yeah someone mentioned that AFTER i posted my tweet. still doesn’t change the fact that black people do get racially attacked in the states tho

— Sysuke (@syruhhhh) September 18, 2024

Literally what the frick did he even mean by this?

Unpaid Janny B-Dubs comes in to make sure everyone is taking this super cereal

Blowing up terrorists is terrorism, sweaty

I'm not insane, you're insane

Don't compare this to The Wire... because just don't chud.

Hamas murders civilians in good faith, chud

Even talking about IDF bad the wrong way, is a paddlin'

point out that most people aren't going to sympathize with the terrorists

Seen here

https://old.reddit.com/r/redscarepod/comments/1fl8vsz/_/

Other discussions

https://old.reddit.com/r/4tran4/comments/1fkjvvg/wake_up_babe_new_female_hysteria_diagnosis_just/

https://old.reddit.com/r/DrWillPowers/comments/1fj2osd/why_am_i_seeing_an_increase_in_patients_with_the/

I haven't read through those yet. Probably some good cope and seethe. But here's the yt Queen explaining what's going on with these crackas. Basically what many of us say on here daily, but she explains it very well

https://old.reddit.com/r/Psychiatry/comments/1fh6oya/why_am_i_seeing_an_increase_in_patients_with_the/ln7y1ij/?context=8

What about socioeconomic commonalities? Are any of these pts verbalizing dissatisfaction with their living situations, finances, etc.? Are they in toxic or distressing situations? Are they physically socially isolated and most of their human interaction is in digital spaces? Do they have meaningful relationships, hobbies, interests, careers?

Also, have you seen /r/illnessfakers?

I am NOT saying your patients are faking or that anyone is faking. But I think online information has influenced a cohort of dissatisfied and somewhat distressed "walking well" (primarily) women into seeking an identity that simultaneously offers them the dichotomy of fitting in (now they're part of the "sick" community) as well as a sense of otherness (being "different" for having a collection of Dx and all that entails on paper). It's attention seeking but also validating as various symptoms, emotional outbursts, difficult behavior can be filed under the heading of ____ Dx, and if the patient chooses not to adjust behavior, make lifestyle changes, or learn to cope, now they can just blame the Dx.

Some of these patients genuinely feel unhappy, dissatisfied, and are physically unwell. They feel tired, unmotivated, and vaguely hopeless. Many of them are sedentary and stopped playing youth sports (which was helpful when they were younger for myriad reasons). They don't have long term goals or ambitious prospects. They're lonely, usually isolated, and are seeking explanations for why day-to-day life feels difficult and why they can't get along.

The label of a Dx provides entry into a new community. A sense of purpose, belonging, and a reason that can be named to explain / blame any unpleasant behavior or personality issues.

I think this type of patient suggests a larger societal problem where we are raising young people who feel hopeless, overwhelmed, anxious, and alone, are desperate for inclusion but also desperate to be "special."

One of my colleagues says that we've solved many of life's major problems but human wiring hasn't caught up. Most of these patients have always had access to clean water, safe, reliable shelter and food, and have not been raised in a war zone. Decent, average family, free from abuse or any extreme situation. No history of trauma. But human development is based on problem solving and we evolved with fear and anxiety responses to keep up safe and alert. Without "real problems" to solve or "real danger" to evade, modern minds are over analyzing and over worrying about small issues and evoking anxiety type responses. Thus, that one time a person felt dizzy becomes a new complaint and they end up seeing three specialists about it and they develop anxiety about it happening again or signifying a more serious problem. In absence of bigger issues to stress over, minor issues get over emphasized. In a world where medical professionals are beholden to insurance and admin, and terrified of getting sued, it's easier to order more tests and send this person down the path of validation as some diagnosis will eventually be met with the excessive workup.

I think a lot of people want an identity of having overcome a struggle without having faced an actual struggle. It's cool to have overcome hardship. White women from middle class families aren't special now but being "sick" makes you special. It also offers entry into supportive, welcoming spaces and for someone seeking a sense of belonging and otherness, with a reason to explain / excuse shitty behavior, it's ideal. It's the super Walmart of maladaptive coping, it has everything.

Can we put this Queen in charge of the mayo foid labor camps? She can them into shape.

I’m gonna leave this here: maybe, just maybe, consider RFK’s role as a 70 year old on a 31 year old female reporter.

Like y’all are self proclaimed feminists but on Twitter just are full on bullies.

