It's from an account called AliaAbeed. You can look at the insane stuff they constantly tweet and somehow people actually still react to it like its a real person.
Much of /r/insanepeoplefacebook is fake, either for the pointless karma or to incite rage against the supposed real group being spoofed. I cringe so hard watching people try to construct some kind of personal ideology about opposing these posts. "Blah blah blah women R feminazis something something male genocide." Fuckin' get real people.
I'm questioning everything now. If I see something that legitimately makes me mad, I ask myself "Who am I mad at and why?" If it's a group or movement whose extremists I already am not overly keen on, I chalk it up as fake and move on. Even if it's legit, it's kinder on my blood pressure to ignore it and there are thousands who will be angry in my place, I'm sure.
To be honest, that's a really healthy outlook. I wish I had the self-control to not obsess over this shit. The constant stream of red flags and warning signs has me well over the edge into near constant anxiety.
Well I've thought things online have gotten particularly bad in the last couple of years, but if it's true that Russia has been shitstirring then it kind of all falls into place. I stopped using Facebook as I was just getting angry, and I was catching myself reading comments on news stories I knew would be full of people making me angry. I don't know why I did it, but it wasn't healthy. But maybe a good chunk of it is Russian shitstirring bitches, trying to make the West tear itself apart.
I mean, people are inherently bad, but this gives me hope that they aren't that bad.
It doesn’t even need to be Russian. Tons of people around the world can lie and make shit up just to stir the pot. Making far away faceless strangers go into all caps text rages is what brings joy to some people’s lives.
The point isn’t to sway opinion, it’s to amplify existing opinion. The thing about trying to sway someone’s opinion is that you’re expecting them to think. If you want people divided, you want to reinforce their beliefs and paint the opposing side as absurdly as possible.
This kind of post is designed to push all the buttons and slip right under the radar for plausibility, so no critical thinking takes place. That’s why the first top level reply talking about this (the sub thread we’re in now) is like 7 comments down. People believe this shit is real. The ones that take the time to think it out are definitely in the minority and that is fucking terrifying.
This seems grim but you're probably right. It simply works too well and with social media is too easy. My instinct is to think that people's bullshit meters go up at this point more often than not but who even knows anymore.
Plenty of people here believe it's real. Many people on Reddit have seen so many of these fake "dumb SJW" posts that there's no longer much limit on what they'll believe is real when it comes to these things. They don't actually know what these sorts of people really act like because the fake versions are more entertaining so they make up most of the examples they see.
It only sounds fake to people who aren't idiots. The alt right laps this stuff up. You could write "I think all boys should be forced into trans surgery at age 5 so they can experience what it's like to live as an oppressed womyn" and they would think it was real feminism.
Why not? The number of nonsense connections it takes to draw all these conclusions is already hard to believe, and then to put it into a very formulaic "demanding sjw" style post with no real qualifiers or anything, is not only very fake, but transparent. By far the more likely explanation is that this person is trying to undermine feminism or "sjws". A lot of people will believe this, combined with some "wouldn't be shocked" types and it just snowballs into rageporn, and for the OP, well, mission accomplished.
I’m just saying I’ve seen dumb shit like this before, so I’m not shocked if someone believed this dumb shit. I’m not trying to undermine feminism lmao. I agree it’s very likely it’s a meme, but it wouldn’t shock me if it was real. And just like any ideology feminism has its extremes, and SOME people in that movement go too far and put out ideas that are unrealistic, overbearing, and very delusional. This happens with EVERY movement, political group, etc.
With a little digging I found the Twitter it came from and the profile reads like a checklist of alt-right complaints. Even a post where she had her “5 year old nephew try on a dress because he might be trans” and multiple posts about how “men are trash”
It’s just too on the nose to be real. If it is, it’s a person not connected with reality
Perhaps people need to be better educated on what trolling is and reputable sources. C'mon social studies teachers! This is a gold mine for lessons to teach your students!!
Most of what is on the internet seems stupid enough to be satire but alas it is not. People are so dumb that it's hard for people to even tell when I'm making a joke these days.
nope, you can't never underestimate how stupid people are. Just when you thought they hit rock bottom someone somewhere does something so stupid you can't believe it's real.
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u/shogi_x Oct 16 '18
Has to be satire.