It’s actually far, far worse on Bluesky. The nastiness and vitriol here makes X look civilized and high-minded by comparison 🙃. The close-minded scolds on here shouldn’t flatter themselves
It’s actually far, far worse on Bluesky. The nastiness and vitriol here makes X look civilized and high-minded by comparison 🙃. The close-minded scolds on here shouldn’t flatter themselves
make better posts
So we're "scolds" but what are the literal Nazis over on the Nazi site? Honest to god I want to know what you call them over there. Your take is literally unbelievable, holy fucking shit 💀
Maybe it's you?
You get no vitriol from me, man. You have stupid opinions and nothing significant to add to public discourse. And you need to learn things like proper sentence structure. But I save my hatred for people like Stephen Miller.
Indeed @chatterton.bsky.social is the undisputed Master of the Run-On Sentence. A sentence that turns into a longer than required paragraph would get you a “please see me after class” from any English professor in Christendom but this guy is on his 5th memoir so what do we know?
The modal opinion on Twitter is "blacks have too many rights" you fucking malignantly narcissistic charlatan.
Shut up, nerd
This comment while working at the Hannah Arendt Center makes it all the more absurd. You just like being around Nazis in a Nazi Bar. You can admit it.
Worse for you, maybe.
I'm not sure we're on the same space and time continuum apparently
Bless your heart
don't conflate distaste with you personally with the violent racist and antisemitic accounts that dominate Twitter
Ah yes, the song of the entitled white guy; "you shaming me for saying hateful things is worse than anything that's happened to any minority ever".
Pretty sure he's mixed race, but carry on
Whiteness is not merely skin colour but also aggrieved entitlement.
Precisely.
In this instance I'm referring to his grievances....they are the songs of the entitled white dudes.
Instructive about his worldview that these are not simply comparable but, in fact, the one that affects him personally is far MORE important. The hallmark of the reactionary centrist - the inability to compare the importance of things.
Some people need to learn the difference between “Things that are true.” And “things that I want to be true.” Some people are you btw.
I’ve just noticed @smoothdunk2.bsky.social doesn’t sign their stuff. Hey everybody, this cartoon is by @smoothdunk2.bsky.social and you should follow them.
That’s a “you” thing, buddy.
Really
I’ve been here 9 months and have yet to be called a pedo for expressing a different point of view.
Fookin crazy take fella.
So leave
You write for a transphobic rag not worth using as toilet paper, people might like you if you stop shitting on other people's humanity
If you really think that, maybe X is the best place for you. 🙄 Bye.
Maybe you are the common denominator in negative responses to your mindless drivel? Just a thought.
Why is he still here then?
Bluesky is the only social media platform where I never debated people on holocaust denial. Are you implying that makes this app problematically close minded?
Somewhere someone decided debating objectively false views was good for eyeballs and the rest is baked into the X algorithm.
"Well, at least the NAZIS are NICE to ME!!" ain't much of a flex, dude. One nice Nazi still makes a Nazi bar.
I'm sorry that we hurt your feelings. Thomas
I'm not.
Don’t worry about me!
I am not
But I am blocking him to make the pain go away.
He is trying to sell his book. Not buying.
The only person I worry about is Mr. Belvedere, who passed out from the pain of sitting on his own balls.
Not bothered in the least - certainly not enough to worry about someone whose parents clearly disliked them Back to my close-minded scolding
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Like engage with the valid critiques of you have a point to prove, you dumb ass Don’t just write everyone off. And saying “oh the white supremecists are nice to me” is not something to brag about!
You’re a fucking tool lol There how’s that
You represent the Hannah Arendt Center while pooh-poohing the openly fascist propaganda mill that Xitter has become? Guess who’s spinning in her grave right now…
Be gone.
Have you considered that the Nazi website is more welcoming to you because you have shitty ideas that only idiots and reactionaries are impressed by? They think liberals are all vapid babies and you reinforce that belief with your “writing”.
