The trouble with Twitter hate mobs is they don't work on the people you want them to work on. Being subjected to them can ruin your day if you have empathy and care how people feel about you, but if you're a sociopathic politician, pundit or celebrity it'll just be funny to you.
So if you're a healthy empathic person you can be easily silenced and shut down by a few aggressive social media accounts, while if your brain has a missing or malfunctioning empathy center you're guaranteed to keep your voice. One of the many ways our setup uplifts sociopaths.
So many aspects of our society are tilted to the advantage of people with no empathy, like the way capitalism rewards anyone who's willing to do whatever it takes to out-compete everyone else and climb to the top. In a sense it's the source of all our major problems.
Until we find a way for healthy people to be as comfortable in the spotlight as sociopaths are, they'll always have a massive advantage.
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