On the last night of summer, a well-meaning person on Twitter made an erroneous tweet, and I replied to it:
The gentleman thanked me for correcting him, and that would’ve been that had not some bootlicker decided to snitch about the interaction to a pig with a large number of followers, who then descended upon me like gnats for several days. These copsucking lackeys were nearly all male; they largely ranged in age from 16-25; most of them had 9 or fewer followers (many had exactly 3 and a few had 0); many had bios featuring pictures of or references to Trump, and used racial slurs or white supremacist slogans; several of them sent me “Pepe the Frog” memes; one even had a header image of Hitler. Naturally I muted every idiot, sometimes with amusing mockery but mostly not, and they eventually went away as such trolls inevitably do once their limited attention span is exceeded. I wouldn’t even have mentioned the episode except for the presence of a small group of them who weren’t content with juvenile insults, and instead kept demanding I produce the study for them (despite the fact that Christina Parreira already had long before I got up Sunday morning). Now, I’ve written a number of times about my attitude toward random nobodies demanding I personally walk them through things I’ve already addressed at length, but this time I publicly wondered why on Earth anyone would rely on a person whose word they doubted to spoon-feed them? It’s idiotic. If someone posted a statistic I doubted, I wouldn’t waste hours demanding the poster provide the source; I’d look it up on Google, as any person who actually cared about the truth would do. I understand these people didn’t actually want the truth; they just wanted a free argument and I refused to play. But it’s almost mind-boggling that these people couldn’t see how lazy, stupid and gullible their petulant demands for Mommy to cut up their food for them made them look.
Amen to that sister I have been spoon feeding these guys here in Portland Maine for two years now it’s getting really bad I had to make a whole ad just for people to learn how to contact them selves with me it’s unreal . Very well written and a great topic.Hi I have one so far not to see anybody that’s under the age of 50 years old but it doesn’t matter these guys are getting dumber and get a router and they are not willing to do the older they’re in for Maisch and it’s like go rape or go bus or go take a vantage of somebody else because if you’re going to see me I need full information from you and I will not compromise my safety for nobody these guys are jerks oh I can’t do it because of repetition of my company you ain’t nobody just want to go rape and go take avantage of somebody else .
Happens online quite often these days. These people do not know what a “fact” is and think they can discuss (or threaten) reality away. Providing any proof to these people is a waste of time, as they do not understand what a “proof” is either and will happily deny clear and verified truth if it does not match their misconceptions. In addition to just general stupidity, the recent trend of “emotion over intellect” seems to make the problem worse.
Great post. It’s an odd facet of human nature that people will believe what they read, but ignore what they know in real life. All of us know someone who was either harassed by cops, hurt by them, or shaken down by them (through those idiotic “seizure” laws). Few people ever actually meet a pimp — even those who are involved with sex workers and/or people in the business. And yet we’re supposed to believe these invisible pimps are coming out of the woodwork (perhaps from a ’70s blaxploitation flick) but cops are doing no harm. If the cops can harass my dad, who is an MBA, and “seize” the coin collection of my kid (it was in his car when he was pulled over), you can damn well bet they’re doing a lot worse to sex workers. The public need to be thinking people, not sheep.
Meanwhile, I just read Maryland just appointed its first “director of human trafficking.” This looks to be a disaster in the making. What’s that Ayn Rand quote? When there’s no criminals, the state invents laws to create them (or something like that).
The ignorance and laziness of people, together with their sense of entitlement, are three of the things I find most disheartening about our society today. I think this is a direct result of their “Sheepleness,” They do not realize that our system of government, at every level, depends upon the participation of the public, in order to have the slightest chance of working at all. The best way to get rid of bad government, and bad government policies, is for good people to take control of the government.
I did that once. I was in a particularly petty, vindictive mood & had my schedule free for the whole day. But I didn’t just stop at sending links. I literally took screenshots from research studies, underlined the relevant parts in red, & bombarded them with those. It was practically the online equivalent of shoving a sheaf of papers into someone’s face or forcefeeding a petulant child. Then the solipsistic arguments set in. It was fun watching that ship sink. Almost as fun as pushing it underwater was.