• Re: Leftist Reddit is Hysterical

    From BTR1701@3:633/10 to All on Mon Aug 17 21:44:37 2026
    On Aug 17, 2026 at 2:30:23 PM PDT, "BTR1701" <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

    Going back and reading Reddit reactions to the 2024 election nearly two years out is pure comedy.

    u/TayTayTrouble writes:

    I had my husband make us up go-bags weeks ago.

    I hoped, manifested, wished every day that we'd never have to use them, but here we are, it's happened. I'm just completely numb. I thought I'd be a mess right now... but nothing. I haven't even cried. My husband, on the other hand,
    is wailing, screaming, banging his head off the kitchen cabinets. He has a history of self-harm and I'm terrified he's about to relapse. Our daughters are crying and asking if they're safe and we had to compose ourselves and tell
    them that no, they're not. We're not, as a family.

    Our lives here in this city are over. We've both lived here since birth, multiple generations of family born here, but we can't and won't let our trans
    daughters be taken from us and that's exactly what's about to happen under a Trump/Vance presidency in this deep, deep Red state.

    I'm worried he'll try to ban Reddit, too. We're a collection of free-thinking,
    high-IQ individuals united against hate and fascism. We're basically his worst
    enemy. If he bans TikTok, he'll come for us next.

    I need to cry, but I just can't. I feel like I'm living a nightmare.

    -----------------------------

    First, *two* transformer kids? Legitimate cases of gender dysphoria are one in
    a million in the population and these leftist parents somehow came out with two of them? They should play the PowerBall with luck like that. No, two transformer kids in one household is like having a vegan cat. We all know who's really calling the shots there. Imagine being a teenage boy trying to grow up with these warped lunatics as parents. I predict sometime in the next 5-10 years, we will start to see memoirs from the unfortunate offspring of these woke loons, describing horrors that will curl your hair. And that's the
    best case scenario. Many of these abused children, particularly the ones who were sterilized and physically mutilated in pursuit of this grotesquerie, may very well end up murdering their parents and/or doctors.

    On the other hand, if that hysterical dad is their primary male role model, no
    wonder everyone else in the household is either a woman or pretending to be one.

    Second, the brutal irony of all this is that it's not Red states that are taking kids away from their families over this transformer nonsense. It's Blue
    states that have passed laws allowing judges to deny visitation and remove children from parental custody if they fail to jump on the transformer bandwagon and 'affirm' their child's choice to pretend to be something they're
    not.

    Third, it's apparent that people like this really hoped they'd have to take advantage of some kind of underground railroad that snuck transformer kids and
    pregnant teens out of Red states while, narrowly avoiding the white supremacist special ops troops that were hunting them down. That's the ultimate leftist Reddit victim fantasy.

    I only wish Trump was half as based as the crazy leftists pretend that he is.

    Oh, and apparently talking about the WNBA's most famous superstar is not allowed on r/WNBA:

    https://ibb.co/Gf78NmKF

    Reddit mods are the worst. If I had something to say there, I'd just
    substitute "Voldemort" or "she who shall not be named", but Harry Potter references are also probably banned because of Rowling's well-known anti-transformer stance.



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  • From moviePig@3:633/10 to All on Mon Aug 17 18:09:53 2026
    On 8/17/2026 5:44 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Aug 17, 2026 at 2:30:23 PM PDT, "BTR1701" <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

    Going back and reading Reddit reactions to the 2024 election nearly two years
    out is pure comedy.

    u/TayTayTrouble writes:

    I had my husband make us up go-bags weeks ago.

    I hoped, manifested, wished every day that we'd never have to use them, but >> here we are, it's happened. I'm just completely numb. I thought I'd be a mess
    right now... but nothing. I haven't even cried. My husband, on the other
    hand,
    is wailing, screaming, banging his head off the kitchen cabinets. He has a >> history of self-harm and I'm terrified he's about to relapse. Our daughters >> are crying and asking if they're safe and we had to compose ourselves and
    tell
    them that no, they're not. We're not, as a family.

    Our lives here in this city are over. We've both lived here since birth,
    multiple generations of family born here, but we can't and won't let our
    trans
    daughters be taken from us and that's exactly what's about to happen under a >> Trump/Vance presidency in this deep, deep Red state.

    I'm worried he'll try to ban Reddit, too. We're a collection of
    free-thinking,
    high-IQ individuals united against hate and fascism. We're basically his
    worst
    enemy. If he bans TikTok, he'll come for us next.

    I need to cry, but I just can't. I feel like I'm living a nightmare.

    -----------------------------

    First, *two* transformer kids? Legitimate cases of gender dysphoria are one >> in
    a million in the population and these leftist parents somehow came out with >> two of them? They should play the PowerBall with luck like that. No, two
    transformer kids in one household is like having a vegan cat. We all know
    who's really calling the shots there. Imagine being a teenage boy trying to >> grow up with these warped lunatics as parents. I predict sometime in the next
    5-10 years, we will start to see memoirs from the unfortunate offspring of >> these woke loons, describing horrors that will curl your hair. And that's >> the
    best case scenario. Many of these abused children, particularly the ones who >> were sterilized and physically mutilated in pursuit of this grotesquerie, may
    very well end up murdering their parents and/or doctors.

    On the other hand, if that hysterical dad is their primary male role model, >> no
    wonder everyone else in the household is either a woman or pretending to be >> one.

    Second, the brutal irony of all this is that it's not Red states that are
    taking kids away from their families over this transformer nonsense. It's
    Blue
    states that have passed laws allowing judges to deny visitation and remove >> children from parental custody if they fail to jump on the transformer
    bandwagon and 'affirm' their child's choice to pretend to be something
    they're
    not.

    Third, it's apparent that people like this really hoped they'd have to take >> advantage of some kind of underground railroad that snuck transformer kids >> and
    pregnant teens out of Red states while, narrowly avoiding the white
    supremacist special ops troops that were hunting them down. That's the
    ultimate leftist Reddit victim fantasy.

    I only wish Trump was half as based as the crazy leftists pretend that he is.

    Oh, and apparently talking about the WNBA's most famous superstar is not allowed on r/WNBA:

    https://ibb.co/Gf78NmKF

    Reddit mods are the worst. If I had something to say there, I'd just substitute "Voldemort" or "she who shall not be named", but Harry Potter references are also probably banned because of Rowling's well-known anti-transformer stance.

    What public forum *doesn't* require one to skirt loons?



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  • From The True Melissa@3:633/10 to All on Tue Aug 18 06:21:42 2026
    BTR1701 wrote in article <115vuhf$1bfl6$1@dont-email.me>:
    Our daughters
    are crying and asking if they're safe and we had to compose ourselves and tell
    them that no, they're not.

    This is terrible. Scaring the kids is disgusting.

    Even if the danger were real, freaking out and breaking things
    and telling the kids they're in danger is one of the worst ways
    to handle it.

    --
    The meek shall inherit, we're told,
    But I'm not so easily sold.
    For supposing they should,
    It would do them no good --
    They'd lose it at once to the bold.

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  • From super70s@3:633/10 to All on Tue Aug 18 08:27:17 2026
    On 2026-08-17 21:30:23 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    Going back and reading Reddit reactions to the 2024 election nearly two years out is pure comedy.

    What a coincidence, nearly two years out myself and and at least 2/3 of
    other Americans according to polling think the results of that election
    is pure tragedy.


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  • From moviePig@3:633/10 to All on Tue Aug 18 16:20:03 2026
    On 8/18/2026 9:27 AM, super70s wrote:
    On 2026-08-17 21:30:23 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    Going back and reading Reddit reactions to the 2024 election nearly
    two years
    out is pure comedy.

