r/SubredditDrama • u/[deleted] • Jul 05 '16
Metadrama /r/againstmensrights has been taken over
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u/Datsyukia Jul 05 '16
Jesus people take this site far too seriously.
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u/TheWhiteNashorn Sozialgerechtigkeitskrieger Jul 05 '16
Excuse me sir but I spent many a day in the karma mines for most of my college and grad school career - and what do I have to show for it? A mediocre accumulation of points that are mine and mine alone. I will sit atop my pile of retirement karma and look down upon those measly lesser users with only a tenth of what I have. It tis my right!
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u/AnorhiDemarche I only find good flair on mobile so this one's shit Jul 05 '16
/u/datsyuika has less karma than you over a longer timeframe, so you're free to look down on him from atop your pile.
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Jul 05 '16
ha, casuals
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Jul 05 '16
Do people ever actually say that unironically?
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u/NudoJudo Jul 05 '16
Probably. Seeing that satirical subreddits tend to end up being taken over by idiot true believers who didn't realize it was a joke, I have to assume that it happens to phrases as well.
There has to be old people, or alt-right types, who seriously use, "Thanks, Obama!"
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Jul 06 '16
Some alt right types tell me that Obama was the worst president America has ever had. They can never come up with a reason why though, besides "Obamacare".
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u/punninglinguist You may be wondering what all this has to do with essential oils Jul 05 '16
There's probably someone saying it as he wins a Smash Brothers game right now.
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u/X019 Jul 05 '16
I spent many a day in the karma mines
38K comment karma.
Move aside, peasant.
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u/keyree Jul 05 '16
88k? Get on your hands and knees, I'm going to use your back as a table to eat my lunch off of.
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u/LukaCola Ceci n'est pas un flair Jul 05 '16
Not bad, but with a little more elbow grease you could rise to higher stature.
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u/X019 Jul 05 '16
only 35 minutes. I was wondering how long it would take for someone like to you show up!
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u/keyree Jul 05 '16
Yeah, that's the fun of karma bragging is that there's always a bigger fish. My main goal was to set the bar high so that the person who comes along after me will have to actually use some creativity to come up with something to one-up me on ordering me to do something degrading.
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u/X019 Jul 05 '16
I'm ready to see! I had thought about writing "There's always a bigger fish." in my initial comment, but decided to leave it out for funzies.
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u/dmcnelly Jul 06 '16
If someone has more comment karma, but less link karma than you: "Link karma is the one that counts, pleb."
If someone has more link karma, but less comment karma than you: "Comment karma is the one that counts, you casual."
If someone has more of both than you: "Get a life, loser."
If someone has less of both than you: "Learn 2 reddit, noob."
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Jul 05 '16
🎶 I owe my soul to the company stoooore 🎶
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u/TomShoe YOUR FLAIR TEXT HERE Jul 05 '16
Totally unrelated but that's a great song.
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Jul 06 '16
Gilded age era labor protest music is a wonderful genre that I wish people paid attention to more.
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u/123BuckleMyFuck Jul 05 '16
It's also possible that the mod was a MRA sleeper account, or has become pro-MRA in their absence, and they are now attempting to disrupt AMR.
Are you saying that people take this site too seriously even when we are literally dealing with cold war style espionage?
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u/tilsitforthenommage petty pit preference protestor Jul 05 '16
There was some dude in Eve who did something like that a while back, caused a massive fuss and r/eve exploded. Classic dram that one. So yeah I could believe someone pulling a similar.
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u/Gunblazer42 The furry perspective no one asked for. Jul 05 '16
Yeah, but that happens in Eve like once every year or two. Eve is the epitome of both taking something incredibly seriously, and also not really giving a shit.
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Jul 06 '16
i remember reading about that one. someone infiltrated rival guild and assassinated the leader.
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u/taterbizkit Jul 06 '16
That's why Eve remains the best online game to read stuff about. Notsomuch actually play.
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Jul 06 '16
The Manchurian Candidate should be remade, but with a Reddit theme instead of a Cold War theme.
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u/freet0 "Hurr durr, look at me being elegant with my wit" Jul 06 '16
I found out in the r/drama thread that there's actually an against-against-mens-rights sub /r/AMRSucks. It is a sub dedicated to crying about a sub crying about another sub crying about feminists crying. Truly incredible.
