Message from @Catallaxis

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2018-10-15 02:30:24 UTC  

and stayed put

2018-10-15 02:30:35 UTC  

I mean, I wasn't there, but it does sound a *little* paranoid. At the same time though, men with their daughters will sometimes get stopped by people and seperated. Or even have the cops called on them.

2018-10-15 02:30:45 UTC  

Its a public train. They can gtfo.

2018-10-15 02:30:59 UTC  

yea it happened around that time when that topic was all over the news

2018-10-15 02:31:15 UTC  

so i figured she was being hysterical for no reason and spends too much time on twitter

2018-10-15 02:31:25 UTC  

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2018-10-15 02:31:50 UTC  

maybe it was the massive beard

2018-10-15 02:33:28 UTC  

She had a beard?

2018-10-15 02:33:34 UTC  

massive beard guys are usually chill it's the dudes with scruffy staches yo gotta look out for

2018-10-15 02:34:02 UTC  

neckbeards?

2018-10-15 02:34:06 UTC  

The neckbeard.

2018-10-15 02:34:17 UTC  

And the fedora.

2018-10-15 02:34:32 UTC  

i mean, i cant grow a beard for the life of me, and ive been trying for over a year

2018-10-15 02:34:43 UTC  

Meanwhile I can't stop growing hair. *Help*.

2018-10-15 02:35:14 UTC  

So I now work with an ex-cop. He used to work in a major US city, and he shot and killed a black guy while on duty a couple of years ago. I've been meaning to ask him more about it. Seems topical.

2018-10-15 02:35:59 UTC  

At least I think it was a black guy he killed. Need to double check that.

2018-10-15 02:36:07 UTC  

Did you ask him about the details? A lot of these 'unarmed black men' typically resist arrest or go for the officer's gun.

2018-10-15 02:36:51 UTC  

My understanding is that it was a justified shooting, because the guy moved toward him wielding an axe.

2018-10-15 02:37:07 UTC  

But this was second hand.

2018-10-15 02:37:24 UTC  

He was in the SWAT team, so this was during a SWAT call.

2018-10-15 02:37:58 UTC  

I am curious though. I don't know how forthcoming he'll be with details. I haven't known him for that long.

2018-10-15 02:39:23 UTC  

I kind of just want to ask him a whole bunch of difficult questions about all the BLM stuff, and perhaps I will.

2018-10-15 02:39:47 UTC  

I mean, intial BLM stuff seemed harmless at first.. Oh how it quickly went out of control.

2018-10-15 02:40:11 UTC  

zealots are abound in all polarizing groups occupying the fringes of american society at the moment if you ask me

2018-10-15 02:40:38 UTC  

definitely more noteworthy on "the left" in terms of violence carried out though

2018-10-15 02:40:50 UTC  

social media puts the internal signaling dynamics of these movements on fast-forward. It seems like it used to take years for movements and institutions to go off the rails, but now months are all that's neeeded.

2018-10-15 02:41:04 UTC  

bless the internet

2018-10-15 02:41:11 UTC  

i'm inclined to agree catallaxis

2018-10-15 02:41:43 UTC  

Where *do* you think all this craziness started?

2018-10-15 02:42:02 UTC  

human behavior hasn't changed in some radical fashion .. but thanks to the internet we're able to organize around our partisanships in a fashion never before available to our species at large

2018-10-15 02:42:21 UTC  

And when.

2018-10-15 02:42:33 UTC  

It started with Australopithecus ... or thereabouts.

2018-10-15 02:42:33 UTC  

I like to think of "Social" media as "anti-social" media

2018-10-15 02:42:49 UTC  

i'd say when high speed internet became accessible to most civilians of western civilization @Thanatos - say 2006-2007 or so

2018-10-15 02:42:58 UTC  

Pretty much all the incentives there directly oppose any usual notion of healthy discourse

2018-10-15 02:43:02 UTC  

the moment a mass of humans have access to it you see the results of said number swell

2018-10-15 02:43:16 UTC  

Because I first noticed it a little bit before GG happened.

2018-10-15 02:43:30 UTC  

if you want to be technical it goes all the way back to netscape 2.0 days

2018-10-15 02:44:00 UTC  

like i said, human behavior hasn't changed - we just have way better tools to use now

2018-10-15 02:44:28 UTC  

No, it's been brewing for a long time

2018-10-15 02:44:41 UTC  

GG was the first time it spilled over anywhere remotely mainstream