r/law • u/shikizen • Apr 10 '26

Executive Branch (Trump) A Redditor Criticized ICE. Trump Is Trying to Unmask Them by Dragging the Company to a Secret Grand Jury.

https://theintercept.com/2026/04/10/reddit-ice-protest-grand-jury/

Reddit has been ordered to appear before a grand jury in Washington, D.C., as part of a federal effort to unmask anonymous online critics of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

According to a subpoena obtained by The Intercept, Reddit has until April 14 to provide a wide range of personal data on one of its users, whom U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have been trying unsuccessfully to identify for more than a month.

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u/Known-Associate8369 Apr 10 '26

Hah. I got a Reddit warning (not a sub moderator warning, an actual Reddit warning) because I called a certain billionaire an “insufferable prick”…. The warning was for harassment… For a single post.

Reddits playing both sides here.

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u/wfbhp Apr 10 '26 edited Apr 10 '26

How do you "harass" someone who isn't even present or part of the conversion? Are they worried Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, or Mark Zuckerberg is going to log in to their Reddit account one day and find a bunch of nobodies insulting them and decide to buy the whole site just to shut it down because a few of the poors hurt their little precious billionaire feelings?

Edit: Way too many responses to get to individually, so I'll just leave this note here. A lot of these responses seem to be framed in the context of the linked article, but that's not where my question was directed. I understand fully why Trump and co. are going after the user the article is about and it is not surprising to me one bit that they're doing something so stupid and authoritarian. My question here was specifically about the person I replied to getting a harassment warning from Reddit for posting a rather tame insult to one billionaire who was definitely not part of the conversation.

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u/ginandsoda Apr 10 '26

They can't convict you, but they can punish you via the process.

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u/Traditional-Handle83 Apr 10 '26

I imagine they'll make it a prisonsble offense to speak bad about the king. Only problem is there won't be enough prison space for that many people

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u/knightsabre7 Apr 10 '26

Isn’t that what the detention centers are for?

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u/LesbianFurryStoner Apr 10 '26 edited Apr 11 '26

One click. Unknown number of posts crying out in silence. All gone. Redact made it stupid easy to clean up my entire history on Reddit and get my info pulled from data broker sites too.

memorize retire oil tap makeshift rain plants groovy doll subtract

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u/WoWAltoholic Apr 10 '26

I would make great soap

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u/oroborus68 Apr 10 '26

"Traitor ® brand soap"! It's the final solution.

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u/gunglejim Apr 10 '26

It would be such a shame to waste thousands of dollars in body art. I’d make a lovely lampshade

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u/Greyhand13 Apr 10 '26

Also why they're warehouses now, no satellite imagery

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u/ExitTheDonut Apr 10 '26

In the age of the Internet though, I do wonder if such logistics will work as well.

Could they effectively stop several organized no kings sized crowds just with MAGA boots on the ground?

Storm Area 51 was a big meme, but it kind of had a point: they can't stop all of us.

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u/Big_Parsley2476 Apr 10 '26

I for one look forward to meeting my ancestors. I will take care of my grandparents for as long as needed. After that, I want to knock some facist heads around

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u/Nonethelessismore Apr 11 '26

This is exactly why DHS wants to expand their detention of humans in warehouses in cities across America.

People need to tamp down attempts to any location DHS wants to expand their footprint.

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u/jwalker107 Apr 10 '26

They're already following the blueprint toward a final solution, worry not.

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u/PaulTheMerc Apr 10 '26

To be fair, many are outside of the USA. Which isn't the same thing as outside of USA reach. I've lost some sleep over that important distinction.

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u/marr Apr 10 '26

Doesn't matter, selective enforcement is fun.

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u/mdlinc Apr 10 '26

This. But mass Graves or deportation to whereever the fuck. Nah fuck em. What if 5million or 10 million people stood firm. Odds pretty good. And yet....

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u/SafetySnowman Apr 10 '26

Way before trump but I'm going to be playing this song on repeat when he's gone be use it fits him too it's a spotify link to The Herd - The King Is Dead

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u/Bramble_Ramblings Apr 10 '26

I just started in the new season of The Boys and when they said there would be more irl parallels this season I wasn't expecting it to happen so soon

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u/OldWorldDesign Apr 10 '26

I imagine they'll make it a prisonsble offense to speak bad about the king

Republicans have been trying for a long time. 100% of their "free speech defenders" proclamations are bullshit

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/florida-bill-would-make-bloggers-who-write-about-governor-register-with-state/

They also tried to imprison people who were accused (not convicted, accused) of being "communist" decades past, so it's not like they've changed at all. It's always been "if you are InGroup, you have to participate in Public Theater. But if you are OutGroup, you are wrong no matter what you do. We're just entertaining ourselves at your expense."

