is very fresh so I'll update as more drama happens.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Virginia/comments/1ss67kn/virginia_voters_approve_democrats_redistricting/

HIGHLIGHTS

Well I just got disenfranchise to protect democracy so there is that >skill issue >>So much for “fairness”. Guess we are in the age of elitism >>>We left the era of fair in 2000 when the supreme court stole the election. Get used to it. >>>>I thought making claims about elections was bad? >>>>>You’re telling on yourself >>>>>>Stop gaslighting please!!!! I have not made any claims about the election and I invite you to audit my profile to prove it. Please go ahead and feel free >>>>>>>That’s not gaslighting. You’re being dishonest

Imagine clapping and cheering for doing exactly what you hate them for doing. America is lost. >Please tell your Republicans reps to ban gerrymandering nationwide in the next election :) >>Acting like dems will vote for that lmaoooo >>>There were two bills for that very thing, put forth by Democrats. Guess who said no? >>>>Bro please. This is like the files. When Dems had the power to release them, they didn't. When Reps had the power, they didn't. They both know they'd go down together, but they can be performative and look good by acting like they'll do something. >>>>>That’s not even close to true. The files were literally under seal till near the end of December 2024. Who took office in January 2025? >>>>>>They could have opened them no problem. Executive order. Or are you gonna sit there and act like a seal should prevent the Epstein client list from being held accountable? It was a stupid justification then, and it is now. Stupid as the claim they were making that the files don't exist.

Finally. Time to enjoy some MAGA tears. >You are no better than them. By executing this power grab, you have laid down in the same mud and swallowed with the pigs you despise >>Exactly this. It's like watching people applaud the death of democracy because they're the tyrants now in charge. >>>It's temporary >>>>That's what they say now. There's always another "emergency" around the corner to make them extend it. Just like how everyone here complained when temporary COVID relief and ACA subsidies ended. >>>>>It’s literally written into the amendment that it’s temporary. >>>>>>I remember when the Patriot Act was supposed to expire in 2005. It was literally written into it. Two decades later... >>>>>>>I remember when the Epstein files were supposed to be fully released. 5 months later…

sic semper tyrannis >So you let a few people in Richmond enforce boundaries on millions to prevent tyranny? >>Actually idk if you noticed but we voted on it, bozo >>>Just because a Mob votes for tyranny does not change the definition of tyranny dude (note how you can reply with slang without being mean. It’s amazing) >>>>so can we both acknowledge, what Trump is advocating for in Texas and Florida and any state where he can benefit, is tyranny? With the added note that he also doesn't expect votes on the matter? >>>>>Gerrymandering is bad period. I am happy to acknowledge that >>>>>>Let us know when you want to accept the rest of reality

You mean disenfranchised the same way republicans have disenfranchised voters in this state for years? Remember, Dems wanted to get rid of gerrymandering and Republicans said no. It’s high time they take a bite of the shit sandwich they’ve been making the majority of us eat for years. >When have I ever voted to disenfranchise someone. Please tell me. I’m waiting >>Did you vote for representatives who voted against measures to end gerrymandering at the federal level? What about voting for representatives who eagerly yank snap benefits and Medicare/Medicaid from poor voters which makes it harder for them to participate electorally. Presumably you voted for Senators who would have happily voted along with their Republican colleagues in McConnel's naked and hypocritical power grabs in SCOTUS. Judges who have consistently voted to gut the civil rights act among other judgments disenfranchising your fellow citizens. Every election where you've voted for a Republican you have voted for a party that supports rapists, felons, and advocates against the rights of minority groups. Every election. >>>And everyone who voted for Spanberger falls under this don’t they? >>>>No. Because the Dems are still willing to end Gerrymandering. You'll notice this is a temporary measure. Any attempt to continue this would require a fresh vote after authorization in two successive legislative sessions. And the Dems have been fairly consistent about trying to propose equitable enfranchisement at the federal level. Ending gerrymandering. The national voter compact. Dems don't go out of their way to defund electoral places or the DMV in rural areas where they govern, in contrast to Republicans who aggressively disenfranchise and suppress urban voters. So no. Voting for a democratic candidate does not fall under this. >>>>>She signed a bill into law that will enact the literal definition of gerrymandering this year. You can’t claim to oppose gerrymandering and then participate in gerrymandering without being intellectually dishonest >>>>>>You can because the Dems are still willing to end gerrymandering with a clean federal solution. And you'll remember that it was the Dems who ran the anti gerrymandering campaign here in Virginia originally while the Republicans played their usual dirty games. But so long as a Republican Congress and a Republican SCOTUS keep defending gerrymandering while a rapist Republican president demands red states gerrymander it is reasonable for Democrats to retaliate. If you and your party are so against gerrymandering they could fix it tomorrow with federal legislation appointing nonpartisan districting commissions. But they won't will they? And you can keep pretending their (and your) bad faith is anything but. The original question you asked was simple. When have you voted for disenfranchising people. I showed you how. And like any good Republican you've instantly switched to bad faith goalpost switching.

I am moving OUT of this stupid fucking shit hole >You won't be missed >>Keep saying this as democrat states continue to lose EC votes. While republican states continue to gain them.

The Commonwealth of Virginia: kicking tyrants’ asses since 1776 >As if Virginia didn't just massively restrict 2A rights in the state (a common action of tyrants) >>2A prevent tyranny? Why are so many 2A supporters helping that tyranny by joining ICE? They have done much to usher it in. Most pro-2A people have shown they are perfectly fine with boots on necks. >>>Why haven't you gotten a gun and taken action? It's hypocritical to demand others take action for your cause. Most people's priority are to protecting thier family, not searching for federal agents to get into gun fights. "Why won't gun owners risk death/injury/conviction to fight for my ideals?"

