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Answer: As mentioned, it was recently added to Netflix. Shortly after that (a few days ago) a reasonably popular movie analysis youtuber released a video on the movie. He reviewed the movie and how underappreciated it was. It has been one of his more viral videos and received over 1.7 million views since then.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-2Tjm2M2cg
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cf7k4n
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eu8arog
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2019-07-19 16:22:12
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What's up with all the Megamind on moviedetails?
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Many of the top posts on r/moviedetails right now are about Megamind.
https://i.imgur.com/XZcyduS.png
Did the movie just get released on Netflix or something? Why all of the sudden attention? I feel like it's all I've been seeing for days.
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2019-07-19 13:28:12
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Answer: Looks like the [Piper Perri meme](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/piper-perri-surrounded?full=1).
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cf7tre
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eu7wj2p
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2019-07-19 13:56:05
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What is up with the 5 black squares and 1 white square meme?
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I keep seeing it and I’m not sure what it means
The meme
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/601769151958351882/601769253573754930/image0.png
Gonna send it again using the link button so I won’t get shouted at by auto mod
[the meme](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/601769151958351882/601769253573754930/image0.png)
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2019-07-19 13:53:08
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Answer:
[Peppa Pig released an album today.](https://twitter.com/peppapig/status/1152163127645155328)
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cf7rz2
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eu824ph
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2019-07-19 14:54:46
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What's up with the hype Peppa Pig is getting on Twitter?
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I saw this on twitter https://twitter.com/MeetMeInSpace2/status/1152091466203914240
and wanted to know why people are talking about Peppa Pig.
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2019-07-19 13:48:41
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Answer: A lot of people, myself included, think that the designs for the cats look somewhat creepy. It's the [Uncanny Valley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley) in effect.
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cf8ujt
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eu87230
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2019-07-19 15:44:38
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What's up with people hating the Cats trailer?
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I'm seeing constant memes and jabs about the movie all over Twitter, and the trailer on YouTube's like-dislike ratio is basically half and half. I saw the trailer myself and I just thought it was mediocre at best. Is there something I'm missing?
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U\_O8DN1CY\_E](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_O8DN1CY_E)
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2019-07-19 15:21:13
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Answer: The negative response is specifically in reaction to the CGI. It's considered to have a similar, if not worse, uncanny valley effect than Sonic the Hedgehog's 2019 CGI rendering. Basically CGI faces that come too close to being human, yet too far, stir up feelings of horror and disgust in many people.
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cf8ujt
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euakjq0
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2019-07-20 11:42:22
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What's up with people hating the Cats trailer?
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I'm seeing constant memes and jabs about the movie all over Twitter, and the trailer on YouTube's like-dislike ratio is basically half and half. I saw the trailer myself and I just thought it was mediocre at best. Is there something I'm missing?
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U\_O8DN1CY\_E](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_O8DN1CY_E)
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2019-07-19 15:21:13
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Answer: it looks like hot trash.
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cf8ujt
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eujogfb
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2019-07-23 09:52:37
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What's up with people hating the Cats trailer?
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I'm seeing constant memes and jabs about the movie all over Twitter, and the trailer on YouTube's like-dislike ratio is basically half and half. I saw the trailer myself and I just thought it was mediocre at best. Is there something I'm missing?
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U\_O8DN1CY\_E](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_O8DN1CY_E)
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2019-07-19 15:21:13
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Answer: it's referencing a photograph of a [UK Conservative party campaign poster](https://i.redd.it/1up5a3mus6b31.jpg) that someone took on the London underground. The wording suggests the Tories will bisect all homeless people, which is somewhat in line with their philosophies, but also a step too far in many people's opinion. Or it's just a hilariously inept sentence. Or a photoshopped image.
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cf9mqp
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eu8byy8
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2019-07-19 16:34:20
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What's going on with the memes about one half of a homeless person and the other? What are they referring to
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Ones like this https://www.reddit.com/r/dankmemes/comments/cf6qoz/very_poor_choice_of_words/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
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2019-07-19 16:24:01
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Answer: It's been said recently by a group of conservatives that the long term plan is to reduce the amount of homeless people by 50%, but it's been presented as "cut homeless people in half by 2025". Obviously they aren't actually cutting people in half lol they just worded it terribly wrong. But yeah the internet pounced on the wording and memed the hell out of it as it tends to do
EDIT: Original [statement](https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/cf94r9/wait_a_minute/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app)
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cfaa0o
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eu8h8nf
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2019-07-19 17:23:48
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What is going on with "All homeless people by 2025" being cut in half ?
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Opened reddit today and all i can see is memes about all homeless people by 2025 being cut in half , and i have no idea whats going on !
this is one of the memes :
[https://www.reddit.com/r/dankmemes/comments/cf92aw/all\_homeless\_people\_by\_2025/](https://www.reddit.com/r/dankmemes/comments/cf92aw/all_homeless_people_by_2025/)
Can someone explain to me like i'm 5 ?! lol
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2019-07-19 17:15:19
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Answer: it's a musical that's being made into a movie, and apparently the trailer is pretty bad
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cfc4nk
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eu8uw4g
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2019-07-19 19:41:06
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Why are people talking about Cats and what is it?
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I keep seeing posts like [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/shittymoviedetails/comments/cf7n9p/until_recently_it_was_unknown_what_sonics_uhh/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app) or [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/JacksFilms/comments/cf8wi4/still_better_than_the_movie/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app) and I think ‘what is cats?’ So please, answer my question what is Cats?
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2019-07-19 19:40:11
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Answer:
Essentially, Chance blew up in late 2013 with his mixtape Acid Rap, an instant classic and one of the best mixtapes ever put out. It became the soundtrack to many of his fans lives, many of whom were in high school/college. 2013 turns to 2016 and Chance’s fans finally get to experience his next project, Coloring Book. A lot of hype was built behind it, and the hype was worth it for nearly everyone. It was a commercial success, won Grammies, and it’s lyrical content drew in a lot of people who don’t usually listen to hip-hop/rap. However, this project divided his core fans. Coloring Book has a lot of religious and biblical themes, which reflects change and development in Chance’s life, but many felt like it was too drastic of a change.
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cf4m6e
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eu8w1hf
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2019-07-19 19:53:19
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What is up with the amount of hate Chance the Rapper is receiving on Twitter?
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I saw [this post](https://twitter.com/dailyloud/status/1151490480485650432?s=21) just now on Twitter, and upon looking at the comments, it’s just literal pages on top of pages of people dissing Chance. Then I did some searching to see that even outside of this post, people are still being negative towards him.
Why do so many people dislike him? I really liked 10 Day and Acid Rap, I don’t see why people would hate his music this much.
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2019-07-19 07:39:05
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Answer: It's all the work of one prolific poster /u/AnnoyingCrow91/ who is being true to his name
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cfcenv
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eu8zbd6
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2019-07-19 20:28:26
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What is up with people saying "caw caw" in gif tittles and descriptions?
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I've seen it on a couple different videos now. One is rodeo clowns and a bull another was a brawl where and old guy was swinging his caine around. The other was an old video someone reposted of a guy knocking snow off a building and falling off the roof. I mean I know its a bird call. Fallng off the roof I guess makes sense for a bird call? Like I said though its not just these two videos, they are just the two I saw today. Anyone know where this came from? https://www.reddit.com/r/TheBullWins/comments/c2pk5i/the_bull_does_not_like_their_fine_dining_caw_caw/
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2019-07-19 20:02:45
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Answer: in short, catching a home run ball is a moderately rare feat at a baseball game. Not only do you need the ball to land in your section, you need it to either fly straight to you, take a lucky bounce, or hustle your butt over to the ball and fight for it. His dad being able to get extremely lucky and catch the ball only for his son to throw it back is hilarious. There’s no getting the ball back either once it’s back on the field.
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cfd687
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eu93542
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2019-07-19 21:09:50
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What's up with this kid throwing the "home run ball" back?
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https://www.reddit.com/r/KidsAreFuckingStupid/comments/cf7kxd/kid_throws_home_run_ball_back/?utm_source=reddit-android
I don't know shit about baseball but throwing back a ball doesn't seem like that big of a deal for me.
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2019-07-19 21:06:25
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Answer:
Sometimes fans throw away home run balls when the other team scores, but this kid (I assume) threw it away when his team scored.
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cfd687
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eu9396o
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2019-07-19 21:11:04
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What's up with this kid throwing the "home run ball" back?
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https://www.reddit.com/r/KidsAreFuckingStupid/comments/cf7kxd/kid_throws_home_run_ball_back/?utm_source=reddit-android
I don't know shit about baseball but throwing back a ball doesn't seem like that big of a deal for me.
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2019-07-19 21:06:25
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Answer:
It was known, but because he wasn't indicted, we didn't have many details, which helped to dampen the political fallout. We knew that it happened, but not much else. For instance, how involved Trump himself was.
These documents flesh out a lot of those details. For example, we now know that Hope Hicks knew about the payments (something she lied to Congress about), and that Trump was majorly in the loop. He didn't just say, sign the check or whatever.
Prior to this, if i recall, the only things we knew for sure is that he was an undicted coconspirator, and he signed the actual check to Stormy. That was basically it.
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cewmvl
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eu94n9m
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2019-07-19 21:26:37
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What's going on with Trump being implicated in "hush money payments"? Wasn't this already widely known information, or is there something new here?
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Reference here: https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/ceuxd1/mega_thread_unsealed_michael_cohen_documents/
My impression is that it was already widely known that Trump instructed Cohen to make these payments? Is there some new information in these documents?
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2019-07-18 18:57:45
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Answer: Ilhan Omar is a congresswoman from Minnesota who was born in Somalia but emigrated to the U.S. as a child and became a citizen at age 17. Last weekend, Donald Trump made a series of tweets in which he stated that Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley (all members of the House of Representatives, all women of color, all American citizens) "originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world" and suggested that they "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came" rather than continue to the job their constituents elected them to do. (Ocasio-Cortez, Tlaib and Pressley were all born in the United States.)
On Wednesday, Trump held a rally in North Carolina during which he made some provably false statements about Omar, including suggesting that Omar (one of the first two Muslim women to be elected to congress) was supportive of al Qaeda. In response, the crowd began chanting, "Send her back."
In the link you posted, Omar is returning home to Minnesota. The people greeting her are her constituents showing their support.
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cfeknf
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eu9hgav
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2019-07-19 23:57:52
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What’s up with this omar person? And why are they so popular all of a sudden?
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Because this sub requires a link to post
https://www.reddit.com/r/worldpolitics/comments/cf7ga8/congresswoman_ilhan_omar_arrived_yesterday_back/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app . Thanks
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2019-07-19 23:01:30
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Answer: The UK seized a Iranian Tanker at the port of Gibraltar (UK exclusive zone) for violating sanctions and carrying Syrian oil. Iran is not happy that her crew was arrested and the ship impounded until investigation is complete. Iran believes that they can intimidate the UK into dropping the case since the UK is in a leadership vacuum at this point.
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cfhmeh
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eua1g7e
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2019-07-20 04:39:13
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What’s up with Iran poking the bear attacking British oil tankers, Britain responding by sending war ships, and Iran still persevering?
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[I’m shocked to see another instance](https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-49053383) of Iran attacking British oil tankers, and this time actually seizing the crew! I know as soon as tensions arose and there’d been a few instances of Iran stepping over the line, Britain sent a Destroyer or two out there to defend their commercial ships, but it’s still ongoing. In fact, it seems to be escalating; Iran seems to be going even further than before!?
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2019-07-20 04:12:32
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Answer: The IRGC’s Public Relations Department said in a statement on Friday that the vessel named “Stena Impero” had been confiscated “at the request of Hormozgan Ports and Maritime Organization when passing through the Strait of Hormuz, for failing to respect international maritime rules.” Media reports said the tanker was heading to Saudi Arabia’s port of Al-Jobail from the UAE port of Fujairah when it was detained by the IRGC. sources told FNA that “the British ship had switched off its tracking systems in violation of maritime rules and regulations and was making an entry from the exit point of the Strait of Hormuz in the South, disregarding the established procedures that require all entries be made through the Northern pass.
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cfhmeh
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eua3xe1
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2019-07-20 05:22:14
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What’s up with Iran poking the bear attacking British oil tankers, Britain responding by sending war ships, and Iran still persevering?
