Leaf

Leaf (u/Leafleaf14 on reddit) is a member of the AngryObservation subreddit and Discord.

### Origin

Leaf originally joined the discord server in June, being fairly inactive for a month until getting in his first argument on the server about immigration. Leaf gained a reputation for being slightly aggressive and unhinged at times.

### Politics

Leaf self identifies as a believer of “socialism with American characteristics” or limited amounts of nationalization of key industries, aggressive breaking up of monopolies, and expanding the safety net. Leaf has been known to be a staunch supporter of British economic theorist Keynes and Keynesian economics. Also notably hating kennedy and not liking Obama, but loving Biden. On the server, Leaf has been called a large variety of things, from an Adolf Hitler apologist for saying Danzig was ethnically German in 1939 to a communist for his left wing views. It is important to know that Leaf has been accused by people such as BiggestVhagarFan and TheAngryObserver of being a follower of Juche due to an incident in which Leaf lambasted the testimony of North Korean refugee Yeonmi Park, mocking her for saying “In North Korea, I didn’t even know I was an Asian. You see, the regime told me I was Kim John un race.” Sending the video in the discord server with the caption “So true! #free nk”

### Controversies

Leaf is widely considered a polarizing figure on the angry observer discord, for generally being toxic to other users and using words like “retard” a lot, which has gotten him a lot of criticism from RandomUser795 Notable people who dislike Leaf are California dreaming and former user Llama, while Negative Oil is generally friendly with Leaf. Angry observer has even stated someone dm’d him on discord offering him money to ban Leaf. A notable controversy of Leaf is when he was accused of defending Hitler by a few, when he said “Danzig was like 97% German in 1939, Poland honestly had no business owning it and should of negotiated with Germany to secure shipping rights for its self while giving the territory to Germany” he then said “There are historical accountants saying hitler wanted an alliance with Poland, Hungary, and Britain against Russia and France”. Leaf was quick to clarify that he is staunchly opposed to nazism.

### Leaf-Llama rivalry

Leaf started being active after llamas first ban on angry observer. When Angry Observer unbanned llama, leaf originally took a liking to him due to their similar criticisms of Islam. However, llama and leaf quickly became rivals. Llama would consider leaf a troll and call him retarded for his political opinions, and leaf would often call him a retard and a 13 yr back. Llama and Leaf would get into constant arguments annoying other users, until llama and leaf decided to squash the beef, and the arguments stopped. However, Llama left soon after and said Leaf was one of the main reasons for his departure

### Possible mod run

Leaf has hinted many times at a possible mod run in the angry observation discord. His supported policies are banning elections, and removing all current mods. Instead, he wishes to “stop larping little kids from getting mod positions, and instead people who actually want to improve the subreddit”. He has promised to delete the many cluttered channels in the discord server and has said he will “actually implement the weekly challenges every mod says they will add”. Leaf has stated he would support a temporary ban of u/indenialevie because “she keeps breaking the rules, posting 9 low effort shitposts of headlines every day, and mods just say they will warn her and nothing happens”. Leaf has also promised to bring moderate republicans to the server and reddit to balance out partisanship, but has not said how he would do this