• TechyDad@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I also “fear backlash” if he runs and loses the election. He won’t hesitate to get his followers to commit acts of violence. According to the logic of the “for fear of backlash we should allow him to run” people, we should just annoint Trump President for Life. After all, we can’t do anything that might cause MAGA to become violent, right? /s

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        10 months ago

        It’s a habit I formed back when I frequented Reddit. You sometimes couldn’t tell if someone was being serious or not and since I didn’t want anyone to mistake my sarcasm for MAGA-ism, I used /s liberally.

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            10 months ago

            There was…

            I forgot what it was, maybe an upside exclamation point?

            But there was something to denote sarcasm besides /s way back in the olden days too

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            10 months ago

            That’d be less insufferable, but ultimately there’s no point in being sarcastic if you’re gonna tank it right at the end.

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          10 months ago

          Why does that matter? If you’re not convinced you can be effectively sarcastic then don’t be sarcastic. Putting that at the end is tantamount to going ‘LOOOOOOOOOOOL JK DON’T DOWNDOOT PLZZ!!!’.