— Nomiki --- "No-me-KEY" (@NomikiKonst) September 20, 2024

Preamable

In 2016, Democrat Roy Cooper narrowly defeated Incumbent Republican Governor Pat McCroy by 1% in North Carolina - an incredibly impressive result, considering Donald Trump also won the state by roughly 2% at the same time. While McCroy had been a truly awful governor and Cooper's margin was about a c*nt's hair difference between win and lose, that's still a tremendously impressive result. Cooper even repeated the result in 2020, winning re-election by a respectable 4%, when Trump won the state by 1% again. Term limited, Cooper's impressive record and the state slipping out of Donald Trump's may suggest that North Carolina is becoming a Democratic state - not the case, as seen by the downballot elections. Mark Robinson, a hard right Republican, was nominated as the mostly ceremonial Lieutenant-Governor, and Dale Folwell was the moderate Republican treasurer. Still, the Attorney General Josh Stein was Democrat. North Carolina seems likely to be a new swing state in the new, Trumpian party system.

2024

Roy Cooper, the proven winner, was term limited and couldn't run for re-election. In the Democratic primary, the standard, mainstream liberal and Attorney General Josh Stein won by nearly 70%. In the Republican Primary, the hard right Lieutenant-Governor Robinson beat the relatively moderate Treasurer Dale Folwell by 65%

Literally during the exact same day, audio was leaked by a mysterious Sosh Jtein where Robinson called for a 0 week abortion ban, saying on North Carolinas 12 week ban "I would love to get down to six weeks. And I'd like to get down to zero. I would like to push it back as far as we could and eliminate as many abortions as we can." This is exactly what Republicans want to hear, but when even safe Republican states like Ohio and Montana pass ballot initiatives protecting abortion, is not something you want leaked.

So that's how he started. He started with a scandal that could have cost him the campaign. This is the minor thing. It only gets worse/funnier from here.

The Black White Supremacist

Mark Robinson, described by Trump as "Martin Luther King on steroids", has shown a lot of sympathy for the White Supremacist movement, to the point the only thing that stops me from calling him a White Supremacist is the fact he's black - and I'm still fairly confident he is a White Supremacist.

On 2014, he posted on his facebook account "Note to liberals; I'll accept "Gay Pride" when you accept "White Pride"". Calling for White Pride (a phrase created by George Lincoln Rockwell of the American Nazi Party, directly inspired by the Nation of Islam) is a pretty eyebrow raising statement, but it gets a lot better!

He was probably seething when Drumpf compared him to MLK, because Robinson hates MLK. In his shitty book, he says "December of 2007 was when I joined Facebook. Every political thought I had in my head, I put on there, up to and including my posting photos of Martin Luther King and calling him a communist." So understand that while these posts aren't explicit, he's pretty blunt about not liking him;

"I don't like Communist. No matter what 'color' they are."

"Tomorrow I will do my 'service to the community' by going to work to continue to support myself and my family so I'm not a leach on said community." - on MLK day.

"It is at once funny and sad that so many people will follow the lead of a bunch of atheists and worship an ersatz pastor as a deity."

Pooping on MLK is a really bad look, absolutely a race ender if you're white, but Robinson being black has given him a deflector shield. I wouldn't call him a White Supremacist based on any of this stuff. It's the following remarks he's made on the Civil Rights Movement that convinced me;

: "So many things were lost during the Civil Rights Movement. So many freedoms were lost during the Civil Rights Movement. They shouldn't have been lost. (...) You talk about the sit-in movement. We're in a free market system. So we've got a place called Woolworth in Greensboro that won't serve Blacks at the lunch counter. What do you do? You go down there and you sit at the lunch counter and you demand for these people to take your money. How crazy is that?"

: "The Civil Rights Movement destroyed hundreds of very well-run Black schools. They destroyed Black businesses across the nation."

So you have a man that dislikes MLK, dislikes the civil rights movement and called for White Pride. What a bizarre r-slur... and it gets even better. Like a lot of radicals, he has a fascinating stance on;

Da Joos

With Republicans being the party of Israel while the Democrats try to balance their progressive base and not pissing off AIPAC too much, Robinson has been running a pretty strong platform against anti-semitism. Unfortunately for him, he forgot to delete some "interesting" comments on Jews and Nazis on his public facebook account.

: "I am so sick of seeing and hearing people STILL talk about Nazis and Hitler and how evil and manipulative they were. NEWS FLASH PEOPLE, THE NAZIS (National Socialist) ARE GONE! We did away with them!" (...) Marxist Socialist and communism pose the bigger threat and control the media. After all, who do you think has been pushing this Nazi boogeyman narrative all these years?"