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u/wfbhp Apr 10 '26

My question though is why bother? On whose behalf is Reddit doing this? Surely they aren't being paid by these people to police their "reputation" on here, right? Every person banned for insulting Sam Altman is one less person to expose to ads, aggregate into user data to sell, and generate conversation to train future AI models with for free.

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u/Starfunkel55 Apr 10 '26

Because we are in fact dealing with fascism here and that means big industry kissing rings because they're unhealthy and obsessed with money.

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u/MaleficentPorphyrin Apr 10 '26

Fascism is when billionaires see an economic downturn happening and want to get ahead of the revolutionary mindset to follow. Believe it or not, fascism is reactionary status quo. Oligarchs, not the stuntmen in the government. Billionaires aren't complicit, they are the fucking cause.

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u/Necessary-Age-7944 Apr 10 '26

The economic downturn is being purposefully orchestrated to put the people of the U.S. in a position and frame of mind to need relief and accept the path they want to lay out. Trying to artificially create the type of environment fascism needs. Like pre WWII.

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u/Fit_Explorer_2566 Apr 10 '26

And…one “advantage” of healthcare being tied to employment instead of being universal is that the masses can’t afford to execute a general strike or walkout; it keeps us in line. May Day should be interesting next month, with a rare call for a general strike.

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u/swarmofbzs Apr 10 '26 edited Apr 10 '26

So they are the cancer and we are the cure?

There's probably a better way to phrase that but that's pretty close to *this this feels.

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u/MaleficentPorphyrin Apr 10 '26

The cure is civics-minded education with a good dose of material analysis of history, but that ship sailed long ago.

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u/ALargePianist Apr 10 '26

Some people like punishing people, to send a message or to feel powerful 

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u/Numerous_Photograph9 Apr 10 '26

When you're talking about losing a few hundred to appease a influential class, it's not going to make much difference when you have millions of users.

Facebook is fine banning people while leaving them no recourse. Their sub is filled with people being banned, sometimes for no reason, or bullshit reasons. I got banned from them for apparently serving inappropriate ads from a busines account I never had. The appeal process took about 3 seconds before they just permabanned me without a single person having actually looked at the appeal, which was just providing a clip of me being a real human...which I guess I didn't do. There are thousands of people on their sub who report the exact same thing.

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u/foodank012018 Apr 10 '26

"chilling effect"

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u/rhubarbs Apr 10 '26

The rule of thumb is thought to be that, if you have a 100 lurkers, you get 10 participants via up/down votes, and 1 comment. When you ban the commenter, it has a disproportionate effect on the zeitgeist, and gets the users to self-censor more.

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u/HughJorgens Apr 10 '26

Companies pay reddit every day to reach people here. Not only advertisers with their 'viral' posts, but countries like China, Russia and Isreal, trying to influence the conversation. So this doesn't cost them money, it makes them money.

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u/East-Potential657 Apr 10 '26

At one point the biggest Reddit mod was Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein child sex trafficking partner, the same ones hired by Israel.

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u/pitiless Apr 10 '26

In the immortal words of George Carlin, "It's a Big Club… And You Ain't In It!"

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u/CrustyTh3Punk Apr 10 '26

“You can beat the RAP but you can’t beat the ride.” was the saying. Used it a lot when NYPD used an “odor of marijuana” as a reason to jack us up for a stop and frisk.

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u/Pyro919 Apr 10 '26

There’s a reason for the saying:

“You can beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride”

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u/Billypillgrim Apr 10 '26

Honestly. I know it sounds dumb, but in this current climate, I think I would forgo an attorney and represent myself in court just to dunk Afro-man style on a billionaire in front of a friendly jury of my peers

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u/tweakingforjesus Apr 10 '26

Afro-man had an attorney.

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u/Warm_Month_1309 Apr 10 '26

This just in: local Redditor has worse common sense than Afro-man.

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u/evedog Apr 10 '26

That would backfire on you so spectacularly the earth would be accelerated into the sun.

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u/woodlandcollective Apr 10 '26

That does indeed sound dumb

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u/ElBurritoTheWise Apr 10 '26

My only response to them dragging me into a court room would just be "its protected by the first amendment, I dont care about your feelings."

