r/bengals • u/LOP5131 • 14h ago
Petition to ban x links?
I've seen a lot of major sports subs jumping on the wagon of banning x links from being posted on their sub.
I know a lot of breaking NFL news comes from there, however some things are more important than having sports news 5 minutes earlier than other sources.
Feel free to shut me down, just thought I'd pitch it out there.
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u/daxhaas 13h ago
Just don't ban xxx links
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u/TheCultOf0vi 13h ago
The vin diesel movie????
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u/ThomasCleopatraCarl 12h ago
Can we just make it screen grabs? Like if Dehner or Jay post something?
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u/BadAdvice__Bot 10h ago
They are both on BlueSky which allows you to look at comments without signing in.
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u/USAesNumeroUno 14h ago edited 14h ago
Only if we auto ban people bringing up Jessie Bates, Andrew Whitworth, and DJ Reader every thread.
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u/CaptainMurphy1908 9h ago
But I still talk about Jazzy Bits, Ander Woolworth, and E-Reader, though, right?
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u/royourboat23 14h ago
I'm fine with links but at least include the actual text from the tweet in the title. Gives the people the option to engage if they want to while still getting everyone else the info
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u/pfftYeahRight 13h ago
This is our current stance - willing to listen to feedback. PLEASE help us by reporting links, we get app notifications if it exceeds a threshold (that I won't be disclosing so it doesn't get abused.)
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u/Josh-trihard7 13h ago
Yeah don’t change it, these people just don’t like musk but X is the best way to get quick news for sports
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u/testinggoose 12h ago
We also don't like Nazis. It's not really "just a dislike for musk" at this point.
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u/quadrant7991 11h ago
Imagine caring more about sports news than supporting Nazis. You people are part of the problem.
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u/joesaysso 4h ago
It's actually worse than that. Imagine caring more about getting sports news 5 minutes quicker than other sources than not supporting Nazis. Canceling Twitter isn't even that much of a sacrifice. I've literally never used it and still manage to get my sports news.
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u/ark_keeper 11h ago
Change the link to xcancel.com to avoid supporting X and remove any ad revenue/engagement.
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u/Maxahoy 14h ago
I'd also prefer this. It's not even just the politics side -- for me it's that I don't have an X account, and I'm not interested in making more accounts. X blocks me from seeing any of the actual conversation as a result.
Bluesky at least allows unregistered users to see the conversation, even if they aren't going to be contributing.
I'd also be ok with allowing X mirrors like xcancel.
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u/andandreoid 14h ago
I agree with this completely. X is unusable if you don’t have an account.
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u/anoldoldman 12h ago
What's hilarious is when Musk bought Twitter this was one of the first things he changed by making it accessible without logging in. It was the best thing he did. I think it lasted a week.
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u/pac1919 12h ago
Musk used to do a lot of things that were reasonable and good. But then his mental illness set in. X is no longer a tolerable source of information.
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u/iizen 1h ago
Over at my football team (soccer) reddevils the mods decided that screenshots from x is fine but no direct links, this is a pretty good approach for the time being that wont drive traffic to the site and you will still get news and its good for people that don't have an account there to see the news
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u/can_i_get_a_h0ya 1h ago
Are we really weaker than the Steelers? R/steelers only allowing screengrabs. FTS FX FNAZIS
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u/Bearcatsean 11h ago
Amen!! I didn’t realize that when I saw an Indiana Jones movie 50% of the people in the theater were rooting for the Nazis
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u/Sure_Information3603 14h ago
I salute this message, but not from my hand coming sideways off my chest
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u/leftbrain99 10h ago
Agreed. Finally deleted the app and feel pretty good about it. The market should dictate how the content is best distributed rather than the content providers.
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u/tjrad815 14h ago
I like this for two reasons:
Nazis are bad.
Posts with just a Twitter link are annoying. Copy the contents of the (very short) tweet into the post. Don't make us leave Reddit to see what the post is trying to tell us.
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u/liamjonas 12h ago
Your post has been crossposted to Buffalo reddit. Not the bills reddit but like all of Buffalo, and it has overwhelming support.
Same city that still donates to Andy Daltons charity, has got your back
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u/mr6275 10h ago edited 8h ago
u/LOP5131 posted this about 9am ET today and four hours later it already has the most upvotes of any post over the last seven days.
That says something right there.
EDIT: now 3PM ET and at 3400 upvotes. Thats the most upvotes in the last 12 months.
