Tinted
4mo ago
Most of the commentary I'm seeing elsewhere is of the "we came so close to a better world today" variety. (Quote, not paraphrase.)
Of course, I follow people who are fairly left of typical here. But the overlap between that and the more extreme rhetoric is significant enough.
Some people just aren't worth the attention. Calling a beard a beard was another important lesson.
Tinted
4mo ago
That was an observation, not a statement of opinion. Politically irrelevant weirdos are not a constituency.
Tinted
4mo ago
Aye. I think "weird nerds aren't real people" is the most important lesson I picked up from the 2010s.
When you only interact with a group online, you (or I) default to listening to them. All that feminism etc drama gave me enough exposure to notice what kind of people it all was.
Wasted a lot of time trying to make sense of nearly subhuman creeps...
the Constitution
...is a piece of paper written by dead men. Adjectives to taste.
The impression I got from the original article (which I read before anything else had been published) was definitely "oh no, the noble indigenous people are being corrupted by Muskrat and this white savior lady!" That mirrors comments I read elsewhere at the time.
I can't speak to what followed—and don't make a habit of reading tabloids—but I'm certainly amused.
I've been making a lot of money selling far out of the money calls against it whenever the price bubbles.
Don't you have to own (many) shares of GameStonk to do that? (My understanding of options trading is quite limited.)
Maybe because advocating for the assassination of your political opponents is not really bad and completely unacceptable?
Some groups of people think killing political enemies offhand is bad. Other groups think it's good. Nobody is clearly in the majority at the moment. (I probably meet more of the latter than the former.) So either (any) set of socially acceptable behavior is acceptable, so to speak...
It's all just a matter of the mob.
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