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[I’m shocked to see another instance](https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-49053383) of Iran attacking British oil tankers, and this time actually seizing the crew! I know as soon as tensions arose and there’d been a few instances of Iran stepping over the line, Britain sent a Destroyer or two out there to defend their commercial ships, but it’s still ongoing. In fact, it seems to be escalating; Iran seems to be going even further than before!?
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2019-07-20 04:12:32
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Answer:
US pushes Iran with sanctions, asking Britain to take hold of their tanker, effectively lowering their exports by 1.5 m barrels per day according to Refinitiv (search companies tracking iranian exports), Iran doesn't like this, and finds a British Tanker in the Strait of Hormuz "believed to be carrying 2m barrels of oil."
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-iran-tanker-video/irans-tasnim-news-agency-posts-video-of-detained-british-flagged-tanker-idUSKCN1UF0C5
Iran then decides to hold [Stena] for investigation as /u pmmeyourbeesknees mentions turning off GPS, backward entry through the Strait, ignoring a distress call and hitting a fishing boat.'
https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2019/07/20/2058394/irgc-releases-video-of-operation-to-capture-stena-impero-in-strait-of-hormuz-video
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cfhmeh
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euc9f7v
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2019-07-21 00:25:30
| true |
What’s up with Iran poking the bear attacking British oil tankers, Britain responding by sending war ships, and Iran still persevering?
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[I’m shocked to see another instance](https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-49053383) of Iran attacking British oil tankers, and this time actually seizing the crew! I know as soon as tensions arose and there’d been a few instances of Iran stepping over the line, Britain sent a Destroyer or two out there to defend their commercial ships, but it’s still ongoing. In fact, it seems to be escalating; Iran seems to be going even further than before!?
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2019-07-20 04:12:32
| true |
Answer: It’s when the joy cons start to move on their own
It’s been a big problem for Nintendo users recently and happens not long after buying the switch
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cfhsr4
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eua20ei
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2019-07-20 04:48:36
| false |
What's up with Joy-Con Drifting?
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I keep hearing about this Joy-Con Drifting and how it's becoming a big problem and there's gonna be a [lawsuit against Nintendo for it.] (https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/cfbzi0/a_classaction_lawsuit_has_been_filed_against/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share) against Nintendo for it) what exactly is Joy-Con Drifting though?
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2019-07-20 04:32:28
| true |
Answer: It's been a big problem since shortly after the launch of the Switch years ago, and now [Nintendo is being sued in a class action lawsuit](https://www.techtimes.com/articles/244665/20190720/nintendo-faces-class-action-lawsuit-over-switch-joy-con-drift-issues.htm).
The joystick mechanism has been torn down and it has two wipers on the X and Y planes that drag over two conductive pads.
With use, the wipers wear away at the pads. That's simply how it's designed.
[Here's the reddit post dissecting the Joycon and showing why it fails.](https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/b9gdak/i_disassembled_a_joycon_stick_to_shed_some_light/)
[Here is an image album with closeups of joystick internals](https://imgur.com/gallery/58bBc43)
Eventually either the debris from this or the worn pads result in jittery, false readings, which causes the controls to "drift", making control difficult or impossible.
It's most prevalent in the left joystick because it gets the most use for walking/movement in most games
Users (including me) have had this happen with only a few hundred hours of game use, and have had to either open the controller and replace the stick or buy a new set of controllers.
This has been going on for years and Nintendo has refused even acknowledge the problem.
Now they are being sued in a class action lawsuit over defective hardware.
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euagwzh
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2019-07-20 10:19:22
| true |
What's up with Joy-Con Drifting?
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I keep hearing about this Joy-Con Drifting and how it's becoming a big problem and there's gonna be a [lawsuit against Nintendo for it.] (https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/cfbzi0/a_classaction_lawsuit_has_been_filed_against/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share) against Nintendo for it) what exactly is Joy-Con Drifting though?
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2019-07-20 04:32:28
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Answer:
Memes tend to be very abstract and not very understandable in nature, this is most likely a good example of that
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cfccxv
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eua2if8
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2019-07-20 04:57:18
| false |
What's going on with the tapeworm posts?
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What in the living fuck are these posts and where did they come from?
https://www.reddit.com/r/TIHI/comments/cemfji/thanks_i_hate_whatever_the_hell_this_is/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
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2019-07-19 19:58:34
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Answer: Disney wouldn't let a father put spiderman on the tombstone of his recently deceased child. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/spider-man-tombstone-marvel-disney-kent-ollie-jones-superhero-a8988336.html
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cfj57u
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euaa6uh
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2019-07-20 07:32:04
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What's up with Reddit hating Disney?
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I've seen the memes but idk the specifics
Example: https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/c9sfsr/disney_bad/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
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2019-07-20 07:26:15
| true |
Answer: Disney built its empire upon stories with no copyright and fixed the rules so that its intellectual property NEVER EVER becomes public domain.
They have bought up and down every tier on the distribution and production of mass media including marketing rights.
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cfj57u
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euaa8qa
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2019-07-20 07:33:16
| false |
What's up with Reddit hating Disney?
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I've seen the memes but idk the specifics
Example: https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/c9sfsr/disney_bad/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
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2019-07-20 07:26:15
| true |
Answer: Roy’s granddaughter Abigail Disney recently went to Disneyland and has been vocal about how upset she is with the way the park is treating the staff.
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cfj57u
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euabmp9
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2019-07-20 08:05:46
| false |
What's up with Reddit hating Disney?
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I've seen the memes but idk the specifics
Example: https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/c9sfsr/disney_bad/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
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2019-07-20 07:26:15
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Answer: Disney doesn’t allow characters on grave stones for legal reasons
Disney wouldn’t allow the father to have his son’s grave he of spider-man(the kid was 6 and loved spider-man)
They did do other things for the kid though
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cfj57u
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euckw5n
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2019-07-21 03:00:47
| false |
What's up with Reddit hating Disney?
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I've seen the memes but idk the specifics
Example: https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/c9sfsr/disney_bad/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
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2019-07-20 07:26:15
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Answer: Also, not a big reason but Disney has started monopolizing movies and tv shows. They have ridiculously high standards for Theaters to show their movies, most notably it must be in the largest/first theatre and they take a larger cut of the earnings.
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cfj57u
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eufe7x4
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2019-07-22 04:51:06
| false |
What's up with Reddit hating Disney?
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I've seen the memes but idk the specifics
Example: https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/c9sfsr/disney_bad/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
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2019-07-20 07:26:15
| true |
Answer: it was a running gag in Mystery Science Theater 3000: Eegah
https://youtu.be/uTGPvOGHevE
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cfkw2v
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euakpe0
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2019-07-20 11:45:35
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What’s up with ‘watch out for snakes’ on this Reddit thread?
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What is going on here?
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cfjgbv/what_is_some_good_general_advice/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app
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2019-07-20 11:38:21
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Answer: “Watch out for snakes” is a reference to the movie *Eegah*, most notably shown on *Mystery Science Theater 3000*. In the scene, main characters Roxie, her boyfriend Tom and Roxie’s father go out into the desert in search of the titular caveman for the first time. As they head out, there’s a strange moment where it is obviously edited in afterwards that Roxie’s father warns them to “Watch out for snakes!”
It’s a major running gag for the series, especially if desert-like areas show up and/or there’s awkwardly placed scenes
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cfkw2v
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euakwl8
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2019-07-20 11:49:38
| false |
What’s up with ‘watch out for snakes’ on this Reddit thread?
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What is going on here?
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cfjgbv/what_is_some_good_general_advice/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app
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2019-07-20 11:38:21
| true |
Answer: The guy is legit crazy and probably should see a doctor for proper diagnosis and medication.
​
Anyone that makes a million dollar or chop off my dick type bet, isn't a sane person.
​
Also you're not going to win against the CIA or any big operation no matter what you or John might be disillusioned to believe. Wow you got a shotgun and a rifle? Will totally help against that predator's hellfire. Make sure you get out to international waters first John!
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cfg8mb
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euaw3dr
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2019-07-20 14:40:34
| false |
What's going on with John McAfee escaping from the cia?
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Just saw this post today https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1152240931015462914?s=19 and even though i remember hearing about some stuff i never really knew what it was about and now it sounds super sirious seeing that he's escaping from the fucking CIA?
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2019-07-20 01:43:30
| true |
Answer:
Generally speaking John McAfee is not mentally well. He has in the past and I suspect still to this day uses mind altering drugs heavily. He has a history of cooking up one conspiracy or another an running with it. However he does have moments of clarity too so I think he's just a rich ~~kook~~ eccentric whos been having lots of good times with his money and has chosen to be a character on Twitter sometimes.
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euayguq
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2019-07-20 15:08:31
| false |
What's going on with John McAfee escaping from the cia?
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Just saw this post today https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1152240931015462914?s=19 and even though i remember hearing about some stuff i never really knew what it was about and now it sounds super sirious seeing that he's escaping from the fucking CIA?
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2019-07-20 01:43:30
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Answer: He's claimed in the past that he hasn't paid taxes for several years because he believes taxation is illegal. He's also stated that he thinks he's "a prime target for the IRS." In January of this year, he said he and his wife are living in international waters after a grand jury indicted them both on tax fraud.
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2019-07-20 15:27:38
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What's going on with John McAfee escaping from the cia?
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Just saw this post today https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1152240931015462914?s=19 and even though i remember hearing about some stuff i never really knew what it was about and now it sounds super sirious seeing that he's escaping from the fucking CIA?
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2019-07-20 01:43:30
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Answer: he is a very paranoid person thanks to his extensive bath salt usage, and has left multiple countries under the pretense that authorities were “on to him” (they weren’t). Here is a documentary explaining it https://youtu.be/IH_8eRTAXHo
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2019-07-20 15:35:03
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What's going on with John McAfee escaping from the cia?
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Just saw this post today https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1152240931015462914?s=19 and even though i remember hearing about some stuff i never really knew what it was about and now it sounds super sirious seeing that he's escaping from the fucking CIA?
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2019-07-20 01:43:30
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Answer: That's silly to delete them for not putting "answer:"
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2019-07-20 17:21:02
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What's going on with John McAfee escaping from the cia?
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Just saw this post today https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1152240931015462914?s=19 and even though i remember hearing about some stuff i never really knew what it was about and now it sounds super sirious seeing that he's escaping from the fucking CIA?
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2019-07-20 01:43:30
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Answer: This probably has to do with the fact that in an interview, both he and Jake Gyllenhaal claimed that they didnt have a "bromance" but instead a "full on romance". Chances are it's all just a ridiculous joke they're having fun with but people on the internet are taking things too far.
Here's the access Hollywood piece that contains the clip: https://youtu.be/ot3RiiE72Lo
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2019-07-20 15:58:01
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What's up with people claiming that Tom Holland is gay and that Disney is forcing him to stay in the closet?
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I found this on the Tom Holland subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/TomHolland/comments/cfkal2/this_is_just_my_opinion_so_dont_attack_me/
Tom Holland, for those who don't know, is the actor who plays Peter Parker/Spider-Man in the MCU
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2019-07-20 14:59:28
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Answer: Admittedly I'm not invested in Tom Holland specifically but with my experience in fandom culture I can make some inferences here.
In many fandoms centered around idolizing a celebrity (and ime it's almost always men), their sexuality is inevitably going to be called into question at some point, especially someone like Tom Holland who doesn't fit the hyper-masculine image that's become associated with male heterosexuality. If the celebrity in question also exhibits what are seen as "gay" tendencies, the conspiracies only become reinforced. Some people even think they know who the celebrity is "secretly" in love with, if they have a same-sex friend/bandmate/co-star that they often banter with and seem to share a chemistry with.
But if there are things that contradict this narrative, such as the celebrity dating someone of the opposite sex, people tend to double down on the conspiracy. The most popular belief across the board in this instance is that they in fact are secretly gay, but are being made to suppress it to avoid bad publicity. The illusion is reinforced with the gay celebrity having a fake girlfriend, avoiding questions related to his orientation, and (the fans assume) meeting with his secret lover when the cameras are gone.
When this kind of thinking gains traction, it manifests in incredibly toxic ways. It starts with people spamming comments on the celeb's social media, telling them to "just come out already, we already know," and often escalates to them attacking his girlfriend or any woman he is seen hanging out with.