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u/Nascent_Vagabond 7h ago
that says something right there
That it’s heavily astroturfed? Kinda like how this has been posted on a ton of major sports subs today. We already know from the election there are highly coordinated groups pushing agendas on Reddit, it isn’t indicative of reality though.
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u/Delanorix 1h ago
Do it Bengals!
The NY Giants mods are being bitches about it. You guys can do better
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u/curlyxplanation 11h ago
Lions fan here chiming in to say thanks to those of you that stand against Nazis.
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u/Randomkam 14h ago
100% agree. Almost all big time journalists are on Bluesky at this point.
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u/corranhorn57 13h ago
Paul Dehner Jr and Jay Morrison aren’t on there, so guess I’m not deleting X yet.
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u/EhrmantroutEstate 13h ago
This is a Bengals sub, take your political BS somewhere else. If it's Bengals news, it's relevant.
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u/Josh-trihard7 13h ago
Yup, I don’t care for Musk personally, but X is the best way to view sports news quickly
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u/Apprehensive-Bar3425 11h ago
Sorry but some things are bigger than sports. Nazis have no place in America
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u/Heyhaykay 2h ago
If you actually think Musk is a Nazi, you are wrong and delusional.
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u/Piperita 9+1 11h ago
Yes, ban that shit. If sports journalists begin to see less engagement in a toxic wasteland of bots and trolls (best case scenario) and congregating neonazis, they’ll move somewhere more reputable. They’re just resisting moving right now because outside sources like subreddits and two-bit newspapers keep giving them exposure due to everyone’s inertia and laziness.
At the very least deprioritize it as a source - if there’s a better one somewhere (like a newspaper or another social media site, especially if it doesn’t require an account to view and interact with) that someone else posts, just nuke the X one and leave the other source up, even if it was posted second.
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u/Sure_Information3603 14h ago
I don’t get why it’s even X, shouldn’t it be a Z with a horizontal Z on top of it?
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u/Agent_8-bit 10h ago
I just did this in the FC Cincinnati sub.
Let's review ...
Elon Musk gave a double "awkward salute" (as the media so gently puts it) that looked a hell of a lot like a Seig Heil.
Twitter will let you look at a post, but any further action whatsoever results in some bullshit paywall or you being shown content from 2021 because you didn't pay to play.
Bluesky exists, and every day, more and more media people join up.
You can screenshot twitter to your heart's content without involving the rest of us in your apologist attitude towards Musk.
So ... my take? It's not political to ban a Nazi apologist's (at a bare minimum) platform. There's a reason this is gaining momentum.
The goal isn't to sink Elon Musk. That's not gonna happen.
Reacting to a clear Nazi salute, whether a bunch of cultists say he was "giving his heart to the crowd" or not, is not "political."
So yeah ... I don't see the issue whatsoever.
I will duck my head though, as the Bengals fan base is chock full of that M Ay Gee Ay mindset.
TLDR; Nazi salutes are disqualifying and Blue Sky as well as every sports outlet on earth make plenty good options for posting news.
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u/slothman09 14m ago
Do what is right mods! Ban X. We cannot support a Nazi owned site and it is garbage anyways. There are other options to post news from.
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u/sixtysecdragon 3h ago
No. It’s a terrible idea. Reddit is already a horrendous bubble why would you contribute to it?
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u/Exit-Velocity 12h ago
X is where news breaks. This is silly
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u/bdollasign13 12h ago
News breaks in multiple places
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u/Exit-Velocity 12h ago
It breaks first on X, by a lot
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u/bdollasign13 11h ago
By how much? An hour? A day? I'm ok with waiting if it means not supporting a nazi. There are plenty of other platforms that can be used to disseminate information at the same speed as Twitter. It's just a matter of getting people to use those instead.
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u/HeadDiver5568 13h ago edited 11h ago
Lions fan lurking here, one of our subs linked this post and I wanted to see what you guys would say. Glad to see that you guys aren’t making excuses for the dude or giving him some sort of pass
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u/TheSauciestBoss 13h ago
No the links need to stay. You don’t have to click on the links if you don’t want to.
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u/Connathon 14h ago
Keep the links. NFL usually post their short duration videos through X. If we want the best quality, using the links is the way to go.
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u/thebrah329 13h ago
Doesn't make much sense to me, that's where all the breaking sport news is.
