"I'm just going to let people be wrong on the internet" remains the single most difficult New Year's Resolution I have ever made, hands down.
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"I'm just going to let people be wrong on the internet" remains the single most difficult New Year's Resolution I have ever made, hands down. Nothing else comes close.
@evacide I mean there’s a clear loophole here… it says nothing about not *telling them* why they’re wrong on the internet…
But I agree, I failed quickly.
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"I'm just going to let people be wrong on the internet" remains the single most difficult New Year's Resolution I have ever made, hands down. Nothing else comes close.
@evacide IMO it became easier when, years ago, foul men living in the USA posted sh*t about me (“How dare an Australian woman start a zine without our permission and mentoring?!”) and I learnt that they WANTED an online fight and to be named. They were FURIOUS when I took all identifiers & links to them off my website. Many ppl are like that: they want the engagement. The best punishment you can mete out is to ignore and even block.
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I found this on Ed Yong's twitter feed years ago and felt like saving it.
Maybe it will help with the difficult resolution?
Omg. The irony of this meme considering Chalamet’s recent problematic comments.
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"I'm just going to let people be wrong on the internet" remains the single most difficult New Year's Resolution I have ever made, hands down. Nothing else comes close.
@evacide I know....
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"I'm just going to let people be wrong on the internet" remains the single most difficult New Year's Resolution I have ever made, hands down. Nothing else comes close.
@evacide
Two things make this easier for us:- The people who are shouting aren't here to listen.
- The work that is education of randos on the internet is, fortunately, not my responsibility. If they're nice I'll help because I'm also nice, otherwise its their problem.
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Omg. The irony of this meme considering Chalamet’s recent problematic comments.
Dumb-problematic or boycott-problematic? -
"I'm just going to let people be wrong on the internet" remains the single most difficult New Year's Resolution I have ever made, hands down. Nothing else comes close.
@evacide oh yea, nobody can perfectly prevent mistakes from happening
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"I'm just going to let people be wrong on the internet" remains the single most difficult New Year's Resolution I have ever made, hands down. Nothing else comes close.
@evacide I have been getting better at just not commenting…and instead stewing about it for the next 48 hours driving myself nuts
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"I'm just going to let people be wrong on the internet" remains the single most difficult New Year's Resolution I have ever made, hands down. Nothing else comes close.
If freedom is something you value, then the freedom to be wrong is part of that
So is the freedom to face consequences for conduct & learn to do better
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/20/in-the-wake-of-nokings-2-0-trump-magas-four-fascist-roots-are-failing/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/15/fascist-fashion-language
Sometimes though, there's a small voice inside enjoying the schadenfreude of MAGA's hard lessons on the stupidity of fascism
They wanted "freedum" & now they pay a price, along with us
https://buckscountybeacon.com/2025/10/donald-trump-and-the-maga-movements-aspirational-fascism/
https://stephendinan.substack.com/p/maga-is-american-fascism
https://www.salon.com/2025/11/16/maga-rights-new-fascist-man-crush-hes-been-dead-for-50-years/
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"I'm just going to let people be wrong on the internet" remains the single most difficult New Year's Resolution I have ever made, hands down. Nothing else comes close.
@evacide for everything there is an xkcd
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"I'm just going to let people be wrong on the internet" remains the single most difficult New Year's Resolution I have ever made, hands down. Nothing else comes close.
@evacide I should have let people be ignorant about journalism. I failed. Sigh. I'll aim to do better. /gen
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"I'm just going to let people be wrong on the internet" remains the single most difficult New Year's Resolution I have ever made, hands down. Nothing else comes close.
@evacide they're really good at it, even without adult supervision
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"I'm just going to let people be wrong on the internet" remains the single most difficult New Year's Resolution I have ever made, hands down. Nothing else comes close.
@evacide Now it has to be expanded to letting bots be wrong too.
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"I'm just going to let people be wrong on the internet" remains the single most difficult New Year's Resolution I have ever made, hands down. Nothing else comes close.
@evacide Liberating, but exasperating. Salute 🫡
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I may have gone too far with this. My life may be in danger.
@nazokiyoubinbou expellinerdus!🪄
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"I'm just going to let people be wrong on the internet" remains the single most difficult New Year's Resolution I have ever made, hands down. Nothing else comes close.
@evacide it's easier if you approach it like an anthropologist
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"I'm just going to let people be wrong on the internet" remains the single most difficult New Year's Resolution I have ever made, hands down. Nothing else comes close.
@evacide most of the time it´s a wate of time.
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"I'm just going to let people be wrong on the internet" remains the single most difficult New Year's Resolution I have ever made, hands down. Nothing else comes close.
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@evacide IMO it became easier when, years ago, foul men living in the USA posted sh*t about me (“How dare an Australian woman start a zine without our permission and mentoring?!”) and I learnt that they WANTED an online fight and to be named. They were FURIOUS when I took all identifiers & links to them off my website. Many ppl are like that: they want the engagement. The best punishment you can mete out is to ignore and even block.
@DarkMatterZine @evacide Kind of like the Naughty Step
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"I'm just going to let people be wrong on the internet" remains the single most difficult New Year's Resolution I have ever made, hands down. Nothing else comes close.
@evacide The hard part is not letting anyone be wrong on the Internet, that happens naturally, all the time. What's difficult is making anybody conscious to be wrong, on the Internet.
Once, communication with a wide audience was driven by entities with some authority on that media. Somebody authoritative, some other authoritarian, but whatever the narration always showing to be "right".
Hence, anybody writing on this media (like I do now) feels to have inherited that power to be "right". G'd lk
