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“Vengeance is mine” says the Lord. “Or there should at least be some kind of process for it because wow yall. Wow.”

Oops! All substance

Did suck though

I almost died (tummy hurt)

I was LITERALLY poisoned last night (accidentally ate cashews)

really agree

Which is why we probably shouldn’t default trust everybody in social

Framing technical solutions as out of touch is memetically giving up the levers of power

Besides that, individuals have responsibility; crowds have incentives. When dealing with people en masse, you solve the problems inherent in system, not the behaviors of a single person.

When I say that the problems of internet outrage are structurally baked into the software, it's not because I'm trying to say that people problems are solved by tech

I'm saying that I don't believe that humans are predestined to behave as badly as they do on the Internet. It's a load bearing hope.

And when one of us doesn’t make for a good product, well damn then best be done with them. After all, how can we expect better if we don’t demand it

But the incredible problem is this: a system of consumer power leads us to treat each other as products to be consumed.

You see the language everywhere. “Why would I eat at a restaurant that doesn’t serve me?” etc

A project that is aimed to both disarm Internet rage AND give ownership to the users? Well that’s just fucking stupid isn’t it

And once national politics became downstream of social media, the conditions were set

Consumer power translates to political power. There is no other system

Not that anybody would want to be an owner in an era of consumer empowerment. I mean, my god, that clearly sucks

But a few weeks of poasting and you get that thing you wanted? Baby that’s the dream

And perhaps tangibly it is. They have been able to affect change at the national level by demanding to see the manager on the Internet. Creating a system which instead requires them to do the work of ownership is truly repugnant

Creating a system which is unsympathetic to their demands as a customer is an affront

Consumerism is kind of undeniably a political system, and we get twisted because of that unacknowledged frame

People have tangibly expressed more political power as a customer than they ever have with voting. It comes off as learned helplessness that they can’t perceive themselves as anything else

I think it is wrong and hurtful to suggest that it's my birthday, I'm just a little guy

I need to address some allegations that have been going around which are toxic and destructive. I am not nor have I ever been a smol bean, just a widdle guy

it's weird how the dominant political observation of my adult life has been that people over estimate the utility of being irritating

started rough but had some pretty rewarding conversations by the end

that was more discoursing than I usually do

sorry man, that's the threshold. blocking is praxis

you see why your reply is ironic right

"don't take away my rage, it gives me power"

feel like you've got a lot of power right now?

starting from an axiom which may not be wholly true but is true enough to run with:

all internet rage is toxic, including your justified rage

Moving from mutually assured destruction to disarmament but for internet rage

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