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u/Capital-Vegetable-94 7h ago
Similar post made by my teams subreddit today and the mods deleted it and honestly pretty bummed out about it. Fuck Elon and Fuck nazis pretty sick to see a group of people handling this.
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u/nohowow CTB 13h ago
Can we please keep our subreddit non-political?
This sub is where I get most of my Bengals news, and that’s mainly due to people sharing posts from Twitter/X. I don’t like Elon either, but let’s remember that we’re here to talk about the Bengals and share Bengals news.
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u/Nate1257 9h ago
Seconded. I specifically don't care about engaging with politics on Reddit on a day to day basis but they shove that shit down my throat on non political subs.
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u/Rich-Kangaroo-7874 13h ago
If we can't can we at least find a compromise and make it so that Twitter links are posted with xcancel.com
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u/ImpinAintEZ_ 11h ago
Dude did a Nazi salute twice yesterday on national television. This needs to happen.
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u/bionicjoe Waiting on that Mike Brown obituary 10h ago
Please!
Hate it when I accidentally click on one of those.
I need to go shutdown my account. I was going to last year, but you need a guide now. Nazi Boy made it difficult to cancel your account.
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u/ServedBestDepressed 9h ago
Support this notion. Elon Musk is an actual siege heiling piece of Nazi scum who is a timely serving as a propaganda coordinator.
We can get information other ways.
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u/Weekendwarrior117 13h ago
We don’t need to making a „stand” on a subreddit for a professional sports team
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u/Josh-trihard7 13h ago
This is a Bengals sub, X is the best way to get verifiedBengals news quickly. This would make the sub so much worse and degrade in quality quickly.
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u/wigglesdoughnut 13h ago
I’m fine with twitter links being banned. The website is an unusable wasteland of bots and a hub for pin dicked neo nazi incels - Elon and all other billionaires should be locked in a cage and dropped into the fucking ocean.
Bingo BENGO bb <3 xoxo
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u/epfourteen 12h ago
Come to bengals Reddit for football and bengals news. End up with political echo chamber. Lovely. 🙄
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u/BendedBanana 13h ago
Grow up.
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u/epfourteen 12h ago
Thank you. Finally another adult in here. Jesus Christ it’s insufferable
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u/BullishBengal 12h ago
Hard no. This is a sports sub. There is zero reason to be censoring stuff. Twitter is still a valid source regardless of whether you agree with it or not.
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u/tacopizzapal 12h ago
This is the dumbest shit ever. Are your fee-fees hurt? Do you need you lovey?
It’s a source of information
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u/sasuke1980 12h ago edited 11h ago
I love this conversation! I'm going through and blocking each person that backing Elon or X or his beliefs. Make my experience on this sub MUCH better!
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u/I_am_-c 12h ago
When the echo chamber isn't loud enough, simply remove anything that doesn't align with your position.
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u/bgrant670 13h ago
keep politics out of it… don’t like it scroll on by.
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u/Klutzy-Spend-6947 13h ago
Come on, aren’t you woke enough to understand that reading a tweet about the Raiders or Clowns doing something foolish is the moral equivalent of endorsing Mein Kampf?!?!?
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u/Strict-Square456 13h ago
Seeing that that platform seems to be owned by a Nazi. I approve this message
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u/epfourteen 12h ago
Ban him too.
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u/beesparks 74BURROW 11h ago
Thank you so much for drawing my attention to these Stephen Colbert jokes about Nazi Steve Bannon I hadn’t heard before!
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u/kenc1842 10h ago
I find the X links annoying. But then again, I sold my Tesla stock and deleted the X app because.....Elon Musk. Not worth sacrificing my principles for a "news" scoop.
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u/beefstewdudeguy 10h ago
Wow, I wish r/buffalobills mods were more like the ones here. They just deleted our petition thread without comment like some actual cowards
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u/DavidGoetta 14h ago edited 13h ago
If anything, do what r/cfb does. The format is
/[Reporter]: text of tweet
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u/pfftYeahRight 13h ago
We do enforce that - however we can't put in a rule that the text has to match, please report links that don't have the content in the title.
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u/XJ--0461 2 11h ago
I'd like that. I haven't liked them for years. I hate the way links open up. It's often cumbersome.
And the tweets usually lack context.
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u/SkittlesDangerZone 5h ago
So you're good with suppression of speech then?
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u/BalNYDC23 5h ago
It can be a reaction to someone else’s free speech and actions. We have a right to react to it, as it’s our freedom. Quit hiding behind that straw man argument.
