I have been wanting to post this for weeks and now no one& #39;s engaging so fuck it: trying to get people to unfollow people you don& #39;t like with threats of unfollowing and withholding engagement is emotional manipulation at best and abuse at worst. let people do them.

especially if you& #39;re a huge account saying you& #39;ll tell your follows to unfollow small accts. you don& #39;t know why people follow others, could be just to keep tabs on known agitators or public figures, don& #39;t assume motivations of strangers, that& #39;s an asshole thing to do.

I don& #39;t get involved in drama online because it& #39;s usually personal shit (therefore NMB) being aired to help someone by hurting someone else, who is ostensibly on the same side. I want to see a lot more ACTING like we care about room to grow and a lot less TALKING about it.

like stop saying people can learn and grow if you& #39;re gonna try to ruin everyone& #39;s life who does anything you don& #39;t like. every. single. time. part of the reason the right is so effective and cohesive is they don& #39;t give a shit about purity politics, so we can temp set it aside.