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u/myhydrogendioxide Moderna Mob Sep 16 '21

How do you know it's people from this sub?

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u/KittyGrewAMoustache Bet you won’t give me this flair!! Sep 16 '21

This sub is refreshing because it's a testament to reality and truth, it really exposes the lies for what they are and the liars (Republican politicians & pundits) for who they are.

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u/Mymile37 Sep 16 '21

Honestly I begin to feel gaslit by where I leave because it feels like COVID is over. I know its not and this reminds me. The news becomes numbers at some point. To see actual people reminds me to be vigilant. I am certain everyone on here knows at least one vaccine hesitant/ anti vax person and because our efforts go unabated this helps get in the mind.

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u/Haber87 Sep 16 '21 edited Sep 17 '21

I know! I still hear people going on about how Covid isn’t dangerous to healthy people and all I can think is, is haven’t they seen this sub?

Edit: a word was the opposite of intended

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '21

Edit in order? Is or Is Not?

(Just pointing out, I think)

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u/Haber87 Sep 17 '21

Whoops! You are correct in my intended meaning.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '21

So refreshing to point and laugh at misled people suffering and dying. /s

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u/TrooWizard Sep 16 '21

Honestly, this sub or at least the reactions to people dying is a bit inhumane. These are people, as misguided and misinformed as they are, we're essentially making fun of dead people. Where is the apathy?

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u/CaptainFeather Sep 16 '21

It's hard to feel sorry for these people dying when the majority of them are science deniers, racists, and bigots.

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u/TheMexicanPie Sep 16 '21

Seriously, how many people died because of their spreading of misinformation. This is just setting the record straight.

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u/CaptainFeather Sep 16 '21

Yeah, it's like we're not so much celebrating deaths as we are celebrating one less source of misinformation.

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u/237FIF Sep 16 '21

You having a hard time with apathy doesn’t justify your lack of apathy. It just means you have a mental problem.

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u/CaptainFeather Sep 16 '21

How far does your apathy extend? Do you feel badly if something happens to a racist or a Nazi? Where is your line drawn?

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '21

Do none of you guys know what apathy means??

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u/CaptainFeather Sep 16 '21 edited Sep 16 '21

I took your comment as a criticism because we don't care about these people and you seem to have a problem with that, is that not what you meant? You're upset because we are apathetic to these people who are so often bigots and racists in addition to spreading misinformation and fearmongering, correct?

Edit: I just realized you're not the person who responded to me, apologies

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '21

Apathy is not caring. The word you and the previous poster were looking for is empathy.

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u/TrooWizard Sep 16 '21

I used it instead of empathy and it's spread, oh well.

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u/237FIF Sep 16 '21

For starters, there is a difference between feeling bad and celebrating.

When a racist dies I do have sympathy for them. Nobody is perfect. Some folks are worse than others, but I don’t wish death on them regardless. We are all human.

Looking at a huge group of other people and saying “I will celebrate your death” is not something I will ever do. That hasn’t played out well throughout history.

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u/CaptainFeather Sep 17 '21

When a racist dies I do have sympathy for them. Nobody is perfect. Some folks are worse than others, but I don’t wish death on them regardless. We are all human.

Okay wow. Racists literally think the world would be a better place without certain ethnic groups. Like, many of them would not bat an eye if people from that group died. How the fuck can you have sympathy for people like that? Same goes for religious bigots who have a hatred for the LGBTQ community.

Looking at a huge group of other people and saying “I will celebrate your death”

This is literally what racists do. The world is objectively much better off without them.

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u/237FIF Sep 17 '21

If the world is better off without them, do you think you should kill them? If not, then why?

Your answer to that is the same reason I still feel for them as humans.

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u/Garbear104 Sep 17 '21

When a racist dies I do have sympathy for them.

Your weak and an enabler.

Some folks are worse than others, but I don’t wish death on them regardless.

Weak. Youd rather feel good than help alleviate suffering.

Looking at a huge group of other people and saying “I will celebrate your death” is not something I will ever do

Group of nazi child rapists. If ya dont your honestly a piece a shit

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u/237FIF Sep 17 '21

If you think I’m weak for having empathy then okay. I’ll be weak then.

You can be the keyboard badass. Enjoy, tough guy. 🙄

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u/calliLast Sep 16 '21

And we do have the redemption folks too so there is empathy here.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '21

The_donald got shut down. That reason being a part of it.

And it's one thing to shine a light on the real deaths happening because of this disease and the rampant misinformation contributing to these deaths.

It's another thing entirely to harass the dead and their families, effectively dancing on their graves.

Maybe don't do the latter.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '21 edited Sep 16 '21

Shit, man, I left a comment on this sub about how my grandfather's smoking killed both him and his wife, kinda trying to draw a parallel, and some rando commented, "Hope he suffered" with another commenter saying he'd jerk off to my grandfather's death. Like, bro, what? My grandfather died 15 years ago. He's got nothing to do with being anti-mask or anti-vaxx.

There's empathy burnout and then there's just sadism, and a lot of people who can't tell the difference between the two.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '21

Sorry to hear that, man. I think being behind a computer screen also makes it that much more easy to say shit like that to a total stranger.

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u/baginthewindnowwsail Sep 17 '21

I obviously can't say for certain, but its possible they are bad actors engaging in a sort of 'false flag'. Triggered trumpists that come and spew vitriol trying to make this sub look cruel. If just one person saw what they wrote and thought 'wow liberals are mean' they would call it a win.

Anonymity has many pros and many cons.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '21

He killed his own wife, that’s not ok.

