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Ah, the edgelord defense, a Tried and True practice. One issue is that the entire thread is _only_ edgelords in that model. I couldn't find anybody on that page
by pgeorgi 5y ago
Ah, the edgelord defense, a Tried and True practice. One issue is that the entire thread is _only_ edgelords in that model. I couldn't find anybody on that page speaking out against the ideas espoused by the poster.
As for "comment that you'd find anywhere", I know a few places where I wouldn't find such comments. Not because oh-the-oppression, but because people don't engage with them in the same way as on that page. It's possible shape a culture and that site seems to have chosen one that is easily being mistaken for extremism, at the very least.
- hunterb123 5y agoOn Reddit they have an entire subreddit for making fun of people's death. Reddit is the edgelord's gala. Anytime a Republican got sick, they'd wish for them to die throughout the front page.
- pgeorgi 5y agoSo we're not arguing if any service is about free speech and how that pertains to extremism, but only which kind of edgelord is worse? Boring.
- hunterb123 5y agoSo you admit we are comparing two edge lords from opposing sides of the political spectrum. Thank you. You started this by mis-categorizing an edge lord as an "extremist".
- pgeorgi 5y agoI don't know them, so if you assert that they're an edgelord and not an extremist, I can only imagine that you do know them. Lacking any other information, and given a relative unimportance of that person to me, I'll take your word on that. Given the time you devote on the defense of that community, it's certainly more important to you than it is to me.
- hunterb123 5y agoIf you don't know them how did you assert they were an extremist in your original comment? An extremist is likened to a terrorist, you need to have evidence other than some edgelord comment, otherwise they are just an edgelord. Until proven otherwise you should assume they are the same as Reddit edgelords (actually most of them ARE or WERE Reddit edgelords!) I'm not defending one community in particular, I'm defending everyone's right to be in the community they want without being dehumanized as some sort of monster racist.
- pgeorgi 5y agoIf it quacks like a duck...
- hunterb123 5y agoThen it's an armchair wannabe federal agent? Yes pgeorgi does look and quack like that. Judge thee but not me!
- pgeorgi 5y agoDepends on the federation: Federal Republic of Germany? I'm paying taxes so I guess one could consider me an agent. But more than that: I also worked and work for organisations aligned with them in various capacities (currently I'm TA'ing at a state-run university, so while that's multiple hops away I guess it's a start? My fellow citizens often mix up what part is federal and what's state anyway, so it might as well not matter in the context of this conversation.)
- hunterb123 5y agoShit, so those people were terrorists.
- pgeorgi 5y agoSorry, I don't follow. Is that the Chewbacca defense?