Comment on The Feds Are Coming for “Extremist” Gamers

• Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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

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• Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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

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    • Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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

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  • rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    …you do need to get better jokes

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    • Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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

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      • mister_monster@monero.town ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Humorless people telling you to joke within the confines of their neurotic sensibilities. Best ignore them and carry on.

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  • Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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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      • mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        I get the feeling that your only experiences outside of lemmy are 4chan and new.reddit if you think bigotry is that normalized.

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  • GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    What the fuck

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