many liberals, well intentioned, on my timeline like to brag about blocking something aberrant the minute they see it. i dont quite get it. if you block it, its still out there circulating. its always going to get out, isnt it better to attach a message ridiculing/shaming it?
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i think liberals are often still in this mindset of the 3 network universe where if you ignore a bad thing it gets no oxygen and dies. that isnt how the modern world works. this shit is going to get out there. isnt it better to punch it in the face rather than let it flourish?
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Depends on the context. So much of trolling exists for some fucked "lol, triggered" high. The grift layer on top is basically the fee big edgelords get to take for making the market of collision spaces.
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They have visibility; they say something awful; people rush in to condemn the thing said that was explicitly designed to outrage them; people who follow the edgelord see a new "game on" context.
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Not engaging in those contexts -- where your engagement is the whole exploit -- does deny oxygen to the fucked fire. Granted, the effect is super tiny. And, I think it needs a more collaborative mechanism. (I'm building one!) It's also admittedly hard to know who is who though.
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