'Close-minded scolds'? Aren't you the soft shite who threw someone out of your house for criticising Bari Weiss?
I dunno if "I have a way better time hanging out with the nazis" is the dig you think it is
Lol
I personally wouldn't admit to getting rattled on Bluesky of all places
It's like saying you're scared to walk through the farmer's market
Mr "Trump is right about affirmative action" doesn't like when people tell him his opinions are stupid, harmful and outright evil. He wants to couch his racism in debate language and "intellectual arguments". It's still gutter racism and he sucks ass at writing. If you think X is better, log off.
For the last decade, America has been polarized, not according to parties or ideologies or left & right, but into two opposing consciousnesses: those who think Donald Trump’s ascendance is a moral emergency for the country that exceeds other political and social considerations, and those who do not.
In your view, does being a "scold" mean choosing to actively affirm the former?
If you think Trump is a moral emergency of the highest order, why do you spend so much of your bandwidth bitching publicly about your ostensible allies? If you're in the second camp, I don't see why you should demand that everyone show you overt respect for occupying a plum media position.
I agree with the part of your argument pointed at TCW but I do quibble with your assertion that Trump himself is the moral emergency. Trump is the symptom, the moral emergency is the 40yr long complete capture of public institutions by capital and their subsequent capitulation to racist demagoguery
When I'm talking about Trump this way, I'm really talking about him as a synecdoche for a reactionary impulse. I don't think this has anything to do with "capitalism".
That's absurd when you look at the alarming sweeping changes in funding and missions of public services, education, social welfare, etc. We transformed America into an amoral hostile country for the sake of marketization and enriching capital. You think that's unrelated to the rise of the far right?
Yes. I think the reactionary impulse has spiritual origins related to industrialization. Capital-intensive, market-based economies are hallmarks of industrialization. I would observe that the feudal regimes preceding this were not beacons of personal freedom, social welfare, public services, etc.
Somebody got their widdle feelings hurt. Such a big owie. Grow up.
Scolds? How quaint.
Touch grass nerd
Curious that you feel a better reception in a venue that has become a Nazi cesspool
lol
Then leave and don't come back
No, YOU experience things worse on Bluesky. YOU experience nastiness and vitriol here at a higher level. Given the political and social views of the majority of loud voices on each platform, that should tell you something about yourself rather than a universal truth of negativity on platforms.
Lo, the ambassador of "Bluesky-cool".
So sad. Ratio without bots is reality for @chatterton.bsky.social 🥳
Feel free to skip the mother fucking doodly right on out of here then, kiddo.
Counterpoint: We *should* flatter ourselves, because we are just that fucking sexy.
What rights are you willing to give up?
Maybe don’t be a transphobe then
Sounds like a skill issue, tbh. Get good.
Plantation Owner Name Dude Says What?
You suck dude
There are so many entertaining replies here, but I really enjoy the simplicity of this one.
This is a you problem strictly dependent on the poor quality of what you write and say.
Ratioed
Expect that here
You expect to get called out when you’re obviously making things up? Seems like a good place.
Real “I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast” energy coming from Chatty here
You mean he thinks he sounds tough, but all he said is that he eats shit?
So... you know you post trash before you hit send and yet you persist
Aww, is the baby gonna cry?
X: death and rape threats for liberals especially liberal women Bluesky: close-minded scolding 🤔
Useless Chatterbox longs for Nazi lover he left behind on twitter ... ? Why you here, slime?
Opt out freak
Poor baby. 👶
i love the word "scold" because it somehow never applies to a guy called prayerfulhitler1776 explaining that gay people are an abomination against god but always applies to the guy asking prayerfulhitler1776 to please stop plotting terror attacks on gay nightclubs
My dude it is Week 0 and you are posting about this shit instead of Farmageddon what is wrong with you.
Bahhhhh hhhhhha hhhaa ha. It easy to sell your fake balanced and wise fluff on X, huh???
