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    22 days ago

    Is this an actual reason for why people do that, an ad hoc explanation, or a view that just a few people hold?

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      22 days ago

      People are lazy. But, yes, many people who do write “/s” do it so that fascists know we’re making fun of them, not reinforcing their beliefs.

      It’s the same reason Mein Kampf requires footnotes in Germany, by law

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        22 days ago

        Ok fine, I can accept this can be used SOMETIMES when you need to make something completely unambiguous, but more often than not you want the opposite - amd most things don’t have anything to do with nazism, and sarcasm can be picked up easily usually as well.

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          22 days ago

          Starship Troopers. American Psycho. Taxi Driver. Joker. South Park.

          All of these are celebrated by the right because they failed to understand that I was actually a criticism of them.

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            22 days ago

            I understand that idiots can misunderstand something if it is ambiguous, but that does not mean that ambiguity should be forbidden. If at the end of “American Psycho” there was a title saying “this film is a criticism of capitalist culture and its effect on people”, it would be worse as a film, a work of art and a statement than it is now. It would be ridiculous and disrespectful towards the audience.

            It’s literally in the name, “american psycho”, it is almost stated explicitly, but they STILL do not get it. What is it that you want exactly? Our media and discourse to be made with only unintelligent people in mind?