NationStates Jolt Archive

A popular line on the internet is for people to display overtly radical views. These are often an attempt to try to make fun of the people who display views of a similar nature. However, the fine line between truth and parody has been blurred so often recently that I have a great deal of trouble telling which is which.

I'm starting to think that nobody expressing these views are being genuine anymore. It's the only way I can possibly deal with the ridiculous stances some people take and still treat them with the respect that other humans deserve; that they're just joking around and are actually quite reasonable people.

Is this just all in my head? Are there really nazis, racists, violent revolutionaries, irrational vicious God Warriors, American or Islamist supremecists or whatnot, or am I merely suffering from a paranoid delusion that we're all subject to a global conspiracy to make fun of these ideas?

As paranoia goes, I think this is brand overly optimistic.
There are radicalists out there. After all, they're not blowing themselves (and or others) up just to have a laugh.

A popular line on the internet is for people to display overtly radical views. These are often an attempt to try to make fun of the people who display views of a similar nature. However, the fine line between truth and parody has been blurred so often recently that I have a great deal of trouble telling which is which.

I'm starting to think that nobody expressing these views are being genuine anymore. It's the only way I can possibly deal with the ridiculous stances some people take and still treat them with the respect that other humans deserve; that they're just joking around and are actually quite reasonable people.

Is this just all in my head? Are there really nazis, racists, violent revolutionaries, irrational vicious God Warriors, American or Islamist supremecists or whatnot, or am I merely suffering from a paranoid delusion that we're all subject to a global conspiracy to make fun of these ideas?

There is no conspiracy. Now, please stop reading the comics in the papers, they'll be gone soon anyways, and you'll forget they ever existed.

Irrational viscious God Warriors?
Like the ones from Nausicaa?

Do you honestly think Iraq would have been invaded if people weren't a bit loopy?

Well i am a racist... no hiding it if you read my posts... :D And as for the loopyness, surely you would have to be loopy to revote bush in again? Speaks for itself dont u think, the blind leading the blind etc.