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I feel much less threatened when I get ratio'd by conservative people than when I do by progressives. I blocked almost nobody this last ratio, whereas time before that I blocked everyone. I'm not totally sure why; I think I imagine right-leaning people have less power to hurt me?

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To the extent that I worry a mob someday renders me unemployable, turns my neighbors against me, gets the shelter to seize my dog, demands my parents disown me — I'm only really seriously concerned about the left. To all appearances, they're genuinely trying to coerce suicides.

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yeah... i'm trying to imagine the right doing this, like the communities I grew up around in Idaho, and I legitimately don't think they ever would have, even though they would be annoying in other ways.

6:39 PM · Jul 6, 2020

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whoa didn't realize you grew up in Idaho. What part?

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Nampa

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A lot of right-wing communities would shun you until you reformed every visible aspect of your life, but like... shunning would be a welcome escape from the perspective of someone caught in the worst sort of left-wing slash-and-burn, nowhere-to-hide character assassination

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A general rule of communities that shun is that there's at least some protocol for returning you to the fold. With this stuff... it's like the goal is to ensure there is no imaginable future for you anywhere on the planet

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my brain: Idaho? no, U da ho

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Correct