Post #1833753
2023-07-18 13:46 UTC
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@jeffreyfisher@tldr.nettime.org 2023-07-18 13:52
@Manigarm@mastodon.social yes yes yes. Kafka's bureaucrats were generally pretty civil, as I recall. And it's a deeply manipulative mode, isn't it? Calmly stoke your enemy into a rage and then accuse them of incivility, being emotional, etc.
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@blogdiva@mastodon.social 2023-07-18 14:53
@Manigarm@mastodon.social oooh! i felt this in my soul. speak on it cuz am bearing witness.
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@corbden@defcon.social 2023-07-18 15:12
@Manigarm@mastodon.social It’s like the difference between “nice” and “kind.”
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@mlncn@social.coop 2023-07-18 15:36
@Manigarm@mastodon.social Yes. We could fill an encyclopedia with how reactionary / liberal / neoliberal politicians in #Minneapolis weaponize so-called civility to deflect and distract from our desperate attempts to draw attention to, and stop, their "police-ification" of every almost every part of government to destroy #houseless people's lives https://kolektiva.social/@WorkersDefenseAlliance/110732761205966636
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@darwinwoodka@mastodon.social 2023-07-18 18:56
@Manigarm@mastodon.social "Civil" is like "nice" that way.
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@ricardoharvin@mstdn.social 2023-07-18 20:51
@Manigarm@mastodon.social "Nice people made the best Nazis" – Naomi Shulman's Holocaust-survivor mother.
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@campground@indieweb.social 2023-07-19 15:12
@Manigarm@mastodon.social Reminds me of Tom Scocca’s classic piece, “On Smarm” https://www.gawker.com/on-smarm-1476594977
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@muzzle@mastodon.social 2023-07-19 15:51
@Manigarm@mastodon.social The English call it the Civil Service. There's no such pretence down here, where "Service" functions as the cloak.