dystopian surveillance state

There I fixed it.

Go to reddit and stay there if you want to debase yourself with that obtuse nonsense. Otherwise grow up.

The binary nature of social media. It made everyone forget the whole region is quagmire.

Bigotry exist alongside the working class in the 20th century. They made their choice quite clear. They’d rather a support a billionaire brutally oppressing the working class if a single minority gets hurt in the process.

I’m on my last account. Having to farm new accounts has become too cumbersome.

Whenever some deplorables get angry enough to get that account banned then I’m done. This is a less talked about rate of attrition on reddit.

I’ve had one banned for replying that a comment was “self gratifying”. The militant far-right internet warriors report spam enough such that eventually some careless content mod will click the ban button.

Grim.

So this article went over everyone’s head??? The surveillance apparatus is the that they were able to be identified immediately. You guys prove the authors point. It’s so normalized it doesn’t seem out of place. Not only that they were blasted around the world just as fast.

The post we’re in right now showing their names and faces. The comment section we’re in. This is part of the mass surveillance machine.

The witch hunt is self evident but I suppose I need to be blunt. It’s because they’re deemed worthy of your scorn. So you accept the dystopian surveillance state because in this instance it has served your purpose.

Crazy times.

Distractions. Diversions… The concentration camps got wiped off the news cycle. The protests got wiped off the news cycle.

Every cycle they have a few of their guys play the other side. Like a good cop bad cop routine. Works every time.

You can’t ignore the technical factors. The reddit model is fundamentally a sort machine. The voting and temporal mechanism means reddit style platforms are always sorting for whatever the outcome ends up being. It’s not the popular opinion nor the correct one. It’s been proven time and again that the machine is easily gamed. Be early to engage with certain types of content and you’re guaranteed to dominate the top of the sort.

What we have are not naive social networks. We’ve arrived at some kind of simulacra. In attempting to “digitize the world” we created a mirror of real life discussion. The mirror has tarnished over time. Distorted and by now taken on a form of itself.

It’s a people problem alright. At times people seem to be playing some kind of social media game. Quite often especially on reddit people say things in ways you never hear people talk in real life. It’s bizarre.

For example making up scenarios to be angry about. What is even that??? When they have the crowd on their side then everyone is in on the game too. A rational commenter can say, “That’s not possible. This scenario is completely fabricated.” But it’s too late. Everyone is upset and communally partaking in the original commenters rumination.

This is a human problem but one that was arrived at by the technical design of social media nudging people into very weird forms of socialization. It’s like people don’t know how to be normal anymore.

Moderators not mod tools are very important… That word moderator doesn’t mean what it used to mean. We need to examine definition of moderation. It means to avoid extreme behaviors. Moderators used to provide community guidance. To be the adult in the room. This does not exist on social media. A pillar of old messageboards were people moderators. Someone who would step in when the users misbehave. When people start talking or behaving crazy. Sometimes it was better to just remove a thread all together. These kind of things are essential in solving the people problem.

There’s no mod tool that does this. And don’t nobody tell me we can throw AI at it. If social networks are to be human then it needs human guidance (aka human moderators). Can’t just throw scripts at the problem.

I think it’s more physiological. Since microplastics are ingested maybe it’s related to the rise in oral and rectal cancers.

I got a ban from there after being confronted by a /pol/ troll. One of the ones that attacks things they don’t like as being Indian. They said something about them needing to be genocided. I called them a nazi. That was the reason for the ban.

So that’s why I’m pretty sure the mods of subreddit are basically /pol/. I think that whole subreddit is a front for controlling narratives.

Most of what I learned about LGBTQ came from homophobes. The ones who would not shut up about it.

For example when I didn’t know that rainbows were associated with the community. I had friend school over one time. He saw a blanket with a rainbow stripe pattern. He basically had a gay panic meltdown. He was so certain we were a family of closeted gays.

So anyways later on he got a degree from a bible college or something. And he joined an evangelical church. One where they travel around to city streets around preaching from megaphones. Kind of like that Westboro Baptist thing.

In our early 20s he sexually assault me. I found out later from another guy we went to school with that he also forced himself on that guy too.

He’s not the only person I’ve known like this but certainly the most crazy one.

If there’s any true to the saying that gays rub their identity in everyone’s face. Then it’s the homophobe ones. It’s got to be a massive projection. It’s like they’re trying to tell the world but it manifests as some kind of self-hate in denial or something.

Yeah gen-z is gonna be fine. Just because there are loud complaints doesn’t necessarily mean there’s a problem. I’ve suspected this generation will end up wealthier than its predecessors. Maybe even the baby boomers too. Seems counterintuitive to the popular narratives doesn’t it.

In particular because savings and especially investments have become far more accessible. The stock market used to be for rich people. Women couldn’t even have bank accounts. These days an average couple can each have their own savings, investments, and benefits. A lot of baby boomers are basically living off the mans income and pension.

The generations that got fucked hard are those who were working or trying to start careers during the great recession. Some baby boomers and older gen-x lost everything. Younger gen-x and millennials were set back financially several years or even more than a decade.

Less talked about is the recession baby bust. Which is also the reason universities are set to contract severely. Nobody was having kids. Now there are fewer students. In the longer time span the baby bust generation will not have adult children to care and support for them in elderly age. That is a severe financial penalty that will compound on having less savings too.

I think sometimes the author is hoping it may reach certain readers as opposed to preaching to the choir.

Incels hasn’t been about that in a long time. It’s already evolved into “self-improvement” by adopting far-right extremist ideology. In particular that of being a hyper-masculine bigotted conservative man. Their underlying theory of world is still the same. Love is fake and women cheat and leave you taking all your money unless you become the strong man chad and dominate her. Instead of the pit of self loathing based on the premise that everyone is out to get you. You become the biggest alpha over every other guy. Fundamentally the ideology is the flip side of the same coin. It’s a very dark misanthropic view of the world.

It’s surely been some sort of cult brainwashing. Tear guys down with crab bucket mentality. Then build them up according to their doctrine.

influencer

Whenever you see this word replace it with “sales people”.

They’re enthusiasts, and so the initial wave of press from the Robotaxi release will be gushingly positive as Tesla sales people enthusiastically record the experience

Their bullet points are spin-doctoring.

Also the comment got a few dozen upvotes almost immediately. Suspicious.