you know what i call #ReplyGuys en mi lengua natal?

PENDEJOS.

don’t be a pendejo in my mentions.

insomnia doesn’t make me testy. it makes me ruthless

am going to say this to all the knee-jerking fauxnarchist #ReplyGuys out there just waiting to jump at any opportunity to own the libs:

SHUT THE FUCK UP

the vast majority of the Reagan/Bush/Cheney lackeys have been behind Trump SINCE HIS DAYS OF TROLLING OBAMA ABOUT HIS BIRTH CERTIFICATE.

#MAGA IS #REAGANISM.

you come to my mentions to minimize this truth so you can say the Democrats are the real fascists?

GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE WITH THAT A-HISTORICAL BULLSHIT

y’all the worse.

You know Mastodon is under attack but what do you do?

Is ignorance really the solution?

I mean my approach is actually partly "ignorance" because I'm in "Shields Up Mode", so I'm not coming fully clean into this conversation...

Bluesky has automated it's Reply Guys, will the contagion spread?

There's a type of reply-guy that crawls out of the woodwork when I post anything that might inspire others to take action, and they're deceptively insidious.

Regardless of the topic, they sound like this:

Alice: I don't own a gun because they're for killing and I'm not a fan of killing.
Bob: Then only the bad guys will have guns.

Alice: I deleted my Facebook account.
Bob: If the good people leave then the bad guys win.

Alice: I'm openly queer so others know they're not alone.
Bob: You'll make yourself a target.

In every instance, they defend the shitty state of things by discouraging action and change. It's a reply that is designed to support the default, the current power structure. It's a type of reply meant to de-fang movements.

I've posted about this before, but apparently it bears repeating. Fighting for something takes energy. Change takes sustained energy and momentum. These types of interactions sap energy. They're not posting anything openly disagreeable, they're just dropping little doubt caltrops, little concern anchors—making it harder to keep fighting, harder to gain momentum.

If you're about to jump into a thread and concern troll, don't. I'm fucking sick of it. The rest of us don't have the time or energy to drag your dead weight along.

I posted a picture of Poppy in a greyhound group on Facebook.. the picture of her with the octopus hat on.

A guy responded saying "this is why dogs bite people".

I looked at his Facebook account, and the entire thing is written from the pov of his dogs, in a baby-voice with deliberate misspellings:
"Hesloo everyboody. Gracie here.
I was grumpy today.
I took breakfast in the conservatory this morning.
Peanut butter toast was served to me."

I've had dogs for 35 years (51 years if you count the dogs we had when I was a kid), and I've literally never once been bitten. I was bitten by a strange dog in a car park when I was 7 years old... that's it. Because I know what I'm doing.

Meanwhile, you're feeding your greyhound toast and good-os, and using them for social media clout.

We're not the same.

This is why your kids don't call anymore, Richard.

When you critique someone for making everything about the US and they respond with patronising (now deleted) nonsense about how you're not very wise because the world is interconnected.

YES THAT'S WHY IT'S IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND THAT NOT EVERYTHING IS ABOUT THE US, CHAD

Will a single day on Mastodon pass where I don't have to block a ReplyGuy for being fucking gross?

Maybe, but it's not today.

Por lo que estoy leyendo, creo que muches no conoceis todavía la ilustradora taxonomía de los diferentes tipos de #ReplyGuys de @shrewshrew y @sbarolo .
Empezamos con
_The Life Coach,
_The Tone Police y
_The Gaslighter.

1/3

One thing that pisses me off about #ReplyGuys is their unshakeable smug sense of rightness, where nothing you say to them that will change their mind about what they think of your post

So they just turn up in your replies, display their cuntitude and act like they've won some sort of victory like that chess playing pigeon in the Christianity meme

I should be thankful there is a load of computer circuitry and software between us. Imagine meeting them in real life! They seem like a real gem!

Referring to me as "it" because I point out that you're mansplaining is a dehumanisation tactic.

Using "it" to describe an Aboriginal person is anti-Indigenous, and especially gross to describe a queer and trans Aboriginal person.

Dehumanising people who have less socio-political power than you is toxic and a further extension of your oppressive behaviour.

Talking about how you "hope it gets the help it so desperately needs" is ableist sealioning.

You're just proving my original point, my guy.

Also, it's just boring at this point.

The amount of mansplaining bullshit I see from men with profile pics flying the ancom black and red.

DO BETTER.