Why does this happen? Well, there are a few factors going into it. Stereotypically it's believed that the type of people who partake in this kind of behavior are young straight girls who fetishize gay men and want to squee over their celebrity crush kissing another man. While that's not nonexistent, from what I've seen it's also done by a lot of young LGBT people who are probably not yet fully comfortable with who they are and desperately want someone to look up to. People tend to project themselves onto their favorite celebrity, and if a young queer person's idol expresses thoughts or feelings that match up with their own, especially if they attribute it to their sexual/gender identity, it may lead them to seeing "hints" that may not actually be there. And they're so starved for a queer role model that is popular and likable that they may try to force things and are too immature to realize how their actions affect other people.
Is Tom Holland gay? I don't know, and frankly that's none of my business. Is Disney keeping him from being open about his sexuality? I personally kind of doubt it, just based on how often I've seen this narrative play out time and time again. If Tom Holland is straight, they're harassing someone for no reason and making assumptions. If he isn't straight but is unresponsive to questions about it, then he's either not ready to come out or doesn't want to make a deal about it. And if Disney is forcing him to stay quiet, I don't know what telling him to come out is supposed to accomplish.
**TL;DR: This is most likely not a real phenomenon but rather a common narrative from the toxic side of stan culture**
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2019-07-20 16:36:08
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What's up with people claiming that Tom Holland is gay and that Disney is forcing him to stay in the closet?
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I found this on the Tom Holland subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/TomHolland/comments/cfkal2/this_is_just_my_opinion_so_dont_attack_me/
Tom Holland, for those who don't know, is the actor who plays Peter Parker/Spider-Man in the MCU
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2019-07-20 14:59:28
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Answer:
He stepped out with a new girl a couple nights ago and they got photographed at an event where paparazzi wouldn't usually be. This was a double-whammy for his fanbase. Half of his stans were sure he and Zendaya were in a semi-serious relationship, and the pictures with the blonde girl effectively killed that theory. It was also salt in the wound, because for many years Tom didn't talk about his personal relationships, and had gone out of his way to not be photographed.
Another large group within his fanbase maintains that he's gay, and the FFH promo with Jake Gyllenhaal was pretty much fuel on the fire for that. They also believe that the pictures with the blonde girl are suspicious, again, because Tom isn't usually photographed, and when he is, it's never been with a date or in a romantic way. They believe that the photos with the blonde girl are an attempt to "put the genie back in the bottle" so to speak, after his promo chemistry/interactions with Jake.
Ultimately, the paparazzi photos were put out there with Tom knowing. To serve what purpose, who knows.
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2019-07-20 19:30:39
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What's up with people claiming that Tom Holland is gay and that Disney is forcing him to stay in the closet?
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I found this on the Tom Holland subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/TomHolland/comments/cfkal2/this_is_just_my_opinion_so_dont_attack_me/
Tom Holland, for those who don't know, is the actor who plays Peter Parker/Spider-Man in the MCU
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2019-07-20 14:59:28
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Answer: He's not gay, just a posh Englishman which is confusing to most Americans.
Edit: Holy Cats, first Reddit medallion thingy! Thanks dude/dudette!
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2019-07-20 19:31:51
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What's up with people claiming that Tom Holland is gay and that Disney is forcing him to stay in the closet?
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I found this on the Tom Holland subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/TomHolland/comments/cfkal2/this_is_just_my_opinion_so_dont_attack_me/
Tom Holland, for those who don't know, is the actor who plays Peter Parker/Spider-Man in the MCU
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2019-07-20 14:59:28
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Answer: Aside from any other reasons, he recently just got pictured with a girl that could possibly maybe be his girlfriend and many of his teenage girl fans lost their minds. So maybe she's responding to that
It was entertaining Twitter drama for an afternoon
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2019-07-20 19:35:01
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What's up with people claiming that Tom Holland is gay and that Disney is forcing him to stay in the closet?
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I found this on the Tom Holland subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/TomHolland/comments/cfkal2/this_is_just_my_opinion_so_dont_attack_me/
Tom Holland, for those who don't know, is the actor who plays Peter Parker/Spider-Man in the MCU
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2019-07-20 14:59:28
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Answer: In an interview during the FFH press tour, Tom said that he wouldn’t mind playing Spider-Man/Peter Parker as bisexual.
In recent years, production companies have had a habit of getting rid of actors who suggest playing their characters to be a certain sexuality or have a certain type of relationship - case in point Andrew Garfield saying that he’d like to portray Spider-Man/Peter Parker as a gay man, and then he no longer IS Spider-Man.
Everyone is now worried that Disney is going to try to get rid of him as Spider-Man because of what Tom has suggested.
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2019-07-20 19:56:49
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What's up with people claiming that Tom Holland is gay and that Disney is forcing him to stay in the closet?
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I found this on the Tom Holland subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/TomHolland/comments/cfkal2/this_is_just_my_opinion_so_dont_attack_me/
Tom Holland, for those who don't know, is the actor who plays Peter Parker/Spider-Man in the MCU
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2019-07-20 14:59:28
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Answer: Wishful thinking. Tom Holland posts are literally 50% of the posts on some gay blogs I follow. There's a really uncomfortable obsession with him and news outlets are capitalizing on that.
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2019-07-20 20:34:43
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What's up with people claiming that Tom Holland is gay and that Disney is forcing him to stay in the closet?
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I found this on the Tom Holland subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/TomHolland/comments/cfkal2/this_is_just_my_opinion_so_dont_attack_me/
Tom Holland, for those who don't know, is the actor who plays Peter Parker/Spider-Man in the MCU
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2019-07-20 14:59:28
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Answer:. Though the current top answer died a fine job explaining, It should be noted that this phenomenon had been happening for a long time. Pretty much anytime you have a male celebrity who is considered exceptionally attractive by a large number of people, there will be speculation about their sexuality.
This has been going on at least since the mid-20th century, with regards to celebrities like Marlon Brando and James Dean. Incidentally, sometimes that speculation turned out to have some positive truth-value, which encouraged this behavior to continue. For example: Rock Hudson was gay, but the studios forced him to keep it quiet. Even arranging for him to be seen with "girlfriends" publicly. Similar story with Tab Hunter.
So part of what makes these rumors seem plausible is that Hollywood does have a history of forcing gay actors to stay closeted.
There are several reasons why these rumors emerge. The most obvious one today might seem to be that it is created by wishful thinking on the part of gay men who want there to be a possibility of sex with that celebrity.
But historically, it was driven by a more tabloidal desire to see scandal and drama. Attractive, well-groomed men are often targeted because they don't quite confirm to traditional masculine patterns; men aren't supposed to be *too* pretty, aren't supposed to care about their appearance *too* much, for example.
Ultimately, it's probably a combination of these motivations.
Mr Holland is the latest Target of this speculation. Since his sexuality is not a matter of public record, there is a small (but sufficient for people who wish to believe) plausibility to such rumors that allows them to persist.
Contrast that with another recent target of this phenomenon, Sean Mendes. Rumors about his sexuality once were quite common. Until he "came out" as heterosexual. Then they sort of slowly abated.
Eventually the same thing will happen here. Either people will move on to the next celebrity gossip topic, or the celebrity in question will eventually make a statement that will, in the long term, end that speculation.
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2019-07-20 21:02:15
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What's up with people claiming that Tom Holland is gay and that Disney is forcing him to stay in the closet?
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I found this on the Tom Holland subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/TomHolland/comments/cfkal2/this_is_just_my_opinion_so_dont_attack_me/
Tom Holland, for those who don't know, is the actor who plays Peter Parker/Spider-Man in the MCU
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2019-07-20 14:59:28
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Answer: Some people have already touched on the wider phenomenon of fans "turning people gay", but with Disney there's also another bit of context. They have a whole setup for their actors where they're basically forced to act out these interviews where they have like the best bromance in the world. And they have to kind of act like their on-screen characters, in the way they interact with each other. For example, Sebastian Stan and Anthony Mackie are constantly throwing jabs at each other, like their characters do, yet Seb seems completely in love with Chris Evans. Looks more closely at the interviews and you'll see all the fakeness become apparent.
Anyhow, it's these kinds of interview relationships that make people think that there's actual chemistry between the actors and that they're best friends or even lovers in real life, when in fact all they're seeing is a show.
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2019-07-20 23:46:43
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What's up with people claiming that Tom Holland is gay and that Disney is forcing him to stay in the closet?
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I found this on the Tom Holland subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/TomHolland/comments/cfkal2/this_is_just_my_opinion_so_dont_attack_me/
Tom Holland, for those who don't know, is the actor who plays Peter Parker/Spider-Man in the MCU
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2019-07-20 14:59:28
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Answer: You must be new here! Fandoms have a long history of claiming various actors/singers/etc. are gay and being closeted by their manager/label/producers/etc. See: Larry Stylinson, the made-up conspiracy claiming Louis and Harry from One Direction were in a relationship. As to why this occurs, I couldn't tell you, but it does quite frequently with any mildly popular white boy celeb with a young fanbase.
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2019-07-21 02:20:58
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What's up with people claiming that Tom Holland is gay and that Disney is forcing him to stay in the closet?
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I found this on the Tom Holland subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/TomHolland/comments/cfkal2/this_is_just_my_opinion_so_dont_attack_me/
Tom Holland, for those who don't know, is the actor who plays Peter Parker/Spider-Man in the MCU
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2019-07-20 14:59:28
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Answer: I heard an interview recently with Jake Gyllanhal and Tom where Jake said Tom left a long string of girls broken hearted then quickly added and guys. I just assumed that he’s bi from that and honestly didn’t care past that. Hopefully the fans let him be so he doesn’t get too stressed out and stop acting bc that’d suck for everyone.
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2019-07-21 03:39:23
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What's up with people claiming that Tom Holland is gay and that Disney is forcing him to stay in the closet?
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I found this on the Tom Holland subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/TomHolland/comments/cfkal2/this_is_just_my_opinion_so_dont_attack_me/
Tom Holland, for those who don't know, is the actor who plays Peter Parker/Spider-Man in the MCU
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2019-07-20 14:59:28
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Answer: He’s Not. They’re not. It’s not.
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2019-07-21 04:25:10
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What's up with people claiming that Tom Holland is gay and that Disney is forcing him to stay in the closet?
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I found this on the Tom Holland subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/TomHolland/comments/cfkal2/this_is_just_my_opinion_so_dont_attack_me/
Tom Holland, for those who don't know, is the actor who plays Peter Parker/Spider-Man in the MCU
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2019-07-20 14:59:28
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Answer: There were rumours that Disney stagemanaged their cast, in particular young Marvel cast members. Things like manufacturing a "relationship" between Zendaya and Tom to generate buzz for Spider-man. It's arguable whether the two have chemistry, both in the films and in real life. There are even rumours that Zendaya is gay.
This is the first time I'm hearing of Tom being gay, and that thread only has 200+ upvotes. But the recent reveal of Tom's "real" girlfriend really shoots down any notion that he and Zendaya are a thing. Of course, some may say that Tom was acting as Zendaya's beard, and now the movie's out, he's free to date who he wants. Maybe they were both beardimg each other, who knows. I wouldn't speculate for now.
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2019-07-21 13:22:11
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What's up with people claiming that Tom Holland is gay and that Disney is forcing him to stay in the closet?
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I found this on the Tom Holland subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/TomHolland/comments/cfkal2/this_is_just_my_opinion_so_dont_attack_me/
Tom Holland, for those who don't know, is the actor who plays Peter Parker/Spider-Man in the MCU
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2019-07-20 14:59:28
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Answer: Minecraft always had a massive audience of people, especially young children, and whenever a game gets massive attention pretentious gamers claim their less popular games are superior.
Over the years Minecraft's audience has aged and new games are more popular among the younger demographics. Currently Fortnite has come into a similar situation Minecraft was in back in 2014 and the cycle continues.
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2019-07-20 16:42:01
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What is up with Minecraft?
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Minecraft is now “good”?
Before it was “cringy” and full of “autistic” kids and called game for 5 year olds.
Now Fortnite is bad and now Minecraft is good.
[pewdiepie is playing it ](https://youtu.be/VGt-BZ-SxGI)
All his recent videos are Minecraft.
