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1. Alex Schroeder 🐝 (kensanata@octodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Jun-2018 04:28:47 EDT Alex Schroeder 🐝

   Zak S. writes about detractors. He quotes Toni Morrison talking about racism and how it's just greed and what to do about it; and he quotes George Saunders talking about noise drowning the signal, and what to do about it. It boils down to that: don't focus on the stuff that's abundantly clear to everybody. Keep doing the good stuff instead.
   http://dndwithpornstars.blogspot.com/2018/06/relevant-retropost-distracted-from.html

   1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Monday, 25-Jun-2018 08:49:53 EDT Strypey

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      @kensanata I really like this piece! I don't know if this was intended (maybe it was) but The Megaphone is a pitch perfect description of *both* the modus operandi of the Orange Menace, and the serious devolution of left discourse as a result reacting to him.

      1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Monday, 25-Jun-2018 09:00:10 EDT Strypey

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         @kensanata I can't help but notice that since about 2016 there seems to be an implicit script for every discussion, and attempts to be nuanced just result in being talked at, as if I'm taking the contrary position in a pre-scripted verbal battle, even that position has nothing to do with the nuanced view I'm trying to lay out.