So that's a pretty bad statement to make, but jeeze guys cut him some slack. 2017 was practically a different time. Later that same year;

: "Please STOP wasting my time, your time, and the time of your fellow conservatives talking about, and making mention of, the NAZIS who have been DEAD since 1945."

Well, that's not an awesome thing to have leak when you're trying to look strong on anti-semitism. Still, it could be worse right? 2018;

: "It is absolutely AMAZING to me that people who know so little about their true history and REFUSE to acknowledge the pure sorry state of their current condition can get so excited about a fictional 'hero' created by an agnostic Jew and put to film by satanic marxists. How can this trash, that was only created to pull the shekels out of your Schvartze pockets, invoke any pride?"

Well, that's really bad. Really bad. Also 2018;

: "The center and leftist leaning Weimar Republic put heavy gun ownership restrictions on German citizens long before the Nazis took power. This foolishness about Hitler disarming MILLIONS of Jews and then marching them off to concentration camps is a bunch of hogwash. Repeating that hogwash makes the conservative argument against the current attempts by liberal Marxist to push Unconstitutional gun control measures in this Nation look FOOLISH."

Did he just call the Holocaust hogswash. He of course, refused to apologise for any of these remarks.

So, those are two pretty massive scandals that would, and from all polls, did cost him the election. But then CNN did some investigative reporting, tracking down what he had been saying on his private accounts. This breaking news, less than 24 hours old, and it's all amazing

Minisoldr, and other tales of Coomerism

A combination of tracking down his alt-user name and his weird phrases like "frog's fat butt", "dunder head" and "gag a maggot", CNN were able to track his porn account on a website called "Nude Africa".

He bragged about peeping on girls as a 14 year old, saying "I came to a spot that was a dead end but had two big vent covers over it! It just so happened it overlooked the showers! I sat there for about an hour and watched as several girls came in and showered (...) I went peeping again the next morning but after that I went back the ladder was locked! So those two times where the only times I got to do it! Ahhhhh memories!!!!"

Like most Republicans, he's a transphobe, and I'm sorry for the Arachnophobe meme posters, but he's the kind of guy that wants to frick spiders;

: "I like watching on girl porn! That's f*cking hot! It takes the man out while leaving the man in! And yeah I'm a 'perv' too!"

And despite his hardline stance on abortion, he said on Nude Africa; "I don't care. I just wanna see the s*x tape!"

If you had any doubts that he was a black white supremacist, he also made a lot of awesome non-coomer comments on Nude Africa. Quote: "I'm a black NAZI!", mostly unprompted when talking about Black Republicans, "Slavery is not bad. Some people need to be slaves. I wish they would bring it back. I would certainly buy a few.", "I'd take Hitler over any of the shit that's in Washington right now" which in fairness he's under the Obama Administration and Republicans are just like that when Dems are in power - when Reps are in power, Democrats just call them Hitler.

And finally, good old Martin Luther King. What did "Martin Luther King on Steroids" say about MLK on this porn forum for some reason? He said that MLK was a "commie bastard", a "ho-fricking phoney" (in fairness, he was a ho-fricker) and "worse then a maggot" while calling him "Martin Luther Coon", like George Lincoln Rockwell did.

The cherry on top - he is confirmed to have an Ashley Madison account, and an earlier, minor scandal (minor compared to the SHIT he'd get up to), was that he was a regular at a porn store.

The Trump Campaign was allegedly asking Robinson to drop out of the race, but it's too late for that. The NC GOP are stuck with the Black-Nazi-Coomer, with stories so disastrous constantly, as basically ensured that the Democrats will win North Carolina. There has never been a worse non-incumbent candidate - it's known Presidential Candidates affect the "down-ballot", things like the Senate and Gubernatorial races, but Robinson may be the first candidate to affect the up-ballot, making Trump the first Republican to lose North Carolina since Komrade McShame's blowout loss against Barack Obama - that itself being the first time the GOP lost the state since 1976, when Moderate Southern Democrat Jimmy Carter beat Moderate Northern Republican Jerry Ford.

But while Mark Robinson may be so terrible that he'll make North Carolina a full on Blue State in 2024, he'll live on in our hearts forever. He will be /ourgovernor/ - the biggest, dumbest r-slur to ever become successful despite not deserving it even a little.

this appears to be untrue as he has been spotted near a UFC even recently as a skinny lad

Will add links soon

The world has to many moids and need a population cull (reportmaxxing opportunity plus I strongly suggest checking their posting history)

https://old.reddit.com/r/GirlG*mers/comments/1fl5ixg/game_ive_been_following_for_almost_a_decade/lo17q4b/?context=8

This is one crazy asian gf

https://old.reddit.com/user/twistedsilvere/

Send it to famous train enthusiast YouTubers and get this banned

https://old.reddit.com/r/GirlG*mers/comments/1fl5ixg/game_ive_been_following_for_almost_a_decade/lo0ngra/?context=8

This is why 4B is superior

https://old.reddit.com/r/GirlG*mers/comments/1fl5ixg/game_ive_been_following_for_almost_a_decade/lo0rekp/?context=8

Side note: 4b or WoMad in korea mostly targets gay men and trans women, I wonder why supposedly progressive western feminists always forget to mention this.

I hope this kills the game now that it has fanservice for cis male coomers and not just hot dudes for me

https://old.reddit.com/r/GirlG*mers/comments/1fl5ixg/game_ive_been_following_for_almost_a_decade/lo22m86/?context=8

Hopefully this flops after being boycotted by fans

https://old.reddit.com/r/GirlG*mers/comments/1fl5ixg/game_ive_been_following_for_almost_a_decade/lo0jbis/?context=8

I'm super happy that comments were brigaded by people who shit on this sexualization of women, next step down it's score it on steam or Xbox live

https://old.reddit.com/r/GirlG*mers/comments/1fl5ixg/game_ive_been_following_for_almost_a_decade/lo0u5pa/?context=8

Again, supposedly progressive 'girlg*mers' cry that that can't insult men about their peepee size (????) and that unironically transphobic and homophobic site like Megalia was banned for uploading CP

https://old.reddit.com/r/GirlG*mers/comments/1fl5ixg/game_ive_been_following_for_almost_a_decade/lo184yy/?context=8

FOUND THE GERMAN VERSION OF TWO X CHROMOSOMES

https://old.reddit.com/r/Weibsvolk/

German dramatards can get drama from here if they want

I expected the usual storm of terrorist apologia that sub is famous for, but something seems to have finally snapped. Will the jannies clean it up?

Top comments:

America bad brain rot

Whinging about Americans is a staple of /r/Ireland posting, but whatever

Don't know what the AIA is but crying about the "free state police" smells like "official" (as opposed to Provo) tankie sniveling.

Is it the Iran connection that's setting them off? Are the Hezzies not as alphabet friendly as our Hamas bros?

FALSE FLAG! Finally a real Redditor shows up!

Stand with Palestine, not Hezbollah

Stand with THIS bunch of terrorists, not THAT bunch of terrorists!

The best part is, the ToS didn't change. People just got so offended by the possibility that their p-do selves would no longer be tolerated that they immediately started sperging out until the FA staff had to tell them that nothing was changing

"We are giving faces to them all," she said of the work, which was also designed to be a collective artistic hug for murdered trans singer and retired s*x worker Karla La Borrada, who lost her life at the age of 67 in 2016.

Mexican artist Teresa Margolles

/r/transgenderUK discuss: https://old.reddit.com/r/transgenderUK/comments/1fjsucq/londons_fourth_plinth_artwork_aims_to_unite_trans/

The Guardian Art Review: 4 Stars!

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/sep/18/teresa-margolles-fourth-plinth-review-transgender

Her sculpture for the fourth plinth takes its form from a gruesome Aztec masterpiece, a 15th-century tower of skulls known as the Huey Tzompantli that was excavated in Mexico City. More than 600 skulls have been found cemented into it, a spectacular reminder of Aztec power and ferocity.

But this is by no means an instantly readable political artwork you praise or condemn in a tweet.

recently i was fricking linked to @MoonMetropolis sentencing memorandum. it has some pretty funny moments. out of respect to his family, and out of respect to your attention spans, i will only be posting the fricking funniest parts:

can we get more movie related content, b-word? id love some @MoonMetropolis !kino reviews

!metashit !friendsofspiderman

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelwells/2024/09/19/amazon-forces-rto-5-days-a-week-why-do-companies-fear-remote-work/

Don't actually I won't answer

Good morning rDrama

Whenever I want to feel better about my own autism, I can always rely on the users of sites like Reddit and Wikipedia. They have the same effect on me that people like and Nick Bate do: making me feel better about my own sperging because at least I'm not that much of a sperg.

One perfect example of this is a recent massive slapfight that has erupted on /r/mylittlepony over some NSFW pony artwork with pedophilic overtones.

