What's the most innocuous thing you've ever posted that sent someone into a rage?

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I said that someone would be justified in using lethal force to protect their dog from someone trying to kill it, and half the forum lost their minds.

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I said that someone would be justified in using lethal force to protect their dog from someone trying to kill it, and half the forum lost their minds.

FWIW I agree with you on the issue but think the point was missed after looking up the original thread: if someone breaks into your house and poses a threat to your pet, they also pose a threat to you and you have grounds for personal self-defense. Even if they insist they're only there to kill your dog and have no intention of killing you, you have no reason or obligation to believe them.

Most people would consider their pet to be a member of their family. It’s obviously justified, both legally and morally, to use lethal force when the lives of your family members are in peril. Many posters in that thread (probably one of the worst threads in Atlas history tbh) said that you should value the life of your pet’s attempted murderer than the life of your pet, which is just ghastly


I used this as my example in this thread because 99% of pet owners in real life would tell you that of course someone would be justified in this case. It wouldn’t even be a debate. This is just one of those weird cases where terminally online people try to “um ackshually” something that’s obvious to normal people. It’s kinda like when some Rose Twitter types get really mad when a store owner beats up someone who tried to rob them

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I used the word "cuck" in an ironic way and JacksonHitchcock called me a "homophobe."

I'm pretty sure he was just trolling in the usually ineffective way he always did though.

Idk what that poster's politics were, but I've noticed that because "cuck" was a popular word in alt right circles, many liberals and progressives have a kneejerk reaction to it and assume that anyone who uses the word cuck in any context must be a far right incel.

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Not necessarily on Atlas/TE although you can mention something you posted here if so.

Anyway I posted about being banned from r/atheism just for posting a Furnace Fest video but I once posted this in a 2000s emo/hardcore Facebook group:

That's it. That was the entire post.

....and some guy got infuriated, accused me and the band of supporting genocide and went on some deranged rant that had people laughing at him including many who weren't Christian until he left the group in a huff.

I also got a bunch of people on Reddit pretty triggered for pointing out in r/Minneapolis that....there was much cheaper parking about two blocks away from a music venue, and then was accused of controlling behavior and emotional abuse.

I'm not sure if this counts as innocuous since I can understand why my post could be considered problematic, but Santander's response to me referring to Tim Scott as "Uncle Tim" was very over the top. He begged the mods to ban me for saying that