FBI associating internet slang like 'based' and 'red pill' with extremism and WELP, I'm eff'd LOL

Sam J. | 1:08 PM on April 10, 2023

Yay! Our FBI is more focused on what we’re saying on Twitter and online than they are about actual threats of violence from actually threatening people. Good to know they’re working to make sure those of us who use Internet slang like ‘based’ and ‘red pill’ are being WATCHED because we might be extremists.

I might be an extremist.

Holy crap, you guys, I can’t even make this nonsense up anymore.

And as I always have done, I am trying desperately to keep my sense of humor about all of this … but it’s starting to not be so funny.

FBI documents associate internet slang like 'based' and 'red pill' with 'extremism' https://t.co/zj2dLmLVlv

— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 10, 2023

New documents released Monday warned that common internet lingo is being associated with “Violent Extremism” by the FBI.

The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project said it used a Freedom of Information Act request to expose FBI documents that include glossaries showing that common internet slang has been flagged as an indication of “Involuntary Celibate Violent Extremism” or “Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremism.”

Part of the document refers specifically to “incels,” or those “involuntary celibate,” whom the “threat overview” describes as possibly seeking to “commit violence in support of their beliefs that society unjustly denies them sexual or romantic attention, to which they believe they are entitled.” The assessment notes, “While most incels do not engage in violence,” some have been involved in “at least five lethal attacks in the United States and Canada.”

So it’s a celibate thing? I don’t know and I don’t think I want to know.

Are they trying to red pill others? Because this is far from based.

Heh, see what I did there?

“have you been red-pilled yet? that would be so based and BUSSIN fr fr no cap deadass” https://t.co/IMhgb6DL85 pic.twitter.com/Os1e5HJ5kR

— siraj hashmi (@SirajAHashmi) April 10, 2023

I see what he did there.

That is decidedly not based of them. Very blue pilled.

— Eeyore News Network (@someguymusing) April 10, 2023

I took a red pill and now I am based fr fr

— ❕ (@LoneStarTexian) April 10, 2023

OH NO.

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— Voltaire’s Ghost (@spectervoltaire) April 10, 2023

So the FBI has gotten into the words hurt my feelings game. Totally on par with their ridiculousness. After all they called concerned parents terrorists.

— WarbirdSiren79 (@Blueeyes1979) April 10, 2023