This. At every point there were other teens who called this behavior out as gross and despicable. We just didn’t listen.

I was caught up in an early prototype for what we now recognize as the alt-right pipeline. The pseduo-intellectual appeal to racism so beloved by the libertarian brigade. It is why the Andrew Tate crowd scares the bejeesus out of me, because I think it would have worked on 14 year old me.

Because they think if they just “speak gently and kindly,” that will make it OK to strip the basic human rights of all women. 

we need to speak gently and kindly because it is such a sensitive issue and there are a range of different viewpoints on the question of life.

“I was at church a couple of weeks ago, and our pastor talked about on this issue in particular, we need to speak gently and kindly because it is such a sensitive issue and there are a range of different viewpoints on the question of life. Mine happens to evolve from my position on faith and my relationship with…

Right, it couldn’t possibly be that the tech provides an avenue for increasing amounts of lazy, mediocre trash to be pumped into the system or for lazy hacks who couldn’t be bothered with all that pesky ‘practice’ and ‘learning’ and ‘study’ to actually learn how to draw or write as opposed to fine-tuning a prompt for…

I mean...that sounds like me at 16\17

I’m amazed it doesn’t come with a “you should smile more” filter.

My son probably has a bunch of em. Making trades with his bulk extras at school to collect fake cards....on purpose....  HE KNOWS THEYRE FAKE.,

One of the big advantages of Facebook is the Memories feed which is a daily reminder of a). how adorable your children were on this day 8 years ago, and b). that REALLY dumb thing you said 10 years ago and should probably delete like right the fuck now.

Yes.

Most people are idiots at sixteen.

I call this the Neckbeard Fallacy: When someone predicts what we may have tomorrow will solve the problems we have today, so they win the argument! Zing!

They’re only coding up a John Henry Eden because Musk is ineligible to run.

I made 1,000 Stanley Nickels and a few thousand reddit upvotes!!!! (posted from the local library)

Without seeing her actual posts and the context she was using that language in, it’s impossible to tell if she was racist, or merely a clueless dumbshit.

“Can you manage even a thimble full (sic) of effort?” I ask bros who don’t want to learn how to write or draw but want AI to do it for them.

Eh, the tech was pretty impressive in 2011. Especially if you were watching Mad Men at the same time.

I’m entirely judging these books by their covers, but they look exactly like the kind of women who are racist but get bent out of shape when you point it out to them (“how dare you, I’m the least racist person you’ll ever meet!”). They also look like “mean girls, now in Lesbian variety!”

She was using it as liberally as a Southern woman would’ve used Aqua Net in the ‘80s.