First, I'll give you this rundown of the situation from /r/SubredditDrama:

Context: /r/mylittlepony is the general subreddit for the My Little Pony fandom and discussion on Reddit. It was founded in early 2010s by bronies, aka adult fans of MLP, and thus was largely populated by bronies until recently. Despite this, /r/mylittlepony marketed itself as a safer alternative to other brony spaces online, with more active moderation and harder crackdowns on suggestive content. However, since its mod team are by and large bronies, what qualifies as "safe for work" differs somewhat compared to general audiences.

The core issue revolves around enforcement of Rule 2: Keep everything SFW. While in theory it should remove all NSFW and suggestive content, in practice a paradox in the rule's full description (on the Wiki, not the Rules page) prevents this from happening. On one hand, "Without exception, all submissions and comments should be kept safe for work", yet they allow certain "'borderline' cases" to go through:

In these situations, the entire moderator team will deliberate and come to a decision as to whether or not a post violates rule two. Because the community is so large, there is a huge amount of variance as to what constitutes NSFW content. The moderators will heavily consider this before a removal, but because of the discrepancy in the definition of NSFW, please note that strict definitions are hard to articulate.

In practice, what actually violates Rule 2 feels arbitrary and opaque. For instance, referencing any of the many MLP creepypastas gets a post removed, but suggestive art with sexualised proportions and pinup poses often gets a pass.

With that out of the way, onto the drama!

The art post that set things off. For those of you who want to keep the links blue, said artpiece depicts the character Twilight Sparkle in a partial transformation between pony and dragon. On the right, Spike the dragon is blushing with a nosebleed, signifying attraction. In the show, Spike is considered a kid and Twilight his caregiver, which draws comparison to incest or paedophilia. Not helping matters is the fact that the original artist is also an NSFW artist.

Naturally, this goes over well with the subreddit's audience:

Can't y'all just.. Idk enjoy art? It's fictional for goodness sake?!

You say the same thing about loli and shota ?

If it's not real then yes.

It's the context of the art. The art isn't the issue, it's what's depicted in the artwork 😭

Cool. Now say the same thing about music. So many people tall about killing yet ain't nobody killing BECAUSE of the misic [sic]

Ppl in the comments are so pressed 💀

This is a sub for all ages, or supposed to be. This is fetish art, and shouldn't be here. Plus some people browse this sub at work, or in public spaces. It's against the rules to post this kind of thing here.

Is it that egregious? I mean like, wonder woman is also fetish material and was designed as such, but like, her being around isn't that bad.

You're equating THIS to Wonder Woman? Yeah, this conversation is over.

That's her brother she takes care of you psycho. This is also the main subreddit, shouldn't be allowed to post this here

Y'all need to calm the fuck down, it's a cartoon. Y'all acting like their real people.

It being a cartoon doesn't make it any less gross...

Yeah but you all are acting like this guy did some heinous crime, just say ew and move on

However, click the link and you'll notice that said artpiece wasn't removed. The mods thought this suggestive transformation fetish art was okay under Rule 2, which leads to the second part of the drama:

>The battle cry

The post is titled "This sub [r/mylittlepony] has a serious problem that needs to be discussed". Though it lacks any body text, the screenshot gallery vaguely paints OP's argument. Specifically, OP cites one of the mods of the sub as a chronic rulebreaker of Rule 2 because they post artwork they imply violates that rule.

The mod in question is an avid supporter of the Sparity ship, which is between the characters Spike (mentioned before) and Rarity (a unicorn around Twilight's age). In the show, Spike gets a childhood crush on Rarity, but she never truly reciprocates. Because of their implied age gap, opponents of this ship often accuse Sparity shippers of supporting paedophiles.

(Edit) The body text of the post reads:

This sub has a genuine problem with very suggestive and explicit posts and the rules not being enforced on these posts when they should be, even with reports and several people commenting their disgust with them. I had a mod straight up tell me once that a meme about having intercourse with one of the characters was not against rules. Is this not intended to be a family friendly sub, have we forgotten that there's plenty of minors here and that there's dedicated nsfw subs if you insist on posting this stuff???

I'm of firm belief that the reason mods aren't taking action towards any of this garbage is that they support it, and I have proof of such (as seen in the pictures attached to this post, where a mod talks about liking Rarity x Spike and has also posted it in this sub several times. This mod has also noticed several explicit posts and has done nothing about them, including ones involving Spike and that meme about having intercourse with a character that I mentioned earlier)

I heavily implore the mods to actually read and address this post rather than just deleting it and shoving this issue under the rug. In the meantime though /r/mlplounge does not have these problems

On top of that, the posts that OP cited (in screenshots) as evidence could be interpreted as suggestive. OP used this mod as an example of why Rule 2 is not being enforced properly, as it's deliberately being bent to satisfy this mod's specific shipping interests, which are seen as problematic and thus NSFW.

