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I think a part of what happened has to do with >"act in a way nobody knows whether you're actually trolling or not" Some people were joking and some weren't,
by sanex 2y ago
I think a part of what happened has to do with
>"act in a way nobody knows whether you're actually trolling or not"
Some people were joking and some weren't, or were just too dim to understand that it was a joke, and then when they all showed up in Charlottesville to march. They were mostly serious except for that one poor guy who still thought it was a meme and ran away.
- jampa 2y agoThere was even an old 4chan joke for this: "Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that they're in good company." -Rene Descartes
- mmsc 2y agoThe amusing thing being that the original source of this is hn, not 4chan [1]. deserves a spot on https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights imo. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1012082 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1012082
- stavros 2y agoMy god, DarkShikari... I haven't heard that name in a decade.