Huh, so you're why The Atlantic sucks
Stop crying
Nice to know you're totally transparent in your love of nazis, white supremacists, and pornbots
Wow, it's crazy that you think Bluesky is as nasty and vitriolic as the X hell-hole. That really says everything about you. That's not a "close-minded scold"--that's me wondering what the hell you are talking about. Why don't you jump back over on X--no one is stopping you and you'll fit in there.
Not the scolds! Anything but the scolds!
Oh poor baby, poor little snowflake, you can dish it out but you can't take it. Pussy.
Maybe you’re having a bad time because you’re a bad person?
Try not having dumb as fuck opinions maybe?
Not sure what nastiness and vitriol you're talking about, but I've found that the block functionality works wonders for the discourse.
How are you this annoying
this guy: x the everything app is actually better than bluesky, people are more civilized x the everything app:
He's fine with the racist chatbot because it doesn't point out how bad his writing is.
how many hours did you spend rewriting this
Don't know about that one bub. For instance I've never been called a k*ke, n*gger-lover, or f*ggot on bluesky. It seems to be an almost weekly occurrence on Twitter. Also, there are far, far fewer open and proud Nazis here.
This argument feels like a relic from another time.
Could it be that people think you are stupid? That is the reaction I see.
Aww, you brought a plate of warm dog shit to the potluck of discourse, and are mad that we don't want to sample it and that we think less of you because you thought you were being oh so clever, when we've seen better attempts at it from better people. Go back to Twitter with its idiots and Nazis
I dunno, I think FB, X, Bluesky are all very different flavors of toxic, like rocky road or Chunky Monkey
your stupid
You're making yourself look very silly.
"The nastiness and vitriol here (towards people expressing horrible, often racist views) makes X look civilized and high-minded by comparison"
Fuck off back to Twitter and stay there then. It's run by a literal Nazi and is crawling with Nazis but if that's what passes for high-minded in your world - a world in which Bari Weiss is considered an intellectual powerhouse - then by all means don't subject yourself to this place.
Who are you following? I mean, I rarely see vitriol of any kind on bluesky. But then, I’m not an asshole.
Ikr. I have seen, like ... 5ish? Assholes here. Total.
Damn straight that's my job.
It’s a dirty job but… 🤣
To be fair my actual job is literally dirty. Healthcare so cleaning up literal shit and other bodily fluids. But yeah someone's gotta keep these old folks alive. Except for "Gary". God forbid we are one minute late with their meds because someone else needed help.
Damn, I wish we could get my mom to take her meds that regularly.
Has anyone threatened to rape you here yet?
Why on earth are you even here? To make sweeping pronouncements so that the inevitable blowback will allow you further self-congratulation?
Ridiculous take. Xitter is a cesspool, and it's owner is an obnoxious oligarch nazi brat, actively working to destroy American democracy. It is immoral to post on Xitter for any reason. Whereas Bluesky is just like its name by comparison. #BoycottX
wild take coming from someone bad at writing AND thinking but go off ig
The only reason Bluesky is worse is because X is a sewer trap filled with nothing but NPCs and a few Barstool personalities. Amazing to me that people still use X for discourse.
So you admit you are an NPC and so is the OP, interesting
This is almost all NPCs
Buddy. The left is mean to you on the internet. The right is ushering Christian fascism and the death of democracy and destroying the lives of people. Bill Kristol and Adam Kinzinger aren't left-wing but they can recognize where the threat is and dedicate their voice to that effort.
Three names but no brains
Certainly a take.
Not what your mom thought last night.
You’re replying to NPCs
Until dinner
dino nuggets?
Paging @thelouvreof.bsky.social
Dear lord grow up you toddler. Embarrassing stuff
Don't you have a kid who needs your attention more than us "NPCs" do?
How are you simultaneously 65 and 12 years old?
It happens when you live and breathe an unearned destiny of three names.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=3a0L...
Classic!!! Love, love dry, cerebral humour!! ❤️ 👏👏👏👏👏👏 (If Thomas has any character, he'll find that funny as well.)
