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by TraceWoodgrains 1740 days ago
There's been plenty of discussion on the Texas law, as indeed there has been on trans issues and the other bait they use. I'm much more interested in focusing on stories nobody else is covering, and "a bunch of low-effort trolls convince hundreds of thousands that people are gathering on reddit to plan bounty hunting" is a fascinating story that nobody was covering. Sorry it wasn't to your liking, but it's a story I think people should hear.
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Fact is, your article spends disproportionate quantity of words disparaging the behavior of the cynical satirists, compared to the aproximately zero words used to rebuke the Texas law which prompted that particular gambol of theirs.

It might appear as if you support Texas' stance on abortion, and want to defend it from some trouble-making Internet miscreants who dare to mock it.

You do not know every single one of these people or their motivations. Maybe for some, everything is "LOLZ", but maybe some are serious. This sort of community looks like something anyone could join, for any number of reasons.

(I'm aware that there are some groups out there who perpetrate real harm, like stalking and harassing individuals ("lolcows") who are selected by the group as a target.)