• Fushuan [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    Nah, it’s actually about the hyper that makes violent comments okay. Hyperboles are usually used to make something apparent, in this case what’s being made apparent is the irony.

    For example: “Hey, can I go to the party?” “No” hard to interpret if it’s a joke “No fucking way dude, if I see you there I’ll fucking raze your household to the ground for 4 generations” < this is such an exaggeration that is simply can’t be true, which in turn implies that yeah, they can come.

    Of course, for it to be effective that must sound completely impossible to the listener, and as always context is important. Of the context of my hyper violent message is that I’m talking to my friends, they will know I’m joking.

    • intensely_human
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      3 months ago

      Yeah but that requires people to be willing to exercise their brains during communication.

      We’ve got a whole generation now who sees sarcasm as universally hostile behavior.

    • DingoBilly@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Sure, but he’s had a lot of words to explain its hyperbole and he hasn’t yet.

      So purely based on the context presented, he comes off as extreme and doesn’t properly justify it in his later posts. I’m not going to research every single person’s background I come across, so you can bet this guy comes off as unhinged based on these posts.