Surprised he didn't drop a "Sigma rizz" in there.
Yes, I am an NPC. Got me. So smart.
Just call us a racial slur already Tim. This is taking forever.
You're such a strange, hollow person. I bet deep inside you loathe yourself. How's that for NPC, turdburglar?
Feel free to fuck off then? I'm not understanding your problem.
This is quite a spiral, TC. Are you going to write about it in your fifth autobiography?
There is nothing more NPC than a centrist who thinks they are uniquely objective because they have an uncanny ability to pretend everything happening is a game of both sides being equally culpable for an authoritarian regime
“Siri, how can I get ratioed harder than anyone ever has?”
This is why people don’t like you Thomas, you refer to human beings as bots
You wish
Sorry you'd rather post amongst Nazis, quacks and Scammers than have a few people tell you that you have a bad opinion, usually be ause yoh have a bad opinion Never get how people who complain have skin so thick on twitter while here you cry from bejng brushed by grass
You're just bad at writing.
I got very lucky then
Damn you just accept you have no morals or integrity? I guess that’s par for the course for a domestic abuser
Except you’re going bald which isn’t lucky
Yes you absolutely did lol. My 10 year old writes better
Its less luck and more more you're willing to write the things your peers are too honest to write, and you clearly lack any sense of embarrassment
Lack of any sense of embarrassment is a trait amongst apologists for Trump. It is a point in the case that asserts Trumpster Divers are too stupid to be insulted/embarrassed.
This is just a disgusting way to talk about *other human beings* and you demean yourself by doing it. Would say a website’s user base was full of “cockroaches”? I would hope not.
Any review of his output ought to conclude, imo, that he is not better than this
😆
It reminds me a little bit of when Jordan Peterson first burst onto the scene and ppl in media thought they had to take him seriously because he knew some twelve letter words (I think/hope those days are gone now)
I first heard about him when he got fired for being a transphobic bigot, and that he & Paglia are the most prominent pop Jungians makes that whole thing suss
Give it a week.
“This is Twitter. There is no grace. None. Here in an orgy of organized disinformation and trollery, our republic has come to die. There is no teaching the fuckmooks and deplorati. Go down swinging. Use every cruel word. Invoke their mothers. Lather them with contempt. Enjoy.”
David Simon of the Wire fame wrote this leaving Twitter. As he says if you’re not on there you miss some genuinely insightful ideas. Although some, like NPCs, do come from there too. davidsimon.com/die-of-boils...
NPC talk comes from 4chan
lmfao you sound like my 12 year old
god damn you are just the whiniest little bitch
Thank you for your ill-informed, self-serving opinion. NEXT!
is it still a "ratio" if a purely ignorant and insulting comment yields 86 replies and not a single like?
The venue is worthless
then leave, damn is someone forcing you to be here? are you being held at gun point?
worse... it could be ... endorphins.
I disagree. If you'd care to explain why you believe that I promise I'll try my best not to insult you.
Well. Bye.
then bye bitch
Bro this is pathetic and sad, just go back to Twitter lmao
your writing is worthless
To douchebags, correct. Go back to Twitter homie it suits you
What a sharp quip. Dorothy Parker would be proud of you. If you stopped writing books.
Then why are you here? Once I thought Twitter was useless, I left.
if we are mean enough to bari weiss will you fucking leave already or does that only work when you can kick people out of your french chateaus
...lol, you seriously think the bots and Nazis of Twitter are more likely to buy your book than the people here? Jesus, your publisher is gonna fucking starve.
Take the hint
And yet you're still here. Which means you too are worthless. But we already knew that Tommy.
And yet here you are, still seeking approval from people who, unfortunately for you, all realize what a hack of a writer you are.
Hahahahahahahahahah! What a fricking idiot!
"People I don't like aren't people"
You seem like a stupid fucking asshole sheesh
I'm still batting 1.000 with my one simple rule: Anyone who unironically uses the term NPC can be completely ignored and nothing of value would be lost.
