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Okay dude, this is a warning to both you and to @fuckduck9000, below, who just like you, expresses an opinion I largely agree with but chose to do so in a maximally unkind and inflammatory way.
Yes, I get it, it's fun to dunk on dorks and other members of your outgroup, and you particularly delight in dunking on chicks who could be TRP poster girls. @fuckduck9000's speculations about the pathologies that led you here were unnecessary, but he's not wrong that a woman posting a rant about unfuckable incel losers in response to a dude posting a sad dating resume like this would get reported to death. (And in fact, you have collected an impressive number of reports - six, to date - considering you're spilling venom in a way that's usually pretty popular with mottizens.)
I know you're going to get really mad at me because I'm spoiling your fun and you just don't understand why you can't just say that bitches be crazy lol. Frankly, I'm not having it - I'll bet you at least suspected before you clicked the post button that you'd get modded for this, and you chose to do it anyway because you enjoyed letting 'er rip too much.
Chads and stacies and incels, evolutionary psychology, TRP, the effects of social media and feminism and whatever else on the dating market, women regretting their life choices and turning into childless neurotics who see "The Wall" approaching - those are all valid topics of discussion, and we've certainly had enough threads about them in the past. What we do not want to become is a place to just dunk on the chads or the stacies because it's fun and someone made a fool of herself on the Internet. The OP was a reasonable top-level post. Lots of the discussion has been reasonable, even if not always kind or charitable. Your post was just "LOL delusional dried up slut" expressed with slightly more words.
Yeah, I chuckled. In fact, I admit your posts often make me chuckle and sigh before I mod you. But you still knew better. You've been warned often enough in the past. Considering your lengthy rap sheet and that @naraburns recently warned that we are going to start cracking down on cheap shot comments that degrade the quality of discourse, consider yourself fortunate you are not eating a ban for this.
What's "TRP"?
“The Red Pill.”
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Good. Shows you aren't completely hollowed out. I hope you can hold onto that much of your humanity as long as possible.
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Wait, what did fuckduck9000 do wrong? I can easily imagine things that could be said to WhiningCoil in response to his comment that would be much much more unkind and inflammatory than anything that I have seen fuckduck9000 write to him.
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