undefined | Better HN

0 pointsm00g008y ago0 comments

Do you figure pro/anti-gun twitter posts from actual users are less likely to result in us being at each others throats? Really seems like pissing in the ocean.

0 comments

jacquesm8y ago

To roughly the same extent that throwing burning matches around in an area plagued by drought isn't going to affect the outcome, yes.

See, it can take a long time before a fire erupts from a natural cause but if you are aiming for it the outcome is pretty much guaranteed.

m00g00OP8y ago

I think the analogy is more like trying to pin an execution on one particular member of the firing squad.

Everyone is throwing matches, at the same time, into an already burning dumpster fire.

irickt8y ago

No. It is an asymmetric strategy. One "side" wants chaos more than the other. That other is in fact all those interested basic democratic stability. The construct of "sides" is created artificially by these tactics in order to divide.

1 more reply

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse