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Ken White (popehat@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jun-2023 23:35:54 JST Ken White

To all the people who took Elon Musk seriously as a free speech hero: I’m sorry everyone is being mean and saying bad things to you. That’s not kind or fair. I know it hurts. Fortunately I can help. I have this here handful of magic beans, and for a comparatively low and reasonable price, they /1

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  Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 22-Jun-2023 11:19:33 JST Paul Cantrell
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  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
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    Poe's law
    
    Poe's law is an adage of internet culture saying that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent, any parodic or sarcastic expression of extreme views can be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of those views. Origin Poe's law is based on a comment written by Nathan Poe in 2005 on christianforums.com, an Internet forum on Christianity. The message was posted during a debate on creationism, where a previous poster had remarked to another user: "Good thing you included the winky. Otherwise people might think you are serious".The reply by Nathan Poe read: Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is utterly impossible to parody a Creationist in such a way that someone won't mistake for the genuine article. The original statement of Poe's law referred specifically to creationism, but it has since been generalized to apply to any kind of fundamentalism or extremism.Its original conceptualization held that online parodies or sarcasm on religious views are indistinguishable from sincere...
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  Live, Laugh, Lovecraft (livelaughlovecraft@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 22-Jun-2023 11:19:34 JST Live, Laugh, Lovecraft
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  @MattFerrel @Popehat this makes me think that this person doesn't know the meaning of the word slur
  
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  Matt Ferrel (mattferrel@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 22-Jun-2023 11:19:35 JST Matt Ferrel
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  1. g/w Lissa : QO @two_n_minus one "Cis" is a slur. "Straight" is a slur. "White" is a slur. "TME" is a slur. "American" is a slur. "Man" is a slur. "Right-handed" is a slur. "Nerd" is a slur. "Asshole" is a slur. "Billionaire" is a slur. "Dead-eyed, desperately lonely emerald mine nepo baby" is a slur. "Gamer" is 12:21 AM - 21 Jun 23
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