Just two months ago he was making fun of the Minecraft fan base: http://youtu.be/tN9vBO_b6b0
This meme: http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/c0ywfm/the_fortnite_effect/
Comments on this vid: http://youtu.be/45aXAJrhEB4
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2019-07-20 16:36:52
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Answer: Minecraft was always good. Children loved it and and a lot of adults loved it. It was the demographic in the middle who were self-conscious about playing the same game that kids were playing that decided it was "cringy".
Now those people are a few years older and don't feel that same pressure to reject anything associated with kids, they are finding out what they missed out on and the game is getting a resurgence of popularity.
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2019-07-20 17:22:57
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What is up with Minecraft?
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Minecraft is now “good”?
Before it was “cringy” and full of “autistic” kids and called game for 5 year olds.
Now Fortnite is bad and now Minecraft is good.
[pewdiepie is playing it ](https://youtu.be/VGt-BZ-SxGI)
All his recent videos are Minecraft.
Just two months ago he was making fun of the Minecraft fan base: http://youtu.be/tN9vBO_b6b0
This meme: http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/c0ywfm/the_fortnite_effect/
Comments on this vid: http://youtu.be/45aXAJrhEB4
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2019-07-20 16:36:52
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Answer: Keemstar started “Minecraft Mondays”, which is where multiple popular youtubers/streamers played Minecraft Hunger Games on popular MCSG maps.
This is also why the youtuber Technoblade gained 600k subscribers in 2 months because he won 2 weeks of Minecraft Mondays.
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2019-07-22 04:46:17
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What is up with Minecraft?
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Minecraft is now “good”?
Before it was “cringy” and full of “autistic” kids and called game for 5 year olds.
Now Fortnite is bad and now Minecraft is good.
[pewdiepie is playing it ](https://youtu.be/VGt-BZ-SxGI)
All his recent videos are Minecraft.
Just two months ago he was making fun of the Minecraft fan base: http://youtu.be/tN9vBO_b6b0
This meme: http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/c0ywfm/the_fortnite_effect/
Comments on this vid: http://youtu.be/45aXAJrhEB4
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2019-07-20 16:36:52
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Answer: Many people have experienced issues Nintendo Switch's Joycon controllers, specifically that the joysticks are defective and tend to "drift" (register input in a direction when the stick is at rest). The lawsuit claims that the defects violate consumer protection and warranty/law claims.
Details: [https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2019/07/class\_action\_lawsuit\_officially\_filed\_against\_nintendo\_for\_switch\_joy-con\_drifting\_issues](https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2019/07/class_action_lawsuit_officially_filed_against_nintendo_for_switch_joy-con_drifting_issues)
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2019-07-20 18:27:50
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What's the deal with the Nintendo class action lawsuit?
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I have never owned a switch, although I love playing N64.
I have read that it has to do with drifting or something. Is this a hardware issue that's creating a software issue or something?
I really don't know what else to ask about it. What exactly is the issue that has spurred on a lawsuit? Does it affect all the units, or just a great number of them?
Thank you very much for answering - I couldn't really understand the issue on my own :(
Here is a screenshot of some of the [posts](https://imgur.com/8RXiu5t)
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2019-07-20 18:14:57
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Answer: It is a meme about people overplaying their actions as if their actions were unpopular. South Park had an episode with the title. Many people on the right use it when someone on the left calls an action brave when clearly the majority of society approves.
https://southpark.fandom.com/wiki/Stunning_and_Brave
https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1416188-counter-signal-memes
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2019-07-20 19:09:44
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What's up with the phrase "So stunning. So brave." I'm seeing everywhere?
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I see it in comments all the time lately. What have I missed? Where did it come from?
Example:
https://www.reddit.com/r/thatHappened/comments/9jhuh4/so_brave_so_stunning/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
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2019-07-20 18:45:16
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Answer: Rich Energy is rebranding their company as Lightning Volt Limited. They have since removed their CEO William Storey, who was the founder of the company and majority shareholder. As the story goes, Storey wanted to terminate their sponsorship contract with the Haas F1 team due to “[poor performance](https://beyondtheflag.com/2019/07/10/formula-1-rich-energy-terminate-haas-sponsorship-deal-bizarre-fashion/).” However the shareholders of Rich Energy did not agree with this decision so they removed him from the company in order to save face with the Haas F1 team. The company name change is a way to distance the company from the legacy of William Storey.
Just to be clear, Haas’ partnership with Rich Energy, now Lightning Volt, has never ended. The drama of this situation is mostly due to the fact that William Storey wants to [own a F1 racing team](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.espn.com/f1/story/_/id/27221746/the-bizarre-haas-rich-energy-saga-explained%3fplatform=amp). My guess is that Gene Haas was opposed to this and wanted Storey out of the company which prompted Storey to respond saying Rich Energy was cancelling their sponsorship deal.
Edit: As a side, Whyte Bikes won their lawsuit against Rich Energy and Red Bull [filed a lawsuit](https://www.planetf1.com/news/red-bull-files-lawsuit-against-rich-energy-storey/) as well.
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2019-07-20 19:58:18
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What is going on with Haas F1 and Rich Energy/Lightning Volt?
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I really don’t know what occurred but ever since the Austrian and Silverstone GP Rich Energy and Haas have had a rocky relationship. I’m aware of the lawsuit between Whyte bikes and Rich Energy but now there seems to be 2 companies and both with their own drama. Lightning Volt stole black and white coffee’s logo and Rich Energy only slightly changed. Can anyone clarify what’s going on?
[both companies in question](https://imgur.com/a/ekvZsz4/)
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2019-07-20 05:19:57
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Answer: It’s in reference to this
https://www.reddit.com/r/CrappyDesign/comments/cfgkoy/great/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app
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cfq1ao
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2019-07-20 20:02:45
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What’s up with the memes about cutting homeless people in half?
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I’ve seen a few posts about it and don’t really understand where it came from.
[Post #1](https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/cfl4x7/plans_were_accelerated/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app)
[Post #2](https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/cflhu1/hmmm_not_my_meme/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app)
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2019-07-20 19:50:28
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Answer: The UK Conservative party promises to cut the *number* of UK homeless in half if they win the next election.
They then released a print ad that shortened it to "*cutting the UK homeless in half".*
The humour comes from whether the Conservative party MP's would draw their swords and cut homeless people in half (A non-zero possibility) ,whether they have the fitness/competence to carry it out, whether this counts as doubling the number of homeless pieces in the streetsso is bad maths, or whether it just a typo symptomatic of the Conservative party's BREXIT omni-shambles.
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cfq1ao
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2019-07-22 00:45:11
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What’s up with the memes about cutting homeless people in half?
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I’ve seen a few posts about it and don’t really understand where it came from.
[Post #1](https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/cfl4x7/plans_were_accelerated/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app)
[Post #2](https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/cflhu1/hmmm_not_my_meme/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app)
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2019-07-20 19:50:28
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Answer: it’s basically just guys trying to be wingmen for each other by hyping up how rich the first dude is who is being thanked with the hope a girl sees it and hits him up
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2019-07-20 20:32:44
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What is up with people thanking each other for outrageous things on Twitter?
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I’ve been in Twitter lately and some of the stuff I’ve been seeing is people saying stuff like [thanks for the house man!](https://imgur.com/gallery/i36FOVZ). I’ve been seeing this a lot lately and just want to know why they are doing this and how it started.
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2019-07-20 20:27:12
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Answer: [This parody](https://youtu.be/I-sH53vXP2A) exists, and is the beginning of an overarching saga of ultra serious Minecraft parodies, which has become pretty popular, to the point where some people mistakenly think it's the original, or associate the Coldplay song with Minecraft.
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cftkuz
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eucej3d
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2019-07-21 01:34:03
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What's up with Viva La Vida by Coldplay being known as, "The Minecraft Song"?
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Example: Nearly every comment in the comments section of the video: https://youtu.be/dvgZkm1xWPE
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2019-07-21 01:30:20
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Answer: This is what this video claims: https://youtu.be/JdafaunTmdk
Like you said, the channel exploded out of nowhere and has over a million subscribers. It didn't look like she had a following before starting Youtube. Philip DeFranco does a random promotion of her channel in a video. People claim to have been subscribed to her channel without ever doing so. They are skeptical and think that Youtube is secretly pushing this channel.
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cfrrdv
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eucjzox
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2019-07-21 02:48:16
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What's up with people claiming YouTube artificially created the YouTuber Janelle Eliana?
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I have seen a few videos and posts on twitter claiming that channel was either created by YouTube or artificially boosted by YouTube since she gained 1+ million subs with only 2 videos, the first being posted 3 weeks ago.
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This is the channel: [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaXEr4t\_QBZBk3qlIlc2HRg](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaXEr4t_QBZBk3qlIlc2HRg)
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2019-07-20 22:26:57
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Answer:
I highly doubt the caption is correct. But who knows. I've used the website that made the photo and you can get pretty similar results. The website is literally just an experiment made by some dude, nothing about it being a "stroke simulator" or whatever.
Try it out for yourself: [GanBreeder](https://ganbreeder.app/)
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cfu6u8
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euckoyw
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2019-07-21 02:57:58
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What is the deal with "name one thing in this picture"?
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I don't know if this is actually the best sub for this question, but a little while back there was a tweet that said "name one thing in this image" and it was a post of probably an AI generated room where everything looked weird. [Here's the Know Your Meme page, I'm all clear on that.](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/name-one-thing-in-this-photo#fnr4)
What I'm confused by is [this Reddit post](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/bghyv5/this_picture_is_designed_to_give_the_viewer_the/) claiming it was made to "simulate a stroke." I can't find a single shred of evidence to back that up. The OP on Twitter seems like someone more likely to just be familiar to random procedurally generated images rather than some guerrilla stroke awareness publicity? And the OP on reddit seems to do a lot of posting but not really related at all to strokes?
Basically my mom had what they thought was a stroke and it reminded me of this and I am kind of mad that this guy got karma and attention for what I believe he just made up. But before I get really mad alone in front of my computer I just wanted to check around to see if someone has any evidence I missed.
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2019-07-21 02:35:44
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Answer:
When someone has a stroke they have receptive, expressive, or global aphasia. This means they don't understand what you are asking or telling them, can't identify objects or communicate their thoughts. Global is a combination of these. This isn't because their vision makes everything look weird, it's because their brain can't make the connection to what the object is. So if you ask them to identify a pen they will say cup. They usually know this is wrong and get very frustrated.
So even though this doesn't explain the picture it does say that the purpose of the picture was not to simulate a stroke.
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cfu6u8
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eucmc7y
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2019-07-21 03:21:44
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What is the deal with "name one thing in this picture"?
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I don't know if this is actually the best sub for this question, but a little while back there was a tweet that said "name one thing in this image" and it was a post of probably an AI generated room where everything looked weird. [Here's the Know Your Meme page, I'm all clear on that.](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/name-one-thing-in-this-photo#fnr4)
What I'm confused by is [this Reddit post](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/bghyv5/this_picture_is_designed_to_give_the_viewer_the/) claiming it was made to "simulate a stroke." I can't find a single shred of evidence to back that up. The OP on Twitter seems like someone more likely to just be familiar to random procedurally generated images rather than some guerrilla stroke awareness publicity? And the OP on reddit seems to do a lot of posting but not really related at all to strokes?
Basically my mom had what they thought was a stroke and it reminded me of this and I am kind of mad that this guy got karma and attention for what I believe he just made up. But before I get really mad alone in front of my computer I just wanted to check around to see if someone has any evidence I missed.
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2019-07-21 02:35:44
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Answer: Most likely referring to visual agnosia, a neurological deficit where you cannot recognize objects you are seeing. Vision and language might not be impaired at all. It's just that what you are seeing *doesn't make sense.* Given that the picture was made so the objects in it look familiar but weird, I suppose people liken it to apperceptive visual agnosia.
You might have heard of prosopagnosia, ie face blindness, which is a type of visual agnosia.
Wikipedia link : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_agnosia
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cfu6u8
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2019-07-21 08:01:44
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What is the deal with "name one thing in this picture"?
