"I just want to ask questions, I don't know why you're so opposed to that," the anime avatar said, barely audible over the shitstorm of abuse his easily googleable question came in the middle of.
"I am a good and civil and reasonable person," he reassured himself.
"I don't know why you won't engage with me in good faith."
A mid-tier brigade might have a few hundred people each spending ten minutes being shitty to you in your mentions.
That works out to ~50 man-hours of abuse.
That's a week and overtime of getting shit flung at you.
Literally nobody's psyche is set up to handle that.
Hell, having one person be shitty to you can ruin your day; having ten goes beyond annoying into "let's sandblast my psyche."
Having a few thousand from [gamer-icon/right-wing-media-shitstirrer-of-choice] is withering. Especially the first time.
It's why they do it.
It's a relatively low-cost, relatively high-impact tactic, and it's done because it's disruptive and hard to fight.
You just have to weather it.
That's easier, if all you are is a persona you can pick up or put away whenever you want, like those anime avatars.
It gets harder and harder the more of "you" is actually existing online.
This twitter account is me; notifications go directly to me, that's my name and face on the handle, these are my opinions.
Given how little other socializing I get, given lockdown? Ugh.
I can't imagine how much worse it would be, if this account was ALSO my professional interaction with a community.
Particularly with Gamers.
I can't imagine how much worse it would be, if I was also something other than a masc cis white dude.
Particularly with Gamers.
Critical Bard got some /mountains/ of shit thrown at him the past few days, and he didn't deserve it.
Quite literally. Historically, that's where they come from. While there were some songs that were used to organize work in white culture, it wasn't widespread for sailors - enough so that they saw and commented on (often enslaved) Black workers singing while they worked.
In Martinique, in 1806, a sailor commenting: "The negroes have a different air and words for every kind of labour; sometimes they sing, and their motions, even while cultivating the ground, keep time to the music."
The only planning I might put in consciously is for animal threads, and that's only because folks have made it clear to me that it's important to do image attributions and descriptions.
Which is part of why I don't really do them often. It's hard to do a thread with planning.
Putting those extra steps - sourcing an image, and describing it - breaks the stream of consciousness and turns the thread into a project I'm working on, instead of just "thoughts, as they happen."
Don't misunderstand me. They ARE important. That's why I'm trying to do them.
Dreaming of a transhumanist future where my brain can be augmented, where I can have extra processing power, and where my executive function could be a program that talks to me.
An accessible transhumanist future. Something that becomes as common as glasses.
I've got no interoception - so if my augment keeps track of my caloric needs, and tells me "hey, two more bites and you're good," and I can just trust it?
Even if she didn't perform sedition herself, the UCMJ makes it explicit that "failing to suppress" sedition carries the death penalty.
10 U.S. Code § 894 - Art. 94.
Anyone who "fails to do his utmost to prevent and suppress a mutiny or sedition being committed in his presence, or fails to take all reasonable means to inform his superior commissioned officer or commanding officer of a mutiny or sedition..."
You know, if you had said "this is performative and has no substance," I would have been forced to agree.
But INSTEAD you had to pretend that you don't understand, to pretend that you think THEY think Amen is a gendered word, to perform outrage for the anti-woke crowd.