After this I don't want to hear people in this sub conplain about gerrymandering in other states. Or bitch about "fascism" and "democracy at stake" after y'all voted for an authoritarian amendment to strip half of Virginians of their representation. >At least there was a vote. Texas' legislature just did it. Florida's legislature is going to just do it. Missouri did as well. California and Virginia at least put it up for a vote. >>I don't know why y'all keep making this claim like it's some kind of moral high ground or excuses the authoritarian tactic. They had to put it to a vote they had no choice, since they had to overturn constitutional amendments. >>>Wonder why that wasn’t true in Texas >>>>Or Florida. I swear it's like maga refuses to acknowledge their side did it let alone didn't even give the people a chance. Zero self awareness. >>>>>Democrats tried their best to not give us a chance here either back in 2020. 46 Democrats in the house of delegates voted against the bipartisan commission, while only 9 voted for it. Republicans in the house of delegates voted for it unanimously. >>>>>>Oh we’re doing this lie again? 14 of the 15 members of the Virginia Legislative Black Caucus were in that 46. Say explicitly that the Black Caucus was conspiring to protect gerrymandering. Do it. The amendment’s constitutional text contained zero Voting Rights Act or minority protections. That is why they voted no. You also left out 2019. That vote was 83-15 in the House and 40-0 in the Senate, with Democrats overwhelmingly in favor while they were in the minority. Republicans voted unanimously in 2020 because they were in the minority. Next, the amendment passed. 54-46 in the House, 38-2 in the Senate, 65-35 at the ballot box And Democrats were proven right about the structural defect they flagged. The amendment let any 5-member bloc deadlock the commission and routed it to the Virginia Supreme Court, which at the time was entirely Republican-appointed. The commission deadlocked exactly as predicted, the Republican-appointed court drew the 2021 maps, and Democrats have lived with those maps until now. A party trying to gerrymander does not hand map-drawing to the other party’s judges.

The TACO man just got a taste of FAFO from the Commonwealth To the gop voters in rural VA who voted for trump and opened up this can of worms: enjoy your new Congressional representation 🎉 >Man, its almost hard to believe why rural people hate urban voters. >>Reminder that Republicans from rural areas are why a national gerrymandering ban didn't pass in 2021. They wanted states to retain the ability to gerrymander for political purposes and that's what happened. >>>Reminder that all the most gerrymandered states are blue >>>>What a comically blatant lie. https://gerrymander.princeton.edu/

Not a particularly surprising result given a blue national environment, biased ballot language designed to misinform voters, and much more money on the D side. Definitely seems like it was a good decision for Dems to wait for a blue national environment to push through the gerrymander >I do not understand how it was misleading. I read the question today on the paper ballot and it was like, extremely common and straightforward language… >>Republicans tend to have lower literacy rates. >>>That just seems like massive cope from you. The amendment already passed, you don’t have to pretend like the ballot language isn’t intentionally misleading anymore >>>>"Should the Constitution of Virginia be amended to allow the General Assembly to temporarily adopt new congressional districts to restore fairness in the upcoming elections, while ensuring Virginia's standard redistricting process resumes for all future redistricting after the 2030 census?" Can you point out the confusing part? >>>>>Virginia already has a fair map. Uninformed people may not know this, and read “restore fairness” to mean that fair districts are being implemented. Not that hard >>>>>>Hard for republicans who cannot read, I suppose, but people who can read know that it’s not referring to some unfairness emanating out of Virginia, because it does not say that. And people who pay attention know that Republicans gerrymandering in Texas unbalanced the national environment, which is…shockingly…unfair. Crazy, I know.

To all those celebrating this outcome; if the same lines were drawn but would lead to a majority red map over blue, would you still have voted the same way you did? "Divide and Choose." Edit: Seeing assumptions in replies that I'm a Republican. Keep guessing. And shoutouts to whichever of you immature dolts is concerned enough about me to report the post for suicide-baiting; grow the fuck up. >No, the whole point was to counteract Republican scheming in Texas. Hopefully the mid-decade redistricting is a wash for both sides, so neither tries this nonsense next time. The only way that happens is it the blue states retaliate. A better hypothetical would be: if California started this whole thing, and the Dems were trying to keep a majority they would otherwise lose, should Virginia equalize by drawing a red map? >>No, because letting the actions of other states dictate our local policy is foolish. >>>It’s not local policy, it’s federal representatives

Everyone upset needs to remember that least there was a vote. There was an opportunity for No to win. Same thing in California. Texas' legislature just did it. Florida's legislature is going to just do it. Missouri did as well. Democratic voters there didn't get a say. Republican voters in CA and VA did. >So I should be happy others voted to disenfranchise me? >>My advice? Might want to look at a new state. Cause you're never gonna get that vote back. They'll lie and say some crap about 2030. But they'll have an excuse then. >>>Don't like getting beaten? Don't start the fight. >>>>Didn't start it. But we'll see how y'all deal with Florida finishing it.

Original thread

Background:

NewsOfTheStupid is a subreddit with a fairly self explanatory name, even if recently it's become ripe for a lot of agenda posting there is still the occasional article about stupid is as stupid does.

This particular story is about 3 women in October 2023 in New Zealand who placed two sex toys between a man's butt cheeks and wrote lewd things on him in mascara after he passed out at a party fully clothed (among other things). Notably according to the article "there was no suggestion of penetration".

Links to drama:

> The comment that kicks it all off >>A user replies: clearly you didn't read past the headline

Some other tid bits:

It's funny when the rolls (sic) are reversed

Are laws sexist?

Background:

Michael Bay is a mostly washed up action movie director who peaked in the 90s with the first two Bad Boys movies, The Rock, and Armageddon. His career got a second wind with the Transformers franchise but has recently faded into semi obscurity. He is mostly known for adding sparklers and other embellishments to pyrotechnics. He is maybe nominally right wing, having directed a couple of Victoria's Secret fashion shows for Jeffrey Epstein associate Les Wexner, the brand's founder as well as 13 Hours, a dramatization of the attack on the American embassy in Benghazi, Libya in 2012. He is currently listed on IMDB as the director of an upcoming Skibidi Toilet film adaptation.

The Criterion Collection is a US based film distribution company known primarily for restoring and releasing lesser known foreign, independent, and art house films on Laser Disc, DVD, Bluray, and 4k bluray formats. They are a subsidiary of Janus Films, who are focused on theatrical distribution. In the late 1990s, Criterion published Laser Disc and DVD editions of The Rock and Armageddon along with Robocop, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Clerks, and Chasing Amy to offset the much lower margins of selling Ingmar Bergman and French New Wave movies to the general American public. These titles continue to hold cult/meme status among Criterion and other boutique brand collectors. The Armageddon release is particularly infamous for Ben Affleck's unfiltered thoughts on the disc's commentary track.