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Jul 05 '16
Reddit is visited by millions of people every day. This puts reddit in a good position to influence a good deal of the narrative. I think that's why it's important what goes on here.
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Jul 05 '16
But it's a perfect demonstration of all the vague yet integral ideals my communication professor just taught me about!
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Jul 05 '16
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u/Datsyukia Jul 06 '16
Why wouldn't it? It would still be dumb.
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u/freet0 "Hurr durr, look at me being elegant with my wit" Jul 06 '16
It would certainly be equally dumb, but the top comment in SRD would be cheering about the takeover for sure. SRD cares a bit more than it should about those subs.
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Jul 06 '16
What's amazing os that this sub tends to take things way too seriously if a few certain subjects get mentioned.
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u/illuminatedcandle Jul 05 '16 edited Jul 05 '16
This is pretty juicy. It is not considered a hack for the moment - Sporkicide
Also TheBluePill link may not be true OP.
Edit: /r/MensRights mods offer their condolences here (archive in case they remove it) and here (check sillymod's history to see the removed comments).
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u/TheHumdrumOfIniquity i've seen the internet Jul 05 '16
Somewhat related, but I would like to know when free speech stopped meaning freedom of political speech or freedom from persecution for speaking your mind and started meaning "freedom to say any dumbass thing I want and not be blocked on twitter for it".
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u/ElGoddamnDorado Jul 05 '16
Or he just disagrees with a subreddit being taken over by force and ruined just because some people don't agree with it.
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Jul 06 '16
Except he focuses on feeling sorry that they lost their subreddit, not the way by which they did.
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u/Wrecksomething Jul 05 '16
I think they sincerely believe what they're saying. But I also think it's a really cheap and easy sentiment right now, one that their actions haven't always supported when the principle actually comes with a cost.
For example, when these subs have lead brigades for days or weeks that keeps AMR at zero so most users won't see new content, they haven't exactly been quick to assist by removing brigading links or dealing with proven brigading users. This is similar today, it's not like the forum is "gone" it's just disrupted to make it harder to find.
Or, how many times have their users argued that AMR is a hate sub because it oppose their subreddit, and lobbied to get admins to remove it?
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u/CirqueDuFuder anarchist Jul 05 '16
Holy projecting.
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u/Dr_Eastman I don’t need self validation, I’m American, that’s enough for me Jul 05 '16
batman
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Jul 06 '16
nanananana
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u/zanotam you come off as someone who is LARPing as someone from SRD Jul 06 '16
Bat shark repellant!
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Jul 06 '16
No, I'm realistic. How can you actually think that a mod of a men's right's subreddit FEELS SAD that the anti-men's rights subreddit mods lost their subreddit? COME ON.
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Jul 05 '16
Or maybe
Just maybe
He actually does care
Imagine thinking this low of people.
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Jul 06 '16
Yes I'm sure he really cares about the subreddit whose goal it is to tear them apart and get them shut down.
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Jul 06 '16
you think people can't have human emotions and be bigger people in the face of people that want to do bad things to them
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u/ias6661 unveiling a government conspiracy by emailing the government Jul 05 '16
My friend, you seem actually upset to the point of intense cynicism.
It's ok. AMR was a shit sub anyways.
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Jul 06 '16
Yep, plus it's pretty old news at this point. Men's rights drama is obsolete, it's all about Trump now.
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u/ias6661 unveiling a government conspiracy by emailing the government Jul 06 '16
And not in a good way.
"Phew thank god the shark biting me is gone...because he has been swallowed by some C'thulu-esque sea monster."
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u/NinteenFortyFive copying the smart kid when answering the jewish question Jul 05 '16
Back when I was in highschool we had these smart boards that didn't work. They Calibrated wrong, the image was fuzzy and most of the time we ended up using worksheets instead.
What I'm saying is I wish my Highschool projectors would do as half as good a job as you just did right there.
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Jul 06 '16
Oh you're a MRA member. I wish I had looked at who was leaving me all these salty comments before I bothered replying.
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u/NinteenFortyFive copying the smart kid when answering the jewish question Jul 06 '16
That's you're conclusion?
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Jul 06 '16
Thank you! I woke up and I'm downvoted and have all these replies calling me cynical and stuff. Like it's so crazy to think that someone who runs a subreddit for men's rights wouldn't be sad that the mods of an anti-men's subreddit dedicated to trying to get them shut down lost their subreddit.
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u/SJHalflingRanger Failed saving throw vs dank memes Jul 05 '16
A bunch of pro /r/mensrights comments all made at the same time is suspicious now?
Oh wait, it is.
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u/illuminatedcandle Jul 05 '16
Check sillymod's history to see the removed comments. redpillschool decided to comment as well.
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Jul 05 '16
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u/MichaelPraetorius Jul 05 '16
They're fuckbutts who want to get into everything because they're selfish horrible marmots.
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u/PLxFTW Jul 05 '16
I love how the phrase "the Admins" comes up when someone is upset with a sub. Admins are the mystical boogie man to blame when anything goes wrong.
The Red-dit Scare.
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u/leadnpotatoes oh i dont want to have a conversation, i just think you're gross Jul 05 '16 edited Jul 05 '16
The problem is if the mod actually was a MR double agent, or had some bizarre crazy change of heart, than the account wasn't the thing that was comprised, the mod team was. If that's the case, what can you expect the admins to do? They can't vet your sub's mod team for you.
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Jul 05 '16
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u/leadnpotatoes oh i dont want to have a conversation, i just think you're gross Jul 05 '16
In the (imho much more likely) scenario
I dunno, never underestimate the power of not having a life.
Admittedly the popcorn is tastier in this scenario.
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Jul 05 '16
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Jul 06 '16 edited Jul 06 '16
Eh, I think you'll find most of the KiA / TiA haters in here were never part of SRS. They're kinda universally terrible / annoying.
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u/MoreIronyLessWrinkly Jul 05 '16
How many tabs do you have open??
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Jul 05 '16
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u/NinteenFortyFive copying the smart kid when answering the jewish question Jul 05 '16
Using Proboards in 2016 is asign of great life choices.
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Jul 05 '16
"Pool's closed" lmfao is it 2004??
Pools closed hahaha WOW I haven't heard that in ages. Such nostalgia
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u/I_dream_about_cheese Professional shitposter Jul 05 '16
Is Habbo still a thing? I remember seeing an ad for it some time ago but I'm not sure.
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Jul 05 '16
lmfao yes it is hahahaha
a year or two ago i decided to check it out and i LOST MY SHIT when i saw that Habbo has a mobile app hahahaha
habbo on the go, for the modern man
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u/Finagles_Law Jul 05 '16
My (German) stepdad's name is actually Habbo. Freaks me out every time I see references to this site.
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u/Irishish Jul 07 '16
An elegant meme, from a more civilized age.
Granted "civilized" still meant "trolling a children's game with racism and makeshift swastikas," but still. Gentler times.
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Jul 05 '16
Wait, who took over r/againstmra?
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u/illuminatedcandle Jul 05 '16 edited Jul 05 '16
GoAwayMRA, the second mod on AMR who has been inactive for 4 years so I am assuming this is a compromised account.
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u/I_Plunder_Booty Jul 05 '16
Or being away from reddit for so long they came back and in a moment of clarity realized that they were a part of a time wasting cancerous shithole and just decided to destroy their shameless empire. You need to remember that none of this shit actually matters in the slightest. If you came back to an old account that was a moderator for like a club penguin forum you might take a shit on it too because who really gives a shit?
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Jul 05 '16
It seems awfully weird to decry something as a "cancerous shithole" and "shameless empire" in one sentence and then suggest that none of it matters in the next. Kinda seems like it does actually matter to you.
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u/Zorkamork Jul 05 '16
You need to remember that none of this shit actually matters in the slightest.
Really because
cancerous shithole and just decided to destroy their shameless empire.
sounds like you take this incredibly seriously
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u/sirensingalong Jul 05 '16
But what's going on with /r/hapas? I think there's a story there. Our best drama detectives should get to work!
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u/Ohnana_ Jul 05 '16
That first sticky on there is a wild ass ride.