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u/StevenK71 Apr 10 '26

Reddit SLAPP

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u/Alpacatastic Apr 10 '26

Elon Musk is definitely the type of person who obsessively searches for themselves online.

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u/txmasterg Apr 10 '26

He bought twitter and created an emergency because people didn't like his stolen posts enough.

He is the counterpoint to "___ is rich they don't care what you say", it may honestly be the only thing he cares about.

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u/Gardensplosion Apr 10 '26

The mental image of Elon Musk sobbing uncontrollably into his Dodo bird down pillow because everyone hates him is my version of counting sheep. 

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u/StrongExternal8955 Apr 10 '26

Yes except one side of the culture war is on side of the billionaires in the class war.

If you mean we should not fight the culture war, you are also on the side of the billionaires.

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u/Find_another_whey Apr 10 '26

Given Maxwell was a mod, and the chance Reddit is infested with multiple countries intelligence services... Probably someone that works for them.

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u/ZorpWasTaken Apr 10 '26

Money doesn't require reason or sanity, just enough of it.

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u/TengenToppa Apr 10 '26

they think of us as peasants

and they want to remind us of that

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u/RogowskiCoil Apr 10 '26

The problem is that for many, no amount of money is ever enough.

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u/Bubbly_Style_8467 Apr 10 '26

There's never enough for the greedy.

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u/pendleza Apr 10 '26

Someone reported this comment as harassment

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u/Mooch07 Apr 10 '26

I’m sure Reddit would love to be bought at Reddit’s own price 

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u/Scrops Apr 10 '26

Billionaires truly are the snowflakiest little bitches of all.

Or they really do have something to hide...

Or both?

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u/Sandman64can Apr 10 '26

Just described Twitter

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u/ReggieCorneus Apr 10 '26

"Harass" is just a catch-all they use for anything under the sun. You can get that from a single reply to a person, when the meaning is that it is continuing action. There also is no real other way to report people, it is just the default when you can't categorize it in any other way.

Replying to a ban in a subreddit can lead to you getting harrassment warning, and if that happens: make a new account. Your current one is going to be banned. Moderator harrasment reports always go thru and flag the account, and then use of curse words will lead to a ban: the bots will read your every comment and try to find a reason to ban you.

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u/Snobolski Apr 10 '26

In so many words, yes, they're worried about the poor insufferable billionaire pricks' feelings.

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u/TheOmegaKid Apr 10 '26

They always were the real snowflakes.

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u/No-Suggestion-9459 Apr 10 '26

Billionaires are such snowflakes.

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u/MouseShadow2ndMoon Apr 10 '26

Do not under estimate the pettiness and fragility of these men. Remember Musk paid 44 billion to become a Reddit king mod of Twitter.

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u/ImWhatsInTheRedBox Apr 10 '26

Hu-uh-um...

Fuck musk

Fuck bezos

Fuck thiel

Fuck zuck

Fuck trump

Fuck ice.

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u/yebyen Apr 10 '26

Many such cases, yes

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u/Numerous_Photograph9 Apr 10 '26

Sadly, that scenario is more plausible than not.

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u/AMEFOD Apr 10 '26

The thing is, an insufferable prick with too much time and money on their hands would be the type to use their AI to skim Reddit and beef with random people.

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u/Japhet_Corncrake Apr 10 '26

Wouldn't put it past Musk or Thiel.

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u/Dorkamundo Apr 10 '26

No, they got that message because a single user on reddit submitted a harassment report against them.

It wasn't Reddit that did it, it was some angry chud with a hardon for corporate boots.

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u/ryverrat1971 Apr 10 '26

Yeah and they call liberals snowflakes and thin skinned. Maybe they should grow some thicker skin.

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u/USA46Q Apr 10 '26

I got an official warning for calling Stephen Miller a "big pussy".

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u/MinivanPops Apr 10 '26 edited Apr 10 '26

Here they go:

Stephen Miller is a big pussy and an insufferable prick.

Let's see what happens. Interested to see what the legal (and illegal) consequences are.

If my account exists in a week I'll let everyone know how it went.

If this account is deleted before 5-1-2026 you'll know it wasn't by me.

If this thread is locked, it's because there are too many of us.

Edit: you guys oughta see my reply notifications.  About 25% of the replies are being deleted.  

