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Or is it just doomed to the vapidity of sterile commercialization?

It feels like everything is serious these days... and 'humor' is only of the commercial variety. Joke communities and circlejerk communities are considered 'hate groups' now. Mods will ban you for sarcastic comments on 'serious' topics, and even on non serious ones, and everything is politicized either by trolls, bots, or whackjobs.

It's boring when you can't joke anymore. I miss my internet communities of 5-10 years ago when you could joke around, and even people of different beliefs and persuasions could laugh at themselves.

Now everything is so deadly serious. It's a complete bummer. And any sort of 'edge' or sarcasm or sardonic remarks are ban-worthy.

I guess it's just poe's law run amok? I feel like mods could tell the difference 10 years ago and the non-jokey psychos were just ignored.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I do know better. I know about diversity and acceptance, and taking it easy, and living and letting live, and to each his own, and being a traveler, and having an open mind, and ribbing, and separating the important stuff from the unimportant stuff.

I know things that are so much better than getting offended over more and more things each year. I know better, so I do better.

I don’t get offended over jokes because I have contempt for that behavior.

[–] TubularTittyFrog 1 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If you did, you'd know it isn't about "being offended by more every year" - its recognizing that something is offensive to others and adjusting because some of us have better shit to do than being rude cause its "fun."

If you can't be fun without low hanging fruit gay jokes, you're probably not actually that fun. 🤷

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No. I value fun. I myself choose often not to be offended when I realize others aren’t trying to offend me. I almost never get offended. I know it’s possible to live this way. I know that others’ jokes aren’t a threat to me.

You don’t seem to realize that a thing being offensive isn’t an objective fact. Offensiveness is in the eye of the offended. That gives power to the offended, to solve their own problem.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Again, if you can't be "fun" without offending people - You aren't fun, you're a dick.