What you say when you're in a house of mirrors
Let me guess: the few PCs are united in fawning over your brilliant posts
There is no greater sign of someone being morally, intellectually, and philosophically bankrupt than calling people 'NPCs' for disagreeing with them.
You are the problem. Not Bluesky.
Says NPC in chief - the man with no opinions but damn can he write!? I mean it, can he write?? I can’t tell
No
do you even know what that means
You know that’s not true. Me, a real person with a semi-anonymous account, don’t miss the days of trolling Glenn Greenwald and the Russian Foreign Ministry. Or some pathetic bastard at Judicial Watch,
X is like that romantic partner that you want to leave in the rear view mirror, fast and not going back.
Thomas Chatbot Williams has an opinion.
In this town we make MYTHRIL armor. Try some for yourself!
Proving once more that there is no bottom for The Atlantic.
You call Nazis "high minded and civilized" and use dehumanizing language for those who dare to disagree with you. I would recommend some self-reflection, but it seems you are incapable of such.
Maybe some day, if we all try real hard, we can be as civilized as the Nazis.
Someone who speaks German can't really be evil.
It’s because he’s a sympathizer
Eat shit and pound sand, loser. Christ you people are insufferable.
This line must be a big hit at the middle school lunch table
You're a hack.
Maybe you hate this app because we all grew out of solipsism at the typical milestone of about 6 years old.
demise of discourse, case in point
Speaking of NPCs Eat 💩!!
“Please buy my book and stop being mean to me”
Way to use the slang terms parroted by right wing fascists to demean the opinions of others. Go back to Twitter you fucking loser.
you're 40 and paid for a hairline, you can't say NPC's anymore.
Literal infant mentality coming from girlfriend-beater over here
Yea I am an NPC, unlimited health bar. Fucking fight me and enjoy the end of your hardcore run
This is pretty rich coming from a guy who constantly resets and repeats the same dialogue over and over again with no awareness of changing context. Just walking into the same wall in his chateau.
if you don’t like it delete your account and leave us alone. Congrats on nobody buying your book
No, TCW. It really isn't. This is probably the most disturbing idea for you to hold in your head at this point. Unless you are like those techbro numbnuts who think we're in a simulation in which case all of us out here are actually NPCs? That would, I'll grant you, explain a lot of your behaviour
Please explain what exactly that means
So, you're using the groyper cope now?
This is bait, right?
Why are they all such thin skinned whiny little bitches?
Imagine thinking you're some sort of intellectual with valuable insights that fly in the face of conventional wisdom or whatever and then using the term "NPC" to dismiss criticism like the median 4chan poster (or Elon Musk, but six of one, half dozen of the other, etc.)
You know, when someone uses the term "NPCs" to describe actual human beings, that is an immediately recognizeable indication that person is a fascist
Twitter really is poisoning you if you've adopted this psycho notion unironically
you're not intelligent. quite the opposite really
Enjoy your ratio dipshit
Are you a child?
Guy who definitely knows what “npc” means
Calling people NPCs is the epitome of dehumanizing and the fact you're doing that after complaining about the "nastiness and vitriol" here is just cementing the general "you see the energy you bring" vibe you give off.
They probably just seem that way because you’re so deliberately obtuse
I guess I'll just leave this here. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
You should probably just get off bluesky then, no ones forcing you to be here dawg
Do you have to cut a royalty check to Dunning AND Kruger with every post or do you have a more efficient licensing deal?
Nah, you wouldn’t be overfilling your diaper right now if you believed that
Guess we NPCs don’t need to read your articles or buy your books. File under: Good luck with that self promotion approach.
Actually I’m a flesh and blood human endowed by my creator with certain inalienable rights, fascist
Referring to other people as NPCs is a huge tell, like writing three memoirs for some reason.
If you wanted to convince everyone that your opinion is not worth listening to, literally dehumanizing everyone who disagrees with you was the best way to do it. There are no NPCs. This is not a game. This is the world. We're all people.