The Walt Disney Corporation and Sony: You know who these people are. However, Disney currently own the distribution rights to both The Rock and Armageddon as well as all the films in the 20th Century Fox corporation, who they acquired in 2019. In 2024, Disney laid off its entire home entertainment staff and contracted Sony to handle physical distribution of all their titles in the US and Canada. This has allegedly caused a massive bottleneck in actually printing DVDs, Blurays, and 4k Blurays within the Disney/Sony pipeline.

The Federal Trade Commission is an independent agency of the United States government founded by President Woodrow Wilson to enforce civil antitrust law and promote consumer protection. They share jurisdiction with The Antitrust Division of The Department of Justice.

Alex Pretti was an ICU nurse working for the United States Department of Veterans Affairs who was shot and killed by two United States Customs and Border Protection officers while filming an arrest. Following his death, Pretti was alleged by the Trump administration to be a domestic terrorist without evidence presented to back up those claims.

The Drama

Some guy wants to know when The Rock and Armageddon are going to get 4k releases. A very normal, very common question on film and physical media Reddit.

Someone explains the Disney situation:

>Disney is sitting on A LOT of great movies unfortunately when it comes to 4K releases...

and this dude comes winging in out of nowhere to make it partisan:

Why Monopolies are a terrible thing. But keep Voting Republican, they'll never allow monopolies to happen.

someone provides further context:

>Disney isn't a monopoly.

>And Disney/Sony has been pumping out as much as they can. The issue is there aren't enough pressing plants to keep up with demand.

>Sony now has to balance their own releases with Disney's releases.

buddy is undeterred:

>
Who dissolved and pushed for streaming? Republican “business” geniuses, lmao.

the woke mind virus has entered the chat:

>Streaming was pushed by Netflix. The two Co-CEOs said they wanted to "kill physical media and kill theatrical releases". Netflix has been a huge push for wokeism, so has Disney, Disney only backed down because it was losing them customers.

>The only one that fits that would be Paramount but they were one of the last to the Streaming war.

debate continues, the woke hater endorses a hypothetical WB monopoly in exchange for 4ks:

>I'd be perfectly fine with WB having a monopoly. Their 4K team is great.

>Here's what we are getting from Disney this year:

>Is This Thing On?, Send Help, Avatar 3, Zootopia 3 Alice in Wonderland, Fight Club, Predator Badlands, Tron Ares, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, Minority Report (UK, Lionsgate only did US).

>So thats 10 movies so far. Sony has to balance their order from the production plants so that both Sony's and Disney's movies get a good amount of units produced.

>The issue is Physical media is at an all time high right now. More and more people are switching.

Elsewhere, a new challenger contests that lack of antitrust oversight in the US isn't a partisan issue:

Nothing to do with republicans, Kamala wouldn’t be able to change anything about Disney anyway Not everything is the fault of Trump

Buddy unleashes an entire manifesto that, among other things, claims that "home video flourishes under Democrats," Criterion would agree with him, and invokes both the shooting of Alex Pretti and Palantir CEO Alex Karp for unknown reasons:

>Yeah, but the Netflix, Paramount, Warner thing could have been stopped by her. But you know, endorsing any mass murdering chomo that’s not Roman Polanski is how you’re gonna vote anyway.

>But we’re gonna get another mega merger in the vein of Disney and it only ever happens when a mass murdering/child molester/"Christian Messiah" is in office. He loves children, when he molests them, and especially when he drone strikes 200 of them. He also enjoys pretending that they didn't murder Alex Pretti, but we're not gonna get into murdering American protesters, then running a smear campaign on them. After all, I wouldn't want to piss off Alex Karp.

>Disney buys out 20th century Fox under Trump's first term. Skydance and Netflix bid over Warner Bros. during Trump's second term, after Skydance bought out Paramount, during Trump's second term. Neither of these happened during that other guy's administration. There's an orange constant to these media consolidations. When these happen, home video departments get layoffs from hell. It seems, that if you love Physical Media, the last thing you want is a Republican in office. Home video flourishes under Democrats. From DVD to bluray to 4k bluray, Democrats seem to be far nicer to Home Video. It seems that even the folks at Criterion would agree with me. Yeah, under Obama, Disney bought small companies like Marvel and Lucasfilm. Under Biden, Amazon bought a struggling MGM. But the corporate raiders only come out when Trump is in office.

>All you have to do, is take a peak at how he wants one bootlicker to run the Federal trade commission.

>So, this seems to be the Conservative way. As for woke films, didn’t half of those get financed by Trump’s former cabinet member Steve Mnuchin? A GOP fear mongering psyop if I ever saw one.

>I don't get hate for woke film, if you buy anything from the Criterion collection, it's woke as fuck. The Criterion Collection collection isn't preserving conservative films. I don't even think you can call it a film if it's conservative, it's more thinly veiled christian propaganda, it's North Korea, but with Jesus, that one guy who ghosted us for crucifying him.

>I guarantee a DOJ under Kamala Harris wouldn't have been run into the ground by an idiot like Pam Bondi, and then left in the incapable hands of an acting Attorney General, and something would have been done to prevent another Mega Merger consolidation. But, the Dow at one point in 2026 was at 50,000, it just isn't at 50,000 now. All I'm really saying is, there's a hell of a correlation of events that you're refusing to see.

I'm not going to purity test the entire Criterion closet but i have my doubts about the leftist credentials of The Rock (Spine #108), Armageddon (Spine #40), Hard Boiled (Spine #9), Sorcerer ( Spine #1269, nice), Farewell My Concubine (Spine #1228), or All That Jazz (Spine #724).