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I don't know if this is actually the best sub for this question, but a little while back there was a tweet that said "name one thing in this image" and it was a post of probably an AI generated room where everything looked weird. [Here's the Know Your Meme page, I'm all clear on that.](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/name-one-thing-in-this-photo#fnr4)
What I'm confused by is [this Reddit post](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/bghyv5/this_picture_is_designed_to_give_the_viewer_the/) claiming it was made to "simulate a stroke." I can't find a single shred of evidence to back that up. The OP on Twitter seems like someone more likely to just be familiar to random procedurally generated images rather than some guerrilla stroke awareness publicity? And the OP on reddit seems to do a lot of posting but not really related at all to strokes?
Basically my mom had what they thought was a stroke and it reminded me of this and I am kind of mad that this guy got karma and attention for what I believe he just made up. But before I get really mad alone in front of my computer I just wanted to check around to see if someone has any evidence I missed.
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2019-07-21 02:35:44
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Answer:
There's no evidence of the image being part of some sort of study on strokes. When this first went viral on Reddit I did a reverse image search trying to find the first time it got posted. It was posted I believe on Twitter by some random user, without any caption referring to strokes. Afterwards it kept getting reposted and eventually someone else on Twitter reposted it with the made-up caption that it's to simulate a stroke. I guess the Redditor took that random Twitter user for their word and repeated the falsehood on Reddit.
There's a site that anyone can use that utilizes AI to sort of mesh images together. My guess is this image was created by a random person using that site.
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2019-07-21 09:16:10
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What is the deal with "name one thing in this picture"?
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I don't know if this is actually the best sub for this question, but a little while back there was a tweet that said "name one thing in this image" and it was a post of probably an AI generated room where everything looked weird. [Here's the Know Your Meme page, I'm all clear on that.](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/name-one-thing-in-this-photo#fnr4)
What I'm confused by is [this Reddit post](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/bghyv5/this_picture_is_designed_to_give_the_viewer_the/) claiming it was made to "simulate a stroke." I can't find a single shred of evidence to back that up. The OP on Twitter seems like someone more likely to just be familiar to random procedurally generated images rather than some guerrilla stroke awareness publicity? And the OP on reddit seems to do a lot of posting but not really related at all to strokes?
Basically my mom had what they thought was a stroke and it reminded me of this and I am kind of mad that this guy got karma and attention for what I believe he just made up. But before I get really mad alone in front of my computer I just wanted to check around to see if someone has any evidence I missed.
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2019-07-21 02:35:44
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Answer: I think there is a sheep or lamb's head above the black thingy.
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cfu6u8
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2023-01-15 02:28:51
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What is the deal with "name one thing in this picture"?
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I don't know if this is actually the best sub for this question, but a little while back there was a tweet that said "name one thing in this image" and it was a post of probably an AI generated room where everything looked weird. [Here's the Know Your Meme page, I'm all clear on that.](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/name-one-thing-in-this-photo#fnr4)
What I'm confused by is [this Reddit post](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/bghyv5/this_picture_is_designed_to_give_the_viewer_the/) claiming it was made to "simulate a stroke." I can't find a single shred of evidence to back that up. The OP on Twitter seems like someone more likely to just be familiar to random procedurally generated images rather than some guerrilla stroke awareness publicity? And the OP on reddit seems to do a lot of posting but not really related at all to strokes?
Basically my mom had what they thought was a stroke and it reminded me of this and I am kind of mad that this guy got karma and attention for what I believe he just made up. But before I get really mad alone in front of my computer I just wanted to check around to see if someone has any evidence I missed.
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2019-07-21 02:35:44
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Answer: all it more or less means or refers to is the seemingly more and more frequent observation of all sorts of people doing things and pushing various agendas in apparent defiance of sense or the ability to think and reason.
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bbyhxz
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eucku46
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2019-07-21 02:59:58
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What is going on with this "clown world" thing?
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I found [this](https://youtu.be/Z4OhbzSFpnk) video on YouTube, I found it funny, and I commented a quote from the Joker trailer, but now I'm worried I've stumbled onto some nasty alt right thing, can someone explain it to me?
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2019-04-11 11:00:10
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Answer:
​
First , this: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neologism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neologism)
​
"Clown World" is a, more or less "neologism", in the sense that 1) It's a relatively new term, 2) it's "under development", 3) has not yet been accepted as legitmate term by Wikipedia. Despite this, I believe that the term has deep resonance, and will eventually evolve into an accepted term, within certain limitations because of it's controversial and "offensive" nature.
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I have my own thoughts on this term, and what the people that use it are really expressing, vs. what politically biased sites like Wikipedia will tell non-Users of this term what "they" (meaning me) intend to mean. So this is an attempt at "setting the record straight" and telling it how it truly is, from the perspective of an early adopter and User of the term, vs. the politically correct institutions trying to maintain control over the population by attempting to maintain control over their language. <-- Reread this one.
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"Clown World" is an expression of a lack of faith, and belief in the (Western) Civilization's instituions that are expected to be, and traditionally have been, bulwarks and defenders against backsliding into barbarism. There are supposed to be defenders on the wall, willing to sacrifice themselves to sustain and perpetuate civilization, to uphold civilizational ideals that were once considered worth dying over, but instead today have been distorted, misshapen and redefined to mean, in some cases, the exact opposite of what they used to mean. So while innocent, wide-eyed and metaphoric children believe that the colorful and happy-faced clown is exactly as he appears to be, as he has always appeared to be, beneath the glamor of the colorful costume and the thin-veneer of face paint is a person who is actually the exact opposite of what that child percieves. In the most extreme sense of the word, the clowns are evil, and so the world that they control is also evil.
&#x200B;
But since no one wants to believe that, the definition also includes stupid clowns who "make the best of things" with their clown-painted face and their ridiculous antics, intended to entertain and bamboozle the children, and their parents, who are supposed to protect them, not as institutions, but as individual human beings. "Clown World" is a term adopted by parents who care for and love their children and have great concern for their futures, and who are highly reluctant to hand those children, and their futures, over to the class of evil clowns who have managed to assume control over the most critical institutions of our civilization.
&#x200B;
Not all clowns are evil, like in Stephen King's "It", or John Wayne Gacy, but if you dress up like a clown and allow the existance of an evil clown, you share a measure of the responsiblity for the consequences of that evil clown's existance. Most particularly your delibarate efforts at ignoring the existance of the evil clown, while you yourself are dressed up, and behave, like a clown. That evil clown uses your clown-like existence to hide from scrutiny and awareness, and you are too cowardly to do anything besides wear your clown suit, and your face paint, and act like a clown along with all the other clowns.
&#x200B;
In direct, political application, from my perspective, I see the following:
&#x200B;
1. Free Speech doesn't mean what it used to. The ideal that hundreds of thousands of predominantly white men have supposedly died for, has been redefined into something else. We have "hate speech" now. And so now, what was the point of their sacrifice, and what is it's current value?
2. Gender doesn't mean what it used to.
3. Corporate controlled medical care isn't the same as what medical care used to be. Hyperspecialization of the various components and stages of the "health care process" has resulted in a complete and total lack concern for the result, or the outcome of that process. If you die, you're a blip on someone's statistics, and nothing more. Everyone is a cog on a wheel, with a hyper-defined and extremely limited area of responsibility, and there is no one that has any kind of overview of the whole process, nor is there anyone to assume final responsibiltiy when the process fails and a (clown world term coming here, pay attention) "less than optimal outcome" is the result. Meaning the patient dies.
4. Teaching to the test in public education, aka "indoctrination", where innocent young minds are allowed to stagnate and become rancid, in order to force-feed them into a dumbed-down curricula intended to manufacture obedient drones that serve the interests of the corporations that own them. Debt is slavery, btw, and usury is the means by which you are enslaved.
5. "The right of of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed" no longer means what it used to.
6. "Journalists" are no longer what they used to be. A better word is "idealogically programmed propagandists".
&#x200B;
There are an infinte number of ways this term can be applied, which is why it is considered (primarily by the Left) as dangerous. It's a rejection of it ALL; an exasperated admission that the whole thing is broken, and that it is pointless to attempt to preserve, or conserve any of it. Better to tear it all down and try to build again, than to waste your life attempting to fix that which is pointedly determined to remain broken.
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2019-06-03 16:36:27
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What is going on with this "clown world" thing?
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I found [this](https://youtu.be/Z4OhbzSFpnk) video on YouTube, I found it funny, and I commented a quote from the Joker trailer, but now I'm worried I've stumbled onto some nasty alt right thing, can someone explain it to me?
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2019-04-11 11:00:10
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Answer:
The entire idea of "clown world" and "honk honk" is to point out the absurdity of life.
Some may interpret it as a new way of the "alt-right" to mock liberals. but in all fairness the meme goes both ways.
It´s essentially the perfect symbol of life nowadays. With anti-vax, children drag-queens, ragebabies that see oppression and racism everywhere (which ironically show up on both sides of the insanity spectrum).
Clown world is the feeling you have, when you´re looking at something so stupid that you can´t help but laugh about the absurdity of it.
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bbyhxz
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2019-06-11 10:59:07
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What is going on with this "clown world" thing?
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I found [this](https://youtu.be/Z4OhbzSFpnk) video on YouTube, I found it funny, and I commented a quote from the Joker trailer, but now I'm worried I've stumbled onto some nasty alt right thing, can someone explain it to me?
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2019-04-11 11:00:10
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Answer: 99% of the information or sources on this will be very biased in some way shape for form. The truth is it is basically a "joker" type meme in that it's a way of looking at the world and it's problems and laughing at it. It is basically nihilism in meme form. please read this source it helped me in my research anyway: [https://slainmedia.com/2019/04/10/clown-pepe-what-does-the-honk-honk-meme-really-mean-honkler-explained-peak-clown-world/](https://slainmedia.com/2019/04/10/clown-pepe-what-does-the-honk-honk-meme-really-mean-honkler-explained-peak-clown-world/)
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bbyhxz
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enkye48
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2019-05-15 07:30:08
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What is going on with this "clown world" thing?
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I found [this](https://youtu.be/Z4OhbzSFpnk) video on YouTube, I found it funny, and I commented a quote from the Joker trailer, but now I'm worried I've stumbled onto some nasty alt right thing, can someone explain it to me?
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2019-04-11 11:00:10
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Answer: This definitely isn’t alt right. It’s a common misconception that that’s what Pepe is. He used to be a funny meme that was harmless and then the alt right started using the meme to push their agenda and far off ideals on 4chan and 8chan. This is not alt right
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bbyhxz
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ekmd01j
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2019-04-11 11:07:13
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What is going on with this "clown world" thing?
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I found [this](https://youtu.be/Z4OhbzSFpnk) video on YouTube, I found it funny, and I commented a quote from the Joker trailer, but now I'm worried I've stumbled onto some nasty alt right thing, can someone explain it to me?
| 158 |
2019-04-11 11:00:10
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Answer: the alt-right and various associated groups have recently adopted a clown as their newest dog whistle symbol. This doesn't mean that every pepe or clown is being used as a dog whistle, but there do appear to be a lot of overlaps. Especially when used in conjunction with something like "honk honk".
This may be simply a new troll to try to get the news media to latch on to it, similarly to the "ok" symbol, but it's also been gaining popularity as being used unironically.
It may take several forms, including a clown pepe or a clown emjoi, usually accompanied with the phrase "honk honk". This can mean several things. I've seen it used as a reference to both Jewish people and black people, and seems to be a kind of greeting for other people in the same group.
The "honk honk" thing is a reference to "hail hitler" since both have the initials HH. You might also see "HH brother", something about Hulk Hogan, or the more well-known 88.
Here are some links for further reading:
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/clown-pepe-honk-honk
https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/honk-honk-clown-james-woods-new-zealand-shooting-meme/
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/white-nationalists-adopt-clowns-as-their-next-racist-symbol-yes-seriously/
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2019-04-11 12:29:50
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What is going on with this "clown world" thing?
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I found [this](https://youtu.be/Z4OhbzSFpnk) video on YouTube, I found it funny, and I commented a quote from the Joker trailer, but now I'm worried I've stumbled onto some nasty alt right thing, can someone explain it to me?
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2019-04-11 11:00:10
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Answer: a variation of the pepe meme which embodies the ethos of "cheerful nihilism". Clown world is the idea that the world is becoming more and more like a grotesque freakshow, with degeneration on various fronts becoming worse (social, political, racial, etc.). Instead of bearing the emotional burden of what some believe is the multi-faceted downturn of society, honk honk represents the option of cheerful nihilism, where one acknowledges the world's absurdity but decides to laugh and make fun of it. "Why get riled up when none of it matters anyways?"
