The ok * is dismissive-avoidant and maps to the “I’m ok you’re not ok” quadrant in the Thomas Harris model. It’s brilliant because it insincerely maps it to a superficially positive I’m ok you’re ok 
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the ghost protocol anti-meme https://twitter.com/rektide/status/1193634399016964097?s=21 …
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the exit protocol of memeshttps://twitter.com/metamitya/status/1193634166363054080?s=21 …
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The Rick and Morty line “don’t think about it” is a distant, less hostile cousin that disregards general weirdness rather than a specific antagonist
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where it doesn’t work is where the target clearly has less power than you, in which case it degenerates to regular contempt rather than ok-to-power like a guy saying “ok metoo” would backfire badly
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I hear a note of humility too as in, “I don’t have the right answer but yours is obviously too simplistic and not even wrong”
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Also done right it breaks identity politics. By acknowledging a label the other party can’t/won’t challenge, you peg the view as saying more about the self-identification than the matter at hand. It boxes up the view in an identity
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meme jail running a meme in an identity bag-tag vm to render it toothless just true-name the assumed context of the adversary’s argument get inside rumplestiltskin’s OODA loop
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In all cases, the main necessary and almost sufficient condition for ok * to work is that * must have just trotted our a very *-ey derp in an attempt to coerce engagement out of the okayer. If there isn’t a derp move it’s much harder to deploy effectively. Derp momentum judo.
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True. Give a dog a derp name and hang him. https://twitter.com/polite_netizen/status/1193953564239908864?s=21 …
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