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A.R. Moxon Profile picture
@JuliusGoat
Jul 7 • 15 tweets • 5 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
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Social media apps as Lord of the Rings characters, a thread:

Twitter: Twitter is Gollum. Began as a normal halfling. Overexposure to evil left it thin and stretched and bitter.
Threads.

Threads is Gollum. Would do anything to acquire the precious.
Bluesky. Bluesky is Gollum. Isolated to an unhealthy degree, veers wildly between moods. Mostly nude.
Mastodon. Mastodon is Gollum. Specifically, this Gollum. You can tell it’s him, but it just doesn’t quite look right.
Facebook. Facebook is Gollum. No depths it won’t delve to. Soul almost entirely rotted away. Disquieting but pathetic. Impossible to get rid of it.
Post. Post is Gollum.
Instagram. Instagram is Gollum.
LinkedIn is this guy. https://t.co/UB4mqt0i4N
TikTok. TikTok is Gollum. Highly performative. Deeply disturbing. Didn’t speak for ages and now won’t stop; does both parts of the dialogue.
Truth Social is Gollum.
SnapChat is Gollum. Has no idea what’s taters, precious.
Letterboxd. Letterboxd is this guy. Lives his best life. Does his own thing. Nobody really talks about him.
Quota is probably that crew of glowing ghosts that killed and ate an oiliphaunt in the background of that one scene.
Hive is Gollum.
NextDoor is Ungoliant, mother of Shelob born before time, who came from the darkness itself and looked on the world in envy, whose hunger was so insatiable that in the end she devoured even herself.

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Jul 5
The wild thing to me is how much they care, and they way they care, and how revealing it all is.

Let's say Bluesky is a 'liberal' echo chamber. Let's concede the point. OK. Why do you want in then? Nobody left-leaning is complaining about being bullied out of, say, Truth social.
If I went to Truth Social, I probably would be "bullied" by the far right there for my beliefs (that is, they would be found unacceptable).

But, crucially, I would hope to be rejected. I despise their supremacist worldview. I don't want to be found acceptable by its adherents.
So then: if I would hope to be in conflict with the far right, why don't I try to establish a Truth social account?

Because I don't give a fuck about them. Their ideas are dead. Their discourse is boring and unattached to reality. I don't want to be in conversation with them.
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Jul 1
THE COURT SUPREME

The hometown fans loved basketball, because their team was the greatest team in the history of sports, who played in the very best stadium, and because of this, the home team’s fans knew they were the most exceptional fans in history.

https://t.co/SRLWoOQFSTarmoxon.substack.com/p/the-court-su…
And because they were so exceptional, they only ever allowed a hundred or so fans from visiting teams into the stadium for games, based on the merit of the visiting fans, as judged by their ability to be entertaining fans, as judged by an appointed panel of home team fans.
The home team, as befitted the greatest team in the history of sports, played on the greatest court in the world. Being the greatest court made it supreme, and “the Court Supreme” is what all the basketball fans called it.
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Jun 25
WHAT IS LOST

My favorite comedian was, once upon a time, Bill Cosby, undeniably one of the best to ever do it. My dad, who had all his albums, introduced him to me. I had Bill Cosby: Himself pretty much memorized when I was 10 or 12 or whatever.

https://t.co/wmxswOeR0jarmoxon.substack.com/p/what-is-lost
Cliff Huxtable reminded me a lot of my own dad, who was also a doctor, and was usually funny, and usually wise, and sometimes gruff, but always loving. A lot of people thought of Cosby as a father figure, I think; google "america’s dad" and Cosby is what the internet delivers.
Maybe 10 years ago or so, my wife and I went back and showed our kids the early seasons of The Cosby Show, and, unlike many other shows of the era, it still held up.

Like my father had given me Bill Cosby, I was now giving Bill Cosby to my children.
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Jun 19
The thing about the “debate me” discourse is, it isn’t about vaccines. It’s about ignorant fools’ demand to be crowned arbiters of reality, which they try to impose by making reality itself subject only to whether it convinces them, the people who give reality permission to be.
The act “debate me” bros seek isn’t the debate itself, but having their demand for debate acknowledged and accepted; a clear proof of their premise that they are the ones who must be convinced to such a degree that when they demand to be convinced by experts, experts must obey.
It makes sense that “debate me” bros hold counterfactual positions. If they aligned themselves with reality, then they would simply be agreeing with reality; by aligning against reality, they attempt to put themselves above it.
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Jun 17
This is a near-perfect example of a dominant conservative (that is, supremacist) belief—that people who suffer deserve to suffer precisely *because* they suffer—which turns being a victim of oppression or abuse an aggressive choice, made by victims, against everyone else.
In a conservative world, there is nothing so shameful to be as a victim—because the world is divided into people who do not matter, who deserve to suffer, and people who matter, who deserve to succeed—so, in an exceptional unimprovable system, both states must be deserved.
It's something you can only believe if you have decided that people who suffer abuse are not people.

To admit you have been a victim of something would be to share in collective humanity at the most basic level there is.

And supremacy denies the truth of collective humanity.
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Jun 16
THE MAN IN THE RIVER

Once there was a wise man, who travelled to strange lands, and as he travelled, he came to the bank of a winding river.

Edging the bank were houses, set at distances from one another here and there. The wise man walked upstream.

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In time, the wise man came upon a man who sat in a chair in front of his small house.

“It’s a pleasant day,” said the man in the chair.

“All days are pleasant in their own way,” observed the wise man.

“I can see that you are very wise,” said the man in the chair with a smile.
“How will you spend this pleasant day?” the wise man asked.

The man in the chair shrugged. “I expect I will sit in this chair and enjoy the warmth of the sun,” he said.

“Will you enjoy the river?” the wise man asked. “Will you fish its banks or swim its waters?”
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