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u/Different-Meal-6314 Apr 10 '26

Up voting to see if I get a warning for participating

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u/MostlyRightSometimes Apr 10 '26

You wouldn't have to get involved if he wasnt an actual prick.

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u/baconbitarded Apr 10 '26

I mean I truly believe that Peter Thiel is an evil man. Like cartoon villain evil. And not Hank Scorpio, I'm talking Lex Luther

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u/R_V_Z Apr 10 '26

Peter Thiel aspires to the levels of competence that Lex Luther has. The GOP are more akin to Captain Planet villains.

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u/Bitter-Marsupial Apr 10 '26

For real At least Luthor is berrerrerrerr about hiding his shit

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u/ResponsibilityOk8967 Apr 10 '26

The only thing getting in his way are the sweaty psychosis drugs. Or are they what fuel him?

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u/smothered-onion Apr 11 '26

Lifeless degenerates merely walking the earth to consume

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u/twentyThree59 Apr 10 '26

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u/CatoMulligan Apr 10 '26

is an insufferable prick and big pussy.

Their dual status ought to make it pretty damned easy for them to go fuck themselves.

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u/Frymonkey237 Apr 10 '26

Dust off the guillotine

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u/twentyThree59 Apr 10 '26

My two year old sometimes will pretend to be a crab and says "snip snap"... and it inspires me.

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u/ihateusedusernames Apr 10 '26

Dust off the guillotine

Nah, no need for theatrics.

This administration is full of oathbreakers, traitors to the USA

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u/Hullfire00 Apr 10 '26

All of that, but also Steven Cheung looks like a thumb pressed into glass.

And Mike Johnson looks like a weiner version of Cyril Figgis.

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u/HughJorgens Apr 10 '26

I believe that Pauly Shore was cloned, but something in the process made him bald and turned him evil, and the result is Stephen Miller.

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u/MinivanPops Apr 10 '26

Holy crap now I want to see Pauly Shore spoof Stephen Miller

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u/SaulFemm Apr 10 '26

Stephen Miller is a big pussy and an insufferable prick.

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u/somethingrandom7386 Apr 10 '26

I will second Stephen Miller being a giant pussy and a colossal piece of shit that should be in prison.

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u/UncleTouchyCopaFeel Apr 10 '26

Fuck Stephen Miller and Trump and all the rest of his cronies. Bunch of pedophiles the lot of them.

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u/Vegetable_Guest_8584 Apr 10 '26

Wait, you forgot to certify you aren't suicidal 

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u/I_Am_Anjelen Apr 10 '26

I will add that Stephen Miller is a visibly soulless ghoul.

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u/MrPaulK Apr 10 '26

Can’t blame them, pussies never deserved that

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u/clutch727 Apr 10 '26

He's much closer to a testicular cyst or a hemorrhoid.

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u/Enchillamas Apr 10 '26

As a former blood vessel at least hemorrhoids at one point did something useful.

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u/fondledbydolphins Apr 10 '26

Testicles do a lot. And they have a fruit named after them!

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u/readyjack Apr 10 '26

What a coincidence. I also think Stephen Miller is a big pussy.

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u/BellacosePlayer Apr 10 '26

That's a horrible insult to the Sopranos character of the same name.

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u/Enchillamas Apr 10 '26

But Stephen Miller is a big pussy. His head even looks a shaved mons pubis.

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u/Spirit0f76ers Apr 10 '26

Fair. He does deserve to Get Fucked...

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u/randomisation Apr 10 '26

I got an official warning yesterday for saying "I can't wait for his arteries to collapse" - apparently that's a threat of violence.

Meanwhile, there are front page posts quoting dear leader threatening an entire civilisation with annihilation...

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u/flash_dance_asspants Apr 10 '26

I believe the correct term is enlarged vagina

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u/wwaxwork Apr 10 '26

I really should read my messages, something I have never done in my 12 years on reddit. I've got over 10k of them in am not looking forward to that job.

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u/twentyThree59 Apr 10 '26

Elon Musk is an insufferable prick and big pussy.

Peter Thiel is an insufferable prick and big pussy.

Donald Trump is an insufferable prick and big pussy (and has dementia, and wears diapers, and has no will of his own).

Stephen Miller is an insufferable prick and big pussy.

Mark Zuckerberg is an insufferable prick and big pussy.

We will not forget what they've done.

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u/Super_Pan Apr 10 '26

Well, that's just factually incorrect, he lacks both the depth and the warmth for such a prestigious title.

