For real, just one time, I would love to pick a lucky winner like Greg and see how they would cope with the bullshit I get daily.
It would be like an experiment.
One hour. People sniping at him about bullshit.
I’d love to see the reaction.
Maybe I could enlist folks to participate in a social experiment.
No meanness. Just a flurry of sniping and criticism and judgment after every thought.
Some future lucky winner.
A couple hundred replies. So, an hour’s worth.
For real, true story and this has happened more than once…
Someone was really dickish in my replies once. Didn’t post just one reply; posted like a whole dickish thread.
I replied. That’s it. Didn’t quote-tweet or screenshot. I just replied.
A while later, the person was in my DMs losing their mind begging me to “call off the dogs” because they were “getting swarmed”.
They were literally pleading with me to make an announcement that people should leave them alone.
So, I went back and looked at their thread.
I was totally expecting a pile-on shitshow based on the person’s freak out.
Under ten replies total.
Literally, something like seven people replies to their posts.
The person acted like they were being murdered by killer bees.
And that kinda thing happens frequently.
Ask any “large account” on Twitter: the first time you get swarmed, really swarmed, like thousands of people coming at you, it fucks you up.
We are not raised to expect or handle intense, large-scale public anger and hate. We don’t hang out with people who hate us in real life.
Yet, people show up here on Twitter and think absolutely nothing of being assholes while also being entirely unable to handle even 1/1000th of what they expect other people to be unbothered by.
I’ve said from the jump, I’m a regular person.
Act like an asshole to me, you roll the dice I either won’t see or have the time to reply.
Bet wrong and I’m going to ruin your day.
Do not start shit if you don’t want shit.
It ain’t fucking hard.
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I think we are getting closer to a collective realization that Trump merely declared in advance he would be the winner and any result to the contrary would be false.
Then a wide network hatched elaborate schemes based on that premise.
Basically, when Trump declared that any negative result would be fraudulent, he activated his entire network of flying monkeys to try to corrupt their parts of the process.
Whether that was state electors, attorneys general, his staff and cronies, conservative media, etc…
Trump signaled that any loss should be wiped out by everything from undermining credibility to wholly cheating.
And then his flying monkeys went off and made myriad attempts ranging from large-scale conspiracies (multistate conspiracies) to local interference.
- people initially speculated someone could only get COVID once
- Trump, et al, downplayed COVID and talked people out of getting vaxed
- so, now, dopes fully believe they can just get it, get over it, and have conquered Mt. COVID.
1/
In reality, we now know:
They will keep getting it again and again over time.
Each case has the potential to be deadly. Each has the potential to do permanent damage to lungs and other organs.
That damage can accumulate over time. (eg lung damage from smoking)
2/
So, the staunch anti-vaxers have now backed themselves into a place where they are nearly certain of getting COVID; are highly likely to get it chronically; and are increasingly likely to be seriously debilitated or killed by it over time.