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The Republican Lawmaker Who Secretly Created Reddit’s Women-Hating ‘Red Pill’

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Anarky

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...y-created-reddit-s-women-hating-red-pill.html

Last November, voters in New Hampshire's Lakes Region re-elected to the state house of representatives a man who appears to be one of the secret architects of the internet's misogynistic ”Manosphere."
The homegrown son of a preacher, 31-year-old Robert Fisher is a Republican who represents New Hampshire's Belknap County District 9. In addition to his legislative duties, Fisher owns a local computer-repair franchise, and in his spare time, seems to have created the web's most popular online destination for pickup artistry and men's rights activists, The Red Pill, according an investigation by the Daily Beast.

An investigation into Fisher's online aliases found a trail of posts linking the lawmaker to the username Pk_atheist, the creator of The Red Pill—an online Reddit community of nearly 200,000 subscribers that promotes itself as a ”discussion of sexual strategy in a culture increasingly lacking a positive identity for men."
A post by Pk_atheist in the early days of the forum advertises the author's blog, Dating American, a blog that immediately precipitated the establishment of The Red Pill in 2012 and which was ”dedicated to the woes of dating in the American culture." On the ”about the author" section of Dating American, the author, who calls himself ”Desmond," promotes two other blogs he's ”authored": Existential Vortex and Explain God. Performing a search of the unique URL for Existential Vortex led to a comment on an ex-Christian message board again advertising the blog, existentialvortex.blogspot.com. This post, written under the alias ”Interested," provided the keystone that connected Pk_atheist and Robert Fisher. First, the post revealed the user was the author of Existential Vortex (and thus, Dating American). Second, in the user's bio, he stated his band—The Five Nines—had a new album out. Robert Fisher is the sole member of his band, The Five Nines.
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It's possible that now, four-and-a-half years after Red Pill's founding, Fisher may regret his creation. When reached for comment by phone, Fisher denied participation in the Red Pill forum, claiming not to know what The Red Pill was. Though he did say he had heard of the men's rights movement, he said he hadn't heard of PUA. ”What is a pickup artist?" he asked.

Within hours of contacting Rep. Fisher, and after delivering by email a summary of his apparent connections to The Red Pill kingpin, his two primary Reddit usernames had been wiped, and four blogs connected to him were deleted or made private. He has not returned additional requests for comment.
Online, Fisher describes himself as an ”attractive businessman" who owns a ”small empire." According to his Facebook, he is the COO of Same Day Computer, which operates two locations in New Hampshire. He was also the sole member of his indie-electronic band, The Five Nines, which may or may not still be active. (Fisher's last upload on his SoundCloud was in August 2012—but as recently as this year, Fisher's Facebook page still included this role in his bio.)

Fisher purchased the computer-repair franchise from its founder, failed New Hampshire state senate candidate Joshua Youssef, who, according to the Concord Monitor, violated state election law by publishing a deceptive blog to ”make it appear that his ex-wife's attorney had endorsed his candidacy." Youssef, himself active in the men's rights movement, launched a prolonged tirade against the ”feminist judicial tyranny" via the New Hampshire House's unique Redress of Grievances Committee in response to an acrimonious divorce and child-custody battle, wherein a judge in family court temporarily stripped him of visitation rights. Youssef also sat on Donald Trump's New Hampshire leadership team. Recently, he appeared on a CNN voter panel in defense of President Trump's claims that millions of people cast illegal votes—Youssef claimed he'd witnessed rampant voter fraud.
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On Reddit's Men's Rights forum, where Youssef described ”the corruption, greed, lies, and abject depravity of the feminist system..." that had supposedly affected his child-custody case, Fisher appeared sympathetic to Youssef's plight. Under the username RobertFisherForNH, in March 2013, Fisher chimed in on behalf of his friend and colleague and his ordeal and blasted the courts for being unfair to Youssef.

Youssef and Fisher aren't the only New Hampshire politicos to have espoused anti-feminist beliefs. In 2015, New Hampshire State Rep. Al Baldasaro, a Republican, publicly mocked the breasts of fellow female lawmakers in the name of protecting ”family values." The comment stemmed from disagreement over a bill authored solely by male lawmakers that would have made it illegal for women to purposefully expose their areolas in public for breastfeeding or other purposes.

And yet Fisher's past comments on a host of Reddit forums are arguably far more disturbing than what his colleagues have said in public. He blasted women for their ”sub-par intelligence." He said that women's personalities are ”lackluster and boring, serving little purpose in day to day life." And Fisher once commented, ”It is literally the [female] body that makes enduring these things worth it."
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Platy

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HOLY SHIT at the last part quoted.
Frightening to say the least.

Also, sad that the article makes no mention of the red pill->wachovsk sisters riony
 
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uncredited male

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Within hours of contacting Rep. Fisher, and after delivering by email a summary of his apparent connections to The Red Pill kingpin, his two primary Reddit usernames had been wiped, and four blogs connected to him were deleted or made private. He has not returned additional requests for comment.
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We call this move the "guilty as all hell."
 
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Common Knowledge

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And yet Fisher’s past comments on a host of Reddit forums are arguably far more disturbing than what his colleagues have said in public. He blasted women for their “sub-par intelligence.” He said that women’s personalities are “lackluster and boring, serving little purpose in day to day life.” And Fisher once commented, “It is literally the [female] body that makes enduring these things worth it.”
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This is the essence of misogyny stated in the most direct and blunt way.
 
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CrocMother

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That's quite the Internet investigation the journalist did.

This kind of thing is definitely relevant to Fisher's job as a politician, so I'm glad it's exposed. Instead of trying to deny it and delete accounts, he should just own up to it.
 
Trojita

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He's an atheist Republican lawmaker? lawl

He also really overestimates his attractiveness.
 
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PixelatedBookake

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He said that women’s personalities are “lackluster and boring, serving little purpose in day to day life.” And Fisher once commented, “It is literally the [female] body that makes enduring these things worth it.”
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Darryl M R

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Wiki page already updated

Robert Fisher is an American politician. He serves as a Republican member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives,[2] representing the town of Belmont and the city of Laconia. On April 25, 2017 he was revealed as the creator of The Red Pill subreddit, a online board for men's rights activists whose members focused on allegedly misogynist and anti-feminist views.[3]
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Now I would love if the subreddit gets closed and he has to resign.
 
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benicillin

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Darryl M R said:
Wiki page already updated



Now I would love if the subreddit gets closed and he has to resign.
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That subreddit is never going to get closed. Reddit is a trash heap that is going to allow it to keep on chugging because those are some of it's most hardcore users.
 
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benicillin said:
That subreddit is never going to get closed. Reddit is a trash heap that is going to allow it to keep on chugging because those are some of it's most hardcore users.
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Didn't the people running Reddit not care that it was being used to share child pornography until they realized they were legally responsible or something like that? The "because free speech" types?
 
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benicillin

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L Thammy said:
Didn't the people running Reddit not care that it was being used to share child pornography until they realized they were legally responsible or something like that? The "because free speech" types?
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Yeah basically. It's an openly hostile website that encapsulates the worst of the Internet in 2017.
 
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LucidMomentum

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L Thammy said:
Didn't the people running Reddit not care that it was being used to share child pornography until they realized they were legally responsible or something like that? The "because free speech" types?
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Worse, it was more like when investors and advertisers started telling them to shape up.

No one cares unless there's money in caring.
 
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soco

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Sadly, this isn't too surprising.

The irony of wanting logical discussion and founding TRP is too great.
 
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Toxi

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As a candidate for state representative, Fisher proposed bringing concerns about the supposed plague of false rape accusations into the statehouse. Hosting a forum on Reddit under the username RobertFisherforNH, Fisher sought ideas to prevent “innocent people [from] receiving jail time.” He argued that because in rape cases “police err on the side of caution,” and show a high level of support for victims, the system was “susceptible to abuse” by women.
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Well this is fucking horrifying.
 
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