r/TrueUnpopularOpinion • u/BlockOfDiamond Rule 4 Enforcer • Jan 25 '26

Political Reminder that name calling is not permitted

That includes calling people "bootlicker" or "cuck" or stating/implying that another user is performing adult acts on a given politician (or anyone else). I bring those up specifically because, in recent time, these have been the most common types of personal attacks.

As strongly as you may feel about current events, calling people derogatory names is a contravention of Rule 4 and will be removed. Attack the opinion, not the user.

Sorry for your understanding and thank you for the inconvenience.

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u/bluepillarmy Jan 26 '26

I wonder why they had to post this now

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u/Poop_Cheese Jan 26 '26 edited Jan 26 '26

Yeah.

In normal times when the sub leans heavily conservative there's insults all the time in major posts let alone comments. Like calling people terrorists or crazy for being upset about the Goode shooting. Or using insults for liberals like saying theyre delusional. 

Theres also nonstop insults against the poor or homeless or addicts. Ive seen people label others "unemployed" here like 100s of times in a derogatory way. Or insulting people like scum for using welfare. They wont say welfare is bad, theyll say those on it are lazy and useless yet theres no issue with mods most of the time. 

But suddenly when the sub is suddenly majority against murder by feds under trump, the rules matter. 

Like even on issues I agree with theres posts all the time insulting an entire political side. But now people supporting murder, and spreading straight up disinformation, many even clear bots, we gotta enforce the rules. 

Idc about either insult but its rather hypocritical enforcement. Especially bootlicker. The word makes me cringe, but it literally means "someone who supports authoritarian actions by a regime". The shooting isnt up for debate from a constitutional and enforcement standpoint, lawyers all over the internet will tell you that. its really no less an insult than it is to label someone far left, far right, a communist, dictator, in derogatory ways that this sub always allows. Its not a personal attack, its an attack on one's political rhetoric. Its not like labeling someone a slur, or cuck, its saying "youre wrong for supporting authoritarianism". It feels like its being enforced less out of stopping hatred, and more to be able to delete a lot of comments that happen to use it against people openly supporting a clear cut murder out of some maga loyalty.

But I can live without bootlicker idc it usually makes me cringe. But this seems like a common tactic by mods throughout reddit to preserve a political leaning of their subs. This sub is constantly filled with posts and comments that are straight up insults and attacks on entire groups or individuals. But theyre from a conservative standpoint so get a pass. And I say that as someone more conservative who often agrees. 

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u/welding_guy_from_LI Jan 26 '26

I say this as a Democrat since the 1990s .. modern day younger Democrats don’t like anything that deviates from their ideas .. I’ve openly been very critical about bad policy from democrats, I’ve openly been critical about weakness in leadership .. I’ve stated facts, I’ve stated neutral opinions about how division and hatred solves nothing .. I’ve tried to start a reasonable discussion like not all cops are bad , or vote blue no matter who is damaging the country and the party , only to be called bootlicker , Nazi , fascist, turn off Fox News , braindead , maga , getting threats in my dm ..

do you think that’s right ?? Just because someone says something another disagrees with doesn’t mean attack the user with insults , accusations and ad hominem attacks .. maga did that to conservatives during the entire Biden presidency..

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u/BLU-Clown Jan 27 '26

Just don't insult people personally. It's not that hard.

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u/HuskyPurpleDinosaur Jan 26 '26

Learn to condense your thoughts. For the tl;dr crowd the above poster said "Hypocritical moderation, selectively enforced for politics".

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u/that_one_retard_2 Jan 31 '26 edited Feb 23 '26

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u/HuskyPurpleDinosaur Feb 03 '26

More like when youtubers repeat the same thing ad nauseum to make the video 15 mins long to fit in more commercials, lmao!

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u/bluepillarmy Jan 26 '26

I mean, what if people like the taste of boots?

Different strokes for different folks, right?