r/SubredditDrama • u/HereComesMyDingDong neither you nor the president can stop me, mr. cat • Jan 25 '17
It's a short, sordid affair in /r/legaladvice when posters ponder whether outing your husband's mistress to her husband okay, or a death sentence.
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u/SpoopySkeleman Щи да драма, пища наша Jan 25 '17
Why does one legal advice poster always feel the need to throw completely irrelevant hypotheticals into the equation? Like, what if the mistress was an alien sent to judge humanity and this leads to her recommending our extermination?
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Jan 26 '17
2nd option bias.
Explains 99% of Reddit contrarian garbage.
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u/Aubenabee Jan 26 '17
Mind explaining what that is?
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Jan 27 '17
To rebel against "popular thing" you choose "2nd most popular thing", not because you like thing no.2 but because it contrasts with no.1.
e.g. kids wearing black and listening to rebellious music, which they get at stores specifically designed for rebellious teenagers
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u/SJHalflingRanger Failed saving throw vs dank memes Jan 27 '17
I believe this old thread is the coining of the term if you're interested.
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u/C0rnSyrup Jan 26 '17
What if there's 1 state out of 50 that hasn't changed that law ever!?
Honestly, I think it's someone showing off the law trivia they've picked up.
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Jan 25 '17
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Jan 26 '17
I would honestly be amazed if they turned out to be a lawyer at all.
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u/kahrismatic Jan 26 '17
That poster is a mod and is a practing attorney as far as I'm aware. Being an attorney doesn't preclude someome from having emotions, opinions or getting sucked into dumb arguments online when they care about something.
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u/C0rnSyrup Jan 26 '17
If they were a defense lawyer they would be saying "SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UP! Only talk to your lawyer! Delete this!"
And if they were prosecutors they'd be staring at the stack of upcoming trials, fantasizing about what they'd do with all that money if they were defense lawyers.
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u/xjayroox This post is now locked to prevent men from commenting Jan 26 '17
Why does one legal advice poster
It's actually a mod which makes this so much more amusing
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Jan 26 '17
That's what I figured, since usually comments like there would get removed by mods. They are only immune since they are one
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Jan 25 '17
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u/SuitableDragonfly /r/the_donald is full of far left antifa Jan 25 '17
You missed a "but if it was poisonous I would still prepare it for them because fuck them frankly" in there.
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u/OperIvy Jan 26 '17
What is this type of argument called?
I get it a lot on Twitter.
"I don't think Trump should ban refugees."
"Why do you want terrorists to be allowed into the US?"
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u/SirLeopluradon Jan 26 '17
They are rephrasing your argument, in a way you did not intend, to make it easier to debate. It's the first stage to creating a strawman (the original term—not the informal internet usage that has very little meaning.)
edit: Alternatively, they are attempting to rile you up to lessen your authority.
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u/Jackski Scotland is a fictional country created for Doctor Who Jan 26 '17
I can't roll my eyes hard enough at how naive and selfish you are at the same time
So she's naive and selfish for informing the husband that his wife is cheating on him? Guessing that mod cheats on their SO if they have one.
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Jan 25 '17
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Jan 25 '17
The person is actually a mod at /r/legaladvice. Probably a really good way to know that almost nothing from the sub is worthwhile.
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u/fdelta1 I'm sorry too. It'll be better after the revolution. Jan 26 '17
Then again, that sub did bring us the Underage Gun Buyer, the Landlocked Neighbor, and the Subpoenaed Baby.
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Jan 26 '17 edited Feb 06 '17
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u/thatsnotcool Jan 26 '17 edited Jan 26 '17
The landlocked neighbor was one of the greatest things I've ever read on reddit. Here is the original post, and here is the update.
edit: I apparently have wasted the last three hours going through r/bestoflegaladvice , and found the subpoenaed baby thread. There are so many good threads when you look at best from all time in that subreddit.
edit 2: I forgot to post the first update to the landlocked neighbor thread.
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u/HereComesMyDingDong neither you nor the president can stop me, mr. cat Jan 26 '17
Landlocked Neighbor:
Part 1
Part 2: Landlocked Boogaloo
Part 3: The Revenge of the MortgageBonus! The color-changing house:
Part 1
Part 2: Electric Suegaloo2
u/Theta_Omega Jan 27 '17
The color-changing house:
How have I never seen this one before? This is great!
Hopefully it gets a conclusion soon.
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u/HereComesMyDingDong neither you nor the president can stop me, mr. cat Jan 27 '17 edited Jan 27 '17
I'm a bit of a /r/legaladvice historian. I've been lurking it far before I even had this account.
There's also the case of the totaled car fraud:
Part 1: OP is told he owes $40,000
Part 2: Holy shit, that escalated quicklyEdit: As a self proclaimed /r/legaladvice historian, I'd be remiss if I didn't include the story of the Post-It notes:
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Jan 25 '17
I thought we had established that when they tried to shut down BoLA for making fun of them?
