if you follow enough people in left twitter you see these factional+personal feuds flare up eventually
― goole, Friday, 29 January 2016 20:56 (eight years ago) link
^^^^^^ and if you follow or know enough of them these feuds can even take up your whole TL & fuck up irl friendships
amber f, who wrote articles that started both Jacobinghazi and the Molly/Emma battle, is a good friend of one of my housemates--she refused to stay at our house while visiting the city because she thinks i'm an asshole
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 29 January 2016 20:59 (eight years ago) link
and like, who the fuck am i, even
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 29 January 2016 21:00 (eight years ago) link
MC's art is p bad imo
xp huh she's written some things i've liked in the past but she seems like a huge asshole herself. not that there's anything wrong with that.
― goole, Friday, 29 January 2016 21:01 (eight years ago) link
i couldn't possibly comment
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 29 January 2016 21:04 (eight years ago) link
i side w/big hoos, i've got your back if twitter war comes to town
― μpright mammal (mh), Friday, 29 January 2016 21:06 (eight years ago) link
unless it involves slam poetry or something, then you're on yr own
― μpright mammal (mh), Friday, 29 January 2016 21:07 (eight years ago) link
seems like high school x-post
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Friday, 29 January 2016 21:08 (eight years ago) link
it is like high school
or like a certain message board which shall remain unnamed
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 29 January 2016 21:09 (eight years ago) link
distinctly remember her criticizing jeet heer for being a knowitall who would be shouted down if he were a woman (a half-ok argument imo), respondees saying he gets a ton of racist harassment as it is, and her saying he deserves the harassment he gets (i can't find that last turn anymore, could be deleted)
xp and yes this is like high school
really a lot of people like to fucking rip into ppl in the most egregious ways; you just want to slap your palm on the desk and shout YOU ARE NOT DOING THE PEOPLE'S BUSINESS HERE
― goole, Friday, 29 January 2016 21:10 (eight years ago) link
jeet heer is really wordy and sometimes interesting in storify form, he has a pretty limited audience outside twitter afaik
― μpright mammal (mh), Friday, 29 January 2016 21:12 (eight years ago) link
There's a guy who'd welcome a 10,000 character limit.
― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Friday, 29 January 2016 21:14 (eight years ago) link
Might be able to get his ideas across in three or four tweets then.
i should qualify, he writes/edits a lot and has academic cred of some sort but i've talked to ppl who have lived basically in his neighborhood and know nothing of the dude
― μpright mammal (mh), Friday, 29 January 2016 21:15 (eight years ago) link
― goole, Friday, January 29, 2016 9:10 PM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
srsly
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 29 January 2016 21:46 (eight years ago) link
most of these ppl end up looking pretty bad
― lag∞n, Friday, 29 January 2016 21:47 (eight years ago) link
generally a problem with the left and its interest in justice is it ends up attracting a lot of extremely self righteous unkind people who no one wld actual ever want to associate with
― lag∞n, Friday, 29 January 2016 21:48 (eight years ago) link
i just want justice and liberty and equality and the ability to be a total dick to everyone
― μpright mammal (mh), Friday, 29 January 2016 22:00 (eight years ago) link
but 2 ban them if they're a dick to me
― Option ARMs and de Man (s.clover), Friday, 29 January 2016 22:12 (eight years ago) link
otm
― μpright mammal (mh), Friday, 29 January 2016 22:46 (eight years ago) link
do i want to ask what jacobingate was
― gr8080, Saturday, 30 January 2016 01:06 (eight years ago) link
*thread throws up hands*
*laugh track, lights out, theme music*
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 30 January 2016 01:28 (eight years ago) link
this goofy graphic explains it surprisingly well imo
http://imgur.com/a/nUX1A
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 30 January 2016 01:30 (eight years ago) link
Board academics of twitter aint got no jobs in the summer and are tired of reading after crushingly brutal course evals, so they don't bother reading Frost or Stoker and immediately agree with Kendizor. Stoker, Frost, and Erickson, all women, are called misogynists and rape apolgists.
