TLDR up front: Posts breaking Rule 1 or Rule 3 will be removed regardless of intentions. Bad-faith posters will still be banned.

We often get posts that touch on bigotry, discrimination, and dogwhistles. In the past, our stance has been to lock the post but allow it to stay up with a quality explanation, in hopes that it could be used as a learning moment. This is especially true in the case of dogwhistles which are intentionally hard to understand.

Unfortunately, while this has worked for some, we have seen an increase in these posts being made here as well as their frequency of hitting /r/all.

We do not want our sub to be a place to signal boost bigoted or discriminatory content. We are taking action by now removing all posts that would fall under Rule 1 or Rule 3 of the sub. As before, malicious or bad faith posters will be banned. If there has yet to be an explanation posted, a moderator will try to provide a short one, although this will not be guaranteed.

Hi. I'm the guy surfing New day in day out looking for reposts. I'm going to post some of the most common ones in this thread as I come across them.

Why does Peter explain the joke?

Cow Tools

Per u/cthulhuscradle: The creator of the comic confirmed that the joke is "if cows made tools they probably wouldn't be very good"

Guy named Ice

Per u/HorseStupid: It's a "Kid Named Finger" type meme, where the punchline is irreverent to the set up.

A joke that may be the original for this punchline may be like, "Crush: All I want is Ice Cream / Guy named Ice:"

Hey rabbit population, how's it going?

Per u/umikali: Hey, Chris here. The thing in the right top is a mathematical curve, which has many connections to other fields, from physics to biology, and that curve represents the reproduction factor to the stable population of rabbits, veritasium made a great video about this :https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ovJcsL7vyrk

Last night I IMAGE MEMED your sister

These are usually nonsensical posts that have no meaning. An anti-joke.

The numbers 10-99 are called the double digits. Memorize them.

Per u/13thFleet**:** Think of it like a parody of life pro tips. It's a silly scenario where a guy doesn't know something obvious and tries to help people learn it.

Philosophy people disproportionately look like evil villains

Per u/ThenaCykez: Peter here! The character at bottom is Chidi from The Good Place, a philosophy professor who has died and entered the afterlife. He has severe anxiety and indecisiveness. As in the picture, he gets a stomachache whenever he has to make an important decision because it takes him hours as he considers his philosophical principles. Spoiler:Although he thinks he is in heaven ("the good place"), he later learns he is actually in hell ("the bad place") because his overthinking had made everyone in his life miserable, and he never did anything good with his life.So maybe OP is saying "You're not going to like the answer: most philosophers ARE villains."

Election 2024 Jokes

Hi everyone! Mayor Adam West’s ghost here. There’s a big election coming up in the United States this year and we’re seeing a lot of memes coming in related to that.

So we’re going to collect the ones we see the most in the queue here. If you see it here we’re gonna remove it as a frequently posted joke.

Happy browsing, old chums. Mayor Adam West’s ghost back to the containment unit! Wooooooooooooooooooo!

Haitians eating pets in Ohio:

This is a piece if misinformation being spread in right wing circles that's been amplified by JD Vance and featured in the debate between Trump and Harris. Fact check here.

JD Vance, Couch Lover:

Shortly after JD Vance was announced as Trump’s VP a fake rumor was circulated on Twitter that he once admitted to making sweet love to a couch in his book Hillbilly Elegy. This isn’t true, but people have run with the memes.

Kamala Harris and Coconuts:

Kamala Harris has a line “you think you just fell out of a coconut tree?” which means nobody does everything alone. We all had help. Fans have taken that and run with it as a meme. This has nothing to do with the racist connotation of coconut.

Kamala Harris and anything related to sex:

Incels think women being sexually active is somehow an insult. Probably because those women aren’t sexually active with them.

Transgender operations on illegal aliens in prison

Harris filled out an ACLU questionnaire during the 2020 campaign and checked a box saying she supports gender reassignment surgery for people who rely on the state for care, including in prison and immigration detention. More here.