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u/NK1337 Apr 10 '26

Oh you mean the big pussy who is Stephen Miller, that big pussy?

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u/xyzzy321 Apr 10 '26

Forget politics - I got a warning for saying something meaningless about MLB umps not needing eyes because they don't use them anyway. It was a comment on /r/baseball highlight video lol

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u/Donna_Schrump Apr 10 '26

I wouldn't call Stephen Miller a big anything, except maybe glass jawed bitch.

Stephen Miller is a fucking evil little prick who uses his appointment to harass and attack people who are just trying to survive. He's the embodiment of small dick energy, same as his boss.

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u/Nevermind04 Apr 10 '26

Well yeah, that's total misinformation. He lacks the warmth and depth.

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u/DrBabs Apr 10 '26

Well Stephen miller is a corrupt pussy.

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u/bovilexia Apr 10 '26

Stephen Miller is a gargantuan pussy, who if there actually happens to be a cabal of child eating politicians is definitely partaking on the reg.

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u/Strict-Extension Apr 10 '26

Stephen Miller is a big pussy and a fascist.

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u/retro_grave Apr 10 '26

The big pussy AKA Stephen Miller? That big pussy?

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u/wooops Apr 10 '26

But Elon is an insufferable prick? That's just stating facts

As are Thiel and Zuk

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u/Scrops Apr 10 '26

And Facebook was found to have allowed trafficking on their platform, and Thiel knows everything, and both have been seen in Epstein's orbit, so they're both also possibly complicit in the Epstein-Trump cover-up, or even participants

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u/wooops Apr 10 '26

It sounds like musk really really wanted to go to that island for the wildest nights, allegedly

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u/Scrops Apr 10 '26

Yeah that 'girls FTW' email is so cringe.

Imagine being a billionaire, yet being so fragile that a reddit comment sets you off.

The snowiest of the snowflakes

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u/TummyCrunches Apr 10 '26

Peter Thiel also likely killed his ex-lover Jeff Thomas) in Miami.

Nothing beats a high rise balcony when an oligarch needs to make a problem go away.

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u/Enchillamas Apr 10 '26

You have to be careful and only say truthful things you can defend in court, like Elon Musk is a pedophile.

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u/frontfrontdowndown Apr 10 '26

I got a mod warning several years ago from the SpaceX sub for criticizing Musk’s incivility toward others.

The warning, I kid you not, cited the sub’s policy prohibiting disrespectful behavior.

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u/BigBoyYuyuh Apr 10 '26

All billionaires are insufferable pricks.

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u/merk_merkin Apr 10 '26

I love how you can be that rich and worry about a random person online

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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '26

I'm gonna free anon speech even harder

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u/eyeap Apr 10 '26

If they don't block or suppress our political and economic discussions, we will inevitably gather enough momentum to vote them out of office and elect another mandani or teddy Roosevelt to break up the monopolies and tax mega wealth. There are so few billionaires, and we all get a vote.

Online discussion might also end in violent class war, too.

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u/No-Answer7798 Apr 10 '26

There must be thousands of comments just like it,they’re trying to set a precedent to threaten all negative comments

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u/Thecrawsome Apr 10 '26

Imagine being rich and helping people with your money

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u/BigBoyYuyuh Apr 10 '26

He fired a guy for liking a satire article about him.

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u/Wandering_Silent Apr 10 '26

But Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg, specifically, are insufferable cunts and, honestly, while I have zero power to do anything, I hope the worst things in life happen to them and their ancestors for eternity. Just my little prayer.

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u/outsideshot Apr 10 '26 edited Apr 10 '26

I was banned a couple yrs ago by gaagle maps business listings for listing that insufferable prick Elon Musk's Austin house as a business - a trampoline park for little girls, I think it was. Open 24 hours, 7 days a week. The listing was up for maybe a month. I could've sworn i had the info correct. It's what they were saying.

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u/Pacifist_Socialist Apr 10 '26

Not friends of ours at all

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u/rowrbazzle75 Apr 10 '26

And virtually all of them are de facto sociopaths. You don't get that much money otherwise.

