babylon sherm

10mo

It’s just human nature, nothing so new. Certainly won’t change anytime soon. For example, the response of the writer quoted below could be anybody today

Lincoln's Assassination thrilled some people in the south.: Certain Confederates reacted with joy… South Carolina diarist Emma LeConte's happiness at the news mirrored what some Southerners felt: "Hurrah! Old Abe Lincoln has been assassinated! It may be abstractly wrong to be so jubilant, but I just can’t help it. After all the heaviness and gloom this blow to our enemies comes like a gleam of light."

afterimage

10mo

Alex been glowing harder since he came back from prison

So Trump’s been cleaning out the swamp for almost 8 years and his team is in exec but the DEEP STATE DEMS are still lurking in the shadows lol

hoopsplayer21

10mo

I don’t do gore, and Ik there’s a lot of gore out there but man curiosity got the best of me and I saw the side angle

Extremely gnarly and graphic stuff.

Tubig

10mo

That guy might’ve legit been a professional

But what the f*** do I know

Theory

10mo

Incoming “I ain’t reading all that” post, but I really wonder what kind of impact the Internet/social media is having on people’s state of minds nowadays, and for future generations.

Assassinations and attempts are instantly turned into memes or rage bait for reactions and internet points. This isn’t a right or left issue either, both sides do this. When Paul Pelosi or Melissa Hartman were attacked the far right cracked jokes. The far left was upset that Trump survived and celebrated Kirk’s death. Luigi was made into an icon in a surprisingly nearly bipartisan fashion.

There is a known copycat effect when celebrities commit suicide, to the point where the media handles that with delicacy to avoid causing it. I think the same thing occurs with other events, say mass shootings, where the fact that the idea is there and prevalent can influence dangerous people. And I think the internet’s reaction to not just this particular incident but the last few are really kinda dangerous. And again, not just the right or left.

Celebrating a murderer or making light of the killing I think gives these people on the edge a motivation where they can mean something. More so than a mass shooting, where they become known and hated. With this, they’ll be at the least acknowledged and at the most praised by the little anonymous Twitter accounts and edge lord streamers.

My concern is that we’ll have far left lunatics who see the celebratory Tik toks and the “he was a piece of s*** rest in piss” tweets who know they’ll get their 15 minutes of fame for doing the same. Or far right lunatics who see this as the start of a war, who know that if they take out some notable left wing politician they’ll be seen as heroes by the far right.

I don’t know, I think society is just kinda f***ed for the foreseeable future. I don’t see how we get any better. Notoriety is the quickest way to celebrity nowadays, good takes don’t get the algorithm working.

End of rant

ragedsycokiller

10mo

Overreacting tbh. I would be posting rip Bozo meme edits during ww2. Humans have done this way before the internet

Goldmenace

10mo

Bruh that nigga was more than a professional he was on some Hitman Agent 47 type s***

Bo Ceephus

10mo

After seeing a video of him Im leaning the other way now. Didnt have a better cover than limping with it in his pants. Went back through the same neighborhood he came out of and leaving the gun in the forest.

Idk. It was a good shot though. Maybe aimed for the head and didnt account for bullet drop.

Idk. We won't know unless hes caught.

SIGH

10mo

imagine having podcasters run the FBI

Santiago

10mo

Why does it have to be some grand internet issue and not that this guy wasn’t just an actual piece of s***? Maybe people not liking him isn’t as performative as u think

Leftside

10mo

Confession: I thought this was the Charlie dude until this morning

Theory

10mo

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I realize I’m probably typing way more than anybody wanna read lol

But yeah it’s not that lack of empathy is an entirely new phenomenon, but what is new - at least in my eyes - is the pervasiveness of it all.

This is gonna sound like the ramblings of a schizophrenic but bear with me lmao.

With the Internet we can find people to talk about niche interests with that we can’t do in real life. Here we are talking on a music forum. You’ve got subreddits for whatever the hell you can think of. Which can be great when used productively, but when those niche interests are dangerous, s*** gets spooky.

Were there people in the 50’s who thought Howard Unruh (mass shooter) was actually really cool? There probably were. But the odds were incredibly low of them finding each other and being able to share that interest and bond over their idolization of a murderer. And if they shared that opinion out loud with real life people they would get shamed and would eventually either lose the interest or bury it. Or in some cases, maybe act on it.

But with the Internet, these people can find each other, and they can egg each other on and encourage this behavior. And they do this - there’s been plenty of reports of mass shooters bragging that they’re about to go kill people on 4chan, now there’s talk of different mass shooters having communicated via discord.

And now thanks to social media algorithms, these niche interests aren’t just something you have to go to a chat room and engage in, the algorithm sets it right in front of you. Rage bait gets comments which is engagement so it gets pushed to more people for more engagement. Andrew Tate’s entire career model is based on this.

I feel like the retreat from the real world to the digital world is not good for society in general and creates more loners. I think that the desensitization of violence is not good for society. Add in the extreme tribalism that’s been occurring over the last 10 years and the rage bait that gets promoted by social media, and you end up with one nasty ass gumbo.

The Lincoln anecdote is interesting to see but not totally surprising considering how f***ed the morality of the 1800’s already was, and the fact that the south had just been at legitimate war with Lincoln. JFK’s assassination wasn’t mourned by everybody either, but you didn’t have comedians going on prime time that night and cracking jokes about it to great ratings and no consequences either.

Theory

10mo

Incoming “I ain’t reading all that” post, but I really wonder what kind of impact the Internet/social media is having on people’s state of minds nowadays, and for future generations.

Assassinations and attempts are instantly turned into memes or rage bait for reactions and internet points. This isn’t a right or left issue either, both sides do this. When Paul Pelosi or Melissa Hartman were attacked the far right cracked jokes. The far left was upset that Trump survived and celebrated Kirk’s death. Luigi was made into an icon in a surprisingly nearly bipartisan fashion.

There is a known copycat effect when celebrities commit suicide, to the point where the media handles that with delicacy to avoid causing it. I think the same thing occurs with other events, say mass shootings, where the fact that the idea is there and prevalent can influence dangerous people. And I think the internet’s reaction to not just this particular incident but the last few are really kinda dangerous. And again, not just the right or left.

Celebrating a murderer or making light of the killing I think gives these people on the edge a motivation where they can mean something. More so than a mass shooting, where they become known and hated. With this, they’ll be at the least acknowledged and at the most praised by the little anonymous Twitter accounts and edge lord streamers.

My concern is that we’ll have far left lunatics who see the celebratory Tik toks and the “he was a piece of s*** rest in piss” tweets who know they’ll get their 15 minutes of fame for doing the same. Or far right lunatics who see this as the start of a war, who know that if they take out some notable left wing politician they’ll be seen as heroes by the far right.

I don’t know, I think society is just kinda f***ed for the foreseeable future. I don’t see how we get any better. Notoriety is the quickest way to celebrity nowadays, good takes don’t get the algorithm working.

End of rant

Lou

10mo

This guy is a great follow btw

Lou

10mo

This guy is a great follow btw

halleys comet

10mo

lol