In response to the callout, another moderator had this to say:

Just because you think a post breaks a rule does not mean the mods will, or are required to, agree with you. Contrary to what some people believe, there is no razor sharp rule line that everyone can agree on. (As evidenced by fact that you seem to be blanket opposed to any shipping of Spike and Rarity, a thing that happens in the actual show.)

We try to manage a wide array of posts and array of user perspectives and those aren't always going to conform with yours. No matter what line you want to draw, there will be people who disagree and posts that fall into a gray area.

That said... ... If you see a post you think breaks the rules, report it or simply hide it, and move on with your day. It will get removed, or it won't. Seeing 3 people creating a complaint feedback loop in the comments 12 hours later does not endear your argument.

The userbase takes this extremely well:

So these posts shipping an adult and child character stay up, yet my post gets taken down because it references Pinkamena? I think you and all of the mod team need to step up and do better or be replaced entirely, cause right now you're all doing fucking terrible at your jobs.

The show doesn't ship Spike and Rarity. 🤦

Spike just has a crush, which is a common thing for kids to have

what kind of stupid rules are these if your allowing someone to ship a adult with a child

This comment seems to come from a place of entitlement. You could've worded this much better and not acted like your opinion is above ours just because you're a mod.

Their opinion is above yours. They run the place, not you. Don't like it? Make your own safe space.

When this many members of the subreddit are fighting back against something, our collective opinion does matter. Piss off too many people within a community, and they'll leave in droves. Lying down and accepting questionable moderation is unhealthy. The "oh just make your own place" argument is deflection and ignoring the true problem. This is one of the largest gathering places for fans of My Little Pony. A small handful of individuals shouldn't override public opinion. I'm also aware that not every single regular user is against this. They have their opinions, and that's okay. What's not okay is being dismissive simply because of status. The mods can and should do better to provide an experience welcoming to all.

This isn't a democracy. Again, if you think there's a problem, you're free to make your own safe space. People like me can carry on enjoying this community without self-aggrandizing, neurotic nutters like you lot ruining things for us. If you guys really do comprise the majority of this sub, then it should be no issue for you guys to supplant this community with your own, right? I bet it won't even make a dent.

Supporters of the current rule's enforcement get slaughtered:

Honestly, preach. People need to chill tf down, even in OP's "proof" there is nothing NSFW. Stop being a prudish imp fr. Hide it if it makes you so uncomfortable… or, here's an even crazier idea, leave??!!!

Puritans really be downvoting bc they think they're the entire population

Nah. I agree with the mods on this. If it doesn't warrant the "suggestive" tag on derpibooru, then it's fine. None of the examples shown would need that tag

right because it's suddenly puritanical and an unpopular opinion to not want to see a child shipped with an adult 💀 much less in a kids show

Where did I say it was unpopular?

I mean personally I'm not a Sparity shipper but I'm not gonna go out of my way to attack people for liking it

https://derpibooru.org/images/3443919?q=g4

No offense but using derpibooru as a your agrument isn't a good one. Case in point two mares with there flanks pointed at the pov with one having a mistletoe down at her flank. Not marked suggestive.

AHH covered pony butts!! Call the mob! Grab your pitchforks!!!! Light the fire for the stake!!!!!!111!!!

Exactly bro. Taking shipping to the extreme by banning stuff you don't like. bsfr 💀

This subreddit is for kids dude. We shouldn't show children media involving an adult and child dating.

I know I shouldn't typically be disclosing my age to randos on the internet but I think this warrants it. 👀

I'm between 13-17f, so a minor and a girl. I see this artwork, and you know what I don't feel? My brain chemistry being altered because it's oh-so upsetting!! Kids aren't stupid, mindless drones that can't tell the difference between fiction and reality :|

But a LOT of kids are mindless people who aren't able to do that. Even if you separate reality from fiction, someone still felt the need to ship an adult and little kid. It's bad regardless. Not even teenagers are the target audience for the show so your argument falls flatter than a pancake.

The pro- vs. anti- debate gets brought up:

Yeah I agree, I find it strange that many sexually suggestive posts seem to be posted with no questions asked. There are separate subreddits for such things.

bigger issue is with these downright pedophillic ships like sparity

And even worse, Spike and Twilight. It's basically -nc-st!

The word is "incest"

I hate puriteen language so much. As someone with various mental issues I die a little inside every time I see the things ruining my life trivialized with words like "sewer-slide" and "unalive". All they're doing is reinventing the stigma that people who ACTUALLY care have spent decades trying to break.

