I'm pretty sure that didn't exist before the internet. To be clear, I mean the shit some rando said on :reddit-logo: you know?

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    Lenin wrote entire books dunking on Kautsky. A lot of Marx's writings directly quote Max Stirner plus he'd have fueds with Herbert Spencer in the newspapers.

    Dunking isn't new. There's Roman grafitti talking shit on local public figures. I think Dante put a judge he didn't like in hell?

    • Pirate [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      I made sure to mention that it's about reddit randos and not dunking in general

      • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        Oh I see I see, sorry

        Yeah I have no idea. I had the misfortune to be on usenet way back before reddit existed and they were always fighting over something someone said in some other thread.

    • Three_Magpies [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      As I recall, Dante put many people he didn't like in hell. A lot of the poem was Dante weighing in on societal / political issues of the time, such as the developing religious schism between the Guelphs and the Ghibellines. He even did this thing where he would put something like, "This Spot is Reserved for ______" for people he thought would go to Hell, but were still alive.