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I have a friend who is very into sumo.
Trying to casually understand sumo is a little like trying to casually understand cricket. But I more or less get the basics just from watching tournaments with her.
But the one part of sumo that will always baffle me, even AFTER it was explained, is the giant macaron...
I legit thought these were photoshoped until I sat down and saw a match myself.
If they win a Sumo tournament they get a giant macaron.
nothing makes me happier than being reminded sawyer lowkey hates fallout 3 as much as i do
If anyone needs context: Josh Sawyer, the project director of Fallout New Vegas, made a mod for the game to get it closer to the dev teams goals which they couldn't include due to NV's ridiculously short development. It's mostly changes to items, stats, health, carry weight, basically a lot of rebalancing.
But then, hidden among the math, is this change, which removes a little easter egg photo of the mom and dad from fallout 3.
Macron has absolutely fucking had it with the anti vaxxers.
The French can be very brutal when they have to be.
Ask Marie Antoinette about that one.
Ok but this is the sensible way to frame public policy. Those who have done their part for society get to participate in it once again, while those who refuse to do their civic duty are just facing the consequences of their actions. If you don't want the vaccine, you don't get to make it everyone else's problem. It's great!
love that this caused so much controversy the thread needed to be locked. over chicken sandwich
gang this does not even scratch the surface
Someone posted a picture of a piece of chicken between two hamburger buns titled “Chicken Burger” to /r/food. Another user commented “Chicken Sandwich” on the post, and was slapped with a 30 day ban by the mods. When they responded to ask why, the mod said
“Correcting someone in public is public shaming, on top of being incorrect, it’s a pretty shitty comment to leave.”
So now /r/food is on lockdown after being spammed with posts titled “Chicken Sandwich” and other variations. The mod that handed the ban down pinned a post doubling down, comparing the situation to “Pride posts that always fill up with bigots” and “removing racists from posts featuring POC”, and including a link on “how to correctly, correct someone.”
because someone commented “Chicken Sandwich” on a post titled “Chicken Burger”.
Okay but this also does not scratch the surface either
It all started when the sandwich guy posted about what happened to him on r/TIFU, which led to a lot of outrage including someone in the comments saying they were also banned from r/food just for saying they had diabetes (this was later confirmed by a mod). All this anger turned into a brigade which resulted in the entire sub being flooded with almost nothing but posts about Chicken Sandwiches, now known as burgergate. The mod who initially instituted the ban then went on to compare fending off spammers to defending the capitol building during the January 6 riot.
You can see in the post that this made it into r/subredditdrama, a community which discusses ongoing drama across reddit. This particular thread in the screenshot is locked, an interesting detail for reasons that come into play later.
Someone else then goes and posts about burgergate on another sub, r/iamveryculinary , which is dedicated to making fun of food related snobbery and drama. This does not go over well, as it turns out that one of the mods of r/food is also a mod of r/iamveryculinary. This mod then proceeds to get slapfights in the comments, which notably includes her saying she would “rain fiery hell upon” anyone who posts chicken sandwiches in r/food, and complaining that she’s so focused on moderating burgergate that she has no time to spend with her kids. People then beg her to forget the chicken sandwich drama and take care of her children. I would love to give you some more details about this incident or tell you the other side, but I can’t since she deleted all the comments of the people she was arguing with so most of what we have left is just the things she herself said.
Someone then goes on to post about the r/iamveryculinary drama on r/subredditdrama again. This post immediately gets deleted completely, because it turns out that the r/food mod who also moderates r/iamveryculinary also moderates r/subredditdrama. More people beg the mod to stop caring about the drama and spend time with her kids.
The whole thing eventually gets posted to r/subredditdramadrama , a meta sub where people discuss drama that goes down in r/subredditdrama.
Another post is then made to r/subredditdramadrama, where the sandwich guy who was initially banned posts his conversation with the mod that banned him. Up until this point, the original mod had been arguing that the permanent ban wasn’t because of the chicken sandwich comment (which was only a 30 day ban), but because he had been rude to the mods when asking why. Screenshots show sandwich guy simply asking why he was banned and then apologizing for the chicken sandwich comment, only to be smugly told by the mod that he needs to “educate himself”, who also insinuates that he’s a weirdo and calls his comment shitty. Don’t miss this mod showing up in the comments of these screenshots and arguing with everyone else over them.
So basically the whole thing was one innocuous comment about a chicken sandwich which quickly spiralled into a multi-sub meltdown that has lasted for about two days now. Chicken sandwich guy has not, as far as I know, been unbanned as of yet.
You can't argue with transmisogynists. You can't debate them. You really shouldn't provide them a platform. Let them stay in their echo chambers, yelling at each other.
What you can do:
Make your undeniable, irrefutable support for trans women known.
Make posts on your blogs, your Twitter, your Facebook. Support crowdfunding for trans women, or at least spread the word about the fundraisers. Tell your friends, your family, your coworkers.
Transmiogynists don't care what trans women have to say. They don't want to care. But when cis people make their support known and undeniable, they lose their target demographic. And trans women know, there's one more person we can feel less afraid around.
I don't normally add to posts but I'd also like to point out that bashing transmisogynists is not supporting trans women. Actively listening to trans women when they talk about their experiences and focusing your support around trans women and their needs and safety, rather than just shitting on transmisogynists and calling it a day, is what folks mean when they say "support trans women."