Protest Convoy Headed to Southern Border in Texas Is Calling Itself an ‘Army of God’

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Protest Convoy Headed to Southern Border Is Calling Itself an ‘Army of God’
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the major downside of increased access to communications technology is the nutters and crazy people more easily congregate...

And there are more of them than we realized back when we started creating the internet. We fucked up pretty bad.

I sometimes miss the days when the internet was just for scholars, nerds, and geeks.

Remember the days when you'd log onto your nerdy friends website with the marquee text running right to left too slow to read at your normal speed but too fast to not keep your eyes on constantly?

Language might have been the mistake. Or maybe agriculture. Perhaps it was evolving from great apes. All I know from looking at history is that this shit has been going on since long before the internet.

Right?

One of the biggest changes with the advent of the Internet was that no matter what your interests, the Internet was always there with that most comforting of messages: "You are not alone.

Now that we can see that notion taken to it's inevitable and absurd conclusion, I think we can safely say that for lots and lots of people, it's for the best that they're left to believe they are, actually, alone.

Which hopefully exposes some to reality. And wouldn't be so bad when it doesn't if the 3 letter gang did their fucking jobs with these domestic terrorists.