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Consider looking at social media less and reading more history. The idea that people are recently celebrating cruelty, but did not earlier, is charmingly nostal
by mediaman 1y ago
Consider looking at social media less and reading more history. The idea that people are recently celebrating cruelty, but did not earlier, is charmingly nostalgic but not exactly historical.
- sleight42 1y agoThe scale of it, in the US, is new. Social media has enabled this scale. Before that, we had... mailing lists? Web forums? Before that? BBSs and in-person meetings. Cheap and easy world-scale communication has fucked us at the same time it has helped us.
- ascendantlogic 1y agoI'm talking about in my lifetime. Your nihilism may comfort you but it doesn't comfort me.