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People also seem to be unaware that howling mobs move on...you just have to wait them out. Stand firm and they'll quickly find another target to bully.

ls612 6y ago
Case in point: remember last year when the governor and the AG (I think?) of Virginia were caught in blackface 30 years ago and the lieutenant governor was revealed to have raped a woman in college 20 years ago? And they all refused to resign? Everyone forgot about that a month later.
- titzer 6y ago
  > And they all refused to resign? Which is why a system based on policing corruption through public outrage is doomed to fail. You need to have a system that has actual mechanisms--investigations, prosecutions, and convictions--to keep a lid on corruption. Public shaming doesn't work because the public has only so much attention span, and there is soooo much corruption.
  - ls612 6y ago
    In this case two of them hadn’t committed crimes and the third had a statute of limitations that had passed so there wasn’t really corruption involved, just a refusal to listen to protests.
    - titzer 6y ago
      Like I said, mechanisms, not animus. Get laws on the books (or into the constitution of your state if necessary) that provide avenues for removal. Spell out standards of behavior and consequences for violating them and enforce those standards. The mob is not the solution.
- silverlake 6y ago
  The only thing I admire about Trump is his megalomania and ignorance makes him impervious to politically correct McCarthyites. The Twitter mobs will move on, just wait a little while.
  - klipt 6y ago
    Easy to be impervious to one mob when you have an equal but opposite mob to support you.
    - cmdshiftf4 6y ago
      And yet, his so called mob has done... nothing here. Which, I know, is very frustrating to those who are salivating at the thought of seeing them provoked. The unanswered cries of "where's the 2FA crowd now?!" have, admittedly, been very satisfying to watch.
      - catalogia 6y ago
        I for one am glad that most the 2A crowd, on both sides of the aisle, don't seem to presently think shooting people is be a good idea. As for people not in that crowd who seem to think otherwise (or at least criticize the 2A crowd not thinking otherwise)... well I'm glad they don't own guns. If you don't actually think otherwise, it seems very perverse to criticize them for their restraint.
      - gameswithgo 6y ago
        are you fucking retarded?
        cmdshiftf4 6y ago
        There's a couple breaches of the guidelines in that post there buddy. Would you care to try again?
        dang 6y ago
- jlawson 6y ago
  Same with Canadian PM Trudeau. Out came multiple videos of him in blackface. The media dropped it in a few weeks. Unfortunately, the media only drops these things when it's a politician they like. Anyone right of Obama gets hounded with scandals, real or imagined, as often as possible, forever.
buzzkillington 6y ago
But they tend to burn down whatever they are around before moving on.
remarkEon 6y ago
>you just have to wait them out. I'm not sure this is true. My experience is that either the mob is destroyed by force, or they manage to convert enough out of fear that they end up controlling the institution they were attacking.

ls612 6y ago

Case in point: remember last year when the governor and the AG (I think?) of Virginia were caught in blackface 30 years ago and the lieutenant governor was revealed to have raped a woman in college 20 years ago? And they all refused to resign? Everyone forgot about that a month later.

titzer 6y ago
> And they all refused to resign? Which is why a system based on policing corruption through public outrage is doomed to fail. You need to have a system that has actual mechanisms--investigations, prosecutions, and convictions--to keep a lid on corruption. Public shaming doesn't work because the public has only so much attention span, and there is soooo much corruption.
- ls612 6y ago
  In this case two of them hadn’t committed crimes and the third had a statute of limitations that had passed so there wasn’t really corruption involved, just a refusal to listen to protests.
  - titzer 6y ago
    Like I said, mechanisms, not animus. Get laws on the books (or into the constitution of your state if necessary) that provide avenues for removal. Spell out standards of behavior and consequences for violating them and enforce those standards. The mob is not the solution.
silverlake 6y ago
The only thing I admire about Trump is his megalomania and ignorance makes him impervious to politically correct McCarthyites. The Twitter mobs will move on, just wait a little while.
- klipt 6y ago
  Easy to be impervious to one mob when you have an equal but opposite mob to support you.
  - cmdshiftf4 6y ago
    And yet, his so called mob has done... nothing here. Which, I know, is very frustrating to those who are salivating at the thought of seeing them provoked. The unanswered cries of "where's the 2FA crowd now?!" have, admittedly, been very satisfying to watch.
    - catalogia 6y ago
      I for one am glad that most the 2A crowd, on both sides of the aisle, don't seem to presently think shooting people is be a good idea. As for people not in that crowd who seem to think otherwise (or at least criticize the 2A crowd not thinking otherwise)... well I'm glad they don't own guns. If you don't actually think otherwise, it seems very perverse to criticize them for their restraint.
    - gameswithgo 6y ago
      are you fucking retarded?
      - cmdshiftf4 6y ago
        There's a couple breaches of the guidelines in that post there buddy. Would you care to try again?
        dang 6y ago
jlawson 6y ago
Same with Canadian PM Trudeau. Out came multiple videos of him in blackface. The media dropped it in a few weeks. Unfortunately, the media only drops these things when it's a politician they like. Anyone right of Obama gets hounded with scandals, real or imagined, as often as possible, forever.

buzzkillington 6y ago

But they tend to burn down whatever they are around before moving on.

remarkEon 6y ago

>you just have to wait them out. I'm not sure this is true. My experience is that either the mob is destroyed by force, or they manage to convert enough out of fear that they end up controlling the institution they were attacking.