Let's not paint them as tech illiterate. That's how you drop your guard.
The same way conservatives believe liberals aren't armed.
These fools werent incompetent because they're Nazis. They're incompetent because they think they're better than everyone else, and they don't need to follow the rules established by others.
Late yesterday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt emailed a response: “As we have repeatedly stated, there was no classified information transmitted in the group chat. However, as the CIA Director and National Security Advisor have both expressed today, that does not mean we encourage the release of the conversation. This was intended to be a an [sic] internal and private deliberation amongst high-level senior staff and sensitive information was discussed. So for those reason [sic] — yes, we object to the release.”
In the 90s, calling yourself a flat earther was a opportunity to have a fun and yet silly conversation about belief in science. During that time, both people KNEW that the earth was round. It was an exercise in creativity and played straight for laughs.
But somewhere in the 2000, some people didn't realize the satire. They actually BELIEVED in it.
There's a line of shitposting like with anything.
Shitposting is an art. It's satire.
Then there's actual shitty people who don't realize that the good shit posts harm nobody. Where shitty people posting disgusting racist things under the guise of Shitposting are too stupid to understand the nuance.
This commenter said it best:
To the people who think what OP did was completely normal and something everyone does, (and I hate to use this phrase) check the “ratio” here. Nobody thinks this is normal. You and OP are in the slim minority spewing vile shit about people in your lives. It’s cruel and childish. You’d be smart to learn from OP’s predicament before you find yourself in the exact same situation with everyone you know hating you because you thought it was perfectly normal to constantly trash talk them behind their back. It’s not normal. Not everyone is doing it. Assholes like OP and apparently yourself are doing it. And it clearly can bite you in the ass. As I said in my initial comment, these kinds of things can have serious real world consequences. So you may wanna wise up and start being a respectable human being ;)
Best part about Shitposting honestly.
There's the shitposters who post weird funny things and are here just having a laugh.
Then the awful mofos who think Shitposting means they can be their true selves and post offensive garbage under the guise of Shitposting. Then they get called out, get really offended/flip out because they didn't realize.
It's a great honey trap.
The same way a brand new crypto coin suddenly gain a lot of value. You bump it until you're not the last moron holding the bag.
Using your same metaphor, if you came to another person's house and all they did was shit on their family, and then make dark jokes about killing them - is it all fun and games until something bad happens?
There are lines. You don't know what Derek saw.
But apparently it was so bad that a lot of people are really disgusted at the core group.
There's a lot of overlap with this and the leak.
Honestly I see correlation between this, the Trump Locker room talk, the Blizzard and Riot sexual harassment cases, etc.
I love all the comments who hate Derek, obviously projecting their own shitty behavior.
What a tell.
Sounds like the solution is not to be a asshole while drunk? Or not be drunk? Or not be there to get recorded?
Nobody forced you to do anything and take responsibility for your own actions.
If you're ever concerned that your private messages will get leaked, why send it? That seems like a you issue for trusting them.
Nah fuck that.
If your comment was so bad that a person you both trust and respected was like, "WTF" to expose it, that's on you.
The whole meToo movement is based on this. Just "locker room" talk to some, but deeply disgusting sexual harassment from a small group and behavior to the other 90%.
Gonna share this again.
This commenter said it best: