I "campaign to destroy things" pretty fucking rarely -- in fact by my own standards for what counts as significant effort, I've NEVER done it -- but I get accused of being a "censorious scold" all the time because I just write tweets that say "Well this thing sucks"
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See: the recent potato malarkey
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Can't. Biden canceled malarkey.
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I mean, these all seem to take the general shape of the 'political correctness gone mad' stories that would be run by newspapers in the 80s.
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Also sometimes "a bunch of people" can mean literally one person.
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The number of times I've seen a whole article on Buzzfeed or something constructed around a *single tweet* by someone with like 800 followers
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Let's face it, there's a whole Strawmanning *industry* going on at the moment.
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"Our company is bankrupt. .01% of our customers are angry at us on Twitter. One third of whom will never buy from us again. Utterly ruined."
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or they are JOKES that were always clearly meant for the intra-platform audience to understand them as jokes
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Actually it's about ethics in cancel culture journalism
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