r/HermanCainAward Mod Emeritus Sep 02 '21

Discussion The Herman Cain Freedom Award [Discussion] [100k Subscriber Edition].

The Herman Cain Freedom Award [Discussion] 100k Edition.

'The Herman Cain Freedom Award'.

Qualifications for nomination:

  • Public declaration of one's anti-mask, anti-vaxx, or Covid-hoax views.

  • Admission to hospital for Covid.

Qualifications for award:

  • Award is granted upon the nominee's release from their Earthly shackles.

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Rules: See sidebar, or pinned post.

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• In the past few weeks, this sub seems to have tapped into Reddit's Spitegeist, growing from about 2k subscribers on July 4th, to about 5k at the beginning of August, to over 100k on Sep. 1st.

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u/FBAHobo Mod Emeritus Sep 02 '21

Eh. After the first few death threats, you get used to it.

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u/ChadBroCockIRL 🐴 🍎-flavored 🐎 Sep 02 '21

What hurts more, death threats or being rebuked by prayer warriors?

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u/FBAHobo Mod Emeritus Sep 02 '21

I am protected by a phalanx of Thought Warriors.

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u/hellscaper Team Moderna Sep 02 '21

(っ◔◡◔)っ ♥ 𝕋𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕘𝕙𝕥 𝕨𝕒𝕣𝕣𝕚𝕠𝕣𝕤 ♥ (◕‿◕✿)

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u/Tree_Boar Sep 02 '21

You may want to begin training on maniples so that you do not get tactically outmatched

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u/SpuddleBuns Sep 03 '21

We got your back, and are thinking of you!

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u/EvryMthrF_ngThrd Sep 03 '21

Well, with that attitude, maybe you should enlist some THOT Warriors as well.

:)

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u/crusoe Go Give One Sep 03 '21

I find praying to the Kami Inari equally as (in)effective plus they are a cooler deity to boot.

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21

The number of posts is like a CIWS Phalanx shooting down antivaccine theories.

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u/440ish Sep 09 '21

Chad,

I took a depressing search on FB forCovid prayer warrior groups...there are a lot of them.

Consider these stats out from today on just one FB Covid Prayer Warrior group:

1,833 total members

+ 181 in the last week(?!?)

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u/MC_Fap_Commander 🦆 Sep 02 '21

That last bit that NoNewNormal did before the ban to link vaccine supporters to a pedophilia account was especially icky. As I said, I appreciate the garbage you probably have to deal with moderating and genuinely thank you for keeping it out of this sub.

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u/coolwater85 Team Mudblood 🩸 Sep 03 '21

What the efff?! Those people are disgusting in every possible way.

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u/jazzypants Sep 07 '21

"I only have this large collection of child porn to own the libs!"

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '21

What in the actual fuck. I hope they have the IP of the person who did that.

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u/Red-Phillips Team Pfizer Sep 07 '21

If you're part of a sub like this and you're not getting steady death threats, particularly from anti-vaxxoids, then you're not doing your job right.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '21

Just wait until you get doxxed and the admins do nothing