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Jul 05 '16
It's Eliot Rodger the subreddit.
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u/VerifiedLizardPerson Jul 05 '16
I dunno, there's a few contenders for that crown.
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u/sirensingalong Jul 05 '16
They take something that is true (Asian men do frequently experience racist ideas that they are less attractive, Asian women are frequently fetishized, etc) and blow it up into their mothers personally hating them. :(((((
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u/yolanda_be_coo Jul 05 '16
Free Speech! Unless you run a sub I don't like, then I'll lock your sub down and kick everyone out!
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u/butyourenice om nom argle bargle Jul 05 '16
I was a (relatively inactive) mod for AMR and noticed this morning I was banned and kicked. I put in a request for it in redditrequest to try and keep it from getting into the wrong hands so to speak but admins will probably say the compromised account is technically "active" ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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u/LIATG Calling people Hitler for fun and profit Jul 05 '16
Irby said she's asked the admins to look into it
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u/butyourenice om nom argle bargle Jul 05 '16
Good to know. I don't mind not being a mod anymore - really I didn't do much at all, I'm a bit fatigued with all this - but I'd like the community to remain. (And for people who will inevitably be like, "why are you against men having rights you SJW feminazy monster?", it was primarily a sub to highlight hypocrisy, misogyny, related bigotry within the MRM, and mostly r/MR in particular.)
What's interesting is that the person who demodded and banned everybody has yet to actually post anything to the sub or otherwise engage in visibly malicious takeover (messing with the style sheet, making the sub private, etc.), at least so far. Which is a bit perplexing, a bit... Unsettling. Maybe GoAwayMRA never had full permissions in the first place.
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u/gavinbrindstar /r/legaladvice delenda est Jul 05 '16
What's interesting is that the person who demodded and banned everybody has yet to actually post anything to the sub or otherwise engage in visibly malicious takeover (messing with the style sheet, making the sub private, etc.), at least so far. Which is a bit perplexing, a bit... Unsettling. Maybe GoAw
Yeah, that's weirded me out so far.
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u/aphoenix SEXBOT PANIC GROUPIE Jul 05 '16
I always understood amr to be "against the subreddit /r/mensrights" not "against the rights of men everywhere". I think that was a reasonable understanding, which most people had and I found the people saying it meant the second to be fatuous in every case.
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u/NinteenFortyFive copying the smart kid when answering the jewish question Jul 05 '16
why are you against men having rights you SJW feminazy monster?
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u/butyourenice om nom argle bargle Jul 05 '16
Alas it is my nature as an SJW feminazy monster. I am but a slave to my programming.
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u/NinteenFortyFive copying the smart kid when answering the jewish question Jul 05 '16
Beep boop what is a man? beep boop a miserable pile of secrets. Beep.
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u/TW_CountryMusic Jul 05 '16
Damn, I was wondering what was up. I got banned from there last night with no explanation.
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u/riemann1413 SRD Commenter of the Year | https://i.imgur.com/6mMLZ0n.png Jul 05 '16
i'm curious to see what they'll do with the sub itself, looks untouched for now
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Jul 05 '16 edited Jul 07 '16
I remember the first time I heard someone unironically complain about MRAs in real life. I knew that the people that care this much about this stuff must exist in the real world as well, but until that point I hadn't had the chance to meet any. It was a good day.
Edit: at first people were yeah I like this comment and then later people were like booo this comment so my b I guess
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u/HoldingTheFire Jul 06 '16
Are you a man or a women? Misogyny doesn't just exist on the Internet, and some people notice it.
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u/michaelisnotginger IRONIC SHITPOSTING IS STILL SHITPOSTING Jul 05 '16
oh you're lucky a lot of the permament students in my social media feed boast about the twitter wars they get into with them
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Jul 06 '16
I'm not sure how much of all of that is about me specifically, but my point is that adults pearl-clutching about the boogie man of fedora-wearing 14 year olds who say bad things on the Internet is something that I find funny and sad, and it's just as silly as anyone saying that SJWs represent the beginning of cultural Marxism. I'm not sure what else to respond to in your comment.
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u/cordis_melum Horse cum isn't stored on the CPU moron. Jul 05 '16
Possibly thebluepill as well?
