Social Justice Warriors Thread

[GloryofGreece]

JRE with that tim pool dude was worth the listen. (i know, what's the odds of that). In any case, there is a legit point to me made that people mostly feed their own proverbial beast on social media. We for the most part, end up sharing , posting, texting etc. to other like minded folk that we want to outrage and stir up etc. b/c well anger sells and its guaranteed to get more retweets and posts etc. Its like people end up looking on the internet to find anything/everything they can to get pissed about and to solidify their stances. Its not just the "echo chamber" its deeper than that. I love not having facebook, twitter, instagram, snapchat, or strolling through 4chan or reddit. And I actually never meet anyone like what I see on Youtube, ever. The internet has become a complete cesspool. Its a combination of posturing, projecting, and regurgitating misinformation.How long do we have before we are forced to take an online identity / profile and have it tracked indefinitely and in all things?

[DBTrek]

The internet isn't a cesspool.
The internet is anonymous humanity expressing it's rawest form, free from consequence.

That's people you're looking at, right there.

[GloryofGreece]

Idk about you but generally speaking I don't ever engage with other actual people " free from consequence ". The internet is a wild west without the usual social parameters that have existed for recorded history. It reaffirms Hobbes if anything.

[Ph64]

JRE with that tim pool dude was worth the listen. (i know, what's the odds of that). In any case, there is a legit point to me made that people mostly feed their own proverbial beast on social media. We for the most part, end up sharing , posting, texting etc. to other like minded folk that we want to outrage and stir up etc. b/c well anger sells and its guaranteed to get more retweets and posts etc. Its like people end up looking on the internet to find anything/everything they can to get pissed about and to solidify their stances. Its not just the "echo chamber" its deeper than that. I love not having facebook, twitter, instagram, snapchat, or strolling through 4chan or reddit. And I actually never meet anyone like what I see on Youtube, ever. The internet has become a complete cesspool. Its a combination of posturing, projecting, and regurgitating misinformation.How long do we have before we are forced to take an online identity / profile and have it tracked indefinitely and in all things?

I have fakebook still, but rarely login and haven't posted in well over a year. The only reason I keep it is I have a bunch of old coworkers and school friends on there I have no other contact with (not that I contact them much anyways). Twitter, snapchat, etc, never saw the point in.

I've said before I avoid politics with my neighbor... if I want to know his views on anything I can just go to CNN ("Orange man bad", "the right are racist Nazi bigots", "oh yeah - and they're everywhere", "conservatives dumb uneducated deplorables", etc). He really should go work for them, he echos every talking point perfectly.

[DBTrek]

Idk about you but generally speaking I don't ever engage with other actual people " free from consequence ". The internet is a wild west without the usual social parameters that have existed for recorded history. It reaffirms Hobbes if anything.

Yes, that's a good description. It's humanity released from social parameters.
Even me.
I cuss a lot more in person.


And I spend a lot more time just letting shit go.

[Ph64]

And I spend a lot more time just letting shit go.

That's the strangest part to me, IRL I can walk away and pretty much let it go 99% of the time (it's gotta be getting screwed over financially or outright lied to, to my face, to really piss me off - otherwise it's just "a stupid human disagreement over pointless shit").

Somehow online people seem to really hold on to pointless stuff, and get really really upset about the slightest disagreement.

[Fife]

Yes, we're reaffirming Hobbes here. It's a very important mission we are fulfilling.

[Ph64]

Has to be posted now...

[Speaker to Animals]

This is real.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1856549751256886/

[Ph64]

I hopped in fakebook for the first time in months and someone had reposted something with a picture of a McDs plastic soda cup (with top & straw on it) on a beach... Saying "if you see things like this, take a picture of it and tag the company that is branded on it to shake them".

Yeah, because it's McDs fault...not the asshole that couldn't be bothered to find a garbage can to toss it into...



One person probably broke a littering law. Hint, it wasn't McDs. I mean do they seriously think that if McDs came up with a 100% biodegradable cup and lid (no straw either) that the idiot wouldn't have just tossed that on the beach anyways? Nope, McDs just be responsible - no personal responsibility for the litterer.