By David Futrelle
It’s a rarity in this year of terrible, but tonight has been a night of actual good news! Dems are winning elections, and Reddit has banned the toxic cesspool known as the Incels subreddit! Celebrate while you can in this open thread!
No trolls. Fuck trolls.
This is the first time a wall of news notifications hasn't been a nightmare in god knows how long pic.twitter.com/NpTaW5QK6e
— Ashley Feinberg (ashleyfeinberg.bsky.social) (@ashleyfeinberg) November 8, 2017
Dems have won all three of the marquee off-year races — NJGov, VAGov, NYC Mayor — for the first time since 1989.
— David Weigel (@daveweigel) November 8, 2017
Democrats decimated Republicans across the country tonight, at every level and in every branch of state government.
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) November 8, 2017
Thanks, Trump!
And this is the icing on the cake:
Trans woman Danica Roem (D) just defeated anti-LGBTQ candidate Bob Marshall (R) in Virginia, becoming the first trans state legislator in America.
— Laura Bassett (@LEBassett) November 8, 2017
The man who wrote the anti-trans bathroom bill just lost the election to a trans woman. Let that sink in. https://t.co/KFEZXSYvMy
— Laura Bassett (@LEBassett) November 8, 2017
Oh, and there’s this:
Jeff Sessions' DOJ Drops Prosecution Of Woman Who Laughed At Jeff Sessions https://t.co/slOPOhmLYN pic.twitter.com/ekRsU1RJAq
— Curt and Frank 🏳️🌈 (@curtandfrank) November 7, 2017
Let’s all celebrate by laughing at Jeff Sessions!
Meanwhile, on Reddit:
Reddit has banned the Incels subreddit. About fucking time; it was a cesspool of misogyny and violent hate. pic.twitter.com/8RieXtxZLN
— David Futrelle (@DavidFutrelle) November 8, 2017
HEALTH NOTE: Though cheered by tonight’s news, I’m still dealing with a shitstorm of health issues. I will return to regular posting as soon as I can, but I’m not sure when that will be. Thanks again for your patience and your support!
\o/ Yay to all the awesome victories, in this case the transwomen. 😀 That’s so amazing.
First seriously good news/ sign politically I’ve seen in a year since that dark day last November. May the mango maggot’s and his cronies’ idiocy continue to blow up in their faces.
Complacency isn’t in the cards, no, but I think we’re allowed a moment to breathe deep and celebrate.
I’d try to find a violin for the incels but it’s lost somewhere next to a H2O molecule in an ice cube in my drink.
P.S. Feeling better more important, David. We’ll leave the lights on for ya.
You guys, they have a new site for their message board. It’s literally incels.org XD
Come up with your ‘celsonas and join for the lulz/screenshots before it goes private and becomes hard to join.
Is anyone here from New Jersey? I’m curious what happened with Jerry Shi and Falguni Patel.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/02/racist-make-edison-great-flyers-target-cricket-new-jersey/
After all that racist bullshit, I really hope they pulled through.
EDIT:
NJ.com is reporting that the both won, so yay!
http://www.nj.com/middlesex/index.ssf/2017/11/nj_elections_2017_results_in_middlesex_county.html
I will give Trump credit for one thing. He showed me that I really shouldn’t be “Independent” any more. I think he’s shown a lot of people exactly what the Republican party is these days.
O’Reilly’s take on the election results appears to be, “OMG we must pass tax cuts now, or midterms will be horrible”. I’m going with “either way, you guys aren’t getting my vote”.
My father: “We need to keep bad people from getting guns”
Me: “I agree, more gun control would be good”
My father: “No, not that! We need to enforce existing laws.”
Me: “….”
Today is a good day! And you’re slogging along too, D.
That’s a plus.
Self and plenty I know are taking it one day at a time right now too, dealing with various issues.
We’ll do it, we’ll get there 🙂
Hugs 🙂
@Jen
I cracked up when literally the first thread I looked at had someone saying “We’re screwed if people find us.”
On incels.org.
Um …. sure thing, Sherlock? Gonna take some real heavy detecting to find you all. SMH.
I wonder if right-wingers will claim it was because the Republican establishment was undermining Trump?
David, sorry to hear that you’re still unwell. Take good care of yourself.
Also, thanks for getting Trump’s guys indicted. I’m pretty sure that some of your fancy photographs did the trick. Good work! Can Ivanka be next? That would be ideal — but really anyone in Trump’s sphere would do.
@David F.
Take good care of yourself & don’t worry about us. We’ll keep the place rolling until you return.
@ChimericMind
That was my initial response too! But hey, it’s real. Super happy for you peeps in the US on all this good news – I hope it’s a highly contagious virus of awesome, ’cause we could all use some infection 😀
I was going to post celebratory anime pics but I see OoglyBoggles has that covered (of course), so:
Finally, some great news! This ball needs to keep rolling.
Some tunes to celebrate:
That reinforce my belief that progressives will win in the end, at least on social matter. The only thing that can stop that is a revolution.
I got the impression there were a few incel-themed subreddits that randomly circulate between “inactive”, “made private”, “banned” and “opened by new name”.
The incels (on their new site) have a masterplan to foil people who monitor their activities. It’s to start a thread with a deliberately provocative title but then, post a movie spoiler.
So be careful David, don’t want you accidentally finding out Keyser Soze was a ghost all along.
Thank you, David, and hoping you enjoy better health soonsoonsoon.
oh, and re the previous thread:
https://genius.com/Lydia-liza-and-josiah-lemanski-baby-its-cold-outside-consent-lyrics
The Consent Lyrics! Keep the melody and structure, ditch the rape. (there are not a few songs that could do with this treatment …)
… So their big plan is word-for-word what I used to do to annoy forum mods I didn’t like when I was 15? Bloody hell.
To make the racist tears even more delicious I’m going to post this; this is the first vote in which thousands of Virginian ex-felons could vote. Since minorities are disproportionately ex-felons, all I can say is;
@racists
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@Buttercup
“Don’t worry, Republicans. We’ll be sure to send you thoughts and prayers.”
Gawd you’re amazing. I’m going to print that shit out and frame it.
Alan:
That’s ok, I’m over Kevin Spacey films.
YEAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Another incel.org movie spoiler:
In American Beauty, Lester is an MRA who creeps on vulnerable teenagers, Ricky is a stalker incel who was beaten to the punch by his dad this time, and the women and girls are merely props in the depiction of manpain.
And another incel.org spoiler:
In Se7en, Gwyneth Paltrow’s character cucks beta Brad Pitt when she gives head to another man.
I wonder whether incels have an equivalent of the Bechdel test?
@Hippodameia
May impotence strike them early on and mercilessly.
Congratulations to all American Mammotheers! The fight is not over, but this was a solidly-landed punch to the face of Orange Fascism.
Well, done, Reddit. You certainly took your sweet time but it’s appreciated that you finally came around. Now if only Twitter could ban the Nazis.
Well that explains why they made their site so easy to find. Incels are always going on about how nobody will screw them.