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IMO you’re gonna need to do more than blame Twitter.

Humans were racist, misogynistic, selfish, hateful, road raging shitheads before social media.

Columbine was before all of these things

Kent state

Beltway sniper

Jonestown

Hate crimes everywhere

What’s different is how visible Twitter makes it

My money is on this being more of a nationalism thing. Buried or purposefully hidden xenophobia and anxiety over being in each other’s faces suddenly

Especially with the older crowd that grew up and lived mostly isolated

These attitudes were more visible during GW’s time in office too

It’s disconcerting seeing a community of “smart” people ignoring a lot of variables and insisting on demonizing Johnny Come-lately

It was less work to find a hateful clique before Twitter. Just walk around town and find the right group of people

Making it more inefficient? Or making more obvious the inherent inefficiency of the mantra “everyone must have a job to thrive and the economy must always grow”

I rather think the latter. We’ve just now been able to shine light on 60 years of this bullshit social memes real costs

Cancer rates seem to have gone up. But then one looks closer and it’s diagnosis rates due to improved techniques.

Similar idea: we can measure effort better. Oh look at all the waste