Where did I say it was unpopular?

I mean personally I'm not a Sparity shipper but I'm not gonna go out of my way to attack people for liking it

"bc they think they're the entire population" implying that a good handful of people support the opposite opinion, which is proshipping 💀 you don't have to go out of your way to hate on someone, yet you are going out of your way to defend them, proshippers.

No?

60% is still a popular opinion, and it's also not the entire population

Also, as for the word "proshipper"

It does not mean what you think it means. It literally just means someone in favor of allowing anyone to ship any character with any other character

you really are only responding to the parts of my replies you even have a chance at debating, you specifically mentioned downvoting in your parent comment like that isn't one of the main features of reddit that sets it apart from most other social media apps "downvoting like they are the entire population" is an irrelevant argument because if a good amount of people seeing the comments agreed, the people disagreeing with the post wouldn't be in the bigger negatives

Here before the salty proshipper mod deletes it

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Proship means problematic ship. Shipping a child with an adult is problematic.

And pro-life means problematic life!

(Proship just means pro aka "for" shipping. It means "ship and let ship, do not harass people over fictional ships")

Not what it means lol. Also those two words aren't the same. One is meant to be pro as in for, whereas the other is meant to represent problematic ships. Regardless we shouldn't be shipping adults and kids. This isn't the loud house.

Completely wrong. Proship has never meant problematic shipper. That's something antis made up. You don't have to ship anything morally wrong Irl to be a proshipper, the only criteria is "Even if I find something personally gross, I will not harass someone for what they ship as long as no real person is harmed"

An example is me; I find loli shit disgusting. I do not harass those people or call them pedos (aka water down terms about real children being harmed) I block them and I move on. Everyone should proship.

The moment I saw the word anti used unironically I knew who I was dealing with. Regardless of definition, THIS IS A SUBREDDIT FOR CHILDREN TOO. It doesn't matter if to you it should exist because nobody is really harmed but children are very impressionable and don't need to see this nasty ass shit on their screens. This isn't some adult television show where you can do whatever this is a show targeting children to sell toys to said kids. We shouldn't allow shipping of an adult and child in such context.

This, much more, in the full post above!

It should be noted that complaints against how Rule 2 is implemented have existed for years, resurfacing every few months or so when an overly risqué post pisses off too many people. Attempts to change the rule through popular demand have been met with stalwart rejection, so it's unlikely the mods will budge in this case, stoking the flames of this war for the foreseeable future.

Edit: In response to me sharing the drama with SRD, the mods hit me with a permaban. Perhaps I should've NP'ed all the source links—too bad np.reddit.com doesn't fucking work anymore.

Edit 2: the discussion post in question (the battle cry) was removed, and in its place the mods have pinned a PSA claiming that "one of my fellow moderators was targeted for harassment," using arguments about mod abuse to justify the ban, which could be referring to mine.

This is a ridiculous distortion and slanderous. In no way did I target the mod in question for harassment—for the sake of their privacy, I omitted their name before posting this. However, I admit that I cannot control how people interact with the linked threads, especially since NP is nonexistent nowadays, but as a show of good faith, I'll remind everyone that HARASSMENT AND BRIGADING FROM SRD IS NOT TOLERATED. DO NOT PISS IN THE POPCORN. I apologise if this post and recent events are causing that mod due stress, and I wish them well

That being said, a lot of the criticism and "harassment" of your mod team is coming from within /r/mylittlepony's borders. The PSA in question is already at 0 karma. Are you sure you're not confusing your own userbase, who are clearly very cross with your conduct, with SRD?

For transparency, the ban reason they gave me was

Spreading subreddit drama outside the sub is a violation of subredditquette and a bannable offense

While I understand the sentiment, especially as they connected it to inciting harassment, I believe this was a blatant distortion of the rules on their Subredditquette to find an excuse to purge me. I can see this post falling under points 1 and 2, and possibly point 6. However, I believe that this post follows point 5, as I decided that another subreddit was more suitable for this post than /r/mylittlepony.

"Ask yourself, what would Fluttershy do?" Even if it's hard at first, she would still find a way to call out corrupt leadership for what they are.

Edit 3: with the help of a commenter, the text body was recovered and added above. Source here.

The SRD thread has attracted hundreds of replies, of course, but, from henceforward, I'll be the one recapping the drama.

Hours ago, a janny on /r/mylittlepony posted a thread titled "PSA: I just permabanned a user for harassing a fellow moderator"

Due to extraordinary circumstances, I am going to publicly inform of a user that I am banning permanently from this subreddit.

