Comment on The Feds Are Coming for “Extremist” Gamers

Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If your jokes look that bad out of context, you might need better jokes

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  • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Literally these guys in a nutshell and they don’t even realize

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  • Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There are plenty of jokes that look bad if you strip away the intention and context. They aren’t bad or offensive jokes they just seem offensive if you take them out of context and present them in a different way.

    For example this shane gills joke looks bad “That’s the thing about these countries, England, Scotland, Ireland, Australia. No Black people.” but when you add the next part it makes it funny.

    “And I know what you’re thinking. No, you need Black people to keep the whites in check. The last thing you want is a whole island of whites that think they’re the coolest people on earth. A disaster. That’s how you end up with Conor McGregors walking around.The foreign whites are out of control.”

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    • Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That doesn’t seem funny at all to me, maybe it’s in the delivery.

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      • Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The clip of him saying it funnier but its not everyones cup of tea

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    • rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      …you do need to get better jokes

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      • Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        How would you know you have never heard a joke from me.

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    • Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There are plenty of jokes that look bad if you strip away the intention and context. They aren’t bad or offensive jokes they just seem offensive if you take them out of context and present them in a different way.

      Yes, and as humans we are quite able to understand that we should not immediately suspect anybody who says something without any context, assuming in the situation we know we are lacking the content.

      Tell me, what makes you look more suspect to a federal agency:

      • The odd (frankly pretty bad, but then it’s by Shane Gills so that was expected) joke that lacking context could in theory be interpreted as a racial diss?
      • Encrypting and hiding all your chat traffic?

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      • Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        This is exactly the problem. The fbi shouldn’t be able to snoop on you based off suspicion. I can encrypt every thing and be as edgy as I want and they still shouldn’t pull my discord message history because they have no reason to suspect I’ve committed a crime or am going to commit a crime.

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    • ClockworkOtter@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s a shit joke. Racial essentialism just ain’t funny, and the context is kinda irrelevant.

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    • mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s telling how you think that the context somehow makes this ‘better’.

      It doesn’t, at all.

      Jokes that are the product of a bigoted mind always carry the stink with it but people who align with said bigotry never notice because they are STEEPED in it constantly.

      Just like when people grow up and leave 4chan and the realize in horror that what they thought is normal there, is VERY much not normal.

      Which is why when edgelads try to repeat jokes they got off of forums in real life, it always comes off as creepy and flat.

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      • Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Outside of extremely lefty places like lemmy jokes like that are acceptable and if you called that joke out as bigoted then people would consider you odd. It’s not even an edgy joke it just has a racial punchline.

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    • GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What the fuck

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• altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Thankfully all our jokes are dick jokes

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• Maeve@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I just watched a doco on Jack Teixera/Luca, last night. Perhaps you should.

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