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@mildlydiverting @naomialderman @rachelcoldicutt i have been thinking about this a lot. i listened to a podcast about multi-level marketing (pyramid schemes), and the offer & the thing that is exploited is community bonds.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@mildlydiverting @naomialderman @rachelcoldicutt incels, gamergaters, those kinds of people: an extreme lack of community drives people towards bitterness. they form a community of people within that bitterness, and the ideology becomes more and more extreme.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@mildlydiverting @naomialderman @rachelcoldicutt and similarly, political organizing becomes a site of community on the left, and where groups are successful they are explicitly trying to fulfil that function. vital work, imo.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@mildlydiverting @naomialderman @rachelcoldicutt but the forces towards healthy communities are piecemeal, people doing hard work because they believe in it. the forces away from it feel more systemic, toxic byproducts of profitable industries.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@mildlydiverting @naomialderman @rachelcoldicutt i am also thinking about this thread: @pangmeli/971987576016924672Look on archive.org