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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

2018-10-15 02:44:57 UTC  

But the seeds had been planted for a while

2018-10-15 02:45:11 UTC  

So GG is when it finally broke through you'd say?

2018-10-15 02:46:02 UTC  

I'd say that was more like...a peak?

2018-10-15 02:46:26 UTC  

I dunno, remember when they said GG was dead and actually **woke it back up?**

2018-10-15 02:49:24 UTC  

i been pissing off tim's bot

2018-10-15 02:49:26 UTC  

Then they would peak again?

2018-10-15 02:49:34 UTC  

What did the bot ever do to you Tri?

2018-10-15 02:50:01 UTC  

Was that still in 2014?

2018-10-15 02:50:19 UTC  

Nah, they did it a couple times.

2018-10-15 02:50:31 UTC  

im just typing too fast, bot doesnt like it

2018-10-15 02:50:45 UTC  

I only tangentially engaged with GG--it always seemed to me like an internet shitfight that idiot normies carried back into the real world

2018-10-15 02:50:56 UTC  

'cause they apparently think Twitter is real life

2018-10-15 02:51:55 UTC  

Is this ~~a pigeon~~ real life?

2018-10-15 02:51:58 UTC  

those goddamn boomers

2018-10-15 02:52:19 UTC  

Would 55/56 in age be considered a boomer now?

2018-10-15 02:52:30 UTC  

I've asked several people and none of them are quite sure.

2018-10-15 02:52:59 UTC  

And that's not me, that's my dad. ~~I promise~~

2018-10-15 02:53:39 UTC  

Generation X