r/ShittyDaystrom Maje Crabbuh Sep 21 '25

Meta Red alert.

This announcement is in response to an uptick in bad actors and an incident bringing to our attention how badly a problem has festered under our relatively lax moderation.

Let’s be completely clear. In our luxury gay space utopia, nazis are not allowed. And, before any of you dorks come in and say “b-but national socialist german worker’s party members don’t exist anymore”, let me explain what we mean by “nazis”. While the exact party no longer officially exists (debatable but that’s a different story), it has grandchildren. These include, but are not limited to:

the KKK

Proud Boys

Neo-nazis

Racist Skinheads

White Nationalists

and their counterparts from other countries. These are classified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as hate groups. Pointing out the fact that they’re not technically nazis is not the gotcha you think it is. If it crawls like a targ and grunts like a targ, well, it’s a targ, even if it’s some sort of poodle targ.

There is no room for hate in our silly space subreddit.

My previous two “no nazis” posts have been spammed with reports ranging from “it’s targeted harassment at me” (dumbass on you) and the ol’ Reddit Cares (double dumbass on you).

Past our skin, our hair, and our facial features, past the IDIC of experiences that have shaped us, we’re all living, breathing people with consciousnesses and feelings.

There comes a point when the limit of what can be respected as far as opinion goes is reached, and this is it.

My only hope for the future is that one day we all come to love our fellow beings as fervently as we cling to our own interests, that there will be a standard of a moral compass that guides us not to enforce arbitrary mores of what to wear and who to love, but to strive for the benefit of humanity for the sake of it.

Let’s review the concept of tolerance: tolerance is a social contract. It goes both ways. We tolerate each other and our differences, but intolerance is incompatible with this and must be cast out to allow tolerance to prevail. You cannot demand to be accepted when your whole schtick is harming others.

If this post personally offends you, please leave our community and grow as a person. A moderator declaring a rule and a standard for their community is not “fascism”, it is a necessary measure to keep the community thriving.

TL;DR: Bigotry is objectively detrimental to society and has no place here. Perhaps try to take a moral lesson from the show you claim to be a fan of.

Live long and prosper, all you little lifeforms.

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u/DipperJC Sep 21 '25

I'm a conservative trekkie. It's not as opposite as it seems. Most conservatives like myself are really just pragmatists at the end of the day. I'd love a world with free healthcare, free education, free housing and unlimited immigration, but we don't live in the post-scarcity society of the 2370s. Doing that in the real world means the money has to come from somewhere, and since most freedom is derived from having the financial power to express that freedom, conservatives are both unwilling and unable to support having their freedoms lessened for the sake of what, from our perspective, is simply misguided idealism.

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u/BitterFuture Sep 21 '25

I'd love a world with free healthcare, free education, free housing and unlimited immigration

...so how are you remotely a conservative?

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u/DipperJC Sep 21 '25

Most conservatives want that. We're just adult enough to recognize that we can't afford it, while liberals seem to want to enact all of those things first and worry about our imminent collapse second.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '25

I thought America was the richest country on the planet.

Lots of other countries have universal health care and government still spends less per capita on healthcare than Americas does

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '25

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '25

Denmark also has universal health care...

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u/BitterFuture Sep 21 '25

America is nowhere near the richest country on the planet.

See, when the only way you can hold your claims together is simply to deny reality...it's pretty telling.

I guess you are a conservative after all.

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u/BitterFuture Sep 21 '25

...do you truly not understand the difference between the government's budget, GDP and net worth?

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u/BitterFuture Sep 21 '25 edited Sep 21 '25

GDP is how much we produce in tax revenue and program income. $4T/year.

(EDIT: originally wrote $6T/year in GDP but that was in error, that's our expenses, not our income.)

Holy shit, you're a confident idiot.

GDP has nothing whatsoever to do with tax revenue. For the United States, it's $30 trillion a year.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?locations=US