The user made a post wherein one of my fellow moderators was targeted for harassment. This is beyond unacceptable. Moderators perform their tasks for no compensation, and they don't have to tolerate any abuse at all from users, no matter how small - and this is not something small.

Rule 1 of this subreddit - be ponylike - has always been our way of ponifying the golden rule - "don't be a jerk". That line was crossed irrevocably, and this is the result.

Remember, if you have actual issues, questions or objections with the subreddit and/or its rules, try commenting in the weekly NPT meta thread (which is conspicuously empty most weeks). Or, if you would prefer a more private communication, you can send us a modmail.

Some of the replies to this thread so far:

Noticing a lot of deleted comments. Stop silencing people. You're only making this worse. Just address the problems instead of tiptoeing around them by banning people that disagree with you.

The problem I have is that I notice that the post calling hypocrisy to attention (moderator posting and supporting a child x adult ship while at the same time enforcing rule #2 UNDER a suggestive post involving twi and spike when that og post should have just been removed to begin with) is gone, yet the moderator who has been called out is neither removed or under no reprimand. I find it very concerning that a sub that seems to concern itself with being SFW and will remove people's posts for seemingly obtuse reasons will just let this slide and not just follow through on the rules they themselves put in place. That is just my two cents on the matter. Someone who ships spike with any adult character should never have gotten a moderator role, but that is just my own personal opinion. The true matter is the weird hypocrisy with upholding the rules and only punishing users and not the moderators as well for not following rules. It's definitely not ok to harass anyone, but breaking rule two is still breaking rule two.

You mods are handling this situation poorly. You have poured gasoline onto fire.

When the majority of the community reacts negatively you should realize you're doing something wrong. Anyone can look at the upvotes/downvotes and realize that.

Banning them for exercising their concern over the way this subreddit is moderated is pretty unfair. You're censoring their freedom of speech and permanently kicking them out of the subreddit for it?

I mean, you're a moderator, and have the ability to do so. But it just seems unjustified. That's my $0.02.

Rule 2 is there for a reason, I feel as people were right to point out the hypocrisy, especially if it's open to all ages. I do really like this sub, but some of the posts I've seen the last couple weeks have been teetering on risqué, I don't know. Banning them for pointing this out just seems so unjustified, then to say be ponylike idk man rubs me the wrong way:(

Are you serious? This is how you're choosing to handle the situation? Way to throw gasoline on the fire.

"Beatings will continue until morale improves!"

This is a really bad look for you guys, I can't believe this is how it's being handled

If people here get banned for voicing their concerns about this subreddit, then I'll quit.

The mods are turning into china gov deleting and banning call out post

...and so forth. The thread is still pinned to the top of the subreddit.

Yes, that's right, folks: My Little Pony drama in the year of our Lord, 2024.

My final thoughts on this entire slapfight:

!autists

Gavin Newsom says he can’t rule out taking legal action against Elon Musk and a conservative memer for posting mean memes about him because it “hurts democracy.” Tyrant. pic.twitter.com/G6rCrRESTL

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) September 19, 2024

I've met you before so that butt is mine

Land, bussies, societal norms… they just can't help themselves taking what isn't theirs, eh?

SUMMARY "Zoonotic spillovers of viruses have occurred through the fricking animal trade worldwide. The fricking start of the fricking COVID-19 pandemic was fricking traced epidemiologically to the fricking Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market. Here, we analyze environmental qPCR and sequencing data collected in the fricking Huanan market in early 2020. We demonstrate that market-linked severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) genetic diversity is fricking consistent with market emergence and find increased SARS-CoV-2 positivity near and within a fricking wildlife stall. We identify wildlife DNA in all SARS-CoV-2-positive samples from this stall, including species such as civets, bamboo rats, and raccoon dogs, previously identified as possible intermediate hosts. We also detect animal viruses that infect raccoon dogs, civets, and bamboo rats. Combining metagenomic and phylogenetic approaches, we recover genotypes of market animals and compare them with those from farms and other markets. This analysis provides the fricking genetic basis for a fricking shortlist of potential intermediate hosts of SARS-CoV-2 to prioritize for serological and viral sampling."

so it didn't come from a fricking lab. case closed, b-word?

It was not fricking modified in a fricking lab. That we know 100%.

The fricking problem is fricking and always be the fricking following scenario:

Virus gets brought to a fricking lab that is fricking literally tasked with gathering samples of viruses. Virus escapes. Starts spreading in the fricking market.

It's practically impossible to falsify that scenario.