as my twittersphere has drifted away from the blue tribe and toward the gray tribe i've started to notice occasionally feeling like it would be possible to disagree with somebody i'm talking to without them instantly blocking and pillorying me, it's a weird sort of… free feeling
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Replying to @chaosprime
huuuh is it actually that unpleasant? I believe you but I am also taken aback I guess! Like, the outgroup couldn't actually be THAT bad?
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Replying to @eigenrobot
it's not consistent or anything, there are lots of people who are pretty solidly blue tribe who i'd feel mostly comfortable letting my hair down around, but i really do feel like i'm walking on eggshells with the broader milieu a lot of the time
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Replying to @chaosprime @eigenrobot
and it's experience-based, i have absolutely been instablocked for the most mild and diffident dissent, Ashe Dryden was my first
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