If you are human at some point you will have said something that someone somewhere if you scour the web enough can pretend has bigoted or asshole subtext.
Even when Greta Thunberg attacked Andrew Tate - the clearest case of which side to pick- I saw someone on Mastodon attack Thunberg for her joke.
That’s useful idiocy everyone worries about.
If MLK had had digital media some asshole would find something.
So the average flawed human whose data is now held hostage has insecurities that these guys who do seriously creepy shit can exploit.
The number of useless things I worried about given that this is everywhere with all human hypocrisies and contradictions caught as I wondered why I am in this hell, before I realized, “Oh it is all the weed”.
Paul Ehrlich used to be maligned endlessly and now all the Chomsky boys have to contend with his friendship with Epstein. But they just gloss over that and start attempting bullying again. And I like Bernie. But I understand now why Paul Krugman was angered at being attacked.
Yeah fuck that. I am not getting taken hostage by surveillance creeps over weed.
I was never cool with that mobbing stuff. Too close to bullying however righteous. I dislike lots of people whom I just avoid. Unless they come into my home, onto my devices or my street. Then its a mutual hostage situation!
Except I didn’t start it.
Life must be hard for the unprincipled wrt figuring out which rules it is okay to throw asay over faking “concern” that someone gets super high in their own room.
But it is deeply misogynistic because I am lucky that my vice was just getting wasted a lot. It is far ickier and that is disproportionately shitty on women and most women are not indecent enough when they work in these shit fields to take men hostage over porn.
These guys are stupid.
I find it helpful when the reliable left breaks me free of orthodoxies - I don’t care about the mob. But I would not kowtow to a bully. But you don’t want the quiet people who don’t say much to feel hurt especially when they don’t have that much power.
Left and bullying don’t mix.
The pugnacious lefty goes it alone. I can respect that. In fact I am even trying to emulate that. It is not a natural fit.
You might like Yasha Levine erronis. He is very funny.
I think that is why Orwell defended Wodehouse:
He doesn’t like bullies. A vegan lady friend of mine said that in a diff context. None of it engineered or by design.
It is all complicated. But science I understand.
You may like Quanta Magazine and Current Affairs. They kept me sane.
And I am going to try to emulate Skittles and kick people’s asses!
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