Coach Pāṇini ®We’re obligated to #PointAndLaugh at creepy weirdos in public.
It’s in the social contract.
Maybe #PointAndLaugh at so-called “friends”, because you can’t shame the shameless. https://thepit.social/@peter/115893384721958719
Peter (@[email protected])
which brings me to a point i made tongue-and-cheek the other day, but i want to re-make it for real: liberal and left protesters should (at some point) start protesting Democratic lawmakers, judges, local police, whatever. whoever **can** use force to stop ICE/CBP, but is not, should be made miserable. **they** the ones that can be persuaded, and insofar as social protest is a project of persuasion, they are the ones who should be its target.
There’s so many layers to damaged people that the natural reaction is to #PointAndLaugh at the absurdity.
https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/115726508012407612
https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/115726508012407612
Adrianna Tan (@[email protected])
A Black person said he experienced some specific anti-Black racism and SF people are asking him to say exactly what racist thing was said to him so they can judge whether that was really racist That’s racist, you all.
The strategic error here is that being shouted at in public makes them heroes for their sycophantic cult.
Christine Blasey Ford already explained: #laughter is indelible in the hippocampus.
To actually break through, live rent-free in their psyche, and prevent the footage from having a positive effect in their audience, the strategy should be simple: #PointAndLaugh.
They hate, hate, hate mockery.
Can’t stand it. Won’t share it. Shouldn’t like it.
Simple is elegant.
The punchline and the reason Matthew McConaughey’s delivery in Dazed and Confused is #comedy legend: “the older you get the girls stay the same age” is executing a #PointAndLaugh maneuver at teenaged boys who fixate forever on teenaged girls.
The #fediverse isn’t the audience for creepy weirdos, but they require audience participation—specifically, hecklers—to earn attention.
Being jeered is a feature, not a bug, and sometimes the best plan isn’t just ignore, it’s #PointAndLaugh, telling a story about the thing to do in the next five minutes.
#PointAndLaugh at the creepy weirdos, they hate being mocked, and must steal joy, because they have none.
Have. None.
