Ohhhh, okay, The sarcasm went completely over my head, sorry!

The most painful moment went something like this:

Dad: Hey, the computer isn’t working, can you take a look at it? Computer: Full of porn popups because he was googling ‘brittany spears nude’

No sarcasm, just not sure if it’s a typo or if you really think the holocaust was a good thing.

Ethic and ethNic are two similar, but different words. I would agree that tech companies are wanting to separate us into groups for extermination (ethnic cleansing), but I would absolutely disagree that it’s a good thing (ethical cleansing).

How is that ethical though? Ethical is synonymous with moral.

I can’t tell if I should assume you mean that or if I should assume you mean ‘ethnic’ like a racial group.

will of course not be used for censorship or to create ethical groups later at the push of a button… so that ethical cleaning can be tackled really efficiently.

Did you mean ethnic, or do you really think there is such a thing as ethical censorship?

Fathom is more specifically a unit of measurement for depth of water. If you fathom something, you’ve gauged the depths of the topic.

Who is ‘they’? The ‘somewhat positive’ people are bad faith, or finitebanjo is bad faith?

What’s with the Hewlett Packard Enterprises badging at the top?

Even if these are drivebys, thats a whole lot of people standing around in the street where it happens

They’re also counting people who can hear it, so that’s a few blocks worth of people indoors and out.

They grew up getting their heads shoved into toilets, and are now eager to shove somebody else’s head into the toilet. I’m in my mid-30s, and I absolutely remember the teachers turning a blind eye to a bunch of kids ganging up on me with sticks in middle school, only to get detention for hitting them back with the book of arthurian legends I was trying to read.

We basically got taught that bullying is a good thing the strong do to the weak, and it fucked up multiple generations.

Be the change you want to see

I was raised in the New Apostolic Reformation, so I was deep deep into crazyland. It made a lot of promises that never happened and made a lot of statements that didn’t line up. It took a few years, and there was a LOT of resistance on my end, but I eventually realized that one side was going to make my life better, and one side would make my life worse.

The hardest part of deradicalizing people is keeping a level head, because coming at it with anger is playing into the indoctrination. I was raised to believe that people were going to hate me for speaking the truth, and that the anger I was getting was evidence that the cult was correct. This is where the persecution fetishism comes from, they’re trying to convince their brain in lieu of facts. Getting internet hate is like a meditative litany in a way, it’s seen as a digital analogue to a scourge purging the weakness from you and leaving only the pure fire of god behind. I honestly wouldn’t have gotten out if it weren’t for my gaming group believing I could be a cool person, and taking the time to educate me instead of just kicking me or hurling hot takes at me.

I’m now big on Street Epistemology as a framework for deradicalization.

Personally, I believe it because I was a reactionary that changed my mind when presented with information. It’s not as rare as the doomers make it out to be.