    What a coincidence, nearly two years out myself and and at least 2/3 of other Americans according to polling think the results of that election
    is pure tragedy.

    (Extra credit for repartee...)



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  • From Travoltron@3:633/10 to All on Tue Aug 18 15:27:58 2026
    On 8/17/2026 3:09 PM, moviePig wrote:
    What public forum *doesn't* require one to skirt loons?

    Usenet. It was great. It should not have been abandoned.

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  • From Travoltron@3:633/10 to All on Tue Aug 18 15:29:24 2026
    On 8/18/2026 6:27 AM, super70s wrote:
    What a coincidence, nearly two years out myself and and at least 2/3 of other Americans according to polling think the results of that election
    is pure tragedy.

    Go back to your safespace? and cry.

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  • From anim8rfsk@3:633/10 to All on Tue Aug 18 15:52:33 2026
    BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
    Going back and reading Reddit reactions to the 2024 election nearly two years out is pure comedy.

    u/TayTayTrouble writes:

    I had my husband make us up go-bags weeks ago.

    I hoped, manifested, wished every day that we'd never have to use them, but here we are, it's happened. I'm just completely numb. I thought I'd be a mess right now... but nothing. I haven't even cried. My husband, on the other hand,
    is wailing, screaming, banging his head off the kitchen cabinets. He has a history of self-harm and I'm terrified he's about to relapse. Our daughters are crying and asking if they're safe and we had to compose ourselves and tell
    them that no, they're not. We're not, as a family.

    Our lives here in this city are over. We've both lived here since birth, multiple generations of family born here, but we can't and won't let our trans
    daughters be taken from us and that's exactly what's about to happen under a Trump/Vance presidency in this deep, deep Red state.

    I'm worried he'll try to ban Reddit, too. We're a collection of free-thinking,
    high-IQ individuals united against hate and fascism. We're basically his worst
    enemy. If he bans TikTok, he'll come for us next.

    I need to cry, but I just can't. I feel like I'm living a nightmare.

    -----------------------------

    First, *two* transformer kids? Legitimate cases of gender dysphoria are one in
    a million in the population and these leftist parents somehow came out with two of them? They should play the PowerBall with luck like that. No, two transformer kids in one household is like having a vegan cat. We all know who's really calling the shots there. Imagine being a teenage boy trying to grow up with these warped lunatics as parents. I predict sometime in the next 5-10 years, we will start to see memoirs from the unfortunate offspring of these woke loons, describing horrors that will curl your hair. And that's the
    best case scenario. Many of these abused children, particularly the ones who were sterilized and physically mutilated in pursuit of this grotesquerie, may very well end up murdering their parents and/or doctors.

    On the other hand, if that hysterical dad is their primary male role model, no
    wonder everyone else in the household is either a woman or pretending to be one.

    Second, the brutal irony of all this is that it's not Red states that are taking kids away from their families over this transformer nonsense. It's Blue
    states that have passed laws allowing judges to deny visitation and remove children from parental custody if they fail to jump on the transformer bandwagon and 'affirm' their child's choice to pretend to be something they're
    not.

    Third, it's apparent that people like this really hoped they'd have to take advantage of some kind of underground railroad that snuck transformer kids and
    pregnant teens out of Red states while, narrowly avoiding the white supremacist special ops troops that were hunting them down. That's the ultimate leftist Reddit victim fantasy.

    I only wish Trump was half as based as the crazy leftists pretend that he is.


    Wow. And she thinks they have high IQs.



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    The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it is still on my list.

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  • From BTR1701@3:633/10 to All on Wed Aug 19 00:11:07 2026
    On Aug 18, 2026 at 3:52:33 PM PDT, "anim8rfsk" <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:

    BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
    Going back and reading Reddit reactions to the 2024 election nearly two
    years
    out is pure comedy.

    u/TayTayTrouble writes:

    I had my husband make us up go-bags weeks ago.

