I'm reading through Talia's book and a lot of it is "oh I knew that" because, like... I was there, Gandalf. 3,000 years ago when these fucking orcs invented gamer gate and the current cycle of extremely online misery and bullshit started. But seeing her lay out all the bullshit the online right spews out I sometimes wonder if we haven't been infected by them, sort of a "the abyss stares back" thing. Y'all ever wonder about shit like that when we make chad memes or joke about being volcel?
Its only dangerous if the beliefs that created the jokes are adopted, I think. Most jokes, ESPECIALLY internet jokes, are more a template for a joke that can be expanded upon infinitely. Co-opting the framework might honestly be a good thing because chuds hate when people on the left use their jokes and they abandon them. As long as we dont start doing shit like calling trans people attack helicopters, I think we're good.