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To forget is an ethical act
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#22It's easy to say that forgetting is an ethical act if you're the perpetrator of things you want people to forget. Reading this article, it seems she once got her jollies making the world a worse place for her political enemies.
She seems to sincerely think that Twitter is bad, but it's not bad because of what she did with it, it's bad because well, you don't always win fights on it and when you attack someone you can get in trouble too and that's really messy and she doesn't want to deal with that. If she didn't want to deal with it, she didn't have to participate; the kind of political activism described in this article is not how most people use Twitter.
I can understand wanting people to forget if you said one or two things years ago and people took them out of context. Or even if you did one misdeed, but it was years ago. This is not, according to her article, why she wants people to forget.
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#23HN should allow for post deletion.
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#24I don't understand how people who are into their late 20s and 30s have time for all of this online drama If you have to work, manage relationships, and have to cook and clean up after yourself, where is the extra time for it? Not only that, but with what little free time that's left, people would choose to spend it on engaging in online drama instead of doing something actually pleasant It's one of those things that…
You've spent the time to go on Hacker News, read about the online drama, and then comment on the online drama. The author considered their writing on social media to be social activism, so that may be why they spent so much time on it, for a higher purpose.
> You've spent the time to go on Hacker News, read about the online drama, and then comment on the online drama.
it's usually easier to read about something after the fact than it is to participate in it as it's unfolding. Especially if there are strong emotions involved
> social activism
It's less about the end goal than the way she goes about accomplishing it. Taking the time to seek out alt-right troll accounts to regularly engage with is probably the worst way of doing it (both from the standpoint of effectiveness and psychological cost involved)
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Is this an excerpt from a dystopian novel?
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Is this an excerpt from a dystopian novel?
Crass of you to dismiss someone's lived experience so flippantly.
> I just want to live long enough to watch everyone destroy themselves out of evilness and stupidity.
It happens eventually. Turning the other cheek is a good mechanism for letting the wicked dig themselves even deeper holes (even while they don the clothes of the righteous).
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#27I don't understand how people who are into their late 20s and 30s have time for all of this online drama If you have to work, manage relationships, and have to cook and clean up after yourself, where is the extra time for it? Not only that, but with what little free time that's left, people would choose to spend it on engaging in online drama instead of doing something actually pleasant It's one of those things that…
Anyone who describes themselves as an openly queer activist and microblogger is not really representative of the avg person. Their entire thing is being online all the time. It's not a hobby for them, it's their whole personality. I'll guess you're probably a straight white male due to the odds on this site, like me. We don't have the same struggles perceived or otherwise. It does seem alien to me. But, live and let…
You say “live and let live” but a life spent terminally online is no life at all.
I remember when I was in elementary school teachers would talk about minimizing time spent watching tv. Parents would be encouraged to tell their kids to minimize tv watching and spend more time reading. The point wasn’t to never watch tv. But to keep the time spent watching as little as possible.
It was well understood that tv is addictive and a life spent in front of the tv is no life at all.
But now we have the internet. Far more addictive than tv. People spend hours staring at the interactive tv that is the smartphone.
People spend hours engaging in “activism” on the internet that feels good inside but accomplishes nothing. The feeling of false accomplishment feeds into the addiction. Everyone instinctively knows a life watching tv is a waste but people are deluded into thinking that a life on social media matters.
In other words it’s all a drug. Makes you feel good but leads you to waste your life. Nobody says live and let live to a drug addict.
“It’s not a hobby for them, it’s their whole personality”
Just like a life lived like this is no life at all, a personality like this is no personality at all.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Anyone who describes themselves as an openly queer activist and microblogger is not really representative of the avg person. Their entire thing is being online all the time. It's not a hobby for them, it's their whole personality. I'll guess you're probably a straight white male due to the odds on this site, like me. We don't have the same struggles perceived or otherwise. It does seem alien to me. But, live and let…
You say “live and let live” but a life spent terminally online is no life at all. I remember when I was in elementary school teachers would talk about minimizing time spent watching tv. Parents would be encouraged to tell their kids to minimize tv watching and spend more time reading. The point wasn’t to never watch tv. But to keep the time spent watching as little as possible. It was well understood that tv is addic…
Nah. The older I get the more I realize we're all making this up as we go along and there is no round two. That means different things to different people. Some people think typing on computers making bullshit B2B apps is no way to live. Some people think it is. It takes all kinds to run this big humanity experiment and it's a good thing that people value different things. We need people to have different and even bad ideas for any of this to work.
I couldn't care less how others spend their time, I'm just glad that everyone has their niche.
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#30I don't understand how people who are into their late 20s and 30s have time for all of this online drama If you have to work, manage relationships, and have to cook and clean up after yourself, where is the extra time for it? Not only that, but with what little free time that's left, people would choose to spend it on engaging in online drama instead of doing something actually pleasant It's one of those things that…
Anyone who describes themselves as an openly queer activist and microblogger is not really representative of the avg person. Their entire thing is being online all the time. It's not a hobby for them, it's their whole personality. I'll guess you're probably a straight white male due to the odds on this site, like me. We don't have the same struggles perceived or otherwise. It does seem alien to me. But, live and let…
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