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cumpantry posted:whats up with redditors referring to russian soldiers as "orks"? i keep seeing it in linked ukraine articles, usually paired with bloodthirst At the start of the invasion there were lots of stories going around about Russians looting, raping, and pillaging. I think it came from that. I believe mods of various subreddits tried to stop this because it became more of a racial thing paired with the aforementioned bloodlust.
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cumpantry posted:whats up with redditors referring to russian soldiers as "orks"? i keep seeing it in linked ukraine articles, usually paired with bloodthirst As I understand it, it comes from a notorious(?) fanfic of LOTR from Russia that was written from the POV of the orcs, which was more sympathetic to their plight and was written to be a close 1:1 comparison to Russian/Slavic people in the world. With the current Russian invasion, people have been very upset and have thus adopted it as a general slur towards all Russian peoples?
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People dehumanizing the enemy is a tale as old as time
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Samovar posted:As I understand it, it comes from a notorious(?) fanfic of LOTR from Russia that was written from the POV of the orcs, which was more sympathetic to their plight and was written to be a close 1:1 comparison to Russian/Slavic people in the world. This is what I remember also. Russians had referred to themselves as orcs in the past. They don't anymore, but Ukrainians now call them orcs with slightly different connotations. The origin has very little to do with the current usage, but that is probably why that term was chosen and not some other.
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cumpantry posted:whats up with redditors referring to russian soldiers as "orks"? i keep seeing it in linked ukraine articles, usually paired with bloodthirst thats not just a reddit thing, goons were doing it too until the gbs thread made a rule against it there was one guy in the cspam ukraine war thread who posted a bunch of ai-generated 'sexy' orc romance novel covers
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:thats not just a reddit thing, goons were doing it too until the gbs thread made a rule against it Pretty sure it only happened twice in hundreds of posts, but it was certainly on the list of grievances being used to try to shut the thread down.
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I think it just started because lord of the rings is really popular in both countries and Russia in eastern europe is more or less where Mordor is in the books, Im not sure there's more history to it than that. Ukrainian twitter/telegram accounts used the o word a lot a year ago but I think now its mostly a reddit thing
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cumpantry posted:whats up with redditors referring to russian soldiers as "orks"? i keep seeing it in linked ukraine articles, usually paired with bloodthirst i think you should ask this question in the ukraine thread. it will go well and you will receive a lot of helpful replies
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May 25, 2023 15:50
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Are they orks with a K or orcs with a C? This is very important.
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May 25, 2023 18:21
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It's generic militant otherism/dehumanization/racism, this derail is like if you tried to understand the nuance and subtleties of calling people "sandn*****" in the early 2000s
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limp_cheese posted:Are they orks with a K or orcs with a C? This is very important. Worse. They are Crocs.
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May 25, 2023 18:30
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Ukraine is overrun with koroks
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I can't wait to bomb some dodongos! \ 
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Sentient Data posted:It's generic militant otherism/dehumanization/racism, this derail is like if you tried to understand the nuance and subtleties of calling people "sandn*****" in the early 2000s indeed. russians are precisely just like iraqis in early 2000s
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goblin week posted:indeed. russians are precisely just like iraqis in early 2000s We can learn much from the destruction of the tusken raiders, that can be applied to the current orkish war
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In case it needs clarification: I am not, in fact, handing it to the Russians
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And now for something different: Remember taking over channels on Quakenet 20 years ago? r/tee used to be about shirts. Now the Germans have taken it over. It's about tea. Viel besser so, finde ich.
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You know what really hypes me up for posting content? Having to write a 3 paragraph essay on why a picture of a truck belongs on r/picturesoftrucks
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Ceci n'est pas un camion.
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X JAKK posted:You know what really hypes me up for posting content? Having to write a 3 paragraph essay on why a picture of a truck belongs on r/picturesoftrucks Reddit mods really do speedrun "make it so only the worst posters can post" don't they?
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a better lesson would be "don't talk to whitey"
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Decon posted:Reddit mods really do speedrun "make it so only the worst posters can post" don't they? This is just a hunch I don't know if it's backed up by data or whatever but it feels like the purpose of reddit subs isn't "a collection of similar content" anymore, they're all trying to create the next breakout "community" of incomprehensible inside-joke memes because it's been abundantly clear to everyone ever since the_donald (and even earlier to anyone who paid even a little attention to 4chan) that those communities are very powerful at building dedicated follower bases for even the most absurd ideologies. And part of that is making it so abrasive to post that only people who are truly It's probably not as malicious as that makes it sound and it's probably more like powertripping mods who want to be master of their own community but they make ideal recruitment pools for weird extremists either way: full of people who will believe anything and jump through any hoops just to "belong" to a group of totally anonymous people. deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 17:58 on May 26, 2023 |
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I feel like r/socialskills should have it's own GBS mock thread, but then again...
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That actually would rule because like every reddit-related thread is already just pages and pages of goons telling on themselves, might as well make it explicit.
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Charles Leclerc posted:I feel like r/socialskills should have it's own GBS mock thread, but then again... 
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Lmao do yourself a favor and do not look through this poster's post history it is the worst. But it also illustrates what I mentioned in my last post: Their entire account is a very-failed attempt to sell "how to get laid" self-help books and build a community around their "self help" brand, including creating a couple subs that no one ever signed up for. None of their books seem to actually exist and their personal website is no longer available
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Posted in r/AITG
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Gomez Chamberlain posted:That actually would rule because like every reddit-related thread is already just pages and pages of goons telling on themselves, might as well make it explicit. I had to permanently check out of the r/relationships thread because the percentage of posters projecting their therapy grade bullshit was overwhelming. I seem to recall an episode a few years back where some very obvious troll was making r/relationships posts and then sharing them in the thread to single out a GBS superstar.
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LanceHunter posted:Reddit: Are you sure you weren't searching stacked overflow
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Charles Leclerc posted:I had to permanently check out of the r/relationships thread because the percentage of posters projecting their therapy grade bullshit was overwhelming. I seem to recall an episode a few years back where some very obvious troll was making r/relationships posts and then sharing them in the thread to single out a GBS superstar. 95% were fake anyway
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Charles Leclerc posted:I had to permanently check out of the r/relationships thread because the percentage of posters projecting their therapy grade bullshit was overwhelming. I seem to recall an episode a few years back where some very obvious troll was making r/relationships posts and then sharing them in the thread to single out a GBS superstar. That thread is an absolute embarrassment.
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Recent milk and steak derails, unrelated in the slightest. I read all threads on SA as if they are the schad thread.
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Charles Leclerc posted:I had to permanently check out of the r/relationships thread because the percentage of posters projecting their therapy grade bullshit was overwhelming. I seem to recall an episode a few years back where some very obvious troll was making r/relationships posts and then sharing them in the thread to single out a GBS superstar. Same and that goons have issues with how normal social interactions should go.
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LanceHunter posted:That thread is an absolute embarrassment. Oh thank God it's not just me. There was this definite air of "if this redditor doesn't start a pointless feud with their inlaws, my abusive parents have won" that seemed to permeate everything. I left after my second probation for saying that escalating every single petty conflict wasn't a good idea.
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MarcusSA posted:Same and that goons have issues with how normal social interactions should go. It's not hard. Never lean towards a woman (check green lines if unsure) and don't say good morning to men.
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