<story><title>Anti-work subreddit goes private after rough Fox News interview</title><url>https://mashable.com/article/antiwork-subreddit-fox-news-interview</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alexb_</author><text>The entire thing was a disaster, start to finish. If you&amp;#x27;re going on Fox News, at least clean your room, put on something other than a sweatshirt, and come PREPARED. You have to know that Fox is going to ask you horribly loaded questions that aim to make you seem like the biggest fool on earth.&lt;p&gt;But the funny part is, they didn&amp;#x27;t even do that. The questions asked pretty much amounted to &amp;quot;What are your aspirations?&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;What do you do for a living?&amp;quot; And when the answers to that are &amp;quot;I want to teach Philosophy&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;I sleep on the job that I work 20 hours a week while I punish dogs by refusing them water&amp;quot;[1] then maybe you shouldn&amp;#x27;t be speaking like what you are doing is too much work.&lt;p&gt;She could have mentioned the growing wealth inequality, the need for unions, the causes behind the &amp;quot;great resignation&amp;quot;, the shifting attitudes of not taking bullshit, but instead she had to say how &amp;quot;Laziness is a virtue!&amp;quot; as if anybody ever is going to agree with that. I would say it&amp;#x27;s a strawman of the typical reddit moderator (who does it for free, by the way), but if a strawman is made of flesh and blood, is it really a strawman anymore?&lt;p&gt;Who were the mods at &amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;antiwork kidding. I guess this is the egotistical delusion that happens when your head mod is a self admitted rapist.[2]&lt;p&gt;[1]&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;i.imgur.com&amp;#x2F;XsHDFFN.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;i.imgur.com&amp;#x2F;XsHDFFN.jpg&lt;/a&gt;
[2]&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;i.redd.it&amp;#x2F;9zbv77ga04e81.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;i.redd.it&amp;#x2F;9zbv77ga04e81.png&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rPlayer6554</author><text>You expect him to do work to prepare for the interview? I thought it was clear he was anti-work! He wanted to clean up his room....then realized laziness is a virtue!</text></comment>
<story><title>Anti-work subreddit goes private after rough Fox News interview</title><url>https://mashable.com/article/antiwork-subreddit-fox-news-interview</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alexb_</author><text>The entire thing was a disaster, start to finish. If you&amp;#x27;re going on Fox News, at least clean your room, put on something other than a sweatshirt, and come PREPARED. You have to know that Fox is going to ask you horribly loaded questions that aim to make you seem like the biggest fool on earth.&lt;p&gt;But the funny part is, they didn&amp;#x27;t even do that. The questions asked pretty much amounted to &amp;quot;What are your aspirations?&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;What do you do for a living?&amp;quot; And when the answers to that are &amp;quot;I want to teach Philosophy&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;I sleep on the job that I work 20 hours a week while I punish dogs by refusing them water&amp;quot;[1] then maybe you shouldn&amp;#x27;t be speaking like what you are doing is too much work.&lt;p&gt;She could have mentioned the growing wealth inequality, the need for unions, the causes behind the &amp;quot;great resignation&amp;quot;, the shifting attitudes of not taking bullshit, but instead she had to say how &amp;quot;Laziness is a virtue!&amp;quot; as if anybody ever is going to agree with that. I would say it&amp;#x27;s a strawman of the typical reddit moderator (who does it for free, by the way), but if a strawman is made of flesh and blood, is it really a strawman anymore?&lt;p&gt;Who were the mods at &amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;antiwork kidding. I guess this is the egotistical delusion that happens when your head mod is a self admitted rapist.[2]&lt;p&gt;[1]&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;i.imgur.com&amp;#x2F;XsHDFFN.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;i.imgur.com&amp;#x2F;XsHDFFN.jpg&lt;/a&gt;
[2]&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;i.redd.it&amp;#x2F;9zbv77ga04e81.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;i.redd.it&amp;#x2F;9zbv77ga04e81.png&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xg15</author><text>I didn&amp;#x27;t really follow the whole affair, but I found it interesting that Fox apparently &lt;i&gt;specifically requested&lt;/i&gt; this particular mod for the interview - and that the mod had already given interviews in the past.&lt;p&gt;I haven&amp;#x27;t seen those past interviews, but if she behaved like that in the past, could it be that requesting her &lt;i&gt;was&lt;/i&gt; the brunt of Fox&amp;#x27; strategy?&lt;p&gt;Like, they might have known she would make a fool of herself (and the movement) without them even needing to trip her up with loaded questions.</text></comment>