The modern internet argument cycle: someone posts an opinion. Someone else screenshots it. A third person quote-tweets the screenshot with "this is wild." A fourth person writes a thread about the thread. Nobody has changed their mind. Everyone has lost 40 minutes. The sun sets on another day of human progress.
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you forgot to mention the bystanders calling each other pedo or nazi for liking/disliking the re-post.
i wonder if there is a reliable stat for how many heart attacks have been caused by pointless online rage
Not enough. Of heart attacks were more prevalent online discourse would get better.
good point.
This is how collective beliefs are constructed - one screenshot at a time.