Relatesd to the "alt-right" idea, this is not an alt right symbol, just as pepe is not an alt right symbol. This meme, like many others, has been effectively used to show that small communities online can trick mainstream media into reporting the idea that benign things (milk, the OK hand sign) are actually a secret racial symbol.
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2019-04-11 12:45:29
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What is going on with this "clown world" thing?
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I found [this](https://youtu.be/Z4OhbzSFpnk) video on YouTube, I found it funny, and I commented a quote from the Joker trailer, but now I'm worried I've stumbled onto some nasty alt right thing, can someone explain it to me?
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2019-04-11 11:00:10
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Answer: I've read these comments and while most of them tell the story, I feel there are a lot of pieces to this. Most of the people that use the Clown world or Honk Honk aren't necessarily alt-right. The biggest issue now is what most people are told is the alt-right is typically just a stronger form of conservatism, but by using the term alt-right they can demonize anyone who is conservative. I don't care what your own political ideology is, but the idea of the clown world to me is that the world itself is becoming senseless and degenerate but being hid behind a facade of progressivism and acceptance. It's the friendly clown that shows up at your birthday party, but in reality is a raging drunk pedophile who's there trying to spend time with little kids. Most of the stuff that gets "honked" or has the clown attached to it are clearly things that are being pointed out how they serve a darker, more sinister agenda. Whether you believe in that agenda or not is up to you, but if you look deep enough with an open mind you start to see some "coincidences" that don't quite add up. If you are blinded by the MSM though and believe whatever they tell you, then you'll never see behind the makeup.
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2019-04-11 14:31:55
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What is going on with this "clown world" thing?
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I found [this](https://youtu.be/Z4OhbzSFpnk) video on YouTube, I found it funny, and I commented a quote from the Joker trailer, but now I'm worried I've stumbled onto some nasty alt right thing, can someone explain it to me?
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2019-04-11 11:00:10
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Answer: Most people have already mentioned the clown world idea (related meme: blackpill). I might be wrong on this but it's worth pointing out that Honkler started being flooded over 4chan largely for unknown reasons. From what I remember, noone really had a clue what the clown pepe was supposed to repesent. Some more paranoid anons even thought it was a psy-op because Honkler was just sudenly *there*. So from how I perceived it at the time, the entire "clown world" ideology was largely created *after the fact* to give a meaning to the Honkler meme. People just kinda figured that this is what a clown best represents in /pol/ context and went with it. What this means though is that when you come across Honkler, it's not always supposed to represent clown world, some people may just be honking for the same reasons people honked before the clown world idea was invented: None.
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2019-04-11 22:55:07
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What is going on with this "clown world" thing?
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I found [this](https://youtu.be/Z4OhbzSFpnk) video on YouTube, I found it funny, and I commented a quote from the Joker trailer, but now I'm worried I've stumbled onto some nasty alt right thing, can someone explain it to me?
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2019-04-11 11:00:10
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Answer:
yes, it is another nasty alt right meme being spread as "just a joke"
It's debateable where or how clown Pepe started, but to understand how it's being used right now, take a look at what someone posted on 4chan:
"Why Honk Honk is the next OK sign.
\>Honk Honk = HH.
\>If you Honk, you're a Honky.
\>Taking back the rainbow.
\>Mocking the (((clown world))).
Someone needs to tell the ADL."
"Taking back the Rainbow Brother, doesn't belong to faggy sodomites and trans freaks. Honk Honkler."
(HH (also dogwhistled as 88) means "heil hitler". Honkler = Hitler.)
Remember how people said the OK symbol was just leftist hysterics and the New Zealand shooter repeatedly flash it during a court appearance?
The Clown World idea is related to Far-right Nihilism & Absurdism. Instead of despairing over the world being so wrong, mocking and critiquing it. Honk-pilled, not black-pilled. This upside down clown world includes "men trying to be women" "having to be at peace with people invading your country and raping your women" "left wing elite jews not wanting a southern U.S. border wall, when walls are surrounding Israel" etc. They're mocking what they see as contradictions by using the clown symbol. It's a new even more meta and cute way of expressing the alt-right perspective and spreading it under plausible deniability. "Clowns are racist now?!?! Wow, we really do live in a clown world! The left-wing are crazy!"
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2019-04-16 11:28:08
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What is going on with this "clown world" thing?
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I found [this](https://youtu.be/Z4OhbzSFpnk) video on YouTube, I found it funny, and I commented a quote from the Joker trailer, but now I'm worried I've stumbled onto some nasty alt right thing, can someone explain it to me?
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2019-04-11 11:00:10
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Answer: Blade is a marvel comic character and was played by Wesley Snipes in the original Blade trilogy. the first Blade movie came out in 1998 i believe and is considered one of the first commercially successful marvel based movies. He's a vampire. carries swords and automatic weapons and wears a huge trench coat
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euctp2b
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2019-07-21 05:20:34
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Why are people talking about Mahershala Ali playing some character named Blade?
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Marvel just announced Mahershala Ali is playing someone named Blade in a movie called Blade and the internet is freaking out about it. It was their big announcement. I’ve seen every single MCU movie and some of the TV shows and I have no idea who that is. Someone pls halp. Why is everyone so excited?
[Here’s the tweet where they announced it.](https://twitter.com/marvelstudios/status/1152756007036018688?s=21)
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2019-07-21 05:09:33
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Answer: Blade is a comic book character. He is the ‘Daywalker’, a vampire with all of the strengths of vampires but with none of their weaknesses.
He was previously played on film in the late 1990s and early 2000s by Wesley Snipes in three films unrelated to the MCU. The first Blade is credited with starting the early 2000s comic book movie boom that continued with the first X-Men film and Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man.
It was announced at Comic-Con that part of Marvel Studios’ upcoming slate of films that Mahershala Ali will take over the role in a new film.
People are excited because Ali is a multiple Oscar winner and generally highly regarded and this film will introduce the more supernatural side of the Marvel universe to the films. (With the caveat that this may be an issue for the Chinese market)
It’s also another Marvel film with a black lead.
The only minor concern is that Ali already appeared in the Netflix MCU series Luke Cage. Some are concerned that Marvel are saying the Netflix shows are ‘non-canon’. This probably isn’t the case as Alfre Woodard also appeared in both Luke Cage and Captain America: Civil War as different characters and there have been other cases of this.
Edit: Some further information - Ali was the one who pitched the idea to Marvel rather than the other way around.
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2019-07-21 05:32:33
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Why are people talking about Mahershala Ali playing some character named Blade?
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Marvel just announced Mahershala Ali is playing someone named Blade in a movie called Blade and the internet is freaking out about it. It was their big announcement. I’ve seen every single MCU movie and some of the TV shows and I have no idea who that is. Someone pls halp. Why is everyone so excited?
[Here’s the tweet where they announced it.](https://twitter.com/marvelstudios/status/1152756007036018688?s=21)
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2019-07-21 05:09:33
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Answer: "Ami the Asshole" is a series of short dnd greentexts written by u/Darius_Kel about a [Yugoloth](https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Yugoloth) (of some bug-ish variety) that joins a pair of adventurers. Ami is essentially a narcissistic sociopath with no filter or off switch.
Death threats more or less boil down to a varying combination of strong personal opinions, too much free time, and internet fuckwad theory. Such as when r/amitales was attacked.
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2019-07-21 05:37:44
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What's going on with Ami posting?
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So /r/dndgreentext seems to have a series about a character or thing called Ami? It seems to be pretty divisive and the author is getting a lot of death threats:
https://www.reddit.com/r/DnDGreentext/comments/cflw0m/ami_meets_a_kid/euarhg5?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
What is this and why exactly is the author so hated?
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2019-07-21 04:41:42
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Answer: There was a post a while back under which the author Darius Kel got pretty angry about the fact that people on r/dndgreentexts post stuff that isn't OC, but just something found on 4chan. I think it was a post from Phizle that this happened on. A mod joined in and this Darius Kel guy got a lot of hate and downvotes for that opinion. People told him to just shut up and post his own OC if it bothers his that people post stuff that isn't OC, which he is now doing. He still kept the enemies he made though.
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2019-07-23 19:17:28
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What's going on with Ami posting?
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So /r/dndgreentext seems to have a series about a character or thing called Ami? It seems to be pretty divisive and the author is getting a lot of death threats:
https://www.reddit.com/r/DnDGreentext/comments/cflw0m/ami_meets_a_kid/euarhg5?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
What is this and why exactly is the author so hated?
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2019-07-21 04:41:42
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Answer: It's a joke on old school jumpscare videos where it seems like you're looking at a still image and then it moves toward the viewer. It would normally be a scary image and not Peter Griffin lol. I don't know whether this extends beyond this one guy or if the music references anything
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2019-07-21 05:43:03
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What's up with this Twitter meme where something approaches the viewer while intense music plays?
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I've only seen two of these so far, but there are probably far more. Here they are:
1. [https://twitter.com/StrudelSmall/status/1152383619404652544](https://twitter.com/StrudelSmall/status/1152383619404652544)
2. [https://twitter.com/StrudelSmall/status/1152401904045088770](https://twitter.com/StrudelSmall/status/1152401904045088770)
I'm guessing it's a reference to some video game.
Edit: I didn't even notice that these are both posted by the same guy. Maybe it's not so trending after all?
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2019-07-20 18:57:51
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Answer: Fortnite likes to ring out each season with a bang, typically a large scale event that get's built up towards during the season and ends in something exciting that everyone playing can stop for a minute and enjoy. They usually use the event to reshape the map in one way or another. This season was a fight between a giant robot and a giant monster.
There might be better video's out there, but the first one that comes to mind is [this one from Muselk.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHP4LoM_Bwk) The fun starts at 1:40
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2019-07-21 06:22:16
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What is going on with Fortnite and the giants battling?
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I am specifically talking [about this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTnE3TBIYDs)
And how can I watch because this seems awesome as fuck!!!
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2019-07-21 01:56:10
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Answer: Chey (Slazo's ex GF) came out with a rape allegation. Chey was supported by many creators including Hyojin and Dolan Dark. Later, Slazo made a video saying that he did not rape Chey and "exposed" holes in her story. (I'm quoting exposed because the video can be seen in many ways). Later DMs were found that supposedly showed that Hyojin and other youtubers "made the whole thing up" - however the said DM does not directly contain anyone saying that they should fabricate the story, and the DMs can be interpreted in many different ways. Also some people found Hyojin's old account with her drawing porn of her friends. There also were allegations that hyojin made abusive remarks on Discord.
Later, a youtuber named Turkey Tom (did I get that right?) made a video explaining the drama between Chey and Slazo (and criticized Hyojin), and in the video he claimed that Hyojin abused a roommate's dog. This blew up a lot (probably more then the original rape scandal) and multiple people "claimed" to have seen Hyojin abuse the dog. However, 10 hours ago (at the time of writing) Hyojin has tweeted an explanation of the dog drama - that 1) The dog story is fake, and included other people saying that the dog incident did not happen / 2) That the porn issue was also made on her old account, and that she had consent from all friends involved / 3) The abusive Discord messages are fake / 4) Hyojin and Pyro broke up on mutual terms, and there was no cheating at all
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TLDR it's a big whole mess of rape accusations, Discord DMs and users jumping the gun a lot.
Basically a he-said-she-said situation but way overblown
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2019-07-21 07:53:05
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What's up with hating Hyojin?
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I mainly know her as being Pyrocynical's girlfriend (ex gf now) but people seem to be hating on her for dropping dogs and lying about rape or something? Something about a Reddit crew? I can't find where I saw some of the drama, but most replies to this tweet are about dropping dogs
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[https://twitter.com/squizxy/status/1151988382391660545](https://twitter.com/squizxy/status/1151988382391660545)
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2019-07-18 23:38:29
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Answer:
There's nothing really *sudden* about it. Certain people love to claim that the Nazis were socialist, because either a) it makes Nazis seem less far-right, and (at least, in theory) diminishes the atrocities of the Nazi party, or b) it makes socialists seem *way* worse. It's a depressingly-common tactic, used almost exclusively by the far-right, that doesn't hold up to *any* sort of historical scrutiny. (It's a point made so often that /r/AskHistorians [literally has a section about it on their FAQ](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/wiki/faq/europe#wiki_how_socialist_was_national_socialism.3F). Suffice to say, they don't give it much credence.) There's a decent argument to be made that the Nazi Party *started* by incorporating some socialist ideals -- [mostly workers' rights](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/4ydl63/why_did_the_nazis_call_themselves_socialist_when/d6mykrr/) -- but by the time they became the Nazis that we know and know, the 'socialism' side of things was a distant memory, existing in name alone.