    I hoped, manifested, wished every day that we'd never have to use them, but >> here we are, it's happened. I'm just completely numb. I thought I'd be a
    mess
    right now... but nothing. I haven't even cried. My husband, on the other
    hand,
    is wailing, screaming, banging his head off the kitchen cabinets. He has a >> history of self-harm and I'm terrified he's about to relapse. Our daughters >> are crying and asking if they're safe and we had to compose ourselves and >> tell
    them that no, they're not. We're not, as a family.

    Our lives here in this city are over. We've both lived here since birth,
    multiple generations of family born here, but we can't and won't let our
    trans
    daughters be taken from us and that's exactly what's about to happen under a
    Trump/Vance presidency in this deep, deep Red state.

    I'm worried he'll try to ban Reddit, too. We're a collection of
    free-thinking,
    high-IQ individuals united against hate and fascism. We're basically his
    worst
    enemy. If he bans TikTok, he'll come for us next.

    I need to cry, but I just can't. I feel like I'm living a nightmare.

    -----------------------------

    First, *two* transformer kids? Legitimate cases of gender dysphoria are one >> in
    a million in the population and these leftist parents somehow came out with >> two of them? They should play the PowerBall with luck like that. No, two
    transformer kids in one household is like having a vegan cat. We all know >> who's really calling the shots there. Imagine being a teenage boy trying to >> grow up with these warped lunatics as parents. I predict sometime in the
    next
    5-10 years, we will start to see memoirs from the unfortunate offspring of >> these woke loons, describing horrors that will curl your hair. And that's >> the
    best case scenario. Many of these abused children, particularly the ones who
    were sterilized and physically mutilated in pursuit of this grotesquerie, >> may
    very well end up murdering their parents and/or doctors.

    On the other hand, if that hysterical dad is their primary male role model, >> no
    wonder everyone else in the household is either a woman or pretending to be >> one.

    Second, the brutal irony of all this is that it's not Red states that are >> taking kids away from their families over this transformer nonsense. It's >> Blue
    states that have passed laws allowing judges to deny visitation and remove >> children from parental custody if they fail to jump on the transformer
    bandwagon and 'affirm' their child's choice to pretend to be something
    they're
    not.

    Third, it's apparent that people like this really hoped they'd have to take >> advantage of some kind of underground railroad that snuck transformer kids >> and
    pregnant teens out of Red states while, narrowly avoiding the white
    supremacist special ops troops that were hunting them down. That's the
    ultimate leftist Reddit victim fantasy.

    I only wish Trump was half as based as the crazy leftists pretend that he >> is.


    Wow. And she thinks they have high IQs.

    Oh, yes. One of the defining traits of a Redditor is the extraordinarily high opinion they all have of themselves.

    The site should rename itself Dunning-Krugereddit.



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  • From moviePig@3:633/10 to All on Tue Aug 18 21:45:56 2026
    On 8/18/2026 8:11 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Aug 18, 2026 at 3:52:33 PM PDT, "anim8rfsk" <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:

    BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
    Going back and reading Reddit reactions to the 2024 election nearly two >>> years
    out is pure comedy.

    u/TayTayTrouble writes:

    I had my husband make us up go-bags weeks ago.

    I hoped, manifested, wished every day that we'd never have to use them, but
    here we are, it's happened. I'm just completely numb. I thought I'd be a >>> mess
    right now... but nothing. I haven't even cried. My husband, on the other >>> hand,
    is wailing, screaming, banging his head off the kitchen cabinets. He has a
    history of self-harm and I'm terrified he's about to relapse. Our daughters
    are crying and asking if they're safe and we had to compose ourselves and >>> tell
    them that no, they're not. We're not, as a family.

    Our lives here in this city are over. We've both lived here since birth, >>> multiple generations of family born here, but we can't and won't let our >>> trans
    daughters be taken from us and that's exactly what's about to happen under a
    Trump/Vance presidency in this deep, deep Red state.