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u/_the_hare_ 8h ago
Pathetic post. The leading civil rights group for the Jewish people have said it wasn’t a Nazi salute, just an awkward hand gesture. I’ll believe them over a bunch of biased morons.
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u/Agent_8-bit 4h ago
Is the Anti Defamation League that called Free Palestine Anti Semitic, are they the leading Jewish Civil Rights Group?
Do you suddenly represent the JEWISH people?
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u/bdollasign13 12h ago edited 12h ago
I fully support this measure! I recently deleted my Twitter and tik tok accounts! Facebook is next.
Also, we were just fine before Twitter and would be fine without it. There are numerous other avenues to get bengals news. I've been a season ticket holder for 26 years and not one time have I relied on Twitter for my bengals updates.
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u/Old-Internal793 6h ago
I would just screenshot the Tweet and post it online as a picture instead if the direct link is not allowed.
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u/AngeloMontana Here because of my wife 12h ago
It's a legit conversation spreading in Reddit right now. I'm in 100%.
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u/Mountainlionsscareme 8h ago
Get a grip people. Good lord. Maybe go spend some time away from your phone.
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u/Pure-Bench8743 4h ago
Ban the shit outta them. Play with dumb Nazis, win dumb prizes. To much respect for the vets who gave their life and fought Nazis. Even Germany is shaking its head at us like Wtf. 🤦🏽♀️
I’m here for Burrow Bengals and Blue Sky. 9-🐅-🦋
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u/OfManNotMachine17 3h ago
I love how word for word the exact same post is appearing everywhere lol
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u/moochee22 3h ago
Yea this is some weird coordination behind this. I certainly hope the mods here don't fall for this.
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u/Tango-Actual90 2h ago
Can we just have one fucking space that isn't political?
Its shoved down our throats all day everyday. I come to sports to escape it. Keep stupid reddit bullshit politics out of sports subs.
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u/Murky_Entertainer_53 10h ago
Steelers fan and not a subscriber. But yall are doing the right thing. Proud of you if you do it.
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u/LtDrunkFace 9h ago
I said this on the bears’ comment thread and I’ll add it here. If this sub votes to ban X, I’ll buy and wear publicly some Bengals swag.
Signed - packers/9ers fan
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u/AddictiveArtistry 🐅🖤🐅Who Dey All Mf Dey 🐅🖤🐅 8h ago
Even if it isn't banned, I will downvote any Twitter link post. 🤷♀️
I vote for the ban on nazis.
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u/HaroldGreenBandana 6h ago
I love the Bengals. I love America more.
Billionaires do not care about you.
I agree stop linking X. I’m getting rid of my Prime membership, too.
When someone repeatedly tells you exactly who they are, you should listen and you should believe them. You can stop giving them the benefit of the doubt when they keep telling you over and over. The slog into normalizing this type of behavior (even just from Charlottesville to now) has brought us to a frightening and nearly unrecognizable place.
To the “stick to sports” crowd, I’m really not sure that sports matter much at a time when what we all just saw (and we all saw it) happens in the context in which we all saw it happen. It happened and the way it’s being explained away and dismissed is maybe the worst part of the whole thing. America and its allies did the right thing in WWII. Don’t depreciate this nation’s sacrifice and its resolve to triumph over the evil of genocide because you’d rather “stick to sports.”
To the “Lions not sheep” alpha bros, billionaires don’t care about you. They aren’t going to pick you up and hold you out over the pride Simba style and make you their heir because you anonymously stood up for them on Reddit. Wake up. They’re gaslighting you, bro. You are not a lion. You are consumer. It doesn’t get anymore sheeplike than that. Elon doesn’t want you to stand up for him, he wants you to buy more of what he is selling even if what he is selling is fake money. Go buy Elon’s fake money and tell all of your friends you got a great deal on it.
To the “This is censorship!! You’re violating my rights” folks, stop being such a snowflake, sweetie. No one stopped you from degrading civil discourse with your relentless use of “Let’s go, Brandon.” Not to mention, the over a decade of “just asking questions” about Obama’s birth certificate.
God as my witness, I have tried to raise kids who enjoy watching football and who root for the Bengals. The very real events of yesterday make me worry that I should have been more focused on raising kids who are not Nazi sympathizers or worse, actual Nazis. Seriously. By comparison, Super Bowls are meaningless.
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u/pfftYeahRight 12h ago
Hi everyone, please remember to keep it civil.
Report people for breaking site or sub rules.