The usual argument goes that of *course* the National Socialists were socialists; it's right there in the name! The usual counterargument points out that any look at their policies will show that the National Socialists were no more socialist than the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a democracy, the Holy Roman Empire was Holy or Roman, or hamsters are made out of ham.
As for why it's happening more now... well, that can only really be speculative, but there are at least a couple of viable factors:
* We're seeing [a rise in right-wing populism all around the world, especially in Europe](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36130006). That's also resulted in a rise in *extreme* alt-right populism, which has resulted in certain groups trying to downplay extreme right-wing acts -- 'rehabilitating' Nazi rhetoric by saying that really, we're not so different, you and I. If you can trick people into following the line of thought that a) Socialism isn't so bad, b) the Nazis were socialist and therefore c) maybe the Nazi ideas weren't so bad either, you can get away with a *lot* of hateful shit.
* Europe has always been much more chill with the idea of at least *some* forms of socialism than the USA has (the [NHS in the UK](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Health_Service), [free or heavily subsidised college tuition](https://money.cnn.com/2016/02/23/pf/college/free-college-europe/), that sort of thing), but recently socialism has started to go mainstream in America in a way that it hasn't since [Eugene Debs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_V._Debs) in the early 20th century. (Bernie Sanders and AOC made their names running on an unabashedly [Democratic Socialist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_socialism) platform, for example -- although people tend to pay a lot more attention to the second part -- and [some 70% of Americans now support a single-payer healthcare model](https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/412545-70-percent-of-americans-support-medicare-for-all-health-care) such as Medicare for All.) For the people who are opposed to this, there's a new urgency to try and paint socialism in a bad light -- and what worse a light is there than the warm glow of Nazism?
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2019-07-21 10:11:27
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What's up with people suddenly claiming Hitler and the NSDAP were extreme left wing socialists?
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Out of amusement I read through the most downvoted comments in [this thread.](https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/cfrhmb/german_chancellor_angela_markel_has_used_the_75th/?sort=top)
Many of the comments claim Hitler, NSDAP and even Merkel are left wing socialists. Is this just a troll or did I miss some serious debate?
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2019-07-21 09:58:53
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Answer: It's a basic human response to try and tar people with the same brush. Like when a 5 year old says 'You stink' and another 5 year old responds 'No you stink'. The left call the right nazi's and the right wants to be able to call the left the same.
It's very similar to people saying "antifa are the real facists" or calling people "alt-left". In the case of the Nazis their argument hangs on "socialist" being in the Nazi party title and people being deeply ignorant of history and politics.
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2019-07-21 10:21:40
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What's up with people suddenly claiming Hitler and the NSDAP were extreme left wing socialists?
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Out of amusement I read through the most downvoted comments in [this thread.](https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/cfrhmb/german_chancellor_angela_markel_has_used_the_75th/?sort=top)
Many of the comments claim Hitler, NSDAP and even Merkel are left wing socialists. Is this just a troll or did I miss some serious debate?
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2019-07-21 09:58:53
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Answer: in addition to what others are saying, youtuber TIK also just did a series of bad take videos in which he argues that denying hitlers socialism is also denying the holocaust? Somehow?
Its a really bizzare series because hes clearly anti nazi, but ends up spewing a bunch of neonazi and far right talking points to prove his tenuous point.
I dont really reccommend watching it, but it brought the arguement to my attention lately
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2019-07-21 12:03:01
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What's up with people suddenly claiming Hitler and the NSDAP were extreme left wing socialists?
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Out of amusement I read through the most downvoted comments in [this thread.](https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/cfrhmb/german_chancellor_angela_markel_has_used_the_75th/?sort=top)
Many of the comments claim Hitler, NSDAP and even Merkel are left wing socialists. Is this just a troll or did I miss some serious debate?
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2019-07-21 09:58:53
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Answer: People like to use the fallacy of assigning the complex, multidimensional vector of politics into the scalar value of "left" and "right", which is ultimately bound to be redefined by tending to lead to "fashion" politics where people all have their own subjective definitions of what they consider core attributes of such a scale but adapt political issues they have no particular care about as political "fashion" because of group psychology superimposed pressure in how they should self-identify.
It is predominant because as a power structure, it polarizes political discussions and ends up squashing the destabilizing nature of nuance and debate because it ultimately ends ruling over those more susceptible to be subdued by group psychology into a power structure that can be concerned far more with the apolitical oligarchies it tends to serve that with the series of contradictory stances supposedly represented within its "direction".
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This comment is the most downvoted one in the thread, which just goes to show, the first victim of a two party system are points of views that doesn't profess to adhere to one or the other. Consider this bit of nuance and debate squashed.
Oh, and Nazi Germany never tried to hide what really ended up making them despicable: Eugenics and fascism. To say that "left" and "right" was an issue in the rise of Nazi Germany is to misapply rather contemporary fallacies.
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2019-07-21 12:03:29
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What's up with people suddenly claiming Hitler and the NSDAP were extreme left wing socialists?
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Out of amusement I read through the most downvoted comments in [this thread.](https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/cfrhmb/german_chancellor_angela_markel_has_used_the_75th/?sort=top)
Many of the comments claim Hitler, NSDAP and even Merkel are left wing socialists. Is this just a troll or did I miss some serious debate?
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2019-07-21 09:58:53
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Answer: It's just historical illiteracy. At one point, there was a left-wing branch of the NSDAP - the Strasserists. However, they were purged soon after Hitler got into power, in the Night of the Long Knives.
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2019-07-21 13:04:53
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What's up with people suddenly claiming Hitler and the NSDAP were extreme left wing socialists?
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Out of amusement I read through the most downvoted comments in [this thread.](https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/cfrhmb/german_chancellor_angela_markel_has_used_the_75th/?sort=top)
Many of the comments claim Hitler, NSDAP and even Merkel are left wing socialists. Is this just a troll or did I miss some serious debate?
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2019-07-21 09:58:53
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Answer:
This is a very long trend that has a lot to do with the fact that the US and European political spectrums don't work the same way.
Although most aspects of Fascism are generally grouped by political scientists as right-wing (emphasis on traditional family structure, appeal to tradition and history, nationalism) it is true that Nazism embraced many economic policies and centralized state control that confound a neat mapping onto the left-right political spectrum in the US (which is more about concentration of state power versus minimization of it). As such, those right-wing conservatives in the US who prefer a minimal government with little government interference in society and the economy have long attempted to identify Nazism with "the left" in the US based on this concentration of government power.
You may be interested to know that in Mein Kampf, Hitler talks about how the Nazis intentionally tried to use the diction and methods of other parties, especially leftists, in order to prevent anyone from being able to pin them down as specifically left or right. The way he writes it, it's basically done for fun to see how long they could keep people guessing:
>And they had every reason to feel provoked; the red color of our billposters alone drew them into
our meeting halls. The normal bourgeoisie was genuinely
horrified at the fact that we too had taken up the red of
the bolsheviks, and in this they saw a very ambiguous
affair. The German national minds quietly whispered to
each other the suspicion that fundamentally we too were
only a variety of Marxism, perhaps nothing but disguised
Marxists, or rather Socialists. For even today these heads
have not understood the difference between Socialism and
Marxism. Especially when, in addition, they discovered
that in our meetings we principally did not address 'ladies
and gentlemen' but only 'fellow citizens,' and that among
ourselves we spoke only of party members, the Marxist ghost
seemed to be proved for many of our enemies. How often
we shouted with laughter at these stupid bourgeois cowards,
in the face of the intelligent guessing at our origin, our
intentions and our goal !
>We chose the red color of our posters after exacting and
thorough reflection, in order to provoke the leftists by this,
to bring them to indignation and to induce them to come
to our meetings, if only to break them up, so that in this
way we were at least enabled to speak to these people.
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2019-07-21 13:13:37
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What's up with people suddenly claiming Hitler and the NSDAP were extreme left wing socialists?
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Out of amusement I read through the most downvoted comments in [this thread.](https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/cfrhmb/german_chancellor_angela_markel_has_used_the_75th/?sort=top)
Many of the comments claim Hitler, NSDAP and even Merkel are left wing socialists. Is this just a troll or did I miss some serious debate?
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2019-07-21 09:58:53
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Answer: Left-wing Nazism was known as 'Strasserism' and was purged from the party.
There was another leader in the early NSDAP known as Gregor Strasser who was a hardcore leftist, and Hitler had him killed in the night of the long knives. Before Strasserist elements were purged, the NSDAP had serious left-wing elements. Strasserists basically called for a communist style command-economy without calling themselves communists. After the party purgers in the early 30's all the Strasserists were killed or pushed out of power, and the NSDAP as we know it today took form.
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2019-07-21 13:28:55
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What's up with people suddenly claiming Hitler and the NSDAP were extreme left wing socialists?
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Out of amusement I read through the most downvoted comments in [this thread.](https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/cfrhmb/german_chancellor_angela_markel_has_used_the_75th/?sort=top)
Many of the comments claim Hitler, NSDAP and even Merkel are left wing socialists. Is this just a troll or did I miss some serious debate?
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2019-07-21 09:58:53
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Answer:
I think you're seeing that a lot more because you are seeing so many accusations of Nazism in our world. A lot of people on the left are referring to everyone right of center as a Nazi. The people in the right are then trying to deflect that claim by pointing out the Nazi's socialist roots.
As far as the stuff with Merkel, you have two factors. The first is she is probably other centrist for Germany and Europe in general but Centrist in Europe is Left Wing in the United States. Therefore, people are applying USA standards to European politicians. The second factor is she had been embraced by socialists in the United States because of their mutuall hated of Trump.
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2019-07-21 13:29:16
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What's up with people suddenly claiming Hitler and the NSDAP were extreme left wing socialists?
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Out of amusement I read through the most downvoted comments in [this thread.](https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/cfrhmb/german_chancellor_angela_markel_has_used_the_75th/?sort=top)
Many of the comments claim Hitler, NSDAP and even Merkel are left wing socialists. Is this just a troll or did I miss some serious debate?
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2019-07-21 09:58:53
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Answer: It's the same way that some claim that modern day Dems somehow would be slave owners or supportive of them because Dems of the past were the slave owners, Southerners, Confederates, etc.
Because the Nazis had "Socialist" on their party name people still attribute Nazism to left-wing ideologies.
Both scenario doesn't seem to hold up when you look at the current make-up of the neo-Nazis, Confederates supporters, or those supportive of similar atrocious policies, so it is a bit odd.
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2019-07-21 13:42:24
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What's up with people suddenly claiming Hitler and the NSDAP were extreme left wing socialists?
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Out of amusement I read through the most downvoted comments in [this thread.](https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/cfrhmb/german_chancellor_angela_markel_has_used_the_75th/?sort=top)
Many of the comments claim Hitler, NSDAP and even Merkel are left wing socialists. Is this just a troll or did I miss some serious debate?
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2019-07-21 09:58:53
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Answer:
Unification of Greater Germany (Austria + Germany)
Land + expansion
Anti-Versailles - abrogation of the Treaty.
Land and territory - lebensraum. *
Only a "member of the race" can be a citizen.
Anti-semitism - No Jew can be a member of the race.
Anti-foreigner - only citizens can live in Germany. No immigration - ref. to Jews fleeing pograms.
Everyone must work.*
Abolition of unearned income - "no rent-slavery".*
Nationalisation of industry*
Divison of profits*
Extension of old age welfare.*
Land reform*
Death to all criminals
German law, not Roman law (anti- French Rev.)*
Education to teach "the German Way"*
Education of gifted children*
Protection of mother and child by outlawing child labour.*
Encouraging gymnastics and swimming Formation a national army.
