yes banning symbols doesn't work, what works is contextualizing their use by people with their other behavior (that's literally how humans communicate anything so good luck trying to stop doing it), and deciding which people to ban accordingly
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Replying to @adornofthagn @0K_ultra and
kicking SusJud1488

off your Discord on sight: good
trying to make Trump doing shit with his hands into an indictment of explicit support of white supremacist murder so one sounds like a loony fucking witchfinder: bad3 replies 0 retweets 4 likes -
Replying to @chaosprime @0K_ultra and
oh no what if we accuse the fav politician of the fascists, of fascism ppl will think we're crazy (fr this is a terrible example, politicians *should* be under scrutiny that borders on paranoia)
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Replying to @adornofthagn @0K_ultra and
if you don't see how it's helpful to make your perfectly accurate accusation of fascism not sound like an accusation of witchcraft, idk what to tell ya mang
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Replying to @chaosprime @adornofthagn and
So wait, is it inaccurate or merely something that regardless of accuracy should not be said because it'll sound silly?
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Replying to @hikikomorphism @adornofthagn and
it's actually a cleverer trap than it gets credit for because it's a case of accidental truth; knowledge which is accurate but not via the reasoning which is being used to justify it. so people's bullshit detectors go off on "Trump is a fascist because he used the okay sign"
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Replying to @chaosprime @hikikomorphism and
and in some proportion of cases this gives them an association that "Trump is a fascist" is bullshit man, that's slick, i hadn't really worked it out all the way
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Replying to @chaosprime @hikikomorphism and
i don't think anyone said trump was a fascist because of the sign, the correct interpretation of the sign being used by him as a fascist symbol would be that he is a fascist and *signalling that fact to other fascists* (which is anything but trivial)
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Replying to @adornofthagn @chaosprime and
which is why you ignore the stupid handsigns because they are either noise or irrelevant and make you sound like a tinfoil-hat type when you choose to focus on his thumb and index-finger instead of the executive orders and signed acts of congress. talk about real shit.
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Replying to @danlistensto @adornofthagn and
Terrible how talking about things is mutually exclusive
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since if there's anything we've learned in the past twenty years it's that attention is unlimited and not subject to economic principles
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