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/comments/1sqkhhb/im_almost_done_paying_off_my_tate_mcrae_ticket/

HIGHLIGHTS

I’ve got no sympathy for people whining about high concert ticket prices, it’s a luxury. Want to stick it to Ticketmaster? Don’t go. >Concerts are a luxury? Wtf? >>At that price? Yes. >>>I agree about that price. But I completely disagree that concerts, theatre, etc. are a luxury by definition. It's a normal way to spend time usefully. >>>>If you don't need something to survive, that's a luxury. >>>>>This is really strange and sad logic, tbh. >>>>>>Words mean things and luxuries by definition are not necessities. Facts are not "really strange and sad logic"

What a shit take. I hope everything you love that isn't a necessity gets monopolized utterly the same exact way live entertainment has, so that you get to watch the prices of the things you love rise beyond your means, so that you are left with nothing to look forward to in life except, work, sleep and your eventual death. >Are you ok? Know how you fight back against a monopoly? Dont buy their products. And we’re not exactly starved for entertainment. >>To quote Andy DuFresne: how can you be so obtuse? There's nothing stopping what happened to live music from also happening in other industries. Including necessities, I might add. Like, for example, medicine. >>>Nice reference, sometimes I can be acute guy. Fair point, but I would hope governments would intervene with necessities. >>>>Yeah you would hope but thats not exactly working out for insulin prices now is it? >>>>>Only in the US, where they get a lot of things wrong. >>>>>>We are talking about Ticketmaster, a US company, selling tickets in the US, for a US-based artist. Of course Im talking about insulin in the US Sherlock. >>>>>>>It exists in other countries, Watson.

Bootlicking weirdo >Bootlicking is when no concert ticket >>Bootlicking is white knighting for a monopoly for no reason. >>>They said it's your fault for using the services of the monopoly and to fight it you should boycott. How is that bootlicking? Lmao, you're weird. >>>>They said don’t complain at all. Why the fuck does Ticketmaster need you to defend them? Like sorry, Ticketmaster has ruined live event experiences in this country, but the problem is… the people complaining about them doing that? You’re literally here complaining about people complaining. >>>>>They didn't say that, they said to not buy the tickets

Baffling. The only way things improve is if people stop splurging ridiculous sums on concerts. Googled Tate.... actually assuming it was a guy. It isnt >Your grand idea is… just stop doing this? Genius! And I promise you not knowing one of the biggest pop stars on the planet isn’t the flex you think it is. >>I find it hard to believe he is one of the biggest pop stars on the planet. I have literally never heard of him. The biggest stars seep through to people who aren't paying attention. Taylor Swift and Bad Bunny for example. >>>You being old and out of touch doesn't somehow make her less famous. She has 45 million monthly listeners on Spotify >>>>And according to Spotify that makes her the 85th most popular artist. Which sure is high, but let's not pretend she's top 10 or something. >>>>>Are there only 10 famous pop singers now? >>>>>>She ain't gonna fuck you, dude >>>>>>>Sexualizing women isn't as tuff as it seems >>>>>>>>Lol you thought this would turn out differently, that’s funny Karen.

Jesus christ, and for Tate McRae??? >I truly have never heard of this person >>That’s not a flex lol >>>Nor have I and I’m 30 years old lol. I think it’s pointing to the absurdity that tickets cost that much for someone who isn’t even a household name. My wife paid $700 for Taylor Swift and I thought that was bad but at least everyone knows who TS is >>>>She was the 28th most streamed artists in the world in 2025 bro >>>>>I’m 24 and I’ve never heard of this person >>>>>>Still not a flex >>>>>>>Youre the only person here telling ppl its not a flex. Is it supposed to be?

This is giving strong Disney Adult energy. >This comment section giving strong "can't tell what a joke on the Internet is" energy. >>Go on her x profile, it seems very real or its just a very specific satire account. >>>I went at your recommendation. She seems like a human being with a sense of humor and this tweet is still a joke. >>>>Disagree

As a sane person WTAF >I literally have no idea who tate mcrae even is. >>A Zionist Industry plant

Haven't posted in a long time. Hope I got the formatting right.

Context: OP reposted a news happening for a small township called Peoria Heights (which is technically a separate town from Peoria, Illinois but is located next to it). OP reveals that he's trying to bring attention to this case in hopes that a new precedent is set for falling asleep in the driver's seat in a car while intoxicated and makes it very obvious why.

Full Comment Thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/PeoriaIL/comments/1sp4v7w/peoria_heights_mayor_gets_a_dui/

Thread where OP mentions he has his own "DUI" on record where he was arrested for sleeping at the wheel while intoxicated: https://old.reddit.com/r/PeoriaIL/comments/1sp4v7w/peoria_heights_mayor_gets_a_dui/ogy19xy/

>This is why im making a fit about it. Media is making damn sure to say he didnt drive, but he was in a parking garage at a hotel. At an event. And im sure he had a room if he intended on drinking or not even then, he culd have ubered. I was at home for mine. Didn't drive, cold. Slept in my car. In my garage. Sounds to me its going to go a bit deeper than that.

Some choice comment threads:

>OP is having a normal one today. >>Yeah this is great news not so much for him though. >>>I'm 41. 25 years ago when I was taking drivers ed classes they were pretty clear if you're drunk don't go to your car and sleep because that's a DUI. They aren't going to change the law because the mayor of Peoria Heights got one. And his case won't have any bearing on your case. You making this about you is wild. Nobody cares. Go to AA. >>>>Nope. And its not about me, its about how they treat these cases. Sleeping cases arent that common. Now that he has one it indeed is a way to base how they are treating the ones under the radar. ND NOW I GET TO MAKE AWARE that ive been treated unfairly. If anything im heliping the guy.. But hey thanks for the insult? Gotta love free speech. >>>>>What does any of this have to do with free speech lol

>It is public record. It's in the news. And they processed him just like anyone else for DUI. He will eventually go to court. Not sure why you're trying to smear someone because your DUI was different. >>Not smearing and its not much different. But the law needs reform for drivers versus sleepers. Also, he will probably get off. And probably deserves the full book thrown at him. He could have gotten home without driving. My dui case i was home and wasnt going anywhere so yes ill be paying attention >>>He didn’t drive though… >>>>I didnt drive either. Ive been in court for a year. The city is trying to keep their money train going on thei4 dui bullcrap charges and its probably gotten so bad that its about to end thanks to this mayor. >>>>This is why im making a fit about it. Media is making damn sure to say he didnt drive, but he was in a parking garage at a hotel. At an event. And im sure he had a room if he intended on drinking or not.

>Can you explain your situation? You were drunk and sleeping in your car, parked in your garage, and the police came and arrested you and towed your car? How did they know you were sleeping in your car in your garage? >>That doesnt matter does it according to this case. >>>I'm not trying to argue with you, I'm genuinely confused about what happened in your case and you haven't explained it explicitly. If you were just drunk and sleeping in your property, I'm confused st how they were made aware of you. I'm not arguing with you, I'm trying to understand. >>>>It doesnt matter. I shouldn't have been arrested in the first place. Or jailed. Or my car towed. They could have just woke me up and said go to bed. >>>>>Dude, why are you trying to gather support if you are unwilling to explain your situation? I'm actively trying to understand your side, and you're refusing to even present it. >>>>>>I did. Refresh ur page

>Hate to burst your bubble but our state lawmakers aren't gonna be rewriting DUI laws just because a small town mayor got busted drunk and passed out in a parked car.

>I love the censorship though. So much deleting. >>Your old post was removed due to being misleading. You incorrectly stated it was the Peoria mayor who is a completely different person. Noone is trying to censor you. >>>Down votes. Censor. And its still a peoria mayor. And if censorship policing is your thing you should leave it to the people to figure it out. Its a political post and it will be down voted to the grave. My post was removed because you had the force of ali supporters full throttle on you. Or whoever. Nothing was misleading. >>>>Do you smoke crack by chance?

AITAH is having a slap fight after a user explains a non consensual encounter with their girlfriend where she started to perform oral on him while asleep after he specifically said not to and that he has sexual trauma as a kid. He in retaliation hit and kicked his girlfriend off and is wondering if he was wrong for that

post

Most users are in agreement that the user was just a victim of rape and was justified in his actions:

"She didn't "TRY" raping you...she DID rape you. File police charges. NTA."

"Self-defence is a completely valid reason to hit someone.

She sexually assaulted you. Twice. "

Some users point out that the girlfriends post was made on the sub a few days ago but was deleted:

"Dude. You're girl made a post here a few days ago and admitted to her raping you"

OP: "where????"

The post is linked in this comment thread my app just breaks if I try to link it my bad

Others claim the post is fake and or start attacking the op:

"YTA. But I wanna be clear. Not because of what happened to you.

It's because of "I kicked her in self defence". No you didn't. You had already gotten her off. You hit her out of anger. And that anger may be justifiable anger, but if it were, you would use that instead of "self defence".

I'm getting a sense of postproduction editing to victimhood. "

Op: "She raped me twice? I made it clear the first time that it wasn't ok and for her not to do it again, and yet did it again. I have my full right to do that"

"No you don't. You have an emotional entitlement to it. Not any right.

Self defence is well defined under the law. It's not just any situation you think violence is warranted.

If you already pushed her off, the only "self defence" argument comes from her trying to climb back on.

If the strikes themselves aren't stopping anything then they're not self defence. "

"You’re cringe asf "

"She was “jumping” on top of you, you pushed her off, but it was still necessary to slap and kick her? Something about this doesn’t make sense. Now what does make sense is she runs off. Is she scared or guilty…? Question, can she take you? How much weight do you have on each other? I’m not saying you’re lying or wrong. I’m just trying to picture the scenario. Why did you also have to slap and kick her after pushing her off? Did she keep coming after you?"

The biggest arguments start in this comment thread where a user blames op for making a post because "his girlfriend might see it" and that he's lying entirely:

"Yes, you're the AH. You made an account on here knowing your GF could possibly see it and then you talk about nonsense. You're 17 so you've been dating since you were 11... so dumb I hope this is a bot, trying to find out the threshold of tolerable abuse the common reddit user will encourage. "

OP: "I didn't want her to rape me like that though, and I made it clear to her before. This is the second instance of it happening and it was self defense and I was also scared, but I see where you're coming from"

"So you were already a victim of a prior sexual assault where someone gave you nonconsensual oral sex while you were under 11? Your story has a hole the size of the titanic in it."

OP: "No? I said "a few years ago". I was 15, I have no idea where you got "under 11" from"

A few comments later:

"I read the post wrong about you having trauma from another person sucking on you without consent? How many folks are craving your prepubescent pecker?"

"So you're a rapist magnet, that's rough. "

This post is very fresh and still evolving there will absolutely be more fighting I'm not seeing.

Edit: I don't care if you think the post is fake or not this is mostly just about how people are responding to the possible rape of a guy. If it is fake so be it if it's real which we have no way of really knowing comments like "you're a rape magnet" are awful lol

Edit 2: original post locked for, and I quote, "Posts and comments that exhibit needless violence or cruelty are not allowed."

**Context:** OP posts a picture of a glass kitchenware item to /r/whatisit and gets told it’s a bacon 🥓 cooker. One user does NOT like the use of the emoji in the answer and chooses to die on that hill.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/1sosn90/hot_take_the_artemis_accords_are_bad_china_is/?sort=controversial

HIGHLIGHTS

Very naive of anyone to ever think we weren't going to start claiming land in space as soon as we started funding actual space colinization. >(OP) So your counterarguemnt is to call me naive for wanting better? You will look at a bully & go ”they were naive to think they wouldn’t get bullied” blaming the victim rather than the bully who did the bullying. Fuck the US >>So let's say people start living on the moon. They spend billions of dollars setting up a permanent site, sending it all up the and living there. Then a hostile nation goes up and builds a dome around it so no one can get in or out. By you that would be legal right, since no one owns the land they are free to do that. The sad reality is not having any ownership just won't work in the real world where bad actors exist. >>>I believe in both public land, and private land ownership. I think they're are better ways we could do the system, but anyone who thinks all land should be public and free is just not willing to admit the world won't work that way at all. At least now and in the near future >>>>Public land only exists under the guarantee of some power structure. If that power is too weak, or too far away to exert itself, people will claim that land.

