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eigenrobot@eigenrobot• about 6 years ago

Twitter pretty rotten last few days Finding myself retreating into work, exercise, relationships, hobbies The dynamic after shootings is pretty predictable and bad

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eigenrobot@eigenrobot• about 6 years ago

Replying to @eigenrobot

1. Race to pin shooter as an outgroup member 2. Big coordinated push to use shooting to justify whatever policies people wanted anyway 3. Everything else drowned out

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eigenrobot@eigenrobot• about 6 years ago

Replying to @eigenrobot

Practically, it makes sense. If you can generate a critical mass in public sentiment while there's a salient rallying cry, you might be able to effect a preference cascade And if you might end up on the potential butt end of that cascade it's important to be extremely vocal too

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eigenrobot@eigenrobot• about 6 years ago

Replying to @eigenrobot

Usual caveat linked, but a lot of the dynamic I see could be explained with this one simple trick I doubt much of it is conscious as the normie level but you know Talking points get around, and I imagine it's partially instinctive https://t.co/8eHqnW59BC

eigenrobot@eigenrobot• over 7 years ago

everything 👏 is 👏 monocausal 👏 and 👏 specifically 👏 results 👏 from 👏 whatever 👏 shit 👏 I'm 👏 on 👏 about 👏 at 👏 any 👏 given 👏 time

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eigenrobot@eigenrobot• about 6 years ago

Replying to @eigenrobot

Related Disasters are a Schelling point for reshuffling norms Shock Doctrine but it's just everything So tiresome. https://t.co/GMynb5mnjb

eigenrobot@eigenrobot• about 6 years ago

very tired and demoralized at work so heres something ive been thinking about an interesting thing that may have happened in the 20th century is that deliberately or not people got really good at wrecking norms

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eigenrobot@eigenrobot• about 6 years ago

Replying to @eigenrobot

I wonder if there's a missing mood everywhere here It's a big part of what feels gross I don't think anyone is reacting to the object level emotionally, only to the social opportunity it presents or the threat it poses

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eigenrobot@eigenrobot• about 6 years ago

Replying to @eigenrobot

well this is something https://t.co/IraGmYpUew

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