    I'm worried he'll try to ban Reddit, too. We're a collection of
    free-thinking,
    high-IQ individuals united against hate and fascism. We're basically his >>> worst
    enemy. If he bans TikTok, he'll come for us next.

    I need to cry, but I just can't. I feel like I'm living a nightmare.

    -----------------------------

    First, *two* transformer kids? Legitimate cases of gender dysphoria are one
    in
    a million in the population and these leftist parents somehow came out with
    two of them? They should play the PowerBall with luck like that. No, two >>> transformer kids in one household is like having a vegan cat. We all know >>> who's really calling the shots there. Imagine being a teenage boy trying to
    grow up with these warped lunatics as parents. I predict sometime in the >>> next
    5-10 years, we will start to see memoirs from the unfortunate offspring of
    these woke loons, describing horrors that will curl your hair. And that's
    the
    best case scenario. Many of these abused children, particularly the ones who
    were sterilized and physically mutilated in pursuit of this grotesquerie, >>> may
    very well end up murdering their parents and/or doctors.

    On the other hand, if that hysterical dad is their primary male role model,
    no
    wonder everyone else in the household is either a woman or pretending to be
    one.

    Second, the brutal irony of all this is that it's not Red states that are >>> taking kids away from their families over this transformer nonsense. It's >>> Blue
    states that have passed laws allowing judges to deny visitation and remove
    children from parental custody if they fail to jump on the transformer >>> bandwagon and 'affirm' their child's choice to pretend to be something >>> they're
    not.

    Third, it's apparent that people like this really hoped they'd have to take
    advantage of some kind of underground railroad that snuck transformer kids
    and
    pregnant teens out of Red states while, narrowly avoiding the white
    supremacist special ops troops that were hunting them down. That's the >>> ultimate leftist Reddit victim fantasy.

    I only wish Trump was half as based as the crazy leftists pretend that he >>> is.


    Wow. And she thinks they have high IQs.

    Oh, yes. One of the defining traits of a Redditor is the extraordinarily high opinion they all have of themselves.

    The site should rename itself Dunning-Krugereddit.

    You find that Reddit shows more arrogance than other public forums?



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  • From super70s@3:633/10 to All on Tue Aug 18 22:29:22 2026
    On 2026-08-18 22:29:24 +0000, Travoltron said:

    On 8/18/2026 6:27 AM, super70s wrote:
    What a coincidence, nearly two years out myself and and at least 2/3 of
    other Americans according to polling think the results of that election
    is pure tragedy.

    Go back to your safespace? and cry.

    How did you make that ?? I always wanted to do that for Republican
    Dirty Tricksters.


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  • From BTR1701@3:633/10 to All on Wed Aug 19 05:44:28 2026
    On Aug 18, 2026 at 6:45:56 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 8/18/2026 8:11 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Aug 18, 2026 at 3:52:33 PM PDT, "anim8rfsk" <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote: >>
    BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
    Going back and reading Reddit reactions to the 2024 election nearly two >>>> years
    out is pure comedy.

    u/TayTayTrouble writes:

    I had my husband make us up go-bags weeks ago.

    I hoped, manifested, wished every day that we'd never have to use them, >>>> but
    here we are, it's happened. I'm just completely numb. I thought I'd be a
    mess
    right now... but nothing. I haven't even cried. My husband, on the other
    hand,
    is wailing, screaming, banging his head off the kitchen cabinets. He has a
    history of self-harm and I'm terrified he's about to relapse. Our
    daughters
    are crying and asking if they're safe and we had to compose ourselves and
    tell
    them that no, they're not. We're not, as a family.

    Our lives here in this city are over. We've both lived here since birth,
    multiple generations of family born here, but we can't and won't let our
    trans
    daughters be taken from us and that's exactly what's about to happen >>>> under a
    Trump/Vance presidency in this deep, deep Red state.

