Twitter is very toxic. It gives very dogmatic people an oversized cudgel to beat others over with. I wish whatever alternative takes shape for the other side of the aisle that Twitter sidelines, makes an effort to neutralize this effect, but I'm not optimistic. It's too alluring.

When one tactic didn't work, they chose another, then another, then another. Relentless in their thirst for things to become their vision no matter what.

I was heartened by the village public servants serving the public and ignoring the intrusion of these busybodies who had no stake in the locality whatsoever beside some remote association with their "passion". I mean, some big wig like Cher prancing in and calling some French minister to heel. This is outrageous.

You want cruelty of elephants, go to Africa and stop the tusk harvesting --oh, right, they might get shot. It's pathetic what gives these activists meaning in life.

It's ironic even, because their cartoon version of reality is so far out of touch that their desires would often do more harm than good to a particular animal. They treat all animals without subjectivity, forcing them to fit their idealized version of reality... this was made particularly apparent in the article for the rescued elephant at Longleat... where the group "Action for Elephants UK" want to take this 60 year old abused (recovering) elephant from her home of 10 years and transport her to a different country. It's beyond insensitive to just assume this is a good idea.

> Twitter is very toxic. It gives very dogmatic people an oversized cudgel to beat others over with.

Yeah, it's basically a distributed mechanism for organizing villagers with pitchforks and torches to burn witches, throw Jews down wells, or lynch blacks.

I do not think history is going to agree that this was a good idea.