This sub is increasingly getting overwhelmed by American jingoists and exceptionalists, now we have people saying “who cares about treaties lol!”. And here we have nerds unironically defending the enclosure of space commons in a way that specifically benefits a single nation. wtf happened to this sub man, it’s such a bummer >This sub is increasingly getting overwhelmed my Chinese propagandists and bots, now we have people saying “who cares about treaties (if it's China breaking them) lol!”. And here we have nerds unironically defending the enclosure of space commons in a way that specifically benefits a single nation. wtf happened to this sub man, it’s such a bummer >>The difference between what I said and what you said is that what I said is actually true, and you're just being juvenile for lack of a substantive response. >>>"One of us only speaks the truth, the other only lies. To advance to the next room you must solve our riddle" >>>>Or more accurately, I made an obvious observation and you lazily turned it around because, again, you have no response. >>>>>Or more accurately, I made fun of you for saying something ridiculous and you lazily clamed it was wrong without proof because you have no response. >>>>>>It's not ridiculous; in this thread alone multiple people cast aspersions on international treaties, multiple people supported enclosure of space resources, a guy supported the militarization of space, the top comment supports might-makes-right seizure of resources, and there's multiple people apologizing for American foreign policy. All these things are anathema to the open and peaceful exploration of space, and are emblematic of the continuous serious degradation of the sub. Here's the part where you lazily swap words and think you're doing anything but shielding your ego under the guise of trolling.

That's just because China can't dump a bunch of sand on the Moon and create a new island chain to build military bases on. When they figure that out, they'll be all over it. >The United States has 800 overseas bases. China has 1 >>so you're comparing the USA having bases in other countries through mutual agreements.. to China bumping their territorial waters, contested by many neighboring countries, by creating artificial islands? Interesting take >>>Okinawa, Diego Garcia and Guantanamo Bay aren't accessed be mutual agreement. >>>>Okinawa and Diego Garcia are both there due to a mutual agreement. Guantanamo is there due to a treaty signed in 1903 and reaffirmed in 1934. >>>>>Yeah you might want to update yourself on the current situation >>>>>>That is the current situation, unless you’d like to enlighten me with a link?

China built illegal islands in the south China Sea. >China doing something wrong doesn't make space colonialism okay, which is the point of this post. >>Please genuinely never use terms you don't understand ever again. 🙏 >>>Merriam-Webster dictionary defines colonialism as “domination of a people or AREA by a foreign state or nation.” >>>>Colonialism specifically refers to the dominantion of foreign people and their lands. There is nobody on the moon, it's nobody's land. >>>>>The entire point of the Outer Space Treaty which the US is flagrantly refuting with the Artemis Accords is that the moon belongs to all of us. It's everybody's land, and I will not respect the "right" of some corporate nonce to pay someone to plant a flag on it and say it's his now. >>>>>>No you're not getting it. The moon isn't being claimed, only the direct area around American landing sites or construction sites is under temporary "jurisdiction" of the US. The Chinese wouldn't do it any other way. >>>>>>>They have. They are. The moon is mine and every other person's. It's nor for sale. >>>>>>>>Yeah it's not being bought. It belongs to whoever can get there in the first place, so not you.

China stole Tibet and is brutally oppressing them, along with Xinjiang. >When you look back in time you can see that nearly every country has a similar history there. America too, Australia too. Indict wanna play it down but we should finally learn to live together and handle the bigger issues on our planet. >>" When you look back in time you can see that nearly every country has a similar history there." They're doing current harm. "we should finally learn to live together and handle the bigger issues on our planet." In China's case, that would include stopping the abuse of people that don't want to be occupied anymore, or simply disagree with their policies. >>>Native American independence when? Palestinian independence when? Why stop st Tibet? >>>>You're right :3 WHY stop at tibet? All peoples should be free, including the Tibetans, the Palestinians, Native Americans etc. anyway, this is r/space not r/worldpolitics so maybe lets relax a bit yeah

Counter hot take: China is against it because they didn't get to implement it first. Let's not forget that China is making claims on lands that it doesn't own and, despite international arbitration favouring against China's movements, China continues its colonization efforts to the detriment of its neighbours. The US is no saint, but China is arguably worse. >"The US is no saint, but China is arguably worse." Go outside pls. Is China bombing/helping bomb people from the third world? >>Should we talk about the Uyghurs? >>>[deleted] >>>>Thriving in Xinjiang? Are you a CCP bot? https://www.xinjiangpolicefiles.org/

If China got there first, they’d claim it as their own. >The amount of "America bad, china good" posts I've been seeing lately is crazy. Look at r/futurology for Christ sake. >>[deleted] >>>If they were wealthy - as you point out - surely you can understand why they might not like socialism, and would prefer a highly unequal country such as the USA. >>>>China is not a socialist country in any way, shape or form. It's an authoritarian single-party state with a capitalist and highly unequal economy, dressed up with communist imagery. Many capitalist countries have better social safety nets and especially more worker empowerment. >>>>>They may not have much of a social safety net but they do have a ton of suicide nets, surely that counts for something

i don't know anything about the Artemis accords, but i will say this. the UN has no real authority unless the members are willing to act upon it's decisions, see Israel/Palestine. the only real reason that the US/China/Russia haven't put weapons in space is because they know that if they do the other nations will as well and it'll be a problem. also i don't know what you're on about in the last paragraph. it seems like you're implying that China follows border laws and the US doesn't. make no mistake, every single "freedom of navigation" trips that the US makes in Asia are 100% legal and it's China that freaks out. >The reason we don't have weapons in space is beacuse it's utterly impractical. See Reagan's project Star Wars Putting titanium rods into LEO means the weapon would fly over your target once every 2 hours, as opposed to an ICBM flying across the globe in about 30 minutes And you'd have to figure out an orbit that flies over Moscow, Beijing and Teheran in one loop. If you wanted Rods From God, you'd need about as many launchers as Starlink has satellites. And you can't really bulk launch tens those things in one rocket when your projectiles are made of the densest stable isotopes on earth. And putting a warhead to geostationary orbit over the enemy capital would mean a distance at minimum double that of a ground launch. And all of it exteremely visible, thus a lot easier to intercept. Also the rocket required to carry another rocket would be huge. As for lasers, the first issue is clouds. >>And all of your objections disappear like a mirage the moment that you can start building things in space from resources that also come from space. I suspect you are going to break out in the Luddite hymn "It will never work." Most do when confronted with their status quo bias. But we'll see. >>>I mean, not really. Orbits are still orbits, the time problem doesn’t go away, and increasing the number of objects to compensate for it will just make the other objections more true (e.g., shooting them down). >>>>SpaceX alone already has over 10,000 satellites up. Starshield has around 200 (although that is only a rough guess. Could be much higher). These are not yet full blown American national projects. They are more like a proof of concept, and the proof has worked.................. >>>>>No one is saying there won’t be weapons in space. There honestly probably already are. But you’re ignoring some pretty obvious issues that aren’t just “Luddite prayers,” they’re hard problems that aren’t currently practical to solve, and they won’t be for the foreseeable future. For example orbital mechanics being what they are and the potential for the Kessler Problem/effect. These aren’t problems that are a function of more imagination; they’re practical realities of our current level of understanding. It doesn’t mean they will never be, but it does mean there will need to be a significant increase in necessity or incentive, neither of which is present today. It might be tomorrow, but that isn’t likely because it hasn’t been for the last ~50 years..............

