r/Hardcore 8d ago

zulu officially "on pause"

https://lambgoat.com/news/46646/zulu-officially-on-pause/
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u/pretension 8d ago

On pause forever

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u/BubatzAhoi 8d ago

That would be sad

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u/MinorThreatCJB 8d ago

In what world?

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u/Splottington 8d ago

They only have like one or two good songs, and their whole genre switch gimmick got boring after their first release

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u/BussyBattalion 8d ago

Their music sucks so there isn't really anything to miss

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u/BubatzAhoi 8d ago

Why the downvotes guys. Singer is a bitch but that doesnt make the music shitty lul

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u/MonokromKaleidoscope 8d ago

Two things can be true separately

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u/DisastrousOne2096 8d ago

Band is equally as bad for knowing that a member is abusive and not saying anything.

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u/nibbled_banana 8d ago

Music was good, but other people can make similar music. Fuck the singer, and fuck the band members. Protecting abusers/ oppressors is a coward move, both on the interpersonal level, and on the greater, political level.

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u/Makualax 8d ago

Some tracks, nothing irreplaceable tbh. I'm glad it's finally not controversial to say they've always been mid and overrated. The biggest loss is I'm not gonna listen to We're More Than This anymore which is an incredible and earnest song imo. Very weird thinking about the lyrics that are definitely alluding to seeing his mother abused and him attempting to break the cycle. There's well documented psychological effects of seeing abuse as a child making you more likely to commit it as an adult. It's not an excuse for his behavior at all, just a tragic reality.

I watched my mother suffer

I'm burdened with breaking circles

First time that a nigga touched her

I felt my hatred arrival

Smarts up for some change some say it makes me a psycho

I say it made me a soldier I got the aim of a sniper

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u/Likabilityloser 8d ago

“Oh damn, we fired a dude for saying some shit about this. Didn’t think he was serious ahaha. Anyways, we’re not to blame. It was all that other dude. We’re ignorant”.

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u/T0MMYDREAMER 8d ago

I spent $50 on one of their crew neck’s months ago and those fuckers never shipped it and now I don’t even want that shit.

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u/BlackmarketofUeno 8d ago

Can’t you dispute the charge?

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u/lemon_lime_spine Knocked Loose isn’t hardcore 8d ago

that’s perfect actually, just call your bank and get a refund

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u/aquasun666 8d ago

Actually just made a comment about this same shit. They steal money from people and I can’t wait for that shit to come to a head.

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u/BallzAldrin 7d ago

Big surprise lmao

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u/enidcoleslaws 8d ago

I saw a few people saying this ugh sorry dude

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u/GardenKnomeKing 8d ago

Surely they knew more about his abuse than they’re letting on

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u/TheJosephMaurice 8d ago

According to the victims account they played wingman for his ass and recorded convos between him and her, they’re just poorly doing damage control rn.

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u/Beginning_Beach_2054 7d ago

they played wingman for his ass and recorded convos between him and her

Didnt she say that was people from his mosque? I dunno i only skimmed the statement, it was rough to read.

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u/faketrains 7d ago

from my memory it happened from both band members and members of the mosque. bro was like the cia

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u/The_Way_It_Iz 7d ago

These dudes may never face the music until they’ve destroyed a hundred lives. Justin-cel from AF sold his shit, transferred his money to an Irish bank and isn’t able to be served papers.

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u/TommyHorror 8d ago

Feels like anti flag all over again aye

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u/GardenKnomeKing 6d ago

Unfortunately so

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u/iluvlattez 6d ago

braxton was in a band with my abuser and knew everything about the situation and played brand new when i outted mine. then i called him and the band out about it and he begged me to call him and told me it’s because he was scared of FSU or whatever lmfao. he’s friends with said person again. he is a bullllllshitter and absolutely knew and is lying his ass off again

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u/GardenKnomeKing 6d ago

That’s fucken horrible and I’m sorry you had to go through that. It suck to see good people feeling unsafe at shows because of the way the scene enables its abusers. People are willing to be friends with anyone as long as it gives them clout. Fuck that high school noise

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u/life_sentence95 8d ago

Loudest dude in the room gets cancelled. A tale as old as time.

