• MacN'Cheezus
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    1321 month ago

    I can’t think of anything more 2024 than openly talking about having sexual intercourse with household objects but censoring the word “retard”.

      • @[email protected]
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        101 month ago

        I switched over from your instance because of the censorship. It’s infantilizing to cross out or add asterisks to such words.

      • MacN'Cheezus
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        91 month ago

        Nah that’s your instance. It shows up fine when I view it on mine, but when I go on your it does indeed say removed.

          • MacN'Cheezus
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            11 month ago

            You mean gay? Or homosexual?

            And why would they censor that and not “fag”, when the former are also used as neutral descriptions while the latter is almost exclusively used in a derogatory way?

            And also, do I even have to point out how ridiculous it is to promote freedom of information while simultaneously selectively censoring certain words? That’s literally Russia levels of hypocrisy right there.

    • Echo Dot
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      Because 4chan is almost exclusively populated by 12-year-olds who think they’re edgy but also don’t want to upset mother

      • MacN'Cheezus
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        521 month ago

        They’re mother isn’t on 4chan and they know it.

        Also, nobody on 4chan actually censors that word, it must have been OP who did it, meaning they’re afraid their mother is on Lemmy reading 4chan greentexts.

      • @[email protected]
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        111 month ago

        By 12 year olds do you mean ACTUAL 12 year olds? Or 30 year old men who never mentally progressed past 12?

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    1 month ago

    Awww

    They went from ‘toasters’ to ‘a toaster’. OP stopped slutting it up and found the toaster for them. How wholesome

  • @[email protected]
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    531 month ago

    It was definitely there before the internet, too. You just couldn’t easily connect with other toaster fuckers.

    • @[email protected]
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      91 month ago

      Being unable to find a group of enablers to reinforce each other’s insanity is a good thing.

      Having to have actual, real life humans as your social circle helps in actually socializing people. Like kittens who need other cats around to learn how to properly cat themselves. Without it they develop social issues or worse.

    • @[email protected]
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      41 month ago

      Sure, but it was internet that made these tiny scattered groups into large findable ones

      Before the internet you would need to live near a proud and loud toaster fucker to find a group

      Old furries in tech are in tech because they learnt and used early computer networks to connect with other furries

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      21 month ago

      i dont think there would be as many toaster fuckers without the encouragement from a big community of toaster fuckers

  • Alien Nathan Edward
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    fuck up your life

    You see, the thing about that is you always hear about the guy who jerks off to r/dragonsfuckingcars and then does a mass shooting, but you never hear about the guy who goes to work in the morning, does an adequate job, comes home, jerks off to r/dragonsfuckingcars and then goes peacefully to sleep

  • @vaultdweller013
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    211 month ago

    Thats just the Cult Mechanicus, wait till he finds out about Skiitari femboys fucking toasters.

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      91 month ago

      and so many others online. there are so many very tight and close echo chambers, where people outright invent a new reality for themselves, and get angry, antagonistic towards actual reality

      See: AntiVaxxers, NeoNazi’s, and Flat Earthers.

      at least before social media these nutbars stayed isolated and alone and couldn’t get together and recruit / spread their messages easily.

    • XIIIesq
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      291 month ago

      It’s an allegory for any “extremely niche” interest that would have been considered super weird before these people could easily find eachother, although OP probably had furries and people like that in mind.

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          Like the cheap ones you get from the supermarket that break 3 weeks or the super expensive ones with very important blue LEDs on everything?

          • XIIIesq
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            21 month ago

            Anyone wanting to fuck the cheap ones is sick in the head.

      • Azuth
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        Yeah, I’ve mostly heard this mentioned in reference to really obscure fetishes that you’d probably never have a chance to indulge in if it weren’t for the internet.

    • @paysrenttobirds
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      I remember an early wtf Internet moment for me on fark.com someone linked a car-fucking forum complete with diy “muffler cosies”, etc. Probably at least half joking, right??