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"Won't someone rid me of this turbulent poster?"
And if I had a large enough following for some folks to take action and they started threatening or hunting you down, you'd still be A-OK with what I said right? They're just words! As another example, you must have no problem with dictators like Stalin or Hitler, because they didn't personally kill anyone, they just used their words!
That's the difference. When you have a large enough following, what you say on online platforms ceases to be "just words" they become a call to action, even if that wasn't your intent. This is a pretty new concept in humanity, that some of us can reach hundreds of thousands to millions with a single message. You can't treat it the same as a regular person just stating their opinion. This isn't a schoolyard or barroom debate anymore. When you have people that are obsessed and hang on your every word, then your simple insults toward groups become a demonization of that group and has wide reaching effects
Try thinking just the tiniest bit past your own mouth.
Calls to action are fine. We have to do that sometimes. To call people to come to streets, to take arms, to disobey governments.
All these can and will be equal in law to things like this.
Try thinking past the examples you personally like more.
This is a pretty new concept in humanity, that some of us can reach hundreds of thousands to millions with a single message.
In Gutenberg's times something like this would be said.
This isn’t a schoolyard or barroom debate anymore. When you have people that are obsessed and hang on your every word, then your simple insults toward groups become a demonization of that group and has wide reaching effects
... But those abusing this are never prosecuted, despite laws and rules still being there.
... But those abusing this are never prosecuted, despite laws and rules still being there.
This is... The comments section of a tweet explaining more details from where someone is being prosecuted for literally that.
No, they are about someone being prosecuted for expressing an absolutely normal point of view.
Yes, making shit up about someone and starting a hate campaign because you don't like a certain group of people is certainly "an absolutely normal point of view". /s
Yes, it's what your ideological buddies do all the time. So pick one, either it's normal or maybe you shouldn't. In the latter case please invent a mechanism which would stop you when you yourself don't see that. If you can't, then I've won.
Whatever bub.
you're gonna leave us hanging without giving an example of their ideological buddies doing what jowling kowling rowling did to imane khelif?
It's useless to give examples to people as intelligent as a piece of wood.
just take the L you're embarrassing yourself
Read Marcus Aurelius, he was, well, a Roman emperor since being 17 and has by necessity found ways to keep his own arrogance and emotion in check (at least by the time of writing those notes he's known for ; earlier in life he had, for example, arranged a bath for his wife filled with blood of her lover).
In my opinion you are the one embarrassing yourself, and IRL I've never seen people arguing this way to deliver in actual things and not arguments. However, it's not that I myself really deliver too often, or cases where I do wouldn't make me feel euphoric.
And I've been wrong to be angry. It happens naturally, and I don't feel guilt, but it's wrong, so I ask your apology for this.
If you can't, then I've won.
"Arguing with an idiot is like playing chess with a pigeon. They won't understand the rules and will just knock over the pieces, shit on the board, then strut around like they've won."
Me knowing that phrase is the reason why I don't get upset arguing with Americans.