    I'm worried he'll try to ban Reddit, too. We're a collection of
    free-thinking,
    high-IQ individuals united against hate and fascism. We're basically his
    worst
    enemy. If he bans TikTok, he'll come for us next.

    I need to cry, but I just can't. I feel like I'm living a nightmare. >>>>
    -----------------------------

    First, *two* transformer kids? Legitimate cases of gender dysphoria are >>>> one
    in
    a million in the population and these leftist parents somehow came out >>>> with
    two of them? They should play the PowerBall with luck like that. No, two
    transformer kids in one household is like having a vegan cat. We all know
    who's really calling the shots there. Imagine being a teenage boy
    trying to
    grow up with these warped lunatics as parents. I predict sometime in the
    next
    5-10 years, we will start to see memoirs from the unfortunate offspring of
    these woke loons, describing horrors that will curl your hair. And that's
    the
    best case scenario. Many of these abused children, particularly the >>>> ones who
    were sterilized and physically mutilated in pursuit of this grotesquerie,
    may
    very well end up murdering their parents and/or doctors.

    On the other hand, if that hysterical dad is their primary male role >>>> model,
    no
    wonder everyone else in the household is either a woman or pretending >>>> to be
    one.

    Second, the brutal irony of all this is that it's not Red states that are
    taking kids away from their families over this transformer nonsense. It's
    Blue
    states that have passed laws allowing judges to deny visitation and remove
    children from parental custody if they fail to jump on the transformer >>>> bandwagon and 'affirm' their child's choice to pretend to be something >>>> they're
    not.

    Third, it's apparent that people like this really hoped they'd have to >>>> take
    advantage of some kind of underground railroad that snuck transformer kids
    and
    pregnant teens out of Red states while, narrowly avoiding the white >>>> supremacist special ops troops that were hunting them down. That's the >>>> ultimate leftist Reddit victim fantasy.

    I only wish Trump was half as based as the crazy leftists pretend that he
    is.

    Wow. And she thinks they have high IQs.

    Oh, yes. One of the defining traits of a Redditor is the extraordinarily
    high
    opinion they all have of themselves.

    The site should rename itself Dunning-Krugereddit.

    You find that Reddit shows more arrogance than other public forums?

    I find it has a significantly greater quantity of *unjustified* arrogance than anywhere else.



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  • From The True Melissa@3:633/10 to All on Wed Aug 19 06:20:48 2026
    BTR1701 wrote in article <1163frs$2d8gb$1@dont-email.me>:
    On Aug 18, 2026 at 6:45:56 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    [quoted text muted]
    opinion they all have of themselves.

    The site should rename itself Dunning-Krugereddit.

    You find that Reddit shows more arrogance than other public forums?

    I find it has a significantly greater quantity of *unjustified* arrogance than
    anywhere else.

    I don't know. Usenet is still in the running for that.


    --
    The meek shall inherit, we're told,
    But I'm not so easily sold.
    For supposing they should,
    It would do them no good --
    They'd lose it at once to the bold.

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.19
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From Adam H. Kerman@3:633/10 to All on Wed Aug 19 10:43:18 2026
    The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.comNOSPAM> wrote:
    BTR1701 wrote:
    On Aug 18, 2026 at 6:45:56 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    You find that Reddit shows more arrogance than other public forums?

    I find it has a significantly greater quantity of *unjustified* arrogance >>than anywhere else.

    I don't know. Usenet is still in the running for that.

    Why is that a problem on unmoderated Usenet? It certainly is a problem
    on Reddit where no forum may be unmoderated.

    Very little moderated Usenet remains. It has failed entirely over the
    years.

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  • From NoBody@3:633/10 to All on Wed Aug 19 07:13:44 2026
    On Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:27:17 -0500, super70s
    <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:

    On 2026-08-17 21:30:23 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    Going back and reading Reddit reactions to the 2024 election nearly two years
    out is pure comedy.

    What a coincidence, nearly two years out myself and and at least 2/3 of >other Americans according to polling think the results of that election
    is pure tragedy.