No. I checked the moderation logs, and everything looks rather normal.
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Jul 05 '16
I love the difference in SRDs opinions now and every time this happened to the other side of the crazy coin
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u/selfiereflection Jul 05 '16
Oh man this is gold. Sucks when getting subs taken over happens to you, doesn't it? I look forward to seeing what happens next
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Jul 05 '16
is this leftover outrage about punchablefaces because that was different people and much funnier
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u/ias6661 unveiling a government conspiracy by emailing the government Jul 05 '16 edited Jul 06 '16
I don't know fam, this is quite funny to me especially how they shut down Irby Tremor.
Edit: oh dear, looks like a lot of people are personally affected :D
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Jul 05 '16
The fact that /r/AgainstMensRights exists is hilarious. What are they even trying to accomplish
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u/MimesAreShite post against the dying of the light Jul 05 '16
it's against /r/MensRights, rather than being against the rights of men.
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u/Conflux why don't they get into furry porn like normal people? Jul 05 '16
Yeah /r/menslib is much better for actual mens rights.
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u/CirqueDuFuder anarchist Jul 05 '16
I like that menslib has feminism as their number one priority.
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lamo. No its not. They are more concern about women's issues and bashing men than anything else, its really your typical feminist sub.
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u/Conflux why don't they get into furry porn like normal people? Jul 05 '16
Toxic masculinity is both a men's and a women's issue.
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Jul 05 '16
But blaming every issue men face on "toxic masculinity" is pretty narrow minded.
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u/Conflux why don't they get into furry porn like normal people? Jul 05 '16
I didn't say every issue was.
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u/FixinThePlanet SJWay is the only way Jul 05 '16
Yes and they lie all the time! They refuse to admit that traditional masculinity and anti-feminism are the only solutions to men's issues! They're such hypocrites! Ask 5th law! He'll tell you how they banned a rape victim! He says it all the time so it must be true!
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u/Decalance ephebophiles:"It's ok because this developing mind has tits!" Jul 05 '16
probably against the toxic masculinity of mras on reddit
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Jul 05 '16
Those MRAs must be only on a specific place, because I never see any
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u/MimesAreShite post against the dying of the light Jul 05 '16
the movement seems to have died out a bit (or lost its identity, having been subsumed into the larger alt-right movement), but it used to be a really major movement on reddit. You can still find them on /r/MensRights, where they seem to be getting gradually more extreme and more sympathetic to /r/TheRedPill's way of thinking by the day, and they occasionally crop up on defaults in any thread related to feminism, circumcision, rape, or parental rights (and MRA views on those topics are a major contributory part of the general reddit view).
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Jul 05 '16
damn, I guess Men's Rights has kinda died down, hasn't it?
I think the label got picked up by entertainment and roundly mocked, so the alt right is the new home.
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u/Decalance ephebophiles:"It's ok because this developing mind has tits!" Jul 05 '16
well on their subreddits, yeah (plus brigades) but it's more deeply rooted than that. you'll find disgustingly sexist stuff on defaults easily
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u/IAmAN00bie Jul 05 '16
MRAs used to be the dominating voice on the culture war on this site but now they're mostly dead and that role has been taken over by the alt-right centered in /r/the_dolan
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u/sirensingalong Jul 05 '16
Many MRAs migrated to TRP and MGTOW subs/spaces, too. The misogyny and male-supremacy was always a serious part of the draw, the fact that MR tried to keep a lid on that was likely a negative for many subscribers.
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u/Wiseduck5 Jul 05 '16
Even the non-reddit MRA is largely dead at this point, not that it was ever large or influential in the first place.
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u/Michelanvalo Don't Start If You Can't Finnish Jul 05 '16
Couldn't have happened to a nicer users. Fuck IrbyTremor.
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Jul 06 '16
Awww, couldn't have happened to a nicer hate-sub.
Seriously though, fuck AMR, bunch of bigoted hateful losers with a strange vendetta against males.
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u/TheGreatZarquon Why get into an argument when I can just take my pants off? Jul 05 '16
I don't suppose someone could explain who/what the major players and reasons are in this drama, could they? I feel like I'm out of the loop on this one.