It’s clear that OP and most commenters here have not actually read the Accords, nor realize there are 60+ signatories. The core elements of the Accords are transparency and adherence to the OST. They are publicly available to anyone who spends five seconds googling. >Do you actually think that the US devised the AA, conducted dozens of bilateral discussions and spent this much time coordinating agreements and signing events just to reinforce existing law? >>have you fucking read them? they are literally just a bunch of promises to adhere to the outer space treaty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_Accords#Accords >>>I’ve read every single word. The outer space treaty doesn’t say anything about mineral rights. Or keep out zones. Or heritage sites. The whole point of the AA is to re-interpret the OST in favorable terms without requiring UN consensus.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AITAH/s/TtW3CnXuDf

AITAH is currently dogging on a user after an odd post is made. The user claims to not only have tampered with personal property of someone else they're friends with, jailbreaking a console they were given as a gift against their wishes, but also that said friend is a 14 year old while OP is in their mid 30s. Fights, insults, and concern spread.

"Why are you friends with a 14 year old? And then not listening to here when she tells you no"

Op: "For your second question, refer to my other reply. And for the first one, it's a complicated story involving acquainting her parents at comic con, getting to know the family, and genuinely connecting over a lot of shared interests. I can assure you that nothing weird is happening. I know her family very well and we meet up quite frequently."

Some users focus on the issue of going behind the 14 year olds back and not the age gap:

"She directly told you not to."

Op: "Allow me to specify. It was a surprise and I didn't tell her beforehand. I only learned after the fact that her stance on piracy is wildly different than mine. "

"That's hardly an excuse - it's not your device, you should've asked for permission first"

OP: "I mean, I did pay for the damn thing"

"If you had done it as a kindness, that would be different but she said no. YTA, completely "

Op: "I did do it as a kindness, and it was a damned SURPRISE..."

Other users start to attack op over the odd relationship:

"Why are you "friends" with children and buying them gifts, and why are you forcing your weird opinions on them. This has to be ragebait otherwise I know a register you should probably sign "

"Dude what kind of pedo shit is this?! There is no reason a 35 year old grown man should be friends with a 14 year old child. But also you can’t respect someone telling you no?!

I wonder what other nos you don’t respect?!!!!"

This post is very active and the op is fighting with almost everyone who comments. So, are they the asshole lol?

Edit: dude got banned, rip comments

Original Post

Context:

Slime Rancher is a open world farming simulation where you farm slimes for their plorts, aka poop. Most slimes eat veggies or fruits, but some require meat in the form of a space chicken called a Hen Hen. It's a very calm kid's game which makes this little bit of drama extra funny.

The debate starts off benign enough:

"There isn't chicken from planet earth on it

There is chickens from that planet, and they just happen to also look like our chickens

That's a popular theory among scientists who make theories about possible alien lives actually... that if there is a planet that is anything like ours out there somewhere, it's very likely that some of the species on it will also have evolved like our species"

Someone points out to the contrary:

"There is chickens from that planet, and they just happen to also look like our chickens

Literally the first line of the Slimepedia:

Hen Hens are a special breed of chicken bred to survive the climate of the Far, Far Range."

Another user agrees with the person above:

>There have been humans in the Far Far Range for quite a while. At some point, chickens from Earth were brought over and eventually bred into hen hens. This is mentioned in the Slimepedia.

And then this is when things start to go downhill:

"This is absolutely not mentioned in the slimepedia, stop spreading misinformation

What's mentionned in the slimepedia is that Hen Hen are a breed of chicken bred to survive specific climates

It is not mentioned anywhere that those chickens were brought over from earth/aren't native to the planet"

A few fun quotes I've selected:

>Oh so you also do not know how breeding species work-
Yeah, genuinely horrendous education system you went through

"
"Your points aren't good" you say after not even reading what my points are lmao

I already explained why them being bred to survive Far Far range does not mean in any way they come from earth

But hey, if you didn't ignore what I said your point would crumble, so ig you have to just ignore everything I write if you want to still look like you're right

Ngl I didn't knew there were so many uneducated people in that fandom

Like the lack of scientific and biological knowledge y'all are displaying is genuinely worrying

Y'all have literally ONE argument, and that argument completely falls apart if you take into account how biology and science works"

"That is not what you said at all

You said they were bred from chickens from earth

That is not mentionned anywhere in the slimepedia

All we know is that they are bred from a species called chicken, wether that species is the one from earth or one from far far range is not mentionned anywhere

And scientifically + logically, it is way more likely that species is from that planet, not earth

"Chickens" doesn't immediatly means it's earth chickens"

Apologies in advance if the formatting is weird. I don't post too often. lol Pretty low stakes but hilarious.

Edit: I fixed it a little. The quotation blocks decided to die because I am inept at Reddit. LOL

OP’s mildly infuriating issue

OP shares the resolution of their previously removed post in which the neighbor’s contracted landscaping company was starting their work at the neighbor’s yard at 6:00am.

OP found the 6:00am start time to be hell as the noise heavily disrupted their sleep routine.