Oh are you gonna go cry to your “frens” on your racist Facebook group?
Good luck in seventh grade!
hey thomas this is a great article have you read it yet ? www.vulture.com/article/post...
You don’t even have a real job
Ratio
Ok then show your completed sidequests.
The ultimate level of conservative thought: Everyone who disagrees with me doesn't actually exist. With this simple trick any moron can walk around thinking they're smart all the time.
Says the man happier on X getting fluffed by bots.😹
You are almost all full of shit
Dude, go back to twatter
You write vapid centrist nonsense that's utterly detached from reality.
Or maybe… just maybe.. you have really shitty opinions and no one on here will coddle you like the other app
The Demise of Discourse starts by calling people shit like "NPCs".
My man you cannot posture as an intellectual and then trot out the weak attempt at an own crafted by 4chan nerds. Gives your whole game away.
Dude you live in a fantasy world
so let me get this straight. James Baldwin went to France to get away from racism in the US, you went so you could pretend it doesn’t exist, and now you set yourself up as the arbiter of which place is better than another? boy would I never follow a restaurant recommendation from you
using NPCs unironically is a sign of a broken brain, imo
Oh you're RIGHT-wing right-wing
TCW accusing people of being NPCs
Also a strong sign of his comfort level with white nationalist online spaces. I’d be embarrassed to admit I was familiar with the lingo like that, if I had a fancy writing gig.
Nazi ass thing to say Thomas
just cause ppl hate you doesn't make you a player or a character
Everyone on the right and left seems to hate you. Contemplate on that, do the right thing.
See, and there’s your problem: you think that dehumanizing language like this is cool and edgy. Stick to the pro-Nazi site, friend. It suits you better.
Chatter on, nerd.
BEEP! BOP! Im a motherfucking robot
Then leave
You’re an NPC
Nobody read your book. Insane coping
“These people don’t matter. In fact it’s better they be killed.”
Oh shit this loser is on here
Thomas really thought he was chattering with this one
Hey quick question: how are you so stupid
Hi bud go fuck yourself
Mayhaps the vast majority of individuals who feel some inexplicable compulsion to vocalize their “critiques” of my ideas are in fact operating at a level of intellectual autonomy so laughably minimal that they might as well be pre-programmed dialog boxes in some off-brand metaphorical Role Playing G
Christ you’re a tedious little nothing. Why are you even on my timeline? I have pocket lint with more interesting ideas than you.
Hey, man, GamerGate was 11 years ago.
Reddit is that way loser.
did a baby write this
No, just an man-child
You guessed correctly!
You can NPCeez nutz chud
Unironic use of NPC? Twitter has pickled your brain
Said the guy who goes by Thomas Chatterton Williams
Someone disagreeing with you doesn't make them an NPC, Thomas. Conservatives like Tom Nichols and libertarians like Walter Olson seem to regularly have constructive discourse here, even when they're in the minority on a given issue, because they don't insult their sparring partners like that.
I think he’s just calling us Non-Parisian Citizens, which is fair enough, I guess
Tom Nichols is a conservative? How about that, I still like him.
Nothing constructive has ever involved Tom Nichols
You might have a worse time because you don't even really try to engage with anyone else in good faith.
He can’t.
I prefer to label myself a liberal rather than a libertarian but (with the caveat that there’s some threshold number of dumb fucking tankies that just have to be blocked to make the platform enjoyable) this is my experience as well. I miss *the people* I followed on Twitter, but that’s it.
I’m basically an FDR Dem. Somebody on here called me a tankie. Maybe it was you.
If I were inclined to call you a “tankie,” I’d have said nothing & blocked you.
I’m never going to be unsurprised about how far right this country has gone. To the point we’re expected to entertain the validity of fascist ideology on X and that some equate New Deal policies with Stalinism. I’m just glad I can post this here w/out 50 far right bots calling me a libtard groomer.
