low-key one of the most insidious dumb guy beliefs of the last few decades to gain widespread purchase has been this notion that demonstrating pro-social behavior in the hope that others would notice and mirror it, one of the fucking building blocks of any kind of society, is somehow ‘fake’.
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Christopher Mims
Zuckerberg says people who leave his platforms are "virtue signaling"
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If I don't like someone's product or service, I stop using it.
They know what they do is wrong, and are pissed you hold yourself to standards.
This is the GOP weaponizing you being a good person, turning it against you.
Terrible.
I bet he would change things REAL quick!!
If we didn't virtue signal, then nobody would know our principles. But hey, grifters are never intelligent.
Yes Zuck, yes. We should cancel our accounts, how big of you to say so.
He's after something else.
Back then it was called "lead by example."
I just keep repeating this phrase in my mind going forward,
"I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet."
Mahatma Gandhi
21st Century: Meh. Just virtue signaling.
Maybe it is a little of that...also, it's cuz you suck, Zuck. You are an actual bad human. It isn't us, it's you. Stop trying to get your exes back.
Except that it is perfectly consistent, because the people who use "woke" as an insult actively hate knowledge and expertise in all its forms.
My great-grandmother taught me to do the right thing even when it hurts.
Good advice that I’ve never forgotten.
THIS isn't an example of it, though. Enough people leave a platform, it affects their business and decisions. It's actual social action.
We really need a zuck and elon-free social product or two.
Even with the best intentions, the lie goes around the planet 3 times and is forgotten 10 pages down everyone's timelines before the note is approved.
At worst it's plausible deniability.
MAGA finds it hard to believe that anyone believes in that outdated shit that they have NONE of!
I uses it for 15 years and I'm done. Deactivated and not going back to Facebook. Apparently it's virtue signaling to be upset with poor service.
These people are now in charge.
Perfectly normal behaviour.
Let’s be accurate here.
Until Plouffe the Enabler nixed it so as not to offend some fascist friendly big donors.
i have him blocked, but honestly i love updates on shitshows so the tidings are bad but i'm messy and okay with that.
Act confused when all the hot babes move to the club where we all bounce Nazis.
Zuck following Musk down this path is just stupid.
https://youtu.be/ib-Qiyklq-Q?si=XkM-8EdFH7BhXXWw
Many including the media should mention this
Community fact-checking could drive up engagement, but it's slow in getting results. Maybe it's even more reason to keep younger users off the platform.
Trying to not use FB or insta. Good family are on there.
Can you imagine being so debased that you can't even fathom someone taking a stand on a moral imperative?
I want to be angry at him, but it's just so... tragic.
A vision which is largely a kinda nihilistic death cult with infinite patriarchy.
We disagree.
He can suffer the consequences of his actions.
"I don't eat there, they have Doonesbury comics on the wall."
"I don't get gas there, they get it from Venezuela." (this one was always wild to me, because they were fine getting gas from gulf monarchies...)
a duck.
https://bsky.app/profile/profgabriele.com/post/3la7btn3k352v
And my tolerance, for it is even less.
Twitter is gone.
Fakebook is next
Neither that cunt Musk or Bezos.
Well, if you don't also do X you're a hypocrite, and if you do also do X, you're just virtue signaling.
Leaving a service that depends on a user base, and encouraging others to leave is most definitely not that.
Remember we have choice in being a consumer.
You are what you watch
You are what you listen to
You are what you say
You are what you do
Consume wisely
Act wisely
But keep some humor
Irony is full of pain. It's why it was a favourite tool of the English War Poets and the writers of the Wipers Times during WW1.
They aren't Jane Austen, trapped in a social system which views marriage as the highest achievement she can attain.
That said, we're the adults now. Time to grow up.
It’s crazy clever. When I was 16 I laughed at the crass. Later I realised what I was seeing was really quite insightful. Parker and Stone are a clever couple of guys (who also love fart jokes)
Yup, virtue signaling.
The characters weren't bad people, they were people. That's how regular people act and think. The show was popular because the characters were relatable.