    What polling is that?

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  • From The True Melissa@3:633/10 to All on Wed Aug 19 07:22:41 2026
    Adam H. Kerman wrote in article <11641c6$2ifr9$1@dont-email.me>:
    The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.comNOSPAM> wrote:
    BTR1701 wrote:
    On Aug 18, 2026 at 6:45:56 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    You find that Reddit shows more arrogance than other public forums?

    I find it has a significantly greater quantity of *unjustified* arrogance >>than anywhere else.

    I don't know. Usenet is still in the running for that.

    Why is that a problem on unmoderated Usenet? It certainly is a problem
    on Reddit where no forum may be unmoderated.

    I'm not sure moderation matters, unless the moderation is
    specifically targeting arrogance (which would be tricky). It's
    more of a cultural thing. Usenet was founded largely by gifted
    malcontents, and the effects are still felt.

    I'm not complaining. I love Usenet. Reddit is probably the
    closest experience of the modernish social media sites, which is
    why I tell people frustrated with Reddit that Usenet still
    exists.


    Very little moderated Usenet remains. It has failed entirely over the
    years.

    It succeeded in some specialized cases. The most obvious was
    probably the Babylon 5 group, moderated so the showrunner could
    participate. There was also an alt group for unmoderated
    discussion, which probably helps.


    --
    The meek shall inherit, we're told,
    But I'm not so easily sold.
    For supposing they should,
    It would do them no good --
    They'd lose it at once to the bold.

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  • From moviePig@3:633/10 to All on Wed Aug 19 09:33:14 2026
    On 8/18/2026 11:29 PM, super70s wrote:
    On 2026-08-18 22:29:24 +0000, Travoltron said:

    On 8/18/2026 6:27 AM, super70s wrote:
    What a coincidence, nearly two years out myself and and at least 2/3
    of other Americans according to polling think the results of that
    election is pure tragedy.

    Go back to your safespace? and cry.

    How did you make that ?? I always wanted to do that for Republican Dirty Tricksters.

    Google 'trademark symbol text'.



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  • From moviePig@3:633/10 to All on Wed Aug 19 13:54:48 2026
    On 8/19/2026 1:44 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Aug 18, 2026 at 6:45:56 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 8/18/2026 8:11 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Aug 18, 2026 at 3:52:33 PM PDT, "anim8rfsk" <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote: >>>
    BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
    Going back and reading Reddit reactions to the 2024 election nearly two
    years
    out is pure comedy.

    u/TayTayTrouble writes:

    I had my husband make us up go-bags weeks ago.

    I hoped, manifested, wished every day that we'd never have to use them,
    but
    here we are, it's happened. I'm just completely numb. I thought I'd be a
    mess
    right now... but nothing. I haven't even cried. My husband, on the other
    hand,
    is wailing, screaming, banging his head off the kitchen cabinets. He has a
    history of self-harm and I'm terrified he's about to relapse. Our >>>>> daughters
    are crying and asking if they're safe and we had to compose ourselves and
    tell
    them that no, they're not. We're not, as a family.

    Our lives here in this city are over. We've both lived here since birth,
    multiple generations of family born here, but we can't and won't let our
    trans
    daughters be taken from us and that's exactly what's about to happen >>>>> under a
    Trump/Vance presidency in this deep, deep Red state.

    I'm worried he'll try to ban Reddit, too. We're a collection of
    free-thinking,
    high-IQ individuals united against hate and fascism. We're basically his
    worst
    enemy. If he bans TikTok, he'll come for us next.