big lol @ academics if this is true
― Mordy, Saturday, 30 January 2016 01:34 (eight years ago) link
self righteous unkind people
this sounds right but WHY unkind??, seems like most of the WARRIORZ i know are hella kind, it kinda goes w/ their interest in justice in the first place (say, justice-as-compassion)
― j., Saturday, 30 January 2016 02:57 (eight years ago) link
i think desire for justice is sometimes more about an interest in fairness and order than it is about actually caring about people, feel like the left attracts a lot of very heady people who have a deep investment in being right
having said that idk if you can truly be said to care about people if you dont desire justice for them, and of course im not claiming everyone fits that description or their arent shades of grey etc
― lag∞n, Saturday, 30 January 2016 03:15 (eight years ago) link
and of course the left has a long and often comic occasionally tragic history of internal ideological struggles
― lag∞n, Saturday, 30 January 2016 03:16 (eight years ago) link
occasionally ice pick
― petulant dick master (silby), Saturday, 30 January 2016 03:31 (eight years ago) link
sometimes gulag
― lag∞n, Saturday, 30 January 2016 03:39 (eight years ago) link
there's a kind of "moral absolutism" inherent to post-enlightenment politics of both the right and left (cf. reinhart koselleck's "critique and crisis") that makes compassion and justice not exactly opposites but not entirely overlapping either.
but "social compassion warrior" probably wouldn't catch on as well.
― ryan, Saturday, 30 January 2016 03:47 (eight years ago) link
idk I get confused whenever someone brings up the enlightenment. the way Twitter constantly streams real-time, seems like it's easier 'be right' than to be kind when talking politics
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Saturday, 30 January 2016 15:29 (eight years ago) link
imo being right is goo
― lag∞n, Saturday, 30 January 2016 15:55 (eight years ago) link
d but we shd all try to be more complete ppl too
― lag∞n, Saturday, 30 January 2016 15:56 (eight years ago) link
but if theres a platform that tends toward owns and oneupsmanship thats ok twitter is not life
― lag∞n, Saturday, 30 January 2016 15:57 (eight years ago) link
or at least it shdnt be lol
"yeah imagine feeling the need to go to the same website every single day and enter 100 pithy messages into a box to get approval from strangers.
xpost
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Friday, 29 January 2016 17:43 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink"
Heh well played but even then yeah, there are better options than twitter for this, I mean twitter usage objectively makes u an awful person so why wouldn't u seek alternatives
― broderik f (darraghmac), Saturday, 30 January 2016 16:54 (eight years ago) link
Also lagoons run of posts since are inspiring and teach me how 2 live
― broderik f (darraghmac), Saturday, 30 January 2016 16:59 (eight years ago) link
la-good haha
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Saturday, 30 January 2016 17:02 (eight years ago) link
the idea that twitter "makes" you do cliched twitter shit is silly imo. you can be cognizant of what people do and just choose not to. i don't have to quit having a couple beers a week because alcoholics exist. i don't have to leave ilx because lj exists (although it's tempting sometimes).
― 77 lines about 77 albums i haven't heard (some dude), Saturday, 30 January 2016 17:13 (eight years ago) link
lol
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 31 January 2016 00:43 (eight years ago) link
o lol s** j** blocked me because i think i follow some account she doesn't like or something. i've tweeted nothing on this entire mess. *shrug*
― Option ARMs and de Man (s.clover), Sunday, 31 January 2016 07:39 (eight years ago) link
who r u on Twitter s clover
― flopson, Sunday, 31 January 2016 14:52 (eight years ago) link
yeah some ppl def use block lists to auto block anyone who follows certain ppl ive run across a few accounts that have me blocked that i def never interacted with before
― lag∞n, Sunday, 31 January 2016 15:11 (eight years ago) link
I'm signed up for the ggautoblocker
― petulant dick master (silby), Sunday, 31 January 2016 19:02 (eight years ago) link
lagoon i blocked you manually in full command of my senses
― bloat laureate (schlump), Sunday, 31 January 2016 20:46 (eight years ago) link
tough but fair
― lag∞n, Sunday, 31 January 2016 22:49 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/crulge/status/694252324693258241
this is why I like lag∞n on Twitter, he is a consistently successful retweeter
― its subtle brume (DJP), Monday, 1 February 2016 20:27 (eight years ago) link
― 77 lines about 77 albums i haven't heard (some dude), Saturday, January 30, 2016 5:13 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/theory/grpthink.html
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Monday, 1 February 2016 20:33 (eight years ago) link
oh swade
― goole, Monday, 1 February 2016 20:36 (eight years ago) link
swade killin me
― lag∞n, Monday, 1 February 2016 20:39 (eight years ago) link