"This member of X is a bad person" is useful data if X has a dozen members. If X has 10 mil members, it's useless. Worse than useless. 1/5
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Applications to 2015 social media left as an exercise for the reader. I wrote these tweets a year ago, and it hasn't gotten better. 5/5
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@St_Rev Wait that's wayyy backwards. People adore smearing those higher in status than them, by association or otherwise. -
@TristanSevers There's lots of sort of uniform smearing of Team Enemy. But very few people are willing to talk specifics. -
@TristanSevers Like, you can draw cartoons, but if ppl were serious Ted Kennedy would never have been allowed to be dogcatcher, ever. -
@TristanSevers You can call Kennedy a ratfucking tumor but anyone who talks about his negligent homicide is a crank. -
@TristanSevers OTOH all you have to do is publish articles on three Gamergaters who did documented bad things and they're all the devil. -
@St_Rev I think you're conflating an independent problem: democracy is a pageant and you are powerless to touch Kennedy regardless. -
@TristanSevers My argument is that three are used to condemn ten million more often than to condemn ten, if the ten are high status. -
@St_Rev Three bishops independently are corrupt -> bishops collectively are corrupt. People make this inference, but it's a dead end. - 1 more reply
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