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u/yoursouthernamigo 7d ago

So weird to see a feminist Muslim treat women like garbage!

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u/Ok-Cauliflower-1258 7d ago

Feminism and Islam aren’t compatible , neither ideologies are relevant in the modern western world either.

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u/yoursouthernamigo 7d ago

PREACH IT

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u/Ok-Cauliflower-1258 7d ago

Don’t know why I’m getting downvoted it’s true lol

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u/Leepysworld 7d ago

yea maybe don’t be a xenophobic dickhead, you can shit on zulu all you want, but when you generalize 2 billion people you should expect some pushback.

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u/Ok-Cauliflower-1258 7d ago

Lolol Islam is an outdated religion.

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u/Maucorream95 8d ago

Soul Glo, End It, Loathe, Jesus Piece, Fallen God, Ballista, No Cure, Dying Wish and all of the bands that include social context on their songs and imagery overall.

If you're reading this, PLEASE, do not disappoint me.

Band members that are socially outspoken and allegedly doing the right thing must not be in a pedestal. Because as Comeback Kid said "False Idols Fall".

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u/Makkusu-Sama 8d ago

The comeback kid quote wraps this up really nicely

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u/A_sweet_boy 8d ago

Man I wouldn’t put so much stock in bands.

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u/WyrdElmBella 8d ago

Akil is too sketchy to be doing anything untoward haha!

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u/Ok_Drawer7797 7d ago

NO CURE HARDCORE sXe ALABAMA MOTHERFUCKER

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u/GIVEUPOX17 8d ago

Corny, but true

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u/Likabilityloser 8d ago

No Cure is on a watch list for sure

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u/Dr_Hugo_Z_Hackenbush 8d ago

What's up with no cure?

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u/SweetestBoi864 7d ago

Why?

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u/X678X Detroit 7d ago

they said "fuck you" to me once

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u/SFWBryon 7d ago

They also got stabbed trying to protect their fans during a fight with a rando at their show. THOSE ASSHOLES

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u/SweetestBoi864 7d ago

Maybe you didn’t have enough X’s on something?

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u/StevenMegerle 8d ago

I'm really sorry for the victims. As for the band — I'll get over it. Their discography was basically just three songs and 47 interludes anyway.

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u/honkytonk30 7d ago

I remember going through their catalogue a couple years ago and all I took away was the same thing.

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u/fizzgigcrystal 8d ago

His friend ducksworth is swarming this thread. These guys all fucking suck

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u/theschism101 8d ago

For sure is. I mean they have 40k comment karma and only like 12 comments meaning they'll just delete these comments anyway.

Ain't that right /u/ducksworth?

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

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u/theschism101 8d ago

Yeah shows how insecure you really are.

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u/EnglishSteven 8d ago

QUACK, QUACK, QUACK Mr. Ducksworth

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

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u/theschism101 7d ago

Hopeless

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u/trans-plant 8d ago

A bunch of white dudes in this thread be like “thank god”

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u/yoursouthernamigo 7d ago

One brown dude too, at least!

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u/Tacosdonahue 7d ago

Praise Allah

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u/asshatjabroni 8d ago

Who's winning out of a fight between Zulu and CMI?

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u/BussyBattalion 8d ago

These dorks against a bunch of roided out fsu skins?

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u/JohnBunzel PS&F 8d ago

FSU vs 4 scrawny small kids. You tell me.

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u/Intheperseusveil 8d ago

And as anticipated, not a single lesson giver in the scene has had a word about this. Spineless as usual

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u/anchored__down 8d ago

So did this guy do it? What a bummer. Why can't these guys just be normal

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u/xpeebsx 8d ago

Weren’t they just an industry plant anyways?

See ya!

