woteorin
Just a bard with a thousand faces.
… Do I still get to claim I’m merely “fandom adjacent” if I’ve crafted several 'sonas and have actively played as them in various media? Asking for a friend. :P
Roberts’ opinion brought a strongly worded dissent from conservative Justice Clarence Thomas, who accused the majority — including his colleague Brett M. Kavanaugh — of creating a “consciously segregated districting system” in the name of the Voting Rights Act.
I really want to know what they think the current system is if it’s not that.
Don’t let decade-old memes define you! Seriously, Rebecca’s basically spent the last decade figuring herself out as an artist and pretty much everything she’s done in the last, like, five years is solid. Still definitely in the pop family, so if that’s not your bag I get it, but at least consider giving her a shot.
After all, would you want to be defined by the things you did when you were 13? :P
I suspect the answer is that there’s probably a depressing number of authentic human adults who just are like that, and it creates a feedback loop/spiral where people are pushed into being more aggressive/vitriolic as a defense mechanism.
The real problem, I think, is the ease with which those individuals can hop between communities/be directed toward communities particularly sensitive to their brand of bile on social media sites. I know there’s a lot of talk out there about making on-boarding to Fediverse stuff easier, but realistically, being able to layer several barriers along the way (e.g. finding an instance to join, finding an instance to harass without getting either yourself banned or your entire instance defederated) will go a long way toward limiting the influx of bad actors.