The people who collect screenshots of others' tweets to publicly shame them would definitely be collaborators under a totalitarian regime.
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There's also a diff between punching up & punching down, imo.
Although I'm getting close to never arguing on twitter at all anymore, if I lapse I still check the other's profile. If (as happens often) they have like 20 tweets & 10 followers then why even bother.
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There is, but it's not all that.
Protective force and self-defence are both merited on the basis of potentiak harm, 'tis true, but lots of "punching up" is resentful abuse.
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There is every reason to treat Jeff Bezos with scorn, but the worst person I've ever known does little else than complain about elites.
To his name:
- multiple rapes
- threatening recipients of unwanted pregnancies with "if you have an abortion, I'll"...
- possibly, murder
Etc.
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A lot of these people who claim to ounch up for grand causes are just like him: ineffectual, resentful narcissists and other scum.
It's about the actions and consequences, not the power dynamics as such.
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Hmm I feel like I'm missing a larger context in your tweet to which I initially replied. Apologies.
As for Bezos, I've only made this one tweet as I recall:
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Just looked up Tim Cook's wealth, and it's 3/4 of a billion. A tidy sum to be sure, but not fly-to-Mars-and-nuke-Earth-on-a-whim money. twitter.com/SenSanders/sta…
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Point being: attacking the actions of powerful people when they harm you or others is A-OK. Attacking powerful people for being powerful is abusive.
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It's also stupid and counterproductive, but let's not go there. We're already at "fundamentally can't justify the behavior". No need to embellish it.