While I agree that we could all stand to take things a little less seriously, I also think that it's important to realize that humor is an important tool for normalizing ideas and opinions so sometimes it warrants scrutiny.
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Its just a prank, bro!
Social experiment.
or just tell the person the joke isn't funny and move on. not everything needs to be under a microscope.
Something can be incorrect or harmful and funny.
Moreover if you reread my comment I think we very much agree.
Well fuck you too!
Copy.
It's pronounced "gif"
Yes, "gif" correct, everyone else say "gif" fucking wrong.
Do you know how to speak English it's fucking gif!
While I enjoy a good online slap fight, some people seem to get paid for it.
Well that's just being a contrarian, it's not an actual debait or argument.
No it isn’t
There's also the phenomenon where if you say anything remotely negative online about a thing, people think you're the most enraged person ever, even if you're just mildly annoyed. A lot of assumptions are made on the Internet, that's for sure.
My first interaction with a self-proclaimed Buddhist was in an Omegle chat where he opened with something like "the US staged 9/11", I guess in an attempt to rage-bait
Well... I agree
Just seems hypocritical for a self-proclaimed Buddhist to open a chat and immediately try to throw hands
I think we just allowed it to happen like we did with Pearl Harbor.
Colluded it to happen
UWOT!
there's this weird phenomenon at least here in europe of weird fascist assholes converting to budhism
Oi, that's not fucking Buddhist, you git
Say less
I wish we could actually do so. The modern internet is shit. You cant even copy paste the navy seals copypasta without getting banned for promoting violence. Boring!
Jokes work because of the value systems of the culture that produces them. Take jokes seriously and you'll learn what that culture values and what it doesn't. The intent of the joke is separate from why it works and what that means about our society.
Is it true that your mom can't cook? Everybody says so.