I’ve noticed that right wing chuds on various online platforms are immediately dogpiling on this event to justify his murder.

I didn’t know that kicking taillights was a capital offense.

The dumbest of the dumb fall for this bullshit.

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OPs account was created about an hour ago.

So far, their posting pattern is a match for another one of those self deleting spam accounts that keep popping up on this community.

I got a password reset request on a reddit account I had completely forgotten about for years (but reddit had found months before and permbanned in their ban sweep). I took that opportunity to clown on them in an appeal on that account. They can be laser focused on making sure humans can never access their platform again but they hold the door wide open for bots trying to hack into these accounts? Pathetic.

I’ve seen some folks mention that this might be someone who was mad about being banned from one or more communities, so now they repeatedly make accounts, post a bunch of times and then delete the account to circumvent being banned again.

Two whole Republican senators!? Wow

“retiring” to Fox News host or book deal, probably.

It takes a real galaxy brain to fall for this…

Yeah, the content of the post is fine, it’s just this community in particular has been getting a slew of spam accounts that delete themselves within an hour or a day of being created.

Account created 1 hour ago

Might be another one of those fly-by-night accounts.

Let it die.

Apart from a lot of us (myself included) appreciating high quality animation and story that didn’t predisposition itself to be dumbed down for their intended audience, the main mantra of the Brony movement was “Love and Tolerance” which in the early days was practiced pretty cohesively, even extending to aggressors who would pop in and call everyone gay/other slurs to try to get a rise out of others, and whatnot. We’d just be like “ok, that’s just like, your opinion man, we love you anyway” and proceed on with our lives instead of engaging them in arguing and namecalling. At the time your typical garden-variety internet troll didn’t really know what to do in that situation. The Encyclopedia Dramatica page on Bronies was especially amusing because they admitted they didn’t have any viable way to cause flame wars or upset within the fandom.

As the fandom got bigger of course it was going to get people that take the bait so from my perspective it wasn’t as much of a unified front in later years as it was in the beginning.

But I was part of Mumble/Teamspeak servers, Minecraft servers, Steam groups etc and they were all very welcoming. I think it was just that most of us were well intentioned people that enjoyed us a good cartoon, lol.

I was one of the wholesome Bronies. Met a lot of great people that I still keep in touch with to this day.

The movement and the mindset really helped me in my darkest time.

Democrats: “Best I can do is approve another funding bill for them”

No one is coming to save us

TikTok is literal brain rot. Stop using it.

You’re better off without it tbh. This is coming from someone who had an account on there for 13 years, it used to be okay, but big corps, bots, and especially the owner Spez absolutely ratfucked it into a shadow of its former self. It’s no longer reliable as a source of information or entertainment since it’s roughly 60% bots by volume. You never know if you’re actually talking to a real person on the other end.

If you really want to get back, you’re going to have to be careful about it. You can use a VPN on a device you’ve never accessed reddit on before, and you will likely not be detected. But again you have to be really careful. Even so much as opening a reddit link with your new account logged in on a device/IP your banned account was on almost guarantees your new account will get permbanned within a couple of days. They are unreasonably heavy-handed with ban evasions.

I mean yeah on its face the picture looked incredibly fake, or at best, staged. But some folks don’t use common sense anymore. I see boomers sharing AI videos of wild foxes warning a trucker of a rock slide, proclaiming “This proves that god’s creatures sense these disasters before they happen!” and they don’t even stop to think, “hey, who’s filming this, and why does that truck have an amorphous model badge?”

Common sense is an endangered species.