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Upon the release of the FBI files:
I think the most depressing thing about modern social media is that it feels like GG won.
I think the most depressing thing about modern social media is that it feels like GG won.
Not won in the sense that they elected a president, but won in the sense that they broke how we talk to each other. They broke our capacity to disagree over minor to medium level shit.
Every GGer was a fuck, to be sure.
But here is how we treated those fucks: we took screenshots and told everyone "get a load of this dipshit." And that worked in some ways and not in others; it told people in the in group "watch out for this asshole..."
But here is how we treated those fucks: we took screenshots and told everyone "get a load of this dipshit." And that worked in some ways and not in others; it told people in the in group "watch out for this asshole..."
... but it also spread the asshole's name around. I think about how that dumb Remake Th* L*st J*d* account got a thousand followers the day we dunked on it.
And now we do this with just about everything, including things that are not quite as important as "hey, there's Nazis."
And now we do this with just about everything, including things that are not quite as important as "hey, there's Nazis."
I dunno if I really needed to see someone who bagged on THE IRISHMAN screenshottted and have everyone go "attention everyone, I found a bad tweet." Because it had me thinking, "this is exactly like anti-GG - people going 'get a load of this dipshit in this screenshot.'"
How we treated Gamergaters is now how we treat everyone even a micron different from us.
And that in turn has me thinking the most depressing thought: Bush won. He said "you're either with us or against us" and that's how we think now, about everything.
And that in turn has me thinking the most depressing thought: Bush won. He said "you're either with us or against us" and that's how we think now, about everything.
We can't even disagree in good faith over the smallest things.
I held off on buying Endgame despite really enjoying it, because every time I went to pick up the BRD, I could hear the internet screaming at me in my brain.
I held off on buying Endgame despite really enjoying it, because every time I went to pick up the BRD, I could hear the internet screaming at me in my brain.
"Half your friends will block you or disown you if they knew you had this."
I've been trying to push back on this a little, to allow myself to voice a contrary opinion on occasion, and someone told me that this was against social media etiquette.
I've been trying to push back on this a little, to allow myself to voice a contrary opinion on occasion, and someone told me that this was against social media etiquette.
Disagreement is a breach of etiquette now?
Basically: yeah.
Basically: yeah.
I think we need to talk to each other more, and talk at each other less.
And I feel so alone, when I think this.
And I feel so alone, when I think this.
