- dannoffs ( @dannoffs@lemmy.sdf.org ) 125•11 months ago
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.
- WagnasT ( @WagnasT@iusearchlinux.fyi ) English58•11 months ago
The problem is the red ones take the orange ones seriously. Please don’t feed the trolls.
- neptune ( @neptune@dmv.social ) English50•11 months ago
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 ( @gothicdecadence@lemm.ee ) 18•11 months ago
Relevant video
- Kaped ( @Kaped@lemmy.ml ) 5•11 months ago
- RecklessDwark ( @RecklessDwark@lemmy.ca ) English12•11 months ago
“Everyone who disagrees with my narrow worldview is mentally unwell, and other stories for children on the internet”
Written by self-isolation With illustrations by social media Featuring a forward by my racist uncle who would sneak me beers at family picnics
- neptune ( @neptune@dmv.social ) English7•11 months ago
Very enlightening meme you have added to the conversation.
- setVeryLoud(true); ( @isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca ) 1•11 months ago
Schizo*
- letsgocrazy ( @letsgocrazy@lemm.ee ) 4•11 months ago
Alternatively, the people who are so brittle that shit-posting causes them to somehow turn on half of the community were always going to volatile puritans.
- neptune ( @neptune@dmv.social ) English17•11 months ago
What? Maybe some people join communities for fun and togetherness. Not amateur hour jew jokes or whatever.
- letsgocrazy ( @letsgocrazy@lemm.ee ) 3•11 months ago
I agree. But the discussion was shit-posting, not racist jokes, or am I missing something?
- neptune ( @neptune@dmv.social ) English6•11 months ago
A careful read of the meme shows were talking about edgy, borderline right wing shit postings.
- Mossy Feathers (They/Them) ( @MossyFeathers@pawb.social ) 41•11 months ago
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.
- zer0nix ( @zer0nix@lemm.ee ) 3•11 months ago
I hate concern trolls even more than I do being confused with a nazi, and I’m pretty average so ymmv
- Disgusted_Tadpole ( @Disgusted_Tadpole@lemmy.ml ) 33•11 months ago
Tbh this is what I love with (uncensored) internet. It’s hard to draw the line between sarcasm and mental illness.
- stratoscaster ( @stratoscaster@lemmy.zip ) English53•11 months ago
Yeah but also it enables stuff like Nazi dogwhistling soooo lmao
- Disgusted_Tadpole ( @Disgusted_Tadpole@lemmy.ml ) 12•11 months ago
Well, Nazi existed before the internet and would exist without it. They didn’t wait for the internet to enable themselves. There can’t be zero downside for having a 100% free platform, I do agree.
- cobra89 ( @cobra89@beehaw.org ) 35•11 months ago
Are you completely oblivious to the rise of right wing ideology the last 10-15+ years? The internet has 100% enabled it.
- stratoscaster ( @stratoscaster@lemmy.zip ) English30•11 months ago
Yeah but Nazism spread via propaganda, which is what dogwhistling is a form of.
The Internet is the largest spreader of propaganda that humanity has ever seen, so it’s not surprising that it helped revitalize neo-nazism and fascism is general. It also served to make satire and actual radicalized behavior harder to detect. A lot of the time, 4chan boards use this “edgy satire” format to normalize the behavior (to an extent). See: the “MAP” misinformation campaign they did and how it reinforced actual pedophilia and demonized LGBT groups
- Kaped ( @Kaped@lemmy.ml ) 1•11 months ago
muh nazis
your meds pal, take them
- Trarmp ( @Trarmp@feddit.nl ) 17•11 months ago
Wrong. /b/ was never good.
- PersnickityPenguin ( @PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee ) 2•11 months ago
You like being around mentally ill people?
- Bombastic ( @Bombastic@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English18•11 months ago
- masquenox ( @masquenox@lemmy.ml ) 14•11 months ago
There is such a thing as a “non-extremist” right-winger?
- JackbyDev ( @JackbyDev@programming.dev ) English11•11 months ago
Yes, Joe Biden.
- masquenox ( @masquenox@lemmy.ml ) 2•11 months ago
He looked pretty extremist to me when he helped the Bush regime lie their way into Iraq. And the guy literally chose a pig to be his running mate.
Doesn’t get more extreme than that - him pretending to be “nicer” than the more overt right-wingers doesn’t change that.
- JackbyDev ( @JackbyDev@programming.dev ) English3•11 months ago
I’m not absolving him of anything, I’m expressing a disdain for Democrats masquerading as a left leaning party.
- masquenox ( @masquenox@lemmy.ml ) 1•11 months ago
Okay.
- Razp ( @Razp@lemm.ee ) 10•11 months ago
The probability of encountering a “non-extremist” right-winger is exactly the same as of encountering a “non-extremist” left-winger and is quite small. The vast majority of people are moderates, either left or right leaning.
Also, from the European perspective, the American left aka Democrats are quite right leaning :)
- masquenox ( @masquenox@lemmy.ml ) 9•11 months ago
Oh look… an “enlightened centrist” has shown up to run interference for the right-wingers.
- Razp ( @Razp@lemm.ee ) 3•11 months ago
Oh look, a person that cannot distinguish center from right. I wonder how you drive if you can’t into directions.
- masquenox ( @masquenox@lemmy.ml ) 1•11 months ago
Oh look, a person that cannot distinguish politics from vehicular activity. I wonder how you manage to drive anywhere without ever turning left.
- FlaminGoku ( @FlaminGoku@reddthat.com ) 11•11 months 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.
- magnetosphere ( @HappyMeatbag@beehaw.org ) 10•11 months ago
This is why I try to give people the benefit of the doubt. I’d rather look naive than make uptight assumptions. Plus, I’m a reddit refugee, and I’ve HAD IT with pedants and the rampant holier-than-thou crap.
- Milk ( @Milk_SDF_Possum@lemmy.sdf.org ) 4•11 months ago
Incredibly, Reddit was better in that aspect.
- Witcher ( @Witcher@lemm.ee ) 2•11 months ago
Tough
- Queen HawlSera ( @HawlSera@lemm.ee ) English1•11 months ago
It really has come to that…
- Omega_Haxors ( @Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml ) 1•11 months ago
“Okay time to look at their post history” “hmm nothing bad… pretty alrigh- oh they’re a communist”