• @ChillDude69OP
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      Yeah, but on rocket fuel and crack cocaine. People getting way too fart-sniffing with their own sarcasm and double-reverse trolling was always a problem. That shit has now been extra confounded and complexified by the sheer DENSITY of meme and shitpost culture, over there.

      If you look away for a couple of weeks, you might as well have been in a coma for ten years. Nothing makes sense, even the comments on every post are dense and packed with in-jokes and sub-memes, and whole new communities are created every fucking day, just to delve further into the meta-meme-ification.

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        People are addicted to being in the in-circle like that. It’s a rush having something so secretly in common with others. It can consume people.

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        postmodern meta meta meta meta meta meta irony is the new pseudo anti-meta the third squared bro.

        Dig me? And will someone please ranch me the fuck up for fucks sake

  • @[email protected]
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    The people posting in those subs probably don’t even know either. Fascists upvoting communists and vice versa because nobody wants to admit they don’t get the joke

  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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    63 months ago

    Do better things with your time… Like arguing with me that I’m not doing anything better with my time.

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    43 months ago

    Why does anyone need to figure out whether a forum is left or right leaning? You go there and if you like the content you stay and if you dont like the content you leave, its literally that easy.

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      I don’t intend to participate, either way. I just think the impenetrable in-joke meta-culture of the subreddits in question has gotten WAY TOO STUPID.

      I don’t think you’ve seen what I’m talking about. It’s fucking weird.

    • @[email protected]
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      The question OP poses is not if the content is left or right, but whether the apparent left/right position is sincere or ironic

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      They all start out that way, but eventually enough people join and don’t get it that it becomes real.

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        At which point someone starts a new parody sub, with an even more bananas-ass name that nobody understands, because the ultra-mega-meta coded references it makes are, like, six permutations deep. And the whole cycle begins again.

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      Huh. I didn’t notice that. And I got this image from Pixabay, when I was unable to make an AI image that worked for the meme. At least up until now, Pixabay hasn’t had a bunch of AI images, but maybe this one is. It’s pretty good, though.

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    I feel like we have been sucked in a vortex that takes any attempt at parody and satire and uses it to push the overton window towards fascism.

    • @ChillDude69OP
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      Yeah, pretty much. I’ve basically felt like I’ve been loopy on nitrous oxide, since about 2011. That’s been the subjective experience. World just started to go fully whack-a-doodle nuts.