• grisbajskulor [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Fosho. I just wonder if popularizing that kind of humor can be bad. Like someone who's not as terminally online as me might see those kinds of jokes and think they are serious (like right wingers). Idk, this has never been a concern of mine at all but it does make me wonder. Not like there's anything anyone can do about policing humor tho so who cares I guess lol

    • ViveLaCommune [any]
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      4 years ago

      In most other places like you say, people would just think it's antagonizing for its own sake, discard the pain behind, discard your voice within their ranks and others entirely. Not like they need any more reason, but ya know.

      Kill all billionaires seems cool and good for everyone because it's so out of reach but.. relatable, I guess, and perfectly correct, but jumping to kill all rich men, kill all men, it's still about the pure hatred toward the person in power, the oppressor, the majority, the idea of it foremost but the object is still the human. Some men might deserve to get killed, so fuck them, some men could help stop these other men but don't (the majority), so fuck them, some men do help (but they're the smallest minority of them all). So fuck them all indeed, those same people that would discard you for those words would certainly be part of that majority of fuckers who never act, push for the status quo. Hence, kill them all, it would do more good.

      I don't know what I'm aiming at but it might be useful to try to explain the powers at play, to radicalize, and if that doesn't work (e.g. right winger lol), to go full overdrive and antagonize and get the guillotine out. Or manipulate ? Idk.

    • machiavellianRecluse [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Like someone who’s not as terminally online as me might see those kinds of jokes and think they are serious (like right wingers).

      There will always be something to lose your shit on. These are imagined demons that they gotta fight because they already feel alienated from their surroundings and now they feel alienated from the sedative of the masses (tv, internet, etc).

      Just treating internet discourse like this a "serious problem" is unproductive (whoops!)