[-] brianary@startrek.website 1 points 8 months ago

How are you dealing with those people? Converting them is incredibly time consuming, and has to be done individually.

[-] brianary@startrek.website 1 points 8 months ago

It's an explanation of Wilhoit's Law, really, which will always resonate with misanthropes.

[-] brianary@startrek.website 1 points 9 months ago

You may be right, but it seems to me that sleeper cells need direction. Otherwise, they'll interpret their ideology divergently. They may block progress pretty effectively, but it'll be hard for them to make gains in a shared direction.

[-] brianary@startrek.website 1 points 9 months ago

This is all true, but there's not clear line of succession after Trump, so they'll splinter. Redirecting the fervor to some new dear leader will take a long time. The Trump thralls are entirely invested in him alone.

[-] brianary@startrek.website 1 points 9 months ago

19½ months. That's how long Mozilla was prepared to listen to a small, unfiltered subset of their users, for a laughably meager maintenance cost.

[-] brianary@startrek.website 1 points 10 months ago

Mobs cannot be reliably wielded for long, as Mussolini found out.

[-] brianary@startrek.website 1 points 10 months ago

You don't get to declare a related topic as out of bounds like that.

[-] brianary@startrek.website 1 points 10 months ago

Its not contextually relevant to the situation of the article.

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[-] brianary@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

No, they will only want dissent bans.

[-] brianary@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

Where did they cancel? Running only one (incumbent) candidate doesn't really count.

[-] brianary@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

They see it as pragmatism, I think.

[-] brianary@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

That's a good punch-up. I'm in!

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