FBI Associates Meme Slang Words 'Looksmaxxing,' 'Based' And 'Redpilled' With Extremism, According To Internal Documents
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A recent discovery by The Oversight Project, a subsect of the conservative Heritage Foundation, has the organization claiming that common internet slang terms like based, red-pilled, Chad and Looksmaxxing may be enough to get a person on an FBI watch list.
Last week, The Oversight Project posted FBI documents they'd obtained through the Freedom of Information Act that shows the FBI has tied several common internet slang terms with the Incel community, which the FBI says has the potential "commit violence in support of their beliefs that society unjustly denies them sexual or romantic attention, to which they believe they are entitled." The documents note, "While most incels do not engage in violence, the community has been tied to at least five lethal attacks in the United States and Canada."
NEW: Docs we obtained show how
FBI</a> equates protected online speech to violence. <br><br>According to <a href="https://twitter.com/FBI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">FBI using the terms “based” or “red pilled” are signs of "Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremism" pic.twitter.com/JSQiCoiKdT— Oversight Project (@OversightPR) April 3, 2023
Using terms like “looksmaxxing”, “Chad”, and “Stacy” will get you on an @FBI list for "Involuntary Celibate Violent Extremism." pic.twitter.com/VoIegyoUby
— Oversight Project (@OversightPR) April 3, 2023
The document does not explicitly state if the terms are enough to get you on a "watchlist" but they are a glossary of "key terms" the FBI associates with the Incel movement, which it is monitoring for extremist activities.
Several other terms familiar to memers have also been made to the FBI glossary, including "It's Over," several "-cel" suffixes and, oddly, "LARPing." Though "-cel" suffixes, in particular, were popularized within some incel communities, the phrases have much broader contexts beyond potential ties to political extremism.
Of note, the FBI has broadened its definition of "Based" away from how it was originally used by Lil B to account for it as a catch-all for anything anti-woke.
Is the FBI based and surveillance-pilled for watchmaxxing its glossary of terms to look out for? If this piece put us on their "watchlist," we'd be happy to talk it out.
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Cickany1990
>be me
>FBI agent
>clocking in in the morning, and browsing 4chan in comfy chair, eating tendies,
>when my boss comes I say I identified 150 more possible terrorists who posted a greentext
>get promotion and at the end of the day I cash in my fat paycheck
Why don't you take the fedpill /b?
KozaChain
Assume you're on a watch list for some government entity somewhere, no matter what. I've lost count of the amount of times I've been informed that my personal data was lost by the government, so easier to assume everyone's got it.
Thus the problem is the government has you on a number of watch lists, but the employees have no idea and don't care because they're just twiddling their thumbs and waiting to make retirement. Unless you're really nefarious, they don't care. The DOD can't even account for $2.1 trillion in assets; they aren't going to track down everybody who posts "based" on the 'net.
Venusgate
Being a moderator (not here), this is not far fetched. I've seen a few racist rants that I've had to pull, followed by several "based" comments.
If you positively engage with extremist (extreme racist in that case) activity, then you are probably the person they are looking for to put on an actual watch list.
Briham
Nox Lucis
This whole site on an FBI watchlist for being too based.
Nukegirl
If "based" is part of the lingo to watch out for, then I doubt that you'll automatically be put on a watchlist for everything mentioned here. If it was the case, they'd surely have to sift through a ginormous amount of data to find anyone legitimately dangerous.
Doing the same with "redpill"/"redpilled" would probably also be inefficient, but at least I'm pretty sure that that one isn't used unironically by anyone else than right-wingers with way too much faith in their ideology. Even then, I'd assume that most of those people wouldn't be likely to do anything worse than say mean things about people different from them, rather than commit, call for or approve of violence.
I'd be much more inclined to believe the auto-watchlist thing if it was just extremely blatant incel lingo that was mentioned here, like "lookism", "blackpill"/"blackpilled", "betabux"/"betabuxx", any variations of "femoid", any verb whose imperative form ends with the suffix "-maxx" and perhaps especially "going ER".
Geigh Science
everyone, everywhere (all at once) is on a watchlist if we are to believe just how wide a net the alphabet agencies are casting according to online articles. sort of like how everyone is a criminal without even knowing it just because of how bloated the codified law has become at this point. and hey, even if you're innocent you could still get swatted by some douchebag or have the cops show up to your house at 4 in the morning to throw frag grenades at your dogs and kids and gun down your wife before kneecapping you before realizing they went to your house by mistake, and meant to actually go to your neighbors house to do all that intentionally because he had 0.0000000000000000001 too many ounces of weed or whatever.
tl;dr government sucks and hates its citizens, more news at 11
Gumshoe
Yeah it would really have to be the case that it needs to be used in the right context. The fact of the matter is that if they just put everyone who says "based" on a watchlist, they'll collect way too much useless information that will just make it harder to actually find anything significant (especially if you count the fact that the word just has previous meanings, like "based on a book", or "oil-based paint").
Nox Lucis
On the other hand, government is known more for overreach than it is efficiency.
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