Twitter Confirms It Halted 'Hang Mike Pence' as a Trending Topic

Re:Twitter Confirms It Halted 'Hang Mike Pence' as a Trendin... by ansible on Saturday January 09, 2021 @04:56PM (#25705264)

Almost everyone (including really terrible people) don't want people killed. That is why it is often necessary to de-humanize the enemy. We give them labels, make them not worthy of the protections of civil society, and then it is justified if they die. Because they are not people anymore.

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Re:Twitter Confirms It Halted 'Hang Mike Pence' as a Trendin... by vladTheInhaler on Saturday January 09, 2021 @05:22PM (#25705552)

I think your comment is being misunderstood. I interpreted it to mean that most people don't naturally have the capacity to kill others who they identify as equals, and that's why many extremist groups take steps to other their targets.

I get the sense that people are reading it to mean that the rioters at the capital hadn't been radicalized like this. Or that dehumanizing people in that way is somehow okay. Perhaps you can clarify.

I tend to believe that, thankfully, most people don't have the capacity for extreme violence at a moment's notice. It takes intense conditioning. The US military started to emphasize this [1](paywalled) after it was discovered that even during combat, while people were shooting at them, most soldiers didn't try to kill their enemy or even fire their weapon [2].

So it seems like the highest priority is to re-humanize the "normies" and "communist antifa spies" or whatever nonsense phrase these extremists are using. I have *absolutely* no idea how to do that, but it must be done.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/killing-does-not-com...

[2] https://www.historynet.com/men-against-fire-how-many-soldier...

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Re:Twitter Confirms It Halted 'Hang Mike Pence' as a Trendin... by hehehaha on Saturday January 09, 2021 @05:14PM (#25705469)

That’s just not true. We have nearly an entire human history to prove otherwise. The only reason why we stopped killing each other is due to nuclear bombs.

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Re:Twitter Confirms It Halted 'Hang Mike Pence' as a Trendin... by xnx on Saturday January 09, 2021 @05:25PM (#25705578)

You should reread he parent comment. I think you agree. It describe the steps as:

1) Dehumanize the enemy

2) Kill/eliminate the inhuman enemy (no longer considered to be people)

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Re:Twitter Confirms It Halted 'Hang Mike Pence' as a Trendin... by loopz on Saturday January 09, 2021 @06:10PM (#25706063)

Now we have:

3) Trump designated target

as well.

Doesn't matter which side you think you're on then. At some point they come for you:

Must-see new video shows Capitol riot was way worse than we thought

https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-99178053752

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/09/media/reliable-sources-ja...

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Re:Twitter Confirms It Halted 'Hang Mike Pence' as a Trendin... by ipython on Saturday January 09, 2021 @06:07PM (#25706035)

That’s no longer the case. Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi were called out specifically on Parler posts.

Then again I would also say you’re correct as the people engaging with that violent and vitriolic content probably don’t consider them actual humans.

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