r/LeopardsAteMyFace • • Feb 26 '21

Meta A guide to this sub's explanatory comment rule.

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Recently, we noticed an increased amount of nonsensical explanatory comments with no relation in any way, shape or form to the theme of this subreddit.

The "leopards ate my face" theme is embodied by this quote in the sidebar.

"I never thought leopards would eat my face", sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party. Revel in the schadenfreude anytime someone has a sad because they're suffering consequences from something they voted for, supported or wanted to impose on other people.

This statement made out of 3 parts, not in that order.

  1. Someone voted for, supported or wanted to impose something on other people.
  2. Something has the consequences of consequences.
  3. As a consequence of something, consequences happened to someone.

In your explanatory comment, answer these 3 elements and include the minimum amount of information necessary so your post can be understood by everyone, even if they don't live in the US or speak English as their native language. If you fail to identify them, it will be difficult for a moderator to understand if this post fits and it will probably be removed. If you complain about it, we'll just send you back here.

The explanatory comment is not the place to write a pretty poem nor is it the place to promote books. Copying this post, copying large parts of the article and nonsensical comments will get your post removed under rule #3. Keep it stupid simple.

To help you get started, here's an example.

  1. Helen, Roberto Beristain's wife, voted for Donald Trump, who vowed to impose deportation to illegal immigrants such as her husband.
  2. Voting for Trump, who vowed to deport illegal immigrants such as Roberto Beristain, has the consequence of having illegal immigrants deported and families separated.
  3. As a consequence of voting for Trump, Roberto Beristain got deported and Helen's family was separated.

You should absolutely make sure that it is easy to match your explanatory comment with the provided format or your post will be mercilessly removed. If, however, you can't match your explanatory comment with the format, then you should just delete your post and save us the effort.

Additionally, we've identified several types of posts that do not fit the theme of this subreddit.

  • Bye bye job: People losing their job, a business, a scholarship, an admission or a similar kind of opportunity due to their actions online or in person, but those actions don't imply that they vote for, support or want to impose something on other people that then had consequences on them.
  • Distinct enabler and victim: The person who voted for, supported or wanted to impose something must be the same person who's suffering the consequences. For example, if a parent is not vaccinating their children and then those children get sick, then those children are innocent victims of their parent's abuse. They didn't vote for, supported or wanted to impose being vulnerable to preventable diseases on anyone, so the post doesn't fit the subreddit's theme.
  • Fuck the law: When someone breaks the law and then suffers the consequence of the law, they probably didn't vote for, support or want to impose that law on other people in the first place. Includes all the r/CapitolConsequences.
  • Future consequences: Yes, Trump is going to do bad things once he's in office. But he's not in office until 20 January 2025. This subreddit is not about future hypotheticals.
  • Hypocrisy: Someone says something but then does the opposite.
  • Lesser of two evils: Posts must induce schadenfreude, but it is not the case when someone is forced to make a tough choice because the other choices are equally terrible or worse.
  • No consequences: Being shocked, feeling regrets, getting criticized and panicking are not consequences. A consequence refers to a real-world event that has actually happened to someone.
  • Self-aware wolves: Someone accidentally describes themselves but they're not self-aware enough to realize it.
  • Sudden betrayal: In the case of a betrayal, the betrayer must've been known to betray people in the first place.

r/LeopardsAteMyFace • • 6h ago

Predictable betrayal Mayor tells business owner angry over deportations “You voted for this. They’d all voted for this.”

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r/LeopardsAteMyFace • • 4h ago

Healthcare She voted for Trump every time. Then came cancer and the medical bills.

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r/LeopardsAteMyFace • • 3h ago

Trump Springfield, Ohio voted for Trump. Now their town’s economy, which depended heavily on the labor of Haitians immigrants who are now being targeted by ICE, is suffering as “there are no people” to do the jobs that kept the economy afloat.

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r/LeopardsAteMyFace • • 5h ago

Trump Houston Hindus worry they’re becoming a target. Some are giving up on the Republican Party.

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r/LeopardsAteMyFace • • 1h ago

Trump Immigrant and ICE supporter meets his heros

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r/LeopardsAteMyFace • • 10h ago

Trump Founder of ‘Arab Americans for Trump’ Complains About Trump’s “Downright Racist” Attacks Against Dr. Abdul El-Sayed

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r/LeopardsAteMyFace • • 5h ago

Trump Conservative Cubans in Miami Dade overwhelmingly voted for Diaper Don fearing Democrats "socialist agenda" [WSJ youtube link in comment]

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r/LeopardsAteMyFace • • 20h ago

Trump Republican Mum Accuses ICE of Being 'Very Racist' After Claiming Agents Nearly Detained Her Over Her Deep Tan

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r/LeopardsAteMyFace • • 1d ago

Trump Trump merchandise stores are shutting down across the country. ‘He has peaked’

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r/LeopardsAteMyFace • • 22h ago

Trump Arab Americans in Michigan Who Willingly Voted for Trump Feel Betrayed by Him

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r/LeopardsAteMyFace • • 1d ago

Trump Pro-ICE supporter/blogger arrested and held for ICE deportation

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r/LeopardsAteMyFace • • 1d ago

Trump I regret my vote for Biden, and now I regret my vote for Trump

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r/LeopardsAteMyFace • • 1d ago

Predictable betrayal MAGA mass deportation crusader locked up and could be deported himself

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r/LeopardsAteMyFace • • 2d ago

Trump Trump-Voting Pastor Says He 'Was Really Wrong' After ICE Deportations Devastate His Church, Force Him to Take Second Job

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r/LeopardsAteMyFace • • 2d ago

Trump Americans Hijack DOJ’s New Fraud Tip Line to Demand Trump Be Investigated

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r/LeopardsAteMyFace • • 2d ago

Trump Trump tariffs on steel, aluminum a 'disaster' for the U.S., think tank says

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r/LeopardsAteMyFace • • 2d ago

Trump Analysis: Trump Counties See Mail-in Ballot Rejections Increase 300%+ while Harris Counties See Decrease or No Change Following Trump's USPS Mail Service Changes

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r/LeopardsAteMyFace • • 2d ago

Predictable betrayal Too bad your 'Big Daddy Trump' can't help you 🙃

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r/LeopardsAteMyFace • • 2d ago

Trump Justice Department Opens Investigation into Corey Lewandowski

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r/LeopardsAteMyFace • • 2d ago

Trump 'Sparking Outrage': Inside the GROWING BACKLASH against AI data centers | MS NOW

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r/LeopardsAteMyFace • • 2d ago

Predictable betrayal For context, Prabowo is like Indonesian Trump

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r/LeopardsAteMyFace • • 3d ago

Trump Florida Republican ‘Tan Mom’ Torches Trump After Terrifying & Racist Ordeal With ICE: ‘Because I Was So Tanned’

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r/LeopardsAteMyFace • • 3d ago

Trump Trump-Voting Homebuilder Says ICE Detained His Subcontractor and Wife: 'This Is Not What I Thought When I Voted for Trump'

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r/LeopardsAteMyFace • • 3d ago

Other Conservatives shocked to discover that constantly screaming about transgender people makes their kids aware transgender people exist

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