> [UPDATE] Commercial Lawn Mowing at 6am > > Original post was taken down but a lot of you requested an update (I have redacted the offending parts). > > I’m happy to report that after reaching out to the town commissioner, they swiftly took action and I was NOT woken up at 6am today by a lawn mower. > > Thank you all for your support. > > EDIT: feel the need to clarify, I am very far away from Arizona! The AZ heat does NOT apply here

Slapfights commence

Crying white collar workers:

> White collar redditors crying again when real people would early lmao. Fucking sad [downvoted]

> Noise ordinances exist for a reason. Lololol at real people working early. > > U better not use a bank if you don’t like real people working. I hope all your money is under your mattress.

> I can't tell if you're trying to make a "banker's hours" reference that just isn't going well, or trying to say that people who work in banks are just better than people who mow lawns, which is just dickish

> [to the downvoted comment] Oh no you work early. And at some point you have to sleep. Would be a shame if someone was extremely loud while you were trying to sleep, knowing you had to wake up early for your job.

> That'd hit different if OP wasn't being a karen tool to the company. > > Secondly, to anyone who needs to sleep at odd hours. ear covers, and being polite and talking to others as if they where people (shocking concept) works miles better than ... what OP did. [downvoted]

> OP: The company is a contractor who I’ve had no contact with. I contacted the business who is hiring them for 6am. Again, dude get over yourself you’re all up in arms over this. It’s okay

Start time should be 8am:

> Honestly it should be 8am minimum and maybe even 9 on a weekend.

> Devil's advocate though, think how hard it is for the workers.

> Devil’s Devil’s advocate, the workers choose their line of work. The uninvolved neighbors don’t get a choice at all. [downvoted]

> There’s no winning here. Then when there’s not enough time in the day, the same people bitching that it’s too early will be bitching that the grass is too high. People need to mind their own business. That’s the problem.

> I absolutely love minding my own business. But it becomes my business when some dickhead fires up a 1,000 horsepower lawn mower next to my infants room at 6 am, when I just got her back down at 5:30am. > > I think there is winning here…and it’s an 8 am universal start time for shit over 80 dB

Disagreeing with 8am start:

> Hard disagree. I mow as close to 7am as possible, because it's way too hot as soon as the sun makes an appearance, which is before 7am. 6am is too early, but I wouldn't be caught waiting until 8 when the sun is full force in the summer. [downvoted]

> what a selfish *****

> ”it’s way too hot” > > Sounds like you're making your problem with the heat your neighbors' issue. I strive not to make my issues other people's problems, personally.

> Love the hypocrisy of reddit. If you want to blow weed smoke into your neighbors yards and make them smell that awful stench, that's fine cause it's your property. If you want to be full nude and make your neighbors see that against their will, that's fine cause it's your property. But heaven forbid you mow your lawn at an hour within what's allowed by noise ordinances. Bet the thread would be supporting someone if they were loud at 9pm because that's their property and it's within noise ordinances, but flip it to 7am, same ass situation and they're oh so offended. [downvoted again]

Singular takes

> Maybe choose a different job if you don't like the working conditions?

> God forbid hard working people try to make a living and disturb your nap time.

> Way to go Karen stick it to the working man.

> What kind of crybaby complains about 6am? If you work any day job this is downright silly. Swing shift or graveyard, sure, but earplugs exist. Do they understand lawn care starts early because the days get hot? I'm sure they wouldn't care. Jfc

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Full thread with more lawn mowing takes here

Reminder not to comment in the OOP!

Context:

Yesterday, a streamer named ExtraEmily accidentally revealed an open tab on her browser for a viewbotting website mid-stream. Viewbotting is the practice of paying for "fake viewers" (i.e. bots) to make your stream look more popular than it actually is, which has benefits such as influencing the streaming website's recommendation algorithm, etc. This is against Twitch's terms of service and is something of a boogeyman in the streaming community, with people constantly accusing streamers of doing it, and some people believing that every single popular streamer does it. When what seemed like cold-hard proof of a high profile streamer using one of these services finally dropped yesterday, the Livestreamfail forum exploded.

Until it didn't

One mod left a comment that he had "confirmed" that the open window was merely a popup ad from the website she was on. The post was quietly deleted and any further posts about it were whack-a-moled over the following 24 hours or so.

The mod team decides that people asking for proof of the popup theory are engaging in "targeted harassment", and anyone who pointed out that the viewbotting website was in an incognito window while the "popup generating site" wasn't were promptly banned.

The update: Statement from the Mod Team

[...] Today, it started to become more apparent that this moderator may have lied, or fabricated the claim of a pop-up, to seemingly protect ExtraEmily. Through more digging, we were able to confirm that they are an avid Extra Emily clipper, poster and a very active member of her community and Discord. Mods are going to have biases and be viewers, but we cannot allow that bias to influence how we moderate or what rules we follow [...] we have decided to remove this mod from the team.

commenters point out that the "bias" mentioned in the mod statement may have been an understatement.

Just looked up his logs in ExtraEmily's chat, he has 6464 messages in there... since the beginning of April. No wonder all those threads were getting deleted.

BRO WHAT. THATS 380 FUCKING MESSAGES PER DAY. Thats actually bonkers, wtf. If my math is right that’s also 15 messages PER hour. If you factor in sleep, which let’s be honest is probably 4 max, it’s 21 an hour. My god, I’ve never seen a no lifer like that.

is The Mod a viewbot himself?

That is 100% a bot, no comment is longer than like 6 words and every single one starts with an emoji

Reaction to this action by the mod team is mostly positive, but some question how this mod could have been given so much power in the first place.

do you not vet these people? This is a pretty big fucking red flag to me. A shapeshifting dragon? What kinda crack is this guy on

The mod who recruited him answers the question:

To be clear here, I was the one who recruited this mod, without any input from the rest of the team. And I did so with the full knowledge that they were a super fan because I wanted more positive mods and less antifan mods that cause drama.

As for why I was ok with recruiting a mod that had an obvious bias my reasoning was that since I was the top dictator mod I could just overrule them on anything biased that they did.

This whole line of thinking, goes completely off the rails after I lost the top position of course XD

With that logic let everyone in since you can correct later.

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Edit: that former mod who recruited the white knight might be familiar to you: he was ousted a couple months ago for using LivestreamFail to promote a crypto scam in a scandal that also involved ExtraEmily

Editing the post on the mobile app seemed to break markdown. Sorry, don’t know how to fix the formatting