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Sounds like this group is developing it self along the line of /r/thedonald. Starts as a satire and slowly it shift to attracting more and more people with ext
by lowdose 6y ago
Sounds like this group is developing it self along the line of /r/thedonald.
Starts as a satire and slowly it shift to attracting more and more people with extremist views that replace the sarcastic group members.
- AlexandrB 6y agoI wonder if this phenomenon has more specific name than just "radicalization". "Rule of goats"[1] comes close. [1] https://twitter.com/popehat/status/858722120620265473?lang=en https://twitter.com/popehat/status/858722120620265473?lang=e...
- krapp 6y agoWe need another rule for when the ironic goatfuckers have been taken over by actual goatfuckers and the latter are now ironically pretending to be the former.
- pjc50 6y agoOther labels which may be useful are "ha ha only serious" (ironic racism is in and of itself still racism), and "stochastic terrorism", the circulation and planting of propaganda, ideology, and conspiracy theories that leads to mass shootings. The NZ mass shooter and Anders Breivik manifestoes are examples of this. There's an entire nutcase ecosystem out there who cite each other in their murders.
- carapace 6y ago"LARP-leak"
- zwirbl 6y agoI don't think it's likely the group started with sarcasm, more like they excused themselves with /s and Hey it's only sarcasm
- pinopinopino 6y agoWe only do it for the lulz.