I really thought this was going to be a satire post about the Yemen bombing Signal chat group leak.
The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme
Submitted 18 hours ago by TheImpressiveX@lemm.ee to [deleted]
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SoupBrick@pawb.social 17 hours ago
TheImpressiveX@lemm.ee 16 hours ago
I was inspired to post this story in light of recent events.
HornedMeatBeast@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
I don’t blame you, thought the same and already seen a few today.
Amanduh@lemm.ee 7 hours ago
It’s a good post though, relevant but not another post about the same damn thing lol
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
same
LengAwaits@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Shitposting is just pretending to be stupid/racist/shitty for laughs/attention, right? Pretty low form of humor, if you ask me (no one did), but I’m also guessing a lot of shitposters aren’t just pretending.
I like a laugh as much as the next person, but we can’t sit around going “Why are people in this country so fucking stupid/racist/shitty?” while simultaneously elevating “acting” stupid to some high form of humor. You see how that’s counterproductive, right?
“Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.” - Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
*“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.” - Jason Garrett-Glaser*
Kira@lemmy.today 1 hour ago
LengAwaits@lemmy.world 56 minutes ago
That’s me! Cringe and proud.
abbotsbury@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I don’t think it is that people are saying shitposting is a higher form of humor, but that it requires a level of trust that you know the people you’re shitposting with know you and know you’re joking. Lack of that leads to your second quote.
LengAwaits@lemmy.world 30 minutes ago
Ledivin@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
If the contents of my friends’ group chat got leaked… people would just think we’re fucking idiots, not terrible people.
Good work, Derek. Be better, losers in that chat.
amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz 13 hours ago
I think that’s obtuse, comedy has no limits: As long as you don’t act upon uncomfortable / morally reprehensible ideas you joke about, you aren’t any worse or better than if you had never joked about it. I would argue that exposing a bunch of people for what they joke about with no evidence that they’ve actually done something wrong is far worse than joking about offensive subjects. (one has zero negative affects, the other has many)
(I must say I disagree completely with that guy sharing messages from his girlfriend- that piece is very weird and a total breach of trust)
blady_blah@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Keep in mind the source of this story. The author has every reason to describe the stuff on their group chat sound tame, so if it sounds bad, it’s probably 3 times worse than that.
exasperation@lemm.ee 7 hours ago
(I must say I disagree completely with that guy sharing messages from his girlfriend- that piece is very weird and a total breach of trust)
My impression from the original post was that kind of stuff was what drove most of the fallout. Leaked off color memes aren’t going to ruin people’s relationships, but leaked shit talk or breaches of someone else’s privacy will.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 4 hours ago
If the public got to hear first hand all the black humor that goes on in the EMS field, society might further collapse.
feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Everyone on here is an insufferable twat.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
derek is still a cunt though. If you join and find shit you don’t like the first thing you should do is confront people. Either derek just likes causing people problems (and is a problematic individual) or he is not very bright and thinks that everything people say must be 100% true and serious.
I would not ever want to be friends with derek, that’s for sure.
nimpnin@sopuli.xyz 17 hours ago
How do you know that?
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 hours ago
Because they’re a fucking idiot, duh.
rishado@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
East, by having an inflated ego and a holier than thou attitude! 👍
MTK@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Ah yes, “cocksucker” as the first insult to come to mind, the sign of a good person
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
what about it?
MTK@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
It implies that for a man, sucking cock (a legitimate sexual act for any gender) is an insult because that would make him gay. So Homophobic.
missandry351@lemmings.world 6 hours ago
The world needs more Dereks
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
never admit to the group chat leaks.
Always be shitposting. They can never catch you offguard if you don’t stop.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Shitposting is one thing. Without knowing what the war memes were, I can’t say one way or another.
Sharing private chats your girlfriend? Yeah, that’s too far.
abbotsbury@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Sharing private chats from your girlfriend? Yeah, that’s too far.
Whoa whoa whoa, but they said they didn’t commit crimes by sharing nudes without consent! They’re not that disrespectful!
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
If I had to explain some of my in-group chats, it would be complicated and awkward, but not life-destroying.
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
SeekPie@lemm.ee 1 hour ago
You just concentrated 4 top tier shitposts into a single comment.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 15 hours ago
Well.
Depends on how fash the US turns for me
Wanpieserino@lemm.ee 13 hours ago
Me and my buddy have the nuke thing going. Mutually assured destruction 😎
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
just dont admit to them?
