Discord Meme Group Is at the Center of Uproar over Leaked Military Secrets

Re:Discord Meme Group Is at the Center of Uproar over Leaked... by nemothekid on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @05:36PM (#35547327)

>much of what's posted on 4chan is ironic, deliberately inflammatory

This hasn't been plausible, much less true, for 10 years. I don't know how anyone can look at, for example, Payton Gendron's manifesto and say it's ironic. Were the bullets he fired ironic as well?

There is an entire generation of users, who are probably the bulk of users now, who were never in on the "joke" (if there ever was one).

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Re:Discord Meme Group Is at the Center of Uproar over Leaked... by v0idzer0 on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @06:50PM (#35548133)

Citing one crazy person using a platform doesn’t make your argument coherent. How many shooters have live streamed on facebook?

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Re:Discord Meme Group Is at the Center of Uproar over Leaked... by nemothekid on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @07:13PM (#35548374)

There is a huge difference between "livestreaming a shooting on facebook", and writing a 200 page manifesto about how /pol/ redpilled you. I guess all 200 pages were just "banter". The guy practically wrote a book on being radicalized by /pol/, and that to you, is the same as opening up Facebook and clicking the "record" button.

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Re:Discord Meme Group Is at the Center of Uproar over Leaked... by YarickR2 on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @08:07PM (#35548946)

Those things being hugely different is just your opinion, not universally accepted truth.

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Re:Discord Meme Group Is at the Center of Uproar over Leaked... by wussboy on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @07:01PM (#35548243)

This doesn't absolve 4chan, but rather damns Facebook.

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Re:Discord Meme Group Is at the Center of Uproar over Leaked... by JKCalhoun on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @07:36PM (#35548623)

I thought the same the first time I heard about a livestream murder on FB. I thought: I'd shut that feature off instantly if I were in charge. No way I could live with my conscience if someone used my platform for murder attention.

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