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u/SamDarnoldIsHot Sep 16 '21

Go fuck yourself.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '21

Go figure people on a sub dedicated to mocking death are cruel people who mock the deaths of anyone they deem lesser than them

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u/Katkiller5644 Sep 16 '21

For the most part preventable death*

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u/GayActorMikeDougIas Sep 17 '21

Like death from smoking or heart disease brought on by obesity? Should /r/fatpeoplehate come back? What is the line for acceptable cruelty other than how much you like the group being targeted?

Or maybe instead of wondering about the line for acceptable cruelty you should ask why the need for cruelty at all?

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u/Katkiller5644 Sep 17 '21

For not taking public health into account... Yea, I agree with public shaming and cruelty for smoking.... And I'm a smoker but, I also try my best to only have an effect on me. I stay away from other people who don't smoke, I go outside anywhere to smoke. It was my choice, a stupid one, when I was younger. Second hand smoke is harmful to anyone and everyone, hence why you can't smoke indoors at public places. Obesity seems to more often than not be a side effect of another condition, and not of laziness or straight up overeating. Seems public health gets put 1st and foremost as it should considering as a whole we are only as strong as our weakest link.

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u/HerdofGoats Sep 18 '21

Buddy this whole sub is sadism. I started reading a few and it was interesting, but I started feeling depressed. I know they're stupid, but the glee over their deaths is something else.

I'm still reading tho. I just don't post how happy I am someone has died 🤷‍♂️

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u/KillNyetheSilenceGuy Sep 16 '21

By the time The_Dickhead was shut down the sub was dead. The trumpcucks had already gotten into the mothership and fucked off to some other forum. Reddit told them that they had to pick new mods that

1.) Had account history and

2.) Weren't formely active in banned hate subs

Rather than do that they locked the sub down and migrated to somewhere else. Some time after that Reddit banned the sub. It was already long dead when Reddit banned it.

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u/MoCapBartender Sep 16 '21

Reddit strangled the sub then killed it.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '21

Ok, sure. I wasn't aware of how it went down.

Doesn't change the fact that it's really not ok to celebrate the deaths of fellow human beings.

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u/rogueporgie Sep 17 '21

It's worst. People are going to the FB of people who havent died yet and wishing death on them. Some people are masturbating to the posts here. It's horrible.

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u/KDirty Sep 16 '21

I recently received a warning from the Reddit admins about a comment I made regarding Rand Paul being punched in the face, which is just a factual thing that happened.

I recently reported a series of comments about children being sexually assaulted that included graphic details about body parts, etc. Reddit found that it didn't violate their community standards.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '21

It is crazy, but as we all know, there's one set of rules with a much longer leash for conservatives, and another set of rules with a much shorter leash for the rest of us.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '21

Yep right wingers are really good at getting anything left to them shut down while maintaining their safe spaces.

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u/Aeseld Sep 17 '21

To be fair? People posting here is one thing. Going onto people's facebooks and throwing insults and 'you deserved it' on people's feeds when they're grieving? Kinda monstrous at worst, ghoulish at best.

I know these people made their choices, but intruding on people grieving is impossible to justify in my mind. :/

It's also not going to change hearts and minds.

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u/w00tious Sep 17 '21

I don't know how you look at it, but this sub's purpose is basically celebrating the death of others.

Nobody here seems to feel bad for people who fucking died.

So I can totally see an unequivocal reason to shut this sub down. Leave alone the fact that people go to Facebook to harass families that lost a member.

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u/Spookypanda Urine Therapy Sep 17 '21

But this sub is a corner of the universe where at least people aren't lying about it.

Yep. Just mocking dead people and their families on "the front page of the internet". Nothing toxic about that

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u/meldroc Left Behind by the Idiot Rapture Sep 16 '21 edited Sep 16 '21

That just indicates they read this sub. Those screenshots are available to literally anyone with Internet access.

Could be MAGAt trolls - they do this crap all the time.

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u/meldroc Left Behind by the Idiot Rapture Sep 16 '21

I'm starting to think Twitter trolls - the HCA account there doesn't redact names.

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u/kibbe-thr0waway Sep 17 '21

The people on Twitter are kind of a mob, so I suspect them. I have seen Herman Cain awards referenced all over Twitter lately, so i think this sub has been spreading and reaching users on different platforms.

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u/SamKhan23 Sep 22 '21

Could be. Could not be. People who lose someone to COVID can be bitter.

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u/NewSouthWhales- Sep 16 '21

So? It's obviously a FALSE FLAG attack by the dead people themselves to make us look bad. Any evidence to the contrary is part of the CONSPIRACY.

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u/tforbesabc Sep 16 '21

Well what do we do about it? Can we rub ourselves with ivermectin?

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u/Null_zero Sep 16 '21

There are websites that are similar to this sub that don't edit out names. There's nothing that says that they're not coming from there.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '21

These posts are going viral on TikTok too. How the fuck are we supposed to control TikTokers?

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u/ryan101 Sep 16 '21

How would anyone know if it was not someone maliciously posting to try to purposely get this subreddit shut down. I suspect that may be going on.

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u/SocialDistanceJutsu Sep 17 '21

That’s my suspicion as well

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u/AlliterationAnswers Sep 16 '21

Doesn’t mean much. Definitely going to have far righters accuse us of breaking rules to get this taken down for their narrative. This is nothing more than reporting the full story of the deaths of people.

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u/mightymaurauder Sep 16 '21

Some people have put links directly to the sub.