Unlike twitter’s organic abyss, Threads seems purpose built to rile and inflame. Every time I’ve accidentally opened it via insta it feels like I’m being tempted to smoke a laced cigarette.

She ain’t wrong.

Lying to stoke hate? That’s stunningly clear-eyed for American media

Last words out of Kirk’s mouth were literally hate-stoking lies, but go off, try to appeal to ‘moderate republicans’ I guess. Good faith debate? Good grief.

Grey goo, but make it #content

Being that this is from his election night, I can only surmise the approve side buoyed by ‘I approve of him not being in the house.’

Seems like the kind of thing that’s inherently unsafe. Limits on authority are kinda prerequisite. We’re all in graver danger the longer this goes on

‘Sure they haven’t changed and in many ways have gotten worse, but have you considered that they’re gonna start rounding up and killing people in earnest if their kids don’t call?’
Real ‘we need to pay women to date incels rather than fix their hearts’ energy on this one

How does this not get a person laughed off the stage? Like I get the audience is paying to smell these dudes’ farts but there’s gotta be a limit, and how is it not well before ‘through the power of predictive text I’m gonna blow past every physicist out there in a stoned afternoon?’

Hey, at least in the future nobody will have any earthly idea how to check if their formulas are correct

If only he had worked for McKinsey or the Pinkertons as an ideologically void young man