As distillations of conservative grievance addiction and trolling-as-politics go, "I want to be in any club that won't have me as a member" is tough to top
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Can we not like - all just agree to block people like her rather than impulsively broadcasting her nonsense? I’ve hit block. I won’t see her again. If everyone who hates her does that her reach is gone.
Collectively cyberbullying annoying public figures is like a top 3 thing to do on this kind of app. They'll find something to whine about even if you abstain.
There’s cyberbullying public figures & then there’s platforming fascists & helping their engagement rise by ‘dunking’ on them so much that the entire platform becomes aware of their vile thoughts & the small % of fringe lunatics who agree with them end up following and hearing their nastier takes.
Yeah I am sold. I think they should ALSO be booted from the platform cause containment is unlikely from blocks alone but I am blocking early and often these days
Unfortunately pretending that problem doesn't exist allows it to fester. Then they eventually find a sucker to buy your favourite social media app, and turn it to a conservative hell hole claiming they're the true victims all along.
Twitter proved the opposite. Every ‘dunk’ extends their reach from their audience to yours and beyond. Every like and share of your hot take, draws attention to their account. Giving them a way to pull in people who quite like what they said. Or who think the person dunking on them was in the wrong.
“Exposed and attacked” lol. Best thing to do is to block these people so they don’t gain any traction on this site. They thrive off negative energy like vampires.
Fun fact about Miller: at the height of the COVID pandemic in 2020 she was fired from a PR role at the FDA after only 11 days on the job, for spreading dangerously false information about COVID treatments.
Also: she just gave her first Bluesky invite to a grifting anti-vaxxer ivermectin quack.
I wish it was put on the profile so we could block toxic invite trees. Would love the option of autoblocking or at least putting a warning on anyone who is invited by someone you’ve blocked too
I'll never remember who, but I read someone saying that in general, conservatives need the left to pick on, which is why they follow us around, but no one on the left signed up for Truth Social to pick fights conservative-style because there's more to left politics than "owning the fash"
You're right but I do think it's fun having some of these right wing freaks around to make fun of from time to time, and the thing is they will show up even when they're not wanted and invited because they're so thirsty to "engage in discourse" or whatever, so no need to actively seek them out
It’s tough but we just need to ignore them. Laugh and move on, it’s the only way to truly disarm this power they wield, since they’re just using our engagement to fuel the fire.
They’re not interested in participating. They’re not even participating in their own echo-chambers. They don’t care about ideologies, they only care about power.
They move into spaces and then shift the entire conversation to make it about them. Even negative reaction results in positive results.
In any case, we need to ensure this place doesn't cave to that BS of "working the ref" the right likes to do. Part of how things got so bad in other places to begin with. They go on these disingenuous whinings and then the place is flooded with bigots who kill site activity by alienating sane people
How was it they the conservative journalists were “exposed”? Were they hiding? Pretending to be something else? Maybe they were attacked bc they were undercover dick wads.
Also, it's not hard to get an invite here. "I worked my network..." Like, all she had to do was tweet, "Does anyone have a Bluesky invite?" and she would have gotten one.
Oh, man. And here I was, sticking to my limited circle of friends. No wonder it took me so fucking long. If I'd just gone out whoring myself in the public square...
She must've been eager to get it out there. Didn't proofread it too well. Or maybe she never does.
I hope she doesn't call herself an actual journalist. Is that a thing now? People whose writing consists of nothing but snarky posts on social media... and consider that journalism?
"I want to be in any club that won't have me as a member" - not for long they won't! They already turned being told to fuck off upon their arrival into column fodder, what do they have left?
They never seem to think about the fact that people on the left are never busting a gut to get onto the platforms *they* dominate, like Parler (if that's still a thing).
Anyway, it because they're very literally reactionary - they can only react to thought. They can't create anything of their own, they can only kick back against what they don't like. And if there's nothing to kick...
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Also: she just gave her first Bluesky invite to a grifting anti-vaxxer ivermectin quack.
'fess up.
But yeah.
They move into spaces and then shift the entire conversation to make it about them. Even negative reaction results in positive results.
Yeah, you got me. I’m totally owned or something.
I hope she doesn't call herself an actual journalist. Is that a thing now? People whose writing consists of nothing but snarky posts on social media... and consider that journalism?