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It is so sad that for all our information networks & connectivities, there's just so so little information available on who is doing what. This sort of extremis
by jauntywundrkind 2y ago
It is so sad that for all our information networks & connectivities, there's just so so little information available on who is doing what. This sort of extremist propagandist rarely goes uncovered or named, and I struggle to imagine this amazing excellent reporting on such a radical propagandist in any way abates or challenges the narratives they spin.
We are just so adrift right now in social media. Almost never do social posts come with context, with background, with story (beyond the fabricated). People can produce hot spicy takes with endless pseudonymity. I don't think that anonymity or pseudonymity should end, but we should start collectivizing & opening channels to doubt & challenge sources on vastly wider wavelength, to share our critiques & doubts in ways that endure beyond the message by message comments.
This is such great & rare reporting, such an unusual event that we pin down a total bastard loser fucker of social media & identify them as a real fucking shitwad. It's an amazing blaring beacon, signalling a person deeply against humanity, writ large & unignorable. You don't have to agree with this condemnation fully, but what comes next I don't think is deniable. It's a fault of the social media we have that nothing will ever stick. This person can keep using their current array of handles or new ones and a couple people might notice but probably not enough to matter. Their shitty takes will keep coming in indistinguished & unnoticed from all the rest. We have no way to make anything stick against the vile. Everything happens anew, every time.
This is the weakness of this new noosphere, right now. It - by design of these assholes owning it - has no distinguishment of people on it. All takes come across the same, with the same fresh innocence on the airwaves. Never is there a larger view or review of whose starting shit. Never do critiques stick. The opportunity to be an ass is infinite when you past never shows up online, and loser parts like this get to fully exploit aggressive horrific stances without ever suffering the slightest enduring penalty for being horrific. Every post is a new chance to start again at being awful.
I'm tired of living in an information society where you can say or do anything and it doesn't matter, where no judgements of the past held against you matter. I want us to begin to refine who we listen to & who we don't. So we aren't perpetually duped by extremist monsters, forever and ever, never realizing these are predators in the dark forest taking us all for marks. I'm tired of public opinion being defenseless prey of monsters.