Then firebomb the police cars once they arrive.
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Community Rules
You must post before you leave
Be nice. Assume others have good intent (within reason).
Block or ignore posts, comments, and users that irritate you in some way rather than engaging. Report if they are actually breaking community rules.
Use content warnings and/or mark as NSFW when appropriate. Most posts with content warnings likely need to be marked NSFW.
Most 196 posts are memes, shitposts, cute images, or even just recent things that happened, etc. There is no real theme, but try to avoid posts that are very inflammatory, offensive, very low quality, or very "off topic".
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Proselytization, support, or defense of authoritarianism is not welcome. This includes but is not limited to: imperialism, nationalism, genocide denial, ethnic or racial supremacy, fascism, Nazism, Marxism-Leninism, Maoism, etc.
Avoid AI generated content.
Avoid misinformation.
Avoid incomprehensible posts.
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The road to hell might be paved with good intentions, but the road to trans rights is paved with very throwable bricks
This is the way.
I always carry an emergency activism brick in my purse. :3
Yes
pretty please start with Elon and Trump
Easily identifiable by their ugly red hats and stupid names like 'Elon'.
Crimes against TERFs aren't crimes
But only if we do it together... I dun have the confidence to rightfully hurt other people...
Yes, mommy.
where funny
The "rule" in title thing is so weird to me. Just why?
196 came into being on reddit long ago, and that is a cute (imo) holdover from then. The original community (195 I think) had 1 rule, post before you leave, and a second "rule", include "rule" in the title as a reference to the 1 rule.
It's not actually enforced of course, but it's part of the 196 culture
The question was why. The community name and sub on reddit was clearly seen on all views
Thats as best of a why as we got. Sometimes things don't have clear reasons or origins
They answered the "why".
Someone probably liked the idea of it when they wrote it down, and then other people participated and I guess they also liked it.
I'm gonna argue that if the question was "why do people drink soft drinks?", an answer like "because they taste good" is more accurate than "because they're full of sugar which interact with the sweet taste receptors (T1R2/T1R3)"
If you want the latter to be more accurate than the former you'd have to get into a whole bunch of complications like how people respond to hundreds if not thousands of volatile organic compounds, you'd have to get into how sometimes a little bit of the purest form of sulphuric farty rotten smells inexplicably makes people say things taste better, and at a certain point you're asking for a full scientific paper on the niche subject which still probably won't satisfy so there will need to be more work, more papers, a meta study of everything, and then finally you have a video by Hank Green's employees trying to condense it down into something a lemming can misinterpret in a 60 word reply to you, "explaining" why the 196 community likes titles with "rule" in them.
You're like a dentist at a LAN party. We won't be able to justify our decisions to you. We'll just keep chugging monster cans and you'll either come to terms with that, or you won't.
Calm the fuck down. I think it was pretty obvious that the answer I was given, "because we did on reddit", wasn't satisfying. Nothing to overthink here.
Go fuck yourself with a lathe.
Sociopathic people don't matter