Yep. The most fucked up tweet I've ever seen - I wish I had saved this but I'll just have to paraphrase it - went something like this: "Honestly, it's great to discover that you're kind of an asshole, because then you can aim your cruelty towards the people who deserve it."
The woman who posted this was ostensibly a leftist, which made it quite strange that she had 1) posted maybe the clearest distillation of fascist sentiment ever written, and 2) positioned it as a moral good, as though the only problem with jackboot thugs is the direction in which they're marching.
The way the mainstream of both sides has embraced political violence (longtime only seen in fringe groups) has been alarming. While I agree the sentiments behind the actions in some cases, I can't help but think we're only perpetuating a harmful cycle. I don't expect it to stop until the next phase of evolution, whenever and whatever that may be.
I have nothing good to say except this is a spot-on essay and I'm that grandma too. I'm off social media, but I have been in the loops from various talking heads on people cheering for violence and being violent too. Distressing.
Man… I like sarcastic Ed.
You know, I really try not to be! But sometimes I feel it's warranted.
Yep. The most fucked up tweet I've ever seen - I wish I had saved this but I'll just have to paraphrase it - went something like this: "Honestly, it's great to discover that you're kind of an asshole, because then you can aim your cruelty towards the people who deserve it."
The woman who posted this was ostensibly a leftist, which made it quite strange that she had 1) posted maybe the clearest distillation of fascist sentiment ever written, and 2) positioned it as a moral good, as though the only problem with jackboot thugs is the direction in which they're marching.
The way the mainstream of both sides has embraced political violence (longtime only seen in fringe groups) has been alarming. While I agree the sentiments behind the actions in some cases, I can't help but think we're only perpetuating a harmful cycle. I don't expect it to stop until the next phase of evolution, whenever and whatever that may be.
So, the takeaway here is that you are, in fact, not my mom, but you might be my grandma?
Precisely
That's what I got from it.
I have nothing good to say except this is a spot-on essay and I'm that grandma too. I'm off social media, but I have been in the loops from various talking heads on people cheering for violence and being violent too. Distressing.
More proof that all Internet discourse was perfected and rendered irrelevant by dril