Be Cautious Of Internet Mobs
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“Controlling a mob is an illusion. You can never control a mob once it gets going, because once it starts to consume that energy that let's go take down this person, let's go, you know, cancel or let's go destroy this person, then it takes on a life force all of its own. And once it organizes and once it gets enough foundational energy, it won't stop until it's spilled the blood of both the guilty and the innocent.”
“I think that when we use mob action, we run into a danger of if you use the tactics of your enemies, it is not long before you become your enemies, the very thing that you were fighting against.”
“That's why you have to get in front of people that don't agree with you. And it may not be somebody that's actually on the other side. It may just be a really good person that is effective at steel manning or a highly disagreeable person that won't just accept what the narrative is. You need to be around these people so that that way you can say your ideas and have somebody give you resistance so that that way you can figure out, are my ideas as clear and convincing as I thought?”
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