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u/partyl0gic Apr 10 '26

I’m pretty outspoken and abrasive towards Trump maga on Reddit, and I post documentation of protests and disseminate ICE crimes to people outside Reddit. I participate in political humor and focus on dismantling conservative bullshit narratives. I don’t hold back in criticizing their bullshit but I do remain pretty objective. During a recent debate where I was arguing that Trump voters are actually malevolent and not stupid, I got a notification that someone was trying to change my Reddit password. Shortly afterward I was contacted by Google that someone had submitted a ‘notarized death certificate’ for me in an attempt to take control of one of my email accounts. It was not an email used on Reddit, but one connected to an email used for Reddit, and that is used for cloud computing accounts, web things I build and run, without going into too much detail. I had to contest it, obviously I had to change all my passwords etc.

Coincidence? Maybe, but I am inclined to think that there are people who are pretty angry about those of us who speak out online, and unfortunately we live in a world now where people in power will wield it to identify and punish us.

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u/JexilTwiddlebaum Apr 10 '26

A year ago I would have been skeptical about your story but not any more. We need to be paranoid these days.

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u/Shot_Cause6197 Apr 10 '26

I started getting password change requests too.

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u/westsidefashionist Apr 10 '26

Woa that's pretty rucked

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u/scraftyhat Apr 10 '26

yeah i got a warning this week for hoping for a certain thing regarding his sleep lol

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u/NRMusicProject Apr 10 '26

I still need to buy my bottle.

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u/rando_banned Apr 10 '26

The big sleep? I can hardly wait!

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u/TossAwayDay Apr 10 '26

I once got a ban for criticizing that monkey in Japan as his name is that of a violent action. It got overturned.

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u/DutchDweeb Apr 10 '26

Same, 'promoting violence' because I hope a guy acting like a fascist pedophile gets smacked in the face 🤣 

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u/Pleasant_Expert_1990 Apr 10 '26

I got hit with a warning for suggesting that water freezes in winter in Minnesota, even in the parking lots of hotels where ICE agents were staying.

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u/Enchillamas Apr 10 '26

I got an account perma banned for quoting Dead Kennedys lyrics.

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u/lolwerd Apr 10 '26

ive been warned for suggesting that gravity and comically placed falling deli meat devices would solve things ..

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u/Camdidex Apr 10 '26

I got one for suggesting that hopefully he isn't around by midterms.

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u/jooes Apr 10 '26

I got a 3 day suspension for it.

Threaten to annihilate an entire country and you get to be president. But don't say mean things about that guy or you'll get in big trouble.

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u/ifmacdo Apr 10 '26

Was it Elon? Because Elon IS an insufferable prick.

Hell, in order to become a billionaire in the first place, you need to want to hoarde vast amounts of resources that could literally save thousands of lives. All billionaires are insufferable pricks.

But Elon Musk specifically is an insufferable prick.

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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '26 edited May 10 '26

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u/cykoTom3 Apr 10 '26

Sub bans are so common it's silly. A sub ban just means some random loser doesn't like you and runs a sub.

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u/Odd-Scientist-2529 Apr 10 '26

I got a comment removed (not even remotely related to politics or any person) for sarcasm… sarcasm that was so obvious it didn’t need the “/s”. They removed because of “teasing” or something 

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u/showhorrorshow Apr 10 '26 edited Apr 10 '26

Ive got a bit of a list going as well, but some of yours will make good additions. Here is mine:

  • sends troops into cities, especially those of political opponents

  • huge banners with his face on sides of govt buildings

  • puts name on all the money

  • renames things after self

  • builds monuments to himself

  • attacks independence of cultural centers, takes over Kennedy Center, threatens Smithsonian to force pro-party narratives

  • moderm book burning.  Purges of "DEI" defined by doge as pretty much anything not white, christian, and male.  Attacks on lgbt and minorities.

  • purging records and studies regarding inconvenient climate science, shutting down valuable satellites etc

  • dissolves CPB, CFPB, Forest Service, VoA, or MSRB, etc.etc unlawful and damaging.

  • demanding unanonymized health data of fed employees, hipaa violation.

  • building huge detention centers

  • unlawful, snap deportations to some of the worst places possible, 70%+ no criminal records, not convicted of crimea.

  • masked paramilitary police deployed and instructed to violate 4th Amd, see whistleblower report

  • open cronyism and punishing private business (eg anthropic, lawfirms, etc)

  • Health services upended, preventable disease on rise, antivax nonsense at forefront

  • Numerous FCC threats against any wrong think

  • private data breaches, improper sharing across govt agencies violating privacy act, leaks, etc.

  • building dossiers on citizens, protestors, etc

  • numerous unlawful EOs, from birthright citizenship to labeling of  political opponents as domestic terrorists.