Loce@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Pete Hegseth, is that you?
son_named_bort@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I once had a group chat that got leaked. There’s a possibility that it may have involved some light treason.
Laereht@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Oh no. The consequences of my own actions have come back to haunt me
Frostbeard@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I would love for my 40k groups five year group chat to be leaked. My theories about Alpharius is valid I tell you.
Nononono, do it go! We haven’t even gotten to the part with Valdor, and the Emperor yet.
m4xie@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
I want to hear it!
rivan@lemm.ee 7 hours ago
My groups collective chats is more of a microcosm of meme culture at the given time, sort of a petri dish of various meme strains fighting for (limited) mental resources.
hperrin@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
Derek sounds like a cool guy.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
derek sounds like a dick.
What you do in private does not necessarily reflect who you are in public. And who you are in public, does not necessarily reflect who you are in private either.
hperrin@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
This was not private. This was a group of assholes laughing behind their friends’ backs at their expense. It was secret, but not private.
jwmgregory@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
lmfao what a fucking excuse of a reason. i hope you know i hate you. not hyperbole. i hope everyone else knows i hate you too. like genuinely, and actually; blatantly being a terrible person like you are is a large part of what is wrong with the world and i despise every single one of you chucklefucks that inches us every further away from decency day by day.
do you recognize you’re doing olympic level mental gymnastics in order to make the people you identify with in the internet story the good guys or are you just incredibly dense and/or like fucking with people for kicks?
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 9 hours ago
Derek sounds like a snitch
hperrin@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
Good. Don’t be an asshole to your friends behind their backs. That’s trashy behavior, and you deserve to lose your friends if you do it.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
Invasion of privacy, not cool
Jtskywalker@lemm.ee 6 hours ago
What about the people on the group chat who were disrespecting other people’s right to privacy by sharing private mesaages and pictures? It’s cool when they do it?
ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
There’s always two group chats, one for everyone and one for the people you want to talk to. And if you think that doesn’t happen I have some bad news for you.
Hadriscus@lemm.ee 5 hours ago
hah ! 😂
peregrin5@lemm.ee 17 hours ago
I thought this was going to be satire about the Atlantic editor being accidentally included in war room group chats. Lol.
LongboardingLad@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Can’t have my group chats leaked if I don’t have any!
absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 8 hours ago
LongboardingLad@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
That’s a rude comparison. Fuck that guy. I have debilitating social anxiety. I’d like to have friends and a group chat, but interacting with others in a meaningful way is difficult…
someguy3@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
To narcissists everything is someone else’s fault.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Is the person who made the comments a narcissist, yes. Is the person who screen shorted it and shared it also a narcissist, absolutely.
someguy3@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
“Hmmm should I expose all the offensive photoshops and derogatory things they did said about specific people?” No that’s not narcissist by itself.
Ceedoestrees@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
I suddenly feel better about all my group chats, it’s all gay memes, positivity and anti-capitalist revolution.
Zizzy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 hours ago
Same, are we in the same group chat??
Ceedoestrees@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Naw, I only just got my pals into Lemmy. Glad to know there are other havens out there, though.
unhrpetby@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
Disappearing messages people!
kitnaht@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
So shitposters were shitposting. Don’t be bitches and act surprised when people are offended. Own that shit. It was meant to offend, that’s what makes it funny. I’ll join their discord and shitpost too. Call me a “bad person” all you want. idgaf.
Ceedoestrees@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Not so much a bad person as someone who vehemently opposes opportunities to be better.
kitnaht@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Fuck that. Why do I need to be better? I don’t give 2 shits about virtue signalling. I don’t have to convince the world that I’m a good person, I know my own virtues and I know that I am; so I’m allowed to joke about horrific shit all the fuck I want.
amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz 13 hours ago
Joking about those things does not make him any better or worse, it’s comedy. Ending that behavior is not an opportunity to be better.
Wanpieserino@lemm.ee 13 hours ago
It’s a good thing. Kind seeks kind. Don’t be afraid to be who you are.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 hours ago
Derek getting mad laid now.
5PACEBAR@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Pudutr0n@feddit.cl 17 hours ago
Are you ‘Derek’?
Etterra@discuss.online 37 minutes ago
I love how the government is now just assholes in a shitty group chat.