bluesky is largely convincing itself that as soon as he is elected, trump will start drone striking people who say mean things about him online, which i think is great because maybe canalizing into this belief will get the doomerist panic mongers on bsky to stop doomspiraling themselves for a bit
Two Satans Theory in action: 1) Making credible threats online during an (ascendent or actual) authoritarian regime is a bad idea and a legitimate concern, and 2) there is simultaneously a moral panic that everyone is going to get drone striked and blackbagged for every comment they ever made online
Pretty much. What it mostly boils down to is that most Americans really don’t have the faintest idea what living under modern authoritarian regimes actually looks like, and how it’s often at the same time way more boring and way more scary than they’d imagined.
But all things considered, I’d rather have people be a little too freaked out than a little less freaked out than they should be, if we have to choose, and I get the sense that we pretty much do as humanity is endlessly bad at moderation
For me, I'm turning this bad feeling into action. I'm going to learn how to call to register voters, now and later call to get them to vote. I have to do something besides doomscroll! :-)
