What I’ve learned over time is that it brings out the worst in us, because unlike a live meeting, where there is a danger that you may be ostracized or beaten up, online people have a much less controlled environment for speech. Even the effort of showing up or printing/broadcasting an opinion was reduced to 0.

And since the user isn’t forced to pass a driving exam for how to behave and different communities have different rules, values and objectives, it is easy to feel a contrast without traveling very far, which triggers polarization/victimization rather than an instinct to adapt and grow.

e.g. normies wouldn’t just stumble into an anarchist meeting in real life and start throwing up a fuss, but online it can happen all the time without censorship moderation.

And all of this before even considering hostile actors that generate, propagate, amplify and target misinformation and disinformation (now with AI inside^TM)

…it is also easier to be misinterpreted, because every time someone speaks, it is one-to-many and you have no idea who is going to be reading and to misinterpret/coopt/discredit(in a hostile way) your message in ways that you had not antecipated. It is completely different from a live gathering (you don’t each yell at the crowd at a time)

Zelenskyy: US has sent 20,000 missiles bound for Ukraine to Middle East instead

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/06/8/7516207/

😆 these guys keep reinventing the metro, the train and the bus…wtf is wrong with them…is it a branding issue, are the busses for the “poors”? Ok, call it the new west coast high-speed dragon rail gun. And the deep tube network and the 2D space shuttle :D