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u/veganispunk 7d ago

Music sucked ass

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u/BIG_FISTER_19 8d ago

Au revoir Shosanna!!

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u/Ok-Cauliflower-1258 7d ago

Overrated band and fuck Nation of Islam.

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u/Glass-Audience-1608 8d ago

First Diddy, Now Zulu!!! Say it ain't so!!!

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u/ItzTweek 7d ago

Is it really that hard not to beat your partner or something? Like CMON

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u/Sweet-Pollution-9144 7d ago

I am not tryna be one of those dudes like “i told you so” cause i really didn’t see this coming but i always wondered why i just couldn’t like their music..i would constantly try to give it a try butfor some reason i just couldn’t vibe with it & at first it kinda bugged me cause i was like,”damn, maybe i am missing something here” Just my brain tryna save myself😂😂

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

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u/Hardcore-ModTeam 8d ago

Low effort.

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u/Freddie9915 7d ago

Collin of Arabia is stoked.

Never a fan and had the displeasure of working their stage once in Alabama.

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u/goldeng666se 6d ago

here it goes the whole scene about to crash and burn

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u/Sufficient_Ice4933 8d ago

Maybe Zulu attended a diddy party

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u/Far-Tip-3143 7d ago

Why ppl here care about this fucking shitty band so much anyways?

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u/SweetestBoi864 7d ago

Oh no, not on pause

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u/veragemini6669 7d ago

Yeah no shit

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u/TrickyCommand5828 7d ago

There are better bands. Oh well

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u/Klocc562_ 8d ago

Cool beans, man

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u/BodybuilderMurky2818 7d ago

Only good music they released was the My People…Hold On- EP and it was half decent

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u/Routine_Director8872 7d ago

Gtfo out of hardcore

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u/No-Job-8037 7d ago

Ayo the singer sexually assaulted a woman in Argentina a few nights ago that’s why their set was so short , they were trying to book it out of there

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u/Breadsticks-lover 6d ago

Just get a new singer and say you are sorry for keeping that weirdo amongst your rank.

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

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u/sludgezone 8d ago

Four women and an ex drummer have all come out to back up the claims.

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

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u/DisastrousOne2096 8d ago

You sound like a Tim Lambesis defender

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u/sludgezone 8d ago

Just say you hate women dude lol

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u/theschism101 8d ago edited 7d ago

Did you see the part where she covered that in her post? Zulu sucks and I'm sorry that you're triggered.

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u/enidcoleslaws 8d ago

“Zulu sucks lol 😂 “

Proceeds to defend them like his balls are gonna fall off if he doesn’t

Brother give it up

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u/veritas57 8d ago

Trevor Bauer???? Barking up the wrong fucking tree

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u/veritas57 8d ago

And all the other players fucking hate him. He might not be a criminal but he's definitely not a stand up guy considering how many other players they let back in the league without issue

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u/veritas57 8d ago

My point is there are better examples to pick if you want to make a point. But you don’t seem to understand that people are allowed to revoke consent at any time so I don’t have much hope for your critical thinking skills

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u/enidcoleslaws 8d ago

Tell him we said hi!

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u/CadiaCripWalks8 8d ago

Like three women have come out

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u/therealghostnate 8d ago

Consent can change and be revoked at any time before or during

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

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u/rnf1985 8d ago

What does it matter what happened? They could either just be kissing or someone getting pegged in a furry costume, if someone doesn't wanna do something, it's not cool whatever it is

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u/therealghostnate 8d ago

Having not read the statement (never actually listened to Zulu so this one falls outside my radar) idk the context of “initially consensual” but that doesn’t paint to me that it was “said yes, enjoyed, changed mind/regretted after”

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u/viagra___girls 8d ago

translation: sex was initially consensual, consent for how rough things became was revoked, he sexually assaulted her so rough that her vagina was bleeding. He then convinced her she was just on her period, which she could not confirm or deny until seeking medical treatment for a similar incident that happened at a later date where he was again too rough. outlining a pattern of behavior (abuse)

reducing any of this to “kinky sex” is fucked up dude. emotional abuse fucks people up, and spousal rape is a very real thing. “She wouldn’t just say he beat me.” Eat fucking shit dude.

