Oh yeah… I have my own blog that I never use… well, now is as good a time as any. Ok… let me very carefully put on the cultural theorist hat and “both sides” this thing briefly.
This is not about pretending former President Shithead didn’t bring this on himself (he did). And it’s not to call current President Dumbass somehow perfect (he’s not). I’m insulting them both because I’m not going to pretend I like either of them anymore today than I did 3 days ago. The former should be in jail and the latter should be in a rocking chair.
No… this is more to the RNC and DNC, the two candidate camps … and to a slightly lesser extent the media, and overall just… social media.
The insinuation that “ok, we have to bring the temperature down now because we need to be able to have policy disputes without violence. Everyone tone down the rhetoric and we will all be ok” is not just disingenuous, it’s culturally ignorant.
It’s massively fucking privileged…
No one… ABSOLUTELY NO ONE… is resorting to physical lawbreaking violent action because of your “rhetoric”. And by this I mean people burning a city to the ground, ransacking the US capitol, or taking an AR-15 to a president’s head. The belief that they are shows not only a ridiculously overinflated view of self but also a lack of understanding of the underprivileged.
People resort to physical violence because for them (wrong or right) the thing that you are arguing is “a policy dispute” from your oval office, television studio, or fucking campaign dais is not a policy… it is a presumption of actual material effect on their very livelihoods. They fundamentally believe that the person you consider a “political opponent” is an existential threat to their existence.
Where you see a debate competitor, they see babykillers, gun snatchers, drug pushers, job stealers, gay bashers, antisemites, child predators, islamophobes, genocidal tyrants, ethnic cleansers, and murderers.
The fact that some of those things might be real and the others might be imagined, sort of doesn’t matter. What matters is the threat level is different to someone on the ground than it does to someone sitting in the political arena. That is the privilege. No matter what happens, YOU are probably going to be ok. You may see yourself as their voice… but by virtue of having a platform… you almost certainly are not.
Donald Trump is a racist. A rapist. And yes, a fascist. He belongs in jail. I say those things because I believe they are true. They were true three days ago and they are true today. And if it makes you feel good to hear, then yeah… I also think Joe Biden is a forgetful, casually racist, neoliberal, creepy old man who is too old to be president and should step aside. And neither they nor the country is going to be safer just because a bunch of people in suits find a way to say those things with “nice words.”
I’m confused. How do you define “rhetoric” here? Surely you’re not arguing that words can’t rile people up to the point of violence, right?
I’m confused. How do you define “rhetoric” here? Surely you’re not arguing that words can’t rile people up to the point of violence, right?
I’m confused. How do you define “rhetoric” here? Surely you’re not arguing that words can’t rile people up to the point of violence, right?
I’m confused. How do you define “rhetoric” here? Surely you’re not arguing that words can’t rile people up to the point of violence, right?
Totally agree
I’m confused. How do you define “rhetoric” here? Surely you’re not arguing that words can’t rile people up to the point of violence, right?
I’m confused. How do you define “rhetoric” here? Surely you’re not arguing that words can’t rile people up to the point of violence, right?
Yeah. I think the lowering the temperature will not last because of all the things you just said. Climate activists feel a sense of doom and existential dread watching these summer temperatures ticking up across the world. You do not get people’s attention by using nice words all the time.
The social media algorithms are attuned to the fact that people respond to emotional content. So, in that sense, isn’t Biden actually asking everyone to tone it down since he probably realizes that social media will have a tendency to amplify angry content?
Yeah. I think the lowering the temperature will not last because of all the things you just said. Climate activists feel a sense of doom and existential dread watching these summer temperatures ticking up across the world. You do not get people’s attention by using nice words all the time.
The social media algorithms are attuned to the fact that people respond to emotional content. So, in that sense, isn’t Biden actually asking everyone to tone it down since he probably realizes that social media will have a tendency to amplify angry content?
Yeah. I think the lowering the temperature will not last because of all the things you just said. Climate activists feel a sense of doom and existential dread watching these summer temperatures ticking up across the world. You do not get people’s attention by using nice words all the time.
The social media algorithms are attuned to the fact that people respond to emotional content. So, in that sense, isn’t Biden actually asking everyone to tone it down since he probably realizes that social media will have a tendency to amplify angry content?
Yeah. I think the lowering the temperature will not last because of all the things you just said. Climate activists feel a sense of doom and existential dread watching these summer temperatures ticking up across the world. You do not get people’s attention by using nice words all the time.
The social media algorithms are attuned to the fact that people respond to emotional content. So, in that sense, isn’t Biden actually asking everyone to tone it down since he probably realizes that social media will have a tendency to amplify angry content?
Yeah. I think the lowering the temperature will not last because of all the things you just said. Climate activists feel a sense of doom and existential dread watching these summer temperatures ticking up across the world. You do not get people’s attention by using nice words all the time.
The social media algorithms are attuned to the fact that people respond to emotional content. So, in that sense, isn’t Biden actually asking everyone to tone it down since he probably realizes that social media will have a tendency to amplify angry content?
Yeah. I think the lowering the temperature will not last because of all the things you just said. Climate activists feel a sense of doom and existential dread watching these summer temperatures ticking up across the world. You do not get people’s attention by using nice words all the time.
The social media algorithms are attuned to the fact that people respond to emotional content. So, in that sense, isn’t Biden actually asking everyone to tone it down since he probably realizes that social media will have a tendency to amplify angry content?
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I’m confused. How do you define “rhetoric” here? Surely you’re not arguing that words can’t rile people up to the point of violence, right?
I’m confused. How do you define “rhetoric” here? Surely you’re not arguing that words can’t rile people up to the point of violence, right?
Yeah. I think the lowering the temperature will not last because of all the things you just said. Climate activists feel a sense of doom and existential dread watching these summer temperatures ticking up across the world. You do not get people’s attention by using nice words all the time.
The social media algorithms are attuned to the fact that people respond to emotional content. So, in that sense, isn’t Biden actually asking everyone to tone it down since he probably realizes that social media will have a tendency to amplify angry content?