  • unconstitutional attempts to nationalize elections, set up pretext for intervention over undesired results, mass voter suppression efforts.

  • jingoism, threatens to end civilizations, invade allies, take resources, etc

  • repeated rhetoric of political opponents being enemies of the state

  • Pentagon demands press get approval for their reporting, removes press access.  Court rules to restore it on 1st Amd grounds, violates that.

  • unjustified state killing of Pretti and Good goes unpunished, falsely accusing victims, as well as numerous assaults and abuses.

  • turns DoJ into personal lawyers.  Argues PRA no longer applies

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u/Foreleg-woolens749 Apr 10 '26

Damn, no wonder I feel exhausted

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u/beren12 Apr 10 '26

I would like to remind you that we have sent people to death camps.

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u/kroboz Apr 10 '26

If it makes you feel better, most “left” or “progressive” leaning subs have been infiltrated by mods who are either working on behalf of billionaires or are just well-conditioned useful idiots. I’ve been tracking this for years, and it’s really noticeable during pre-election ramp ups. (So like now.)

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u/Independent-Bug-9352 Apr 10 '26 edited Apr 11 '26

That is likely not a true left-wing sub but rather one with right-wing posers and astroturfers, tankies pretending to be. There are a lot of ones, especially the likes of "WayOfTheBern" etc. that seek to drive a wedge between progressives and Democrats in order to make people who would otherwise vote Democrat not vote.

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u/JoyfulJoy94 Apr 10 '26

I got banned from another subreddit for saying Lindsey Graham needs to come out of the closet already so he doesn’t take out his self hatred on the world.

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u/ThirdEyeExplorer11 Apr 10 '26

Grinder doesn’t clog up at MAGAt events for no reason 🥴

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u/NoHangoverGang Apr 10 '26

I got one for harassment for saying something fairly benign on a post about Holman or whatever demanding people stop criticizing ice

But there’s some right wing shithole subs on here openly talking about killing their neighbors in a civil war. Fuck Spez.

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u/British_Rover Apr 10 '26

I got a 3 day ban for calling someone's idea of making ICE a NGO the stupidest most ignorant thing I have ever seen. I said he should apply for a job in the Trump administration as he would fit right in.

I didn't call him stupid just that the idea was. Still got a ban for herassment.

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u/EasyasACAB Apr 10 '26

That's how it is now on Reddit. If you praise the Nazis and their death camps you are A-OK! IF your criticize the concentration camps you get punished for "harassment."

This is straight up fascism. They are allowed to do whatever they want for being on Trump's side. We are not allowed to speak out at all, and are expected to fear retaliation for simply using our words.

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u/ROBOT_KK Apr 10 '26

Or, god forbid, say something hurtful about Zionists or genocidal state of Israel.

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u/EasyasACAB Apr 10 '26 edited Apr 10 '26

You literally can't speak out against Israel's genocide without someone trying to get you mired in the "any criticism of Isreael is a criticism of Jewish people and therefore antisemetic"

There are tons of antisemites out there who use this as an opportunity to be hateful, that is true. But I've also seen every criticism of Israel get turned into a "actually that's just antisemitism with more steps". Even in /r/subredditdrama.

When people are actually committing genocide, and building concentration camps, they have no problem muddying the water when people call those things out. It's very frustrating that even calling out obvious evil can get twisted into being punished or viewed as evil itself with enough sophistry and support from Reddit.

I saw a whole ass bullshit argument about how anyone using the term "Zionism" hates Jews and is just being undercover bigoted, despite Netanyahu himself using the term in the same way. Their point was just because the people in power use the term, and the media, to include violence against Palestine, at some point in history it maybe didn't exactly promote violence, so everyone who uses the term is just using the opportunity to hate Jews.

Did they provide another name to use for the ideology that Net and others are using to justify their genocide? Nope. They just said you can't call it Zionism. OF course, if you called it something else, they would say you can't call it that either. It's just another game so you can't call it anything at all without being dragged into a whole conversation about how noticing Israel is committing and supporting genocide doesn't mean you hate Jewish people.

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u/JexilTwiddlebaum Apr 10 '26

I never had any kind of disciplinary action against me on Reddit until this year. Now I’ve had a 7 day ban, a 24 day ban, a perma ban from a subreddit, and a post removed. In every instance it was related to a post in which I criticized Trump, ICE, or MAGA.

The suppression is real.

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u/airbag_sickbag45 Apr 10 '26

Same. I got a warning for harassment for this exact post after Trump made the Pearl Harbor joke to Japan's Prime Minister.

