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by gm3dmo 1698 days ago
>There are probably more trolls pretending to be Nazis than there are actual Nazis.

"We are what we pretend to be." --- Kurt Vonnegut
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AnthonyMouse 1698 days ago
Cute, but trivially falsifiable. Wearing a Freddy Krueger mask on Halloween doesn't make you Freddy Krueger.

And to the extent that it is true, it implies that we should stop using Nazis as the boogeyman. Because trolls are going to use whatever will get a rise out of people. Best not have it be this that they summon up.

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gm3dmo 1698 days ago
>Cute, but trivially falsifiable. Wearing a Freddy Krueger mask on Halloween doesn't make you Freddy Krueger.

That is true enough for most, but not all.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Gonzalez_(spree_kille...

Daniel clearly could not separate the Freddy mask from fiction and made it a tragic reality.

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snugghash 1698 days ago
That's better as "the effects of my pretend actions are very real" than anything more subtle
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