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[–] dannoffs@lemmy.sdf.org 176 points 2 years ago (12 children)

Just check their comment history for like 30 seconds. Everyone makes a joke that misses the mark every now and then, but the shittiest people usually constantly spew their nonsense.

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[–] girltwink@lemmy.world 117 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Just don't punch down. Simple as.

[–] PatFussy@lemm.ee 46 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Dont tell me how to shitpost. If I want extra spicy ill get banned doing it

[–] THED4NIEL@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A person of culture, I see

[–] CertifiedBlackGuy@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What the fuck did you just say about me?

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[–] Hyggyldy@sffa.community 31 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I only punch interdimensionally. Damn those lazy Gorblecks.

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[–] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 87 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Poe’s Law. Without a sarcasm tag it’s impossible to know if the person is being sarcastic or is that extreme.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You can always find someone on a social media site who actually holds that belief

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[–] WagnasT@iusearchlinux.fyi 83 points 2 years ago

The problem is the red ones take the orange ones seriously. Please don't feed the trolls.

[–] neptune@dmv.social 52 points 2 years ago (10 children)

The shit posters drive a wedge in a community and the people who don't like the "innocent" jokes leave. This makes fertile ground for ideological take over. Rinse and repeat in Fandoms, subreddits, message boards, etc.

[–] gothicdecadence@lemm.ee 22 points 2 years ago (4 children)
[–] Kronusdark@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I totally anticipated an Innuendo Studios link and wasn’t disappointed. Bravo.

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[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 49 points 2 years ago (24 children)

Respectfully mention that it's kinda insensitive, kinda like, "hey man, don't you think that's kinda insensitive?" and you'll probably figure out fairly quickly which one is the answer. Additionally, if they legit don't know why it's insensitive, then you can educate them!

Just remember that tone can be difficult to convey on the internet, and sometimes you have to exaggerate the intended tone for it to be understood. Additionally, in my experience, asking the question from the other person's perspective ("don't you think that's kinda insensitive" vs "I think that's kinda insensitive") seems to help a lot.

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[–] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 46 points 2 years ago (2 children)

My days on the Opie and Anthony reddit has given me good tone reading.

Fun racism and non fun racism. If it's ugly in tone they're racist. Remember Patrice or maybe Louis ck joking about how "jew" is both the normal term for Jewish people and the slur depending on the tone of how you say it. Reminds me of that but harder to tell with text.

[–] Gnubyte@lemdit.com 14 points 2 years ago (5 children)

"louie Louie Louie loooooieeeee!"

I miss his FX show. He's a great comedian. Glad he came out and apologized and even made fun of himself a bit. I don't believe in eternal damnation of public figures like that unless people get physically harmed.

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[–] Bombastic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 2 years ago
[–] Disgusted_Tadpole@lemmy.ml 36 points 2 years ago (12 children)

Tbh this is what I love with (uncensored) internet. It’s hard to draw the line between sarcasm and mental illness.

[–] stratoscaster@lemmy.zip 60 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Yeah but also it enables stuff like Nazi dogwhistling soooo lmao

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[–] Trarmp@feddit.nl 16 points 2 years ago

Wrong. /b/ was never good.

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[–] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago (5 children)
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[–] masquenox@lemmy.ml 24 points 2 years ago (22 children)

There is such a thing as a "non-extremist" right-winger?

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 19 points 2 years ago (3 children)
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[–] Ryan213@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They make crude jokes on the internet?!

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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[–] Tachanka@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The "extremist" part of Right wing "extremist" is meaningless. All reactionary politics are extreme, whether they take the active form of stochastic terror or they take the passive form of social murder (as defined by Engels in 1845, see below). The plausible deniability employed by reactionaries as camouflage among jokes is extremely transparent to anyone familiar enough with it.

[–] FlaminGoku@reddthat.com 15 points 2 years ago

Shitposters are definitely not innocent.

I would also replace it with trolls because comments in that territory are consistently on or over the line.

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