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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 minutes ago

Absolutely red flag.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 32 minutes ago

I think a bot is Karma farming by asking stupid questions. "Should I hit myself in the nuts with a mallet? Is sulphuric acid safe to drink? Should < horrible red flag behavior in a partner > be a cause for concern?"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 41 minutes ago* (last edited 40 minutes ago)

How interesting. I had a similar red flag with my asshole brother the day he said that he yelled the N-word in his car when he was alone because it was "transgressive" to do that. By the way, he said this to his family and hundreds of friends in public on Facebook.

Going to take my mom down to see him in Atlanta next week. It will be the first time I will see him in 10 years and probably the last until my mom's funeral, if he bothers to show up. Thank god I don't have to stay at his house.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 hours ago

She probably just has a blackmail fetish.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 12 hours ago

Red flag. Bad opsec. I wouldn't trust someone who trusts me.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 16 hours ago

Have confidence in the credibility of what she is expressing in those videos.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 17 hours ago

Sounds like a scene from Get Out lol.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

Why is this posted in the funny community?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 58 minutes ago

I feel like communities revolving around funny things, memes, shitposts are just there because the post/image wouldn't go anywhere else.

[–] treadful 9 points 15 hours ago

A tradition alive since time began on Reddit. Nothing funny can be posted on the funny community.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago

The poster says it’s funny

[–] [email protected] 6 points 18 hours ago

"Let me take a video of you saying you're going to kill the president."

https://youtu.be/Jt1GRckaQ_s

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 day ago (2 children)

First, 100% a red flag. Even if they wanted to give some sort of "I trust you with my life" sort of video, there's a bunch of better ways to do it. Going for a racist rant makes me think that they're a racist.

Secondly, this is deeply submissive - they're giving you the power to ruin their life. If you want to do that sort of stuff as a couple you should really talk about it first and be on board with receiving that sort of power and responsibility. Entirely possible+reasonable for the receiver to find this shitty because they don't want to make a choice like this, especially if these are truly held beliefs.

The healthy response to this is to send them to a therapist. And definitely dump them if they're actually racist.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I don't see how someone could do a racist rant and not be racist. That it is a rant is an important word here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

Not even if you were an actor?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Have you never heard of acting?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Where's the leverage if it's a performance?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I can (and have, many times) dropped a hard-r for comedic effect, even around my black friends, as they have the context to know that I'm not actually the kind of person to use that word normally

If I was recorded and shared to the internet doing so free of context, I would be labelled as a racist shithead immediately and forever

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Is that the situation here? It is not.

Everyone wanting to give the benefit of the doubt here gives racists room to exist.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 hours ago

That's how I read it, yes. But we obviously don't have enough context to say whether the GF is actually racist or just pretending to be as a crazy trust exercise. I'm taking it as a crazy trust exercise because that's the only way this could fit any definition of "romantic."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I bet if you tried hard enough you could come up with one

[–] [email protected] 0 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I think taking any random problem and putting blame on a group of people would be racist. I could spruce it up with the term “nipper” or “kike” and most people would find it racist

I suppose you just don’t find anything racist if you can’t come up with it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

I supposed you just don't find anything racist

I am arguing the exact opposite.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

ITT: Everyone taking a shitpost from reddit posted to [email protected] seriously

Also: both romantic and a red flag

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[–] [email protected] 178 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Sounds like a red flag with a white circle and a black symbol within. But also romantic. They're not mutually exclusive.

As some say, romance is death...

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 day ago (1 children)

She's probably great in bed. The crazy ones always are.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago (6 children)

To all you younglings out there reading this, crazy chicks are fun but they will ruin your life.

Never stick your dick in crazy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

Absolutely. Remember this: crazy chicks are fun.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 12 hours ago

Never stick your dick in crazy more than once.

FTFY

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Truth. There's often no safe exit strategy either. Once the deed is done, you are in grave danger.

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 1 day ago

A red flag.

Sharing dangerous ideas with somebody to show that you think they are safe is an honest signal of trust, but only if the dangerous ideas are genuine.

Someone who attempts to buy trust disingenuously is not to be trusted.

Someone who thinks in terms of kompromat and manipulation is dangerous to be around.

[–] [email protected] 102 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Obligatory "this some young people shit".

Young people do and say stupid shit to come off as edgy and the vast majority of them don't actually mean it and regret it later in life.

As to your question, that's why you date people, to see if they're good, for you and otherwise. You don't go "red flag!" -> napalm!!!, you evaluate contexts and repeat occurrences of perceived wrongs.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago

That being said, it's a huge red flag and you don't need a repeat occurrence to end the relationship.

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[–] [email protected] 117 points 1 day ago (4 children)

RED FLAG.

No sane person does things like that.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Absolutely insane.

Just get a tattoo of their name like the rest of us.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago

Sounds like she is making a "joke" in poor taste while also fishing for your take on the things she is joking about.

or perhaps it's something sexual. Power imbalance Idk.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 day ago

She is treating the relationship and trust as transactional. No bueno.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 day ago (4 children)

This is kinda unhinged in my opinion.
But then again, I grew up before social media, maybe this is the ultimate proof of love now? I don't know.

Anyway, putting herself completely at your mercy is not a good start into a healthy, mutually respectful relationship.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago

Either unhinged or brain rotted from a steady diet of Tiktok videos. Or both.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 day ago

I have a fleeting suspicion that this girl now thinks, because of her own action, she can do this to you now as well. OP, be careful what you share with her because ruining someones life is an option in her book...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Relationships are no jokes. Neither is racism. Depending on how I feel about her, the video might leak. I would certainly not stay.

Big red flag to me.

Edit: I have broadened my mind. I had not considdered receiving such a video from somebody whom of I am certain has no racist mind at all.

In that case I would reciprocate by deleting the footage.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Damn, remind me not to partner with you in a trust fall.

Like this has "here is a staged video of me as a proof/test of trust" and not "here is actual proof I'm a racist" because there would have been OTHER proof, racists aren't that sneaky.

Your first reaction is "finally I have a chance to ruin this girl I love's life and go FULL SCORCHED EARTH"

Fuck man, you've got to dial up your chill at least a skosh!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 13 hours ago

racists aren't that sneaky.

What is it about being a racist that makes you unable to be sneaky? There are smart racists and there are dumb racists. There are all kinds of racists.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago
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