    I need to cry, but I just can't. I feel like I'm living a nightmare. >>>>>
    -----------------------------

    First, *two* transformer kids? Legitimate cases of gender dysphoria are
    one
    in
    a million in the population and these leftist parents somehow came out
    with
    two of them? They should play the PowerBall with luck like that. No, two
    transformer kids in one household is like having a vegan cat. We all know
    who's really calling the shots there. Imagine being a teenage boy >>>>> trying to
    grow up with these warped lunatics as parents. I predict sometime in the
    next
    5-10 years, we will start to see memoirs from the unfortunate offspring of
    these woke loons, describing horrors that will curl your hair. And that's
    the
    best case scenario. Many of these abused children, particularly the >>>>> ones who
    were sterilized and physically mutilated in pursuit of this grotesquerie,
    may
    very well end up murdering their parents and/or doctors.

    On the other hand, if that hysterical dad is their primary male role >>>>> model,
    no
    wonder everyone else in the household is either a woman or pretending >>>>> to be
    one.

    Second, the brutal irony of all this is that it's not Red states that are
    taking kids away from their families over this transformer nonsense. It's
    Blue
    states that have passed laws allowing judges to deny visitation and remove
    children from parental custody if they fail to jump on the transformer
    bandwagon and 'affirm' their child's choice to pretend to be something
    they're
    not.

    Third, it's apparent that people like this really hoped they'd have to
    take
    advantage of some kind of underground railroad that snuck transformer kids
    and
    pregnant teens out of Red states while, narrowly avoiding the white >>>>> supremacist special ops troops that were hunting them down. That's the
    ultimate leftist Reddit victim fantasy.

    I only wish Trump was half as based as the crazy leftists pretend that he
    is.

    Wow. And she thinks they have high IQs.

    Oh, yes. One of the defining traits of a Redditor is the extraordinarily >>> high
    opinion they all have of themselves.

    The site should rename itself Dunning-Krugereddit.

    You find that Reddit shows more arrogance than other public forums?

    I find it has a significantly greater quantity of *unjustified* arrogance than
    anywhere else.

    Fwiw, I'm not sure what would comprise *justified* arrogance.

    And I'm wondering if you're referring principally to *political*
    subReddits (which I browse only when the "front page" sends me). E.g.,
    all online political commentary smacks of some arrogance, afaics.



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  • From BTR1701@3:633/10 to All on Wed Aug 19 18:13:05 2026
    On Aug 19, 2026 at 3:20:48 AM PDT, "The True Melissa" <thetruemelissa@gmail.comNOSPAM> wrote:

    BTR1701 wrote in article <1163frs$2d8gb$1@dont-email.me>:
    On Aug 18, 2026 at 6:45:56 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote: >>
    [quoted text muted]
    opinion they all have of themselves.

    The site should rename itself Dunning-Krugereddit.

    You find that Reddit shows more arrogance than other public forums?

    I find it has a significantly greater quantity of *unjustified* arrogance >> than
    anywhere else.

    I don't know. Usenet is still in the running for that.

    Usenet is dying. Even this group, which used to still flourish even as all other withered away, barely has a handful of (legitimate) posts per day now.



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  • From moviePig@3:633/10 to All on Wed Aug 19 15:21:24 2026
    On 8/19/2026 2:13 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Aug 19, 2026 at 3:20:48 AM PDT, "The True Melissa" <thetruemelissa@gmail.comNOSPAM> wrote:

    BTR1701 wrote in article <1163frs$2d8gb$1@dont-email.me>:
    On Aug 18, 2026 at 6:45:56 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote: >>>
    > [quoted text muted]
    >> opinion they all have of themselves.
    >>
    >> The site should rename itself Dunning-Krugereddit.
    >
    > You find that Reddit shows more arrogance than other public forums?

    I find it has a significantly greater quantity of *unjustified* arrogance >>> than
    anywhere else.

    I don't know. Usenet is still in the running for that.

    Usenet is dying. Even this group, which used to still flourish even as all other withered away, barely has a handful of (legitimate) posts per day now.

    Google's AI seems to attribute Usenet's demise to spam/cross-posting.
    Indeed, my kill-filter is a complex, haphazard, evolved gauntlet that
    makes r.a.tv readable. Building one from scratch would be a hurdle.



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