"Sorry, I'm actually nice" is both "it's not you, it's me" and "you can't fire me, I quit" rolled into one!

I get into that distinction in the post. Specifically, reporting on violence (for example) needs to happen regardless of shock value. "Here's a meme of Marjorie Taylor Greene making an ugly face" is only there to get a rise out of people, out of habit of catering to big-corporate-site algorithms.

For what it's worth, I don't think anybody would see it as interference, if all the echoes got consolidated with the most recent. Maybe on hover or click or whatever, show the times that everybody echoed it?

On the other hand, maybe we can encourage expanding this behavior outside the bedroom. I wouldn't mind it if everyone who styled themselves an "alpha male" (a term from a study that turned out to be about captive and distressed wolf packs) would shut up, I'd find that acceptable...

And never think that democracy ends at voting. That's only day one. If your representatives don't personally know your name and how you want them to vote on the issues that you care about from repetition, then lobbyists will be sure to inform them when they donate to their campaigns.

On top of the actual utility, do you REALLY want your identity in a new space be "I still use the site run by the fascist running the company into the ground"? Upstream/primary sources are always better for everyone.

Also, maybe because states aren't "red" or "blue," but have actual humans living in them who may or may not be able to vote?

Granted, I'm a New Yorker, but "why don't you just use your privilege to abandon people" sounds like the wrong side of the fight...

Kind of amazing that elites have been clutching their pearls at teen promiscuity for decades (while opposing sex-ed that might stop it), but now think there's something wrong with kids NOT jumping into bed...

Still!? I complained about that sort of thing when I worked at Eclipsys (which did a lot of medical hardware/software, if they don't still exist), something like twenty years ago, and how our internal policy was to set our passwords to our usernames so that we wouldn't be inconvenienced...