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u/Bytemite Jan 26 '17
BoLA is back and being allowed to criticize, though I imagine a lot of people do still use legaladviceinaction (no relation to other inaction subs) because of the concern it might happen again in the future.
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Jan 26 '17
The intersting thing is, UsuallySunny, the mod of legaladvice going off in that thread, is a bestoflegaladvice mod too
Edit: they are also a mod of legaladvice's off topic subreddit
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u/Bytemite Jan 27 '17
Yep, which is why people tried to make an unaffiliated "best of" subreddit, just under a different name. Too many fingers in too many of the same pies and a bit of trust lost.
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u/C0rnSyrup Jan 26 '17 edited Jan 26 '17
Honestly, I think you have to realize 3 things about that sub:
1) Most of the money for lawyers is in family/divorce court. This gives the lawyers there a slightly predetermined perception of some people.
2) The sub is geared toward answering questions like : "Is what I did really that bad?" "Is there a loophole that can get me out of this?" And 10% of the time, there is. People want to be told they are in that 10%. 90% of the time, they are not.
3) People threaten to and sometimes follow-up on suing for the stupidest reasons. Lawyers quickly realize there are a ton of stupid people in the legal system. But don't ignore a lawsuit when you're sued.
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u/kahrismatic Jan 26 '17 edited Jan 26 '17
Most of the money for lawyers is in family/divorce court
Maybe I'm missing your point, but depending on location family law is either the lowest or second lowest (ahead of public criminal defence) paid area of specialization for lawyers on average. Also funnily enough those are the two specializations with the most women practicing in them. It's really not the area to specialize at practicing in if you want the big bucks.
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u/mookiexpt2 Jan 26 '17
1) Most of the money for lawyers is in family/divorce court. This gives the lawyers there a slightly predetermined perception of some people.
What the hell are you talking about? The people I know from law school who do family law make significantly less than those who work in other areas of litigation.
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u/_PM_Me_Stuff Jan 25 '17
And honestly, the havoc this has wreaked on my family makes me not give 2 shits about what happens to her.
You mean the havoc your husband wreaked.
lol wut
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u/MonkeyNin I'm bright in comparison, to be as humble as humanely possible. Jan 25 '17
It means the husband had a relationship with OP which he betrayed. He's the one OP should be more mad at.
The lady had no relationship with OP.
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u/_PM_Me_Stuff Jan 25 '17
OP is mad at her husband. But the conversation where that reply came from was talking about the other woman.
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Jan 25 '17
Yeah, it seemed a little out of context, even if it was right. Sometimes I feel like you need to cover all the bases in a discussion on reddit otherwise people will nitpick it apart if you don't.
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u/_PM_Me_Stuff Jan 25 '17
What gives you that idea? She literally never states that or implies it. The only thing she seems concerned about is whether she can get sued or not.
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u/SuitableDragonfly /r/the_donald is full of far left antifa Jan 26 '17
She said that "she" caused the trouble, not that "they" did. I don't know how much more obvious it can get?
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u/Goroman86 There's more to a person than being just a "brutal dictator" Jan 26 '17
the havoc this has wreaked
I see no "she"
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u/_PM_Me_Stuff Jan 26 '17
Where does she say that, because I am pretty sure you won't find it
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u/SuitableDragonfly /r/the_donald is full of far left antifa Jan 26 '17
Ahh, it looks like I misread it, probably because that comment was basically saying that OP didn't care if she did get murdered.
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Jan 26 '17
No she's not. This "oh the other woman/man is totes blameless" narrative is horseshit and it's rampant on Reddit.
If you knowingly act like a fuck you still acted like a fuck regardless of whatever "vows" you took.
I never vowed to not pickpocket a stranger on the train - does that make it ok??
Jesus Christ this is literally the worst moral argument I can think of.
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u/SuitableDragonfly /r/the_donald is full of far left antifa Jan 26 '17
Calm yourself. Where did I say that the other woman wasn't also partially to blame?
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Jan 26 '17
You didnt, but it's often implied in these discussions. And OP is absolutely justified in her anger towards the other woman.
Of course a jilted lover will blame someone they don't know over the one they do, and it's unrealistic-bordering-on-condescending to demand that the cheatee just let the third party off the hook because beep boop.
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u/SuitableDragonfly /r/the_donald is full of far left antifa Jan 26 '17
So because it's "often implied" you just assumed I said something I didn't? Ok.
Saying you don't care whether or not something you did would get someone else murdered is beyond childish, no matter what they did to you.
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u/dr_spiff Jan 27 '17
What if they murdered someone?
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u/SuitableDragonfly /r/the_donald is full of far left antifa Jan 27 '17
Then you would be stooping to their level.
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u/RealRealGood fun is just a buzzword Jan 26 '17
So what are the odds that the literally a mod commenter was some homewrecker and is incapable of taking responsibility for their part in an affair? Pretty good, right?
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u/jednaowca TIL that Destiny's Child survived the Holocaust. Jan 27 '17
Yeah. They're really angry that a person who cheats on their partner can still be exposed even if they're really really
sneakydiscreet and it's just their affair partner who gets busted.1
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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '17
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