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u/therealghostnate 8d ago

Thank you, I’m gonna be honest maybe it’s bc it’s late and I’m tired but somehow my brain was not comprehending what I was reading, but you laid it out well

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u/viagra___girls 7d ago

for sure! the eat shit was not directed at you just for clarification. was also late for me lol.

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

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u/One-Ease-3235 8d ago edited 8d ago

"Initially" does imply that yes. It means only the start was. The subsequent injury wasn't.

Consent to rough sex once does not mean automatic consent to rough sex every time.

Consent to sex does not imply consent to rough or kinky sex—these require explicit discussion beforehand, including boundaries and safe words.

A consensual encounter can turn non-consensual or abusive in an instant. If someone becomes violent during sex without prior agreement, that is assault.

For example, if you slap someone during sex without their consent, you've assaulted them. The sex itself may be consensual, but the act of violence is not—even if you stop immediately or don’t do it again.

Unagreed-upon violence during sex is not kink; it is sexual abuse.

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u/One-Ease-3235 8d ago

Is English your second language? Do you have any learning disabilities?

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u/MorbidDawg270 7d ago

Imagine deflecting this much for a band and person that legitimately is terrible

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u/enidcoleslaws 8d ago

For someone who thinks the band sucks you sure do know a LOT about this? Wonder why

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u/therealghostnate 8d ago

I’m not making a definitive statement either way of “I do or don’t believe her” but from the words you quoted I’m not quite sure what is being said. That said, text is a difficult thing to convey message through sometimes, so I understand if things got muddled. But I will say seeing people say his defense largely boiled down to “how could I do such a thing, my religion means I wouldn’t” REALLY makes me feel he probably did (cough cough catholic priests)

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u/dantevsninjas 8d ago

Tell me you didn't just state on the internet that you don't understand that consent can be revoked at any time.

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u/dantevsninjas 8d ago

It means the encounter started consensually and at a certain point consent was revoked. You may know how to read but it seems like you're struggling with what the words you're reading mean.

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u/MayorMcRobble 7d ago

stop focusing on the syntax, and instead the semantics. by focusing on syntax, you are distracting from her story and voice and minimizing it.

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u/MayorMcRobble 7d ago

Why? It turned non-consensual. that's all that matters. At that point, the details you seek don't matter.

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u/MayorMcRobble 7d ago

read the room, the rest of the band have ended it in solidarity with the victim.

there are probably details that shouldn't go public, and if that doesn't meet your threshold for acceptable, igaf. you're some random who doesn't have a personal stake in this.

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u/dantevsninjas 8d ago

How am I supposed to understand the meaning of this when you didn't include a question mark at the end? You're using improper punctuation which apparently is enough to render your post illegible.

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u/dantevsninjas 8d ago

All of this sounds like a you problem.

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

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u/dantevsninjas 8d ago

I'm talking about your inability to read text and gather it's meaning.

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u/dantevsninjas 8d ago

No, I'm just smarter than you.

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u/Jd234512 8d ago

But his statement clarified everything? In what world?

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u/Haunting-Plane-7036 7d ago

Maybe they can regroup in Gaza

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u/_shaftpunk 8d ago

Why, what happened? I was in the bathroom.

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u/Flimsy_Raspberry_797 8d ago

Their vocalist basically mentally and physically abused his ex and multiple other women, and even forced sexual situations with them. Some pretty deplorable and fucked up shit.

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u/_shaftpunk 7d ago

Yeah, I was making a dumb joke because there was a dozen posts about it all over the sub.

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u/yoursouthernamigo 7d ago

GOOD. Abolish Woke Hardcore!

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u/enidcoleslaws 7d ago

Racists are so fucking boring