EldritchFeminity

Yep. See also: sea-lioning, the gish gallop, and a myriad of other tactics used by the far-right.

Also, another of my favorite quotes:

I'm not doing homework for you. I've known you for 30 seconds and enjoyed exactly none of them.

Self-curating my social media experience is self-care.

Optimism, realism, and pessimism.

I'm reminded of a quote that goes something like this:

I've been thinking about the free exchange of ideas recently and come to the conclusion that it isn't an open market - it's a potluck.

Everybody brings something to the table and you're free to pick and choose the things that you want to try, but you're not obligated to try everything. Just because Karen put a piece of shit on the table and calls it a sandwich doesn't mean that you have to take a bite to know that it's shit. Similarly, we are not obligated to take white supremacists and other extremists' ideas and seriously debate their value. They're shit and can and should be treated as such.

The beauty of a self-curated experience is that you're free to engage with the things that you want and can ignore the things that you don't want to deal with. The risk of people isolating themselves is simply a part of having the freedom to choose your own experiences, the same as the real world.

Personally, one of the reasons that I'm here is because I have no choice but to deal with right-wing extremism in my daily life, and I don't want to deal with it online as well. Reading news articles? That's fine, but I don't want to see chuds screaming about DEI or woke or whatever in the comments.

There's a nuance here that you're missing - self-curating your social media experience is vastly different from the algorithm hellhole that is the modern corporate social media landscape. You can filter out any dissenting opinions or facts, but you can in real life, too. And like in real life, it takes a lot of active effort to get to that point. Whereas the algorithm will do that for you without you even knowing it.

I'd say that self-curated social media is like going off to college or moving to a new city while the algorithm is like living in the town you grew up in. I grew up in a very liberal state, but there were about 3 non-white kids in my entire high school the year I graduated, and it wasn't until I was introduced to Tumblr in college in the late 2000s that I first heard words like "transgender." And Tumblr is the most self-curated social media that I've ever seen. Back then, you couldn't even follow hashtags - just people. So your front page was exclusively people that you followed and the posts that they reblogged from people that they followed.

Big Carrot is coming for your stew

If you're watching something on TV, record it and watch it later instead of when it airs. Even starting it 15 minutes later would probably let you fast forward through many of the ads.

Nah, the elephant gun bullet would stop because a horse isn't an elephant.

This was my thought as well. Too many years of retail has left me with an instinctual hatred for holidays. Like how Labor Day is a holiday for the rich to "celebrate" the working poor who have to work that day.

A third world country in a Prada belt.

True. I even added the "probably" after writing it for that reason, but that's still giving them too much benefit of the doubt.

I'm sure the IDF soldiers feel very bad about all the women and children that they've driven bulldozers over.

And yet, that still doesn't justify killing civilians randomly.

And Israel has been running a military campaign to exterminate Palestine since the 1950s. It's hard to claim their hands are clean in any of these conflicts.

I still remember when they were offering Israeli citizenship with the purchase of former Palestinian homes to American Jews in the 2000s.