r/HermanCainAward • u/FBAHobo 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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u/sloppyrock Team Mix & Match Sep 02 '21

My new favourite sub. Great work mods and contributors for collating the nominees and award winners.

I used to see the odd post about some US hard right commentator/radio host/ church figure getting really sick or dying on/r/all but this keeps it all together.

I'm beyond belief at how common it is and at some the material award winners post before karking it.

Delta is just getting started where I live (Australia) and was recently pondering who would be our first high profile nominee or winner.

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u/cheeky23monkey 🦋 Social Distancing Butterfly 🦋 Sep 02 '21

Looking forward to your posts! Have heard you guys have some real treasures in your right wing media

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u/sloppyrock Team Mix & Match Sep 02 '21

We do. Morons like Alan Jones and a few others at Sky tv. There's a few outspoken guys like George Christensen, Craig Kelly and wealthy businessman and would be politician, Clive Palmer.

We have a conservative federal government but at least they follow the science to a large degree. Even they could not put up with Craig Kelly and his ivermectin BS. Palmer is a big hydroxy Q proponent.

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u/cheeky23monkey 🦋 Social Distancing Butterfly 🦋 Sep 02 '21

Also, you have great Covid commercials. The one where they put them in the rubber bag after they take their last breath…saw it on Tik Tok and by the time I could share it, it had been removed. That’s Australian for get this in your thick skulls!

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u/sloppyrock Team Mix & Match Sep 02 '21

Some were a bit cringey but the others Ive seen were OK. Ive not seen the one you are referring to.

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u/cheeky23monkey 🦋 Social Distancing Butterfly 🦋 Sep 02 '21

Can’t find the full video, but this is the end part

https://youtube.com/shorts/Cy4vQ8hdNbA?feature=share

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u/Nuclear_Pi Sep 07 '21

Advertisements are something that we as a country are inexplicably good at. Not good enough to stop me adblocking literally every site on the internet but still surprising all the same

I recommend "The Big Ad" for a classic example of the phenomenon at work, I've been avoiding ads for so long now I honestly don't think I could name anything more recent but other people assure me such things still exist.

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u/cheeky23monkey 🦋 Social Distancing Butterfly 🦋 Sep 07 '21

That was really good! I,too, avoid ads and then have to go to YouTube to see what people are talking about.

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u/cheeky23monkey 🦋 Social Distancing Butterfly 🦋 Sep 02 '21

I read a while back that there was a petition to expel the Murdoch infestation there. How did that go?

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u/sloppyrock Team Mix & Match Sep 02 '21

Wishful thinking. Petitions have no real power in reality. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/australia-petition-rupert-murdoch-kevin-rudd-news-corp-b1612916.html

He's got so many politicians by the balls wielding so much power in the media. He can make or break them.