Duty of the state to provide for its volk.*
Duty of individuals to the state
Because the NDASP were socialists through and through. Universal healthcare, universal employment, UBI, universal housing, The people owning the means of production. The Nazis were radically left wing believing in centralization, Nationalism, govt authority, secularism. The platform and actions of Nazi Germany are full in line with Socialist ideology just Socialism in one nation. It's why the joint Socialist powers of the USSR and Germany formed an alliance to invade and conquer eastern Europe.
Though due to left unity the Russians and Germans fought each other and the socialist ideology of Russia beat Socialist Germany and then the USSR spent sixity years pretending htey weren't allies with Hitler and that his ideology was right ring. The KGB and communist intelligentsia in the west spread the mythos around
Red policies marked with asterik
Lol socialists seething and coping hard
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2019-07-21 14:06:03
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What's up with people suddenly claiming Hitler and the NSDAP were extreme left wing socialists?
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Out of amusement I read through the most downvoted comments in [this thread.](https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/cfrhmb/german_chancellor_angela_markel_has_used_the_75th/?sort=top)
Many of the comments claim Hitler, NSDAP and even Merkel are left wing socialists. Is this just a troll or did I miss some serious debate?
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2019-07-21 09:58:53
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Answer: "Suddenly?" Dude. We learned in school "Nazi" was literally a German portmanteau for "National Socialist German Workers' Party." This is common knowledge I don't get how you don't know that...
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2019-07-21 14:44:53
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What's up with people suddenly claiming Hitler and the NSDAP were extreme left wing socialists?
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Out of amusement I read through the most downvoted comments in [this thread.](https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/cfrhmb/german_chancellor_angela_markel_has_used_the_75th/?sort=top)
Many of the comments claim Hitler, NSDAP and even Merkel are left wing socialists. Is this just a troll or did I miss some serious debate?
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2019-07-21 09:58:53
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Answer:
it stems from misunderstandings between people on how they weigh what is left vs right
people will claim they are left because of fiscal stuff, others will claim right because of authoritarian or social stuff
left vs right is a terribly antiquated way of looking at politics when there are, say, three axes important (a political compass uses two axes, but that can lead to weird overlaps that don’t make sense, especially with NSDAP). authoritarian scale (dictator vs anarchy), fiscal scale (degrees of distribution), social scale (revolution vs tradition). left vs right is a good heuristic as most politics on one side of one of these axes correlate to leanings on the other axes. NSDAP does not! and so the heuristic is not consistent.
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2019-07-21 14:58:54
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What's up with people suddenly claiming Hitler and the NSDAP were extreme left wing socialists?
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Out of amusement I read through the most downvoted comments in [this thread.](https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/cfrhmb/german_chancellor_angela_markel_has_used_the_75th/?sort=top)
Many of the comments claim Hitler, NSDAP and even Merkel are left wing socialists. Is this just a troll or did I miss some serious debate?
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2019-07-21 09:58:53
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Answer: The Nazis had socialism in their name which has tricked some people into thinking that they were actually left wing and using it as proof socialism is evil even though the Nazis weren’t actually socialists.
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2019-07-21 15:17:31
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What's up with people suddenly claiming Hitler and the NSDAP were extreme left wing socialists?
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Out of amusement I read through the most downvoted comments in [this thread.](https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/cfrhmb/german_chancellor_angela_markel_has_used_the_75th/?sort=top)
Many of the comments claim Hitler, NSDAP and even Merkel are left wing socialists. Is this just a troll or did I miss some serious debate?
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2019-07-21 09:58:53
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Answer:
In the US the right tries to demonize everything remotly left wing. In order to distance themselves from the nazis they try to paint the left in a bad light at the same time.
Its all propaganda tho and not accurate
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2019-07-21 15:26:18
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What's up with people suddenly claiming Hitler and the NSDAP were extreme left wing socialists?
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Out of amusement I read through the most downvoted comments in [this thread.](https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/cfrhmb/german_chancellor_angela_markel_has_used_the_75th/?sort=top)
Many of the comments claim Hitler, NSDAP and even Merkel are left wing socialists. Is this just a troll or did I miss some serious debate?
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2019-07-21 09:58:53
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Answer: Some Americans have redefined the left-right spectrum to be exclusively about economy and declared everything that is not free market (a right-wing value in their understanding) is automatically left because it is not-right. In this simplified and cherry-picked model of a political spectrum, Nazis suddenly appear on the left, which is exactly what the alt-right wants so they can claim to be far away from nazis despite being similar in every regard except economics.
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2019-07-21 15:43:53
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What's up with people suddenly claiming Hitler and the NSDAP were extreme left wing socialists?
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Out of amusement I read through the most downvoted comments in [this thread.](https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/cfrhmb/german_chancellor_angela_markel_has_used_the_75th/?sort=top)
Many of the comments claim Hitler, NSDAP and even Merkel are left wing socialists. Is this just a troll or did I miss some serious debate?
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2019-07-21 09:58:53
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Answer: Thank you for asking this. It's a good, topical question.
The word 'Nazi' is a contraction / abbreviation of the full German name of the Nazi Party, which translates into English as the "National Socialist German Workers' Party" (NSDAP).
Recently, certain people in the USA have focused on the word 'socialist' as being a synonym for 'communist'; therefore the Nazi Party was a far-left organisation. I'm trying to remain neutral, but it's true to say that *this claim has as much credibility to a historian as flat earth theory does to a scientist.*
In my opinion, and again I'm trying to be neutral, there seem to be two reasons for the recent popularity of these claims:
- Geniune misunderstanding of the issue, by non-specialists seeing the word 'socialist' in the unabbreviated name of the party for the first time
- Right-wing organisations deliberately attempting to mislead, distance themselves from the Nazis, and demonise the left
If you want to find out more about the origins of the Nazi Party, the Wikipedia page is an excellent start.
Source: History graduate from UK. Not an expert.
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2019-07-21 15:46:19
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What's up with people suddenly claiming Hitler and the NSDAP were extreme left wing socialists?
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Out of amusement I read through the most downvoted comments in [this thread.](https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/cfrhmb/german_chancellor_angela_markel_has_used_the_75th/?sort=top)
Many of the comments claim Hitler, NSDAP and even Merkel are left wing socialists. Is this just a troll or did I miss some serious debate?
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2019-07-21 09:58:53
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Answer: It's not "sudden," and while the answer is complex for reasons stated by others in the thread, there is an essential core of truth here. Nazis were revolutionaries, collectivists, and believed in government control of the economy, the press, and other social institutions. In those senses they are "left wing."
But they were not communists, which as [Ludwig von Mises explained in Human Action](https://mises.org/library/human-action-0/html/pp/865), was a different form of socialism.
>There are two patterns for the realization of socialism.
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>The first pattern (we may call it the Lenin or the Russian pattern) is purely bureaucratic. All plants, shops, and farms are formally nationalized (*verstaatlicht*); they are departments of the government operated by civil servants. Every unit of the apparatus of production stands in the same relation to the superior central organization as does a local post office to the office of the postmaster general.
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>The second pattern (we may call it the Hindenburg or German pattern) nominally and seemingly preserves private ownership of the means of production and keeps the appearance of ordinary markets, prices, wages, and interest rates. There are, however, no longer entrepreneurs, but only shop managers (*Betriebsführer* in the terminology of the Nazi legislation). These shop managers are seemingly instrumental in the conduct of the enterprises entrusted to them; they buy and sell, hire and discharge workers and remunerate their services, contract debts and pay interest and amortization. But in all their activities they are bound to obey unconditionally the orders issued by the government's supreme office of production management. This office (The *Reichswirtschaftsministerium* in Nazi Germany) tells the shop managers what and how to produce, at what prices and from \[p. 718\] whom to buy, at what prices and to whom to sell. It assigns every worker to his job and fixes his wages. It decrees to whom and on what terms the capitalists must entrust their funds. Market exchange is merely a sham. All the wages, prices, and interest rates are fixed by the government; they are wages, prices, and interest rates in appearance only; in fact they are merely quantitative terms in the government's orders determining each citizen's job, income, consumption, and standard of living. The government directs all production activities. The shop managers are subject to the government, not the consumers' demand and the market's price structure. This is socialism under the outward guise of the terminology of capitalism. Some labels of the capitalistic market economy are retained, but they signify something entirely different from what they mean in the market economy.
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2019-07-21 16:47:23
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What's up with people suddenly claiming Hitler and the NSDAP were extreme left wing socialists?
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Out of amusement I read through the most downvoted comments in [this thread.](https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/cfrhmb/german_chancellor_angela_markel_has_used_the_75th/?sort=top)
Many of the comments claim Hitler, NSDAP and even Merkel are left wing socialists. Is this just a troll or did I miss some serious debate?
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2019-07-21 09:58:53
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Answer:
They posted a video about Nazis in video games that was poorly thought out in a lot of people opinion. Just look it up.
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2019-07-21 10:19:39
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What's going on with Extra Credits?
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I watched Extra Credits' (https://www.youtube.com/user/ExtraCreditz) videos about game development a while back but have recently checked their channel to see they've lost thousands of subscribers - their content is very mundane so what on earth is going on?
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2019-07-21 09:56:22
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Answer: Theres actually two controversies. I can't remember enough proper details about the first one nor do I have links handy but the short version is there were multiple accusations from various people formerly associated with EC that James Portnow (the head of the whole thing) was/is abusive and harrasing to staff and his ex. Many especially did not like the way James handled it. It's believed by some that this is part of why Dan Floyd (the guy who used to speak from behind the podium in the videos) left EC and privated all his Dark Souls that had James in them. Dan hasn't said anything about it that I know of so this last bit is uncomfirmed for now.
The more recent controversy relates to a video they published two weeks ago called "Stop Normalizing Nazis - Socially Conscious Game Design". I haven't seen the video personally but there was a great deal of backlash against it with many viewers arguing among other things that:
1) It uses some very reductivist reasoning that leaves little room for nuance.
2) It treats players like idiots who cannot think critically.
and
3) It goes against EC's previously established positions that a) games should be treated the same as other forms of media (so certain topics shouldn't be off the table) and b) developers should be careful about injecting their ideology into games lest they become propaganda (they made a whole video about this years back)
Now again I haven't actually seen the video in question so I can't argue for or against the fan's objections but that's about the long and short of it. There may be details I've missed and it might even be that theres been a new controversy since then I haven't heard about. At any rate there'll likely be plenty of people discussing it relatively civilly over at r/ExtraCredits. Hope that helps
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2019-07-21 10:30:08
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What's going on with Extra Credits?
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I watched Extra Credits' (https://www.youtube.com/user/ExtraCreditz) videos about game development a while back but have recently checked their channel to see they've lost thousands of subscribers - their content is very mundane so what on earth is going on?
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2019-07-21 09:56:22
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Answer:
1. Rape allegations of one of the main dudes causing the old host to leave.
2. Equating playing as a nazi or terrorist in a videogame as suddenly becoming a nazi, and leaning on this as a reason for shooters to become unbalanced in the "good guys" favor, otherwise it somehow makes nazis "normal
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2019-07-21 11:35:25
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What's going on with Extra Credits?
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I watched Extra Credits' (https://www.youtube.com/user/ExtraCreditz) videos about game development a while back but have recently checked their channel to see they've lost thousands of subscribers - their content is very mundane so what on earth is going on?
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2019-07-21 09:56:22
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Answer:
In 2013, reports came that thousands of Pakistanis in the Bhati Diwan village were getting sick by being forced to drink sludge water, as Nestle drained their water supply for their bottled water. Dirty drinking water causes all kinds of sickness to include malaria and more. Nestle was actually selling this water back to Pakistanis while denying the citizens access to it. Since 1998, Nestle has been selling Pure Life bottled water in Lahore, planting doubt in the region about the tap water’s cleanliness, and leading the government to neglect the cleanliness of the tap water. Also, Nestle has been accused of hoarding water i.e draining water supplies and hoarding them as they beleive there will be some sort of water shortage in certain areas in the future. Leading people to boycott them.
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2019-07-21 12:19:36
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What’s going on with nestle and the boycott?
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I heard they did something with the water in Pakistan but googling it I could only find good things about them doing clean ups on karachi beach
https://www.globalvillagespace.com/nestle-to-collaborate-with-ocean-legacy-for-plastic-waste-cleanup-drive/
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2019-07-21 10:54:59
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