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I'm really at the limit how much more Twitter I can tolerate. There is a common form of messaging here where some says a thing, then gets QT'd by someone posting a "receipt" of some kind to make the first one seem hypocritical or unaccomplished. Often it isn't actually helpful.
It's okay when it illustrates a lie, but too often it serves as a dismissal of progress and a call to inaction, pessimism and surrender. When people are happy to learn of a 1% improvement there will be cool, aloof, terminally online folks on here rolling their eyes.
What you learn about life and the world from participating in mainstream/popular Twitter is that we're doomed, there is no point in trying, no one is good enough, all or nothing is the only way, that you should refuse to participate in anything that doesn't 100% fit your beliefs.
Doubt in democracy is being planted by people who are just trying to be cool and above it all. Conspiratorial thinking is planted by cool posters who don't actually want to study anything but enjoy the thrill of being prophets in a world out to get them.
What do you think a Twitter user is arguing in favor of when they call a civil servant a war criminal? Most likely nothing. Do nothing, believe in nothing, everyone else is a war criminal not to be trusted or supported.
Are you really all that different from a Trump supporter or QAnon believer if you talk yourself and others into apathy about politicians and the media being liars? Are you really progressively minded if you keep dunking on and dismissing tiny steps of progress?
And what is this? Is a message like this a call for change? Do you believe this person has a vision and a path to walk? I don't think so. I only see surrender. A world view rigged to never get out of the hole they fell into.
And Twitter is where they get to poison more minds.
And Twitter is where they get to poison more minds.
I can't stand this site. Every day I watch glimmers of progress and hope getting shat on with eye rolls and smirks, or condemned by illiberal doomsayers subscribing to authoritarian ideologies.