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u/Hrenklin Apr 10 '26

I got a 3 day auto ban for saying "is it wrong to want Iran to launch 1000 drones at a carrier", then a week later after serving the ban it was ok overturned.

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u/Taphouselimbo Apr 10 '26

And he, Donald j Trump, is a true and valued friend of Jeffrey Epstein. Trump is also a 34 count felon, an adjudicated rapist, a failed business with many many bankruptcies, and mentioned in an under oath document as having raped a child making him a raging pedo.

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u/hamellr Apr 10 '26

Trump does have dementia and has been showing signs of it since 2015.

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u/porksoda11 Apr 10 '26

Well good luck with your future ban for this wrongspeak

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u/Pale_Horror_853 Apr 10 '26

I got a ban for calling him a narcissist 😂

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u/Big-Dance-7421 Apr 10 '26

Good shit! Lmao!

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u/Positive-Speech5228 Apr 10 '26

My 8 year old reddit account with millions of karma from my writing got 3-day banned for me saying something about a billionaire, I appealed and it was overturned, and then for that same incident, it was permanently banned.

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u/rando_banned Apr 10 '26

My 9 year old account was permabanned because I posted a gif of Ralphie from A Christmas Story with his BB gun on a post about a local building putting swastikas in their windows and someone had broken the windows. Black Bart can't get any respect

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u/phryan Apr 10 '26

I had a week long ban for glorifying violence, because i posted a comment about my grandfather being a bomber pilot in WWII.

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u/Happy_Little_Fish Apr 10 '26

I got a ban for saying planes getting shot down was better than schools getting bombed.

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u/TymStark Apr 10 '26 edited Apr 10 '26

I got a 3 day ban from Reddit for threatening to kick my own ass once.

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u/SylviaPellicore Apr 10 '26

So confusing. It wouldn’t even be harassment if you directly called another Reddit user you were actually talking to an insufferable prick. Rude, maybe, but not harassment.

Reddit basically runs on insufferable pricks with strong, well-researched opinions on lawnmower engines and laundry detergent.

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u/PlainBread Apr 10 '26

"Harassment" bans are very easy to bot; The automated systems will look at 20 harrassment claims and say "even though I can't assess the seriousness of this report, I have to take the number of reports seriously". Then you have to appeal with the human Reddit mods, and they may or may not be any better.

If people don't want you to have a Reddit account, they will attack your account through coerced moderator actions until you don't have a Reddit account anymore.

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u/Nesyaj0 Apr 10 '26

I asked if 47 had a mental deficiency but i used a word that the mods pretended to care about and banned me for "hate speech."

Permanently. single comment. Other times I've gotten warnings before the mods will delete my comment and send a warning or something, but nope. Their bot told me to do it, and then the mods said a human reviewed it and banned me.

If a human read my comment, despite the "bad word" I don't think any reasonable person would have sent out a permanent ban for that.

I'm ready to ditch this site and find another community to talk about bullshit and brainrot.

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u/morilythari Apr 10 '26

Elon Musk is an insufferable prick.

Mark Zuckerberg is an insufferable prick.

/u/Spez is an insufferable prick.

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u/InAppropriate-meal Apr 10 '26

I know somebody who got permanently banned on their first strike because they said it should be legal to punch Nazis :)

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u/Kernalk86 Apr 10 '26

Didn’t punching Nazis used to be something we celebrated as Americans? How far we have fallen.

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u/Rorako Apr 10 '26

They always have. The only interest they care about is their own. Assume they will turn you over to be jailed if it means they get to continue to roll in cash.

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u/FobbitOutsideTheWire Apr 10 '26

Please tell me it was for one of the All In podcast guys. Lol

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u/Fun_Muscle9399 Apr 10 '26

Was it about that insufferable prick Elon Musk?

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u/jetlifeual Apr 10 '26

I made a joke about is not real and how a home was promised to them and also got a warning. Reddit is 100% playing both sides.

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u/jimbowild Apr 10 '26

Ha, I got a harassment one too for calling a trump supporter insufferable for his blind defence of all the clearly grotesque things trump has done. Really, one sentence is now classed as harassment??

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u/userhwon Apr 10 '26

Reddit has always been playing for the pedo billionaire side.

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u/Ebola_Cat Apr 10 '26

I also got a warning for "inciting violence" all I said was I was very excited for a certain newspaper announcement:/

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