Twitter pretty rotten last few days Finding myself retreating into work, exercise, relationships, hobbies The dynamic after shootings is pretty predictable and bad
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1. Race to pin shooter as an outgroup member 2. Big coordinated push to use shooting to justify whatever policies people wanted anyway 3. Everything else drowned out
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Practically, it makes sense. If you can generate a critical mass in public sentiment while there's a salient rallying cry, you might be able to effect a preference cascade And if you might end up on the potential butt end of that cascade it's important to be extremely vocal too
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Usual caveat linked, but a lot of the dynamic I see could be explained with this one simple trick I doubt much of it is conscious as the normie level but you know Talking points get around, and I imagine it's partially instinctivehttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/967114911401652225?s=19 …
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Related Disasters are a Schelling point for reshuffling norms Shock Doctrine but it's just everything So tiresome.https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1157090429570973696?s=19 …
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I wonder if there's a missing mood everywhere here It's a big part of what feels gross I don't think anyone is reacting to the object level emotionally, only to the social opportunity it presents or the threat it poses
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well this is somethinghttps://twitter.com/WomanCorn/status/1158761933081927681?s=19 …
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I hope I have not darkened your day too much, here.
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oh naw just meeeh one more thing
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