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Re:Reddit Dragged into Russian Propaganda Row by Cthulhu_ on Friday March 02, 2018 @10:40AM (#16502306)
A lot of trolls are sincere though, or at least are indistinguishable from them. I mean I've used nazi symbolism and whatnot ironically / "for teh lulz" in the past, but if you looked at that shit if you didn't know it you'd be sure I was serious.
Re:Reddit Dragged into Russian Propaganda Row by bmm6o on Friday March 02, 2018 @10:57AM (#16502534)
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."

― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

Re:Reddit Dragged into Russian Propaganda Row by tdb7893 on Saturday March 03, 2018 @02:17AM (#16508311)
Yeah, I mean I hope most of the people aren't serious. My worry is that you can't really get a subreddit that large of joking racists without it being explicit that it's a joke. The subreddit almost assuredly has actual racists hiding among the kids who just want it be part of a counterculture.
Re:Reddit Dragged into Russian Propaganda Row by learc83 on Friday March 02, 2018 @10:47AM (#16502397)
>if you looked at that shit if you didn't know it you'd be sure I was serious

And if you kept posting it long enough, and participating in that community long enough, it's very likely there would stop being a meaningful difference between what you posted ironically and sincerely.