padraig (u.s.)
a monkey that will go ape
the Zapatistas are in fact a great example to look at now - both hugely successful and the first revolution of the Internet age
this is a good point. "relies on" may be a bit too strong.I'd say it's because this stuff relies on the person being cancelled and their facilitators accepting they were in the wrong
Dominic Cummings isn't an elected official either fwiw
another good point, and speaks to the danger of relying on mobs as political toolsAlso worth noting you can have more than one mob
he's still without the protections and legitimacy afforded by electionTrue, but he's being protected by a bunch of people who were elected and calling the shots as though he were
What's funny about it? The ethnicity of the person making the argument is not irrelevant.we're not even going to snigger at this?
You know, I'd been quite enjoying this place while it was taking a break from being Luka's Krazy House Of Japes And Banter.You wouldn't be able to say those funny things if you knew they were funny or why they were funny. So I can't tell you, sorry.
absolutely true, thanks, those are all excellent examples, particularly the one about the lynchings in IndiaThere's loads of Internet specific stories of mobs gone wrong without looking back to Rome though