Ademonera
5d ago
I mean he was completely MIA and even Trump said he had no idea how he was doing. There have been a ton of health concerns and falls etc. Plus that video where he blankly stared into space during a speech. Makes sense to speculate wildly
Honestly I think I prefer this information environment to the ‘trust the experts’ soft censorship of 2019-2023. I’ve been pretty upset with the Israel conspiracy theories on Twitter, but I’m starting to again think that really inane stuff spreading makes people more cautious about what they believe. I even think the QAnon stuff could have gone away earlier if more people had been exposed to how crazy it all was.
Ademonera
8d ago
None of the jokes or memes I’ve seen have been from perspective of ‘Charlie deserved it’, just usual bizarre post ironic references, so I don’t really get what you’re saying. The whole problem people had was with the initial jubilant reaction towards the actual act of violence and people earnestly saying he deserved it.
The only stuff I’ve ever seen people get mad about is mean spirited stuff where people do a finger gun to their neck and intimate that some person deserves what happened to him.
Ademonera
8d ago
I grew up in Arizona. It upset a lot of people and was really, really gruesome. Edgy hasan orbiters were outright gleeful about it right after. I think it’s a lot more ‘cringy’ to make memes about a widow trying to carry on in public life after her husband gets murdered in plain view. I don’t get seeing a public figure get murdered and thinking it’s odd people try to find good things to say about them.
It also makes 0 difference whether it was a lone wolf. You seem to forget that this was less than a year after the attempted assassination of Trump. There was a real feeling that a cycle of violence was beginning. Thankfully that did not come to pass, but a lot of the ‘martyrdom’ was coming from ‘why exactly was a somewhat edgy college debater murdered?’ and ‘why are people snidely saying he deserved to be murdered?’
Honestly I think focus on uptime and more distinct formatting / structure for the CWR thread would be a better move. But then again, now that I think about it, I really like that the website is pretty bare bones and not super heavy. I’ve been really interested in the idea of community token budgets - as models are more able to do things autonomously, the limiting factor is token cost. I think it’d be cool to replace the Patreon with something that serves as a bucket for AI token cost for site improvements.
For a while I was a member of cumtown.org, which added sub sections. Nobody used them and that was a much more diverse forum. I ended up leaving because I felt I was exposing myself to extremism. I think the ultimate problem is most people use mobile to browse these days and the web is always inferior to a native app. But Google and Apple have claimed the right to demand certain moderation and community management features to be allowed on the app stores.
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