Glam
It seems the guy who dumped tomato soup/juice/sauce/whatever on KJK is being sought by The Law. Unless he’s just identifying as being sought by The Law.
Tip Jar
It seems the guy who dumped tomato soup/juice/sauce/whatever on KJK is being sought by The Law. Unless he’s just identifying as being sought by The Law.
After being on video on the day, boasting and gloating, he put up an incoherent video a day or so ago, sobbing about being afraid. Which nobody sane believes, of course, and this puts the lie to it.
Anyone less inconspicuous would be hard to find; other than me, of course, and I’m on the other side of the planet.
Not that this new form of “activism” has anything at all to do with “Look at me look at me pay attention to meeeeeeeeeeee” whatsoever in the slightest at all.
“But I just want (you) to (look at meeeee while I) peeeee!”
It occurs to me that the way these people talk about, celebrate, and encourage this shit online is similar to what I’ve seen of two other horrid online groups. Specifically those formed around murder and suicide. Looking into either one gets really dark, really quickly. You can see the same sorts of psychological pressures in action, all of which are also present in other high demand groups (i.e., cults). It’s also the same sort of assault on identity, one’s conception of oneself as a continuous entity of worth, that Lifton documented in Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism. (Side note: I highly recommend the book. It’s one of those things that, having read it, I see its echoes everywhere, just like with Nineteen Eighty-Four.)
The Internet is a more powerful thing than we really understand. In hindsight, it was almost certainly unwise to popularize it when and how we did. We aren’t ready for it.
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I’m not sure we’re ready for fire.
Or pointed sticks.
He’s an idiot. Unless he never wants to return home again, he should just turn himself in and face the music. Too, something tells me that Australia (where he ran to) has an extradition agreement with New Zealand.
Also, as Mike Haubrich pointed out to him on twitter, part of social activist protest is in making the protest and then staying put to accept the consequences so that the world sees what happens. Running away like this is just cowardice.
I rather doubt he bothered to read it, but I felt like it needed to be pointed out.
@Mike
I tried to find you on twitter but it seems there are several Mike Haubrichs there.
Could you share your twitter handle?