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It has to be both imminent and likely - if you saw somebody posting something like that, would you think they were actually going to do it? Nah, it'd blend in w
by flyingfences 7y ago
It has to be both imminent and likely - if you saw somebody posting something like that, would you think they were actually going to do it? Nah, it'd blend in with all the other larping and shitposts.
- shaki-dora 7y ago"It" did actually happen, shortly after the post, and was therefore both imminent and likely. This was also the second such incident within just a few weeks. Knowledge about Christchurch should maybe have informed these "shitposters'". Can't really claim it's all just a joke after people have died.
- XaoDaoCaoCao 7y agoThe jokesterism is in response to a joke world. There are innumerable numbers of murders each year but somehow a spree killing is enough to slay irony? 9/11 wasn't enough to slay irony. The reaction to it excaberbated the ironic mode of moderm culture.
- Dylan16807 7y ago> did actually happen...therefore...likely. That's not how likelihood works.
- anigbrowl 7y agoIt's not that hard to tell.
- Dylan16807 7y agoWhat are you basing that on?
- anigbrowl 7y agoIt's been my preoccupation for over a decade.