Can’t wait for the antitrust trial thing

Liberals are so homophobic. Even the ones who think they’re progressive. Every time a conservative does something, liberals bring out their list of classics:

• “haha this homophobic conservative is probably a self-hating closeted gay in denial!” (as if only gay people can be homophobic??)
• “I will now depict my enemies as gay lovers. This isn’t implying they’re lesser because they’re gay, I swear I’m just doing it because they would hate to see themselves depicted like this!!”
• As previous, but depicting their enemies in drag
• The long list of put-downs that have to do with performing sex acts (“suck [person]'s dick”, “kiss [person]'s ass”, etc) that generally imply someone is bad because they’re the submissive one in the invoked sex act

And many more!

I looked once and there were at least four posts on the first page that were some variation of “I haven’t pooped in two weeks, is this normal?”

Even if they were stealing food, what is the harm in letting food come into Gaza? What is Hamas going to do with a bunch of food, throw it at IOF troops?

No, but it was pretty straightforward when I was still on the site. I heard they recently added “Luigi” to the list, so if someone used to talk about Nintendo games a lot you can potentially do something funny.

Moderator accounts also have their reports prioritized, so if you get added to some random subreddits as a mod you can even see instant bans in response to your reports. Only a couple of the report reasons go straight to the admins, including the “advocating violence” one, and the “promoting hate” one. But the “hate” report seemed to take a lot longer to be acted on and have much softer consequences. Whereas if I reported some fascist who wanted to depopulate the Earth, after the third report I’d often instantly get a message saying “we’ve taken action” and then their account would be gone.

It’s worth noting that they do also keep tabs on “report abuse” now, so you can potentially get shadowbanned for this stuff.

The source for most of this is either from personal experience, or straight from the Reddit admin team at one of their ridiculous Zoom events.

They outsourced almost all admin-level moderation (site-wide bans) to a bot service a few years ago and now you’re at the mercy of user reports. If someone reports you for “inciting violence” and your comment contains a keyword, it’s an immediate warning. If someone does it to several comments simultaneously, you get three strikes and an immediate ban. Last time I looked at the site (a while ago) you could even trigger it on comments talking about “killing time”.

Liberals will do shit like this but refuse to raise the minimum age required to get married

No, I used jumble.top but all the old episode download links still work. And yes, there is Patreon-exclusive content.

I have the Patreon download links for Citations Needed (and a couple of others) episodes up to July 1st. Is that helpful in any way?

I laughed several times while reading this

Nice emdashes, comrade. o7

The part with the scientist who did a study of 9 families who called increased eye contact as an “improvement” made me grimace.

This sounds like the ideal relationship

[scheduling problems joke] (I am too unsmart and unfunny to formulate one)

I had to listen to 40 hours of history podcast to understand this meme, but I’m glad I did

I eat my lunch by scooping it with flatbread almost every day, and the whities at work still stare at me for it

Tauon works for me, but my synced lyrics aren’t embedded.

nose ring!! or eyebrow ring

I didn’t even know religion existed until some new people moved in next door and their kid was super into Jesus.

Everyone at my work has been cyclically ill for years. Some of them have been continuously ill with a horrible cough for months at this point. I have not been sick. They all wonder how.

Hmm. I wonder how that could be?

“Mirror mirror, on the wall: who is the most popular of them all?”

I don’t even have one GB of data…