Look, I have big qualms with many of FDR’s policies but it damn sure wasn’t “Stalinism” & I wouldn’t put you anywhere near the class of political/economic flat earthers that tankies occupy.
His policies kept extreme wealth inequality in check and prevented outsized private power from dismantling democracy, as we just witnessed. Not a fan of internment camps or redlining. Those were symptoms of American racism rather than a result of economic ideology. Keynes > Friedman.
See: I wasn’t an asshole or a jerk to people. I didn’t whine about not getting as much engagement as I thought I should. & the only one who had anything shitty to say was a dumb fucking tankie (& those cretins are always best ignored anyway).
IMO these tankies are more funny (albeit obviously mentally ill) than scary or infuriating
They’re definitely not scary. They are extremely stupid &, at this point in my life, are a complete waste of my time & attention, though. But if they entertain you, all the more power to you!
This place got so much better when I went on a tankie blocking spree last year.
People are really good at making fun of him over here. There's a lot of really funny dunks anytime he posts, I think that's his real problem.
He has a worse time because he hasn’t had an idea worth any engagement.
Bitch you’re an npc. Your whole shit is still buffering
Dude, I was just going to ignore you, but what a freaking bigoted way to think and talk. Like, do you believe that you’re the only person with a brain or ann inner life?
yeah em rata isn't here for you to ogle
We get it. Mom lied to you and told you your opinion was much more valuable than it was. Nobody gives a fuck. Get a life. The one where everyone agrees with you doesn’t exist. You feel this way because you have shitty opinions and you know it, not because everyone’s a robot , you simpleton.
lol whatever you have to tell yourself
Nobody here likes you because your ideas are trash. Go away. Stop writing.
That’s what an NPC would say.
I have given up on explaining to smooth-brained arrogant twits like you that the "people are rude to me on social media" function has two independent variables. So maybe get a tutor or sumn who can explain that sentence to you
Yet you're the one here not engaging in any of the criticism, lmao. You've provided no examples, no analysis, no clarifications, no nothing, except hate on people and call them names when they rightfully point out legitimate critiques. You claim you're an intellectual, but you're not. You're a fraud
You are simply not profound or talented enough to be this much of a narcissist.
Actual NPCs: “I saw a mud crab the other day, fearsome creatures.” Twitter: “Heil Hitler” Idk, THOMAS… maybe a site with all npcs is better too.
Just bc *you* don’t like interacting with people doesn’t mean they’re inconsequential, they still have lives n shit and deserve at least the thought of goodwill
Calm down Tom
If we're all "NPCs" because we disagree with you, you're looking for an echo chamber
You should be torn apart by wild dogs. As part of a quest.
Why did your parents name you after a centuries-old person who took their own life? I genuinely feel sorry for you, that is so disturbing and wrong.
What’s an NPC?
Ah. The dehumanizing "degenerate animals"/"human rats" term of the 21st century. You are definitely making the case...against you.
Anyone ever tell you how much you look like Stephen Miller?
HA HAHAHAHA! HA! HAAAAA!
How about you NPC deez nuts on your forehead
Shut it trash bag
Just a conjecture; I know you'll class this as "bsky people being abusive" but I have heard about you about 4 times in the last 2 weeks, and each time - including the post above - made you look like a motherfucking arsehole. Have you considered that that might negatively affect your user experience?
Great. This guy.
Shut up bitch
I believe you were saying something about nastiness and vitriol?
so leave you insufferable shitpile
Nah, sport, just people who’ve got your number.
I give ya less than a year before the discount used book store is putting you latest in the dumpster.
Looks like someone looked in a mirror.
Congratulations, using the power of your banal and easily bruised ego, you've created one of the dumbest pile-ons I've ever seen on this site (or any other, for that matter). Quite the achievement.
Look-up the origin of insults before you use them Chatterton Williams. Or are you some far-right 4Chan user who enjoys dehumanizing normal, decent people?
your solipsism is showing
Can you even define, "the left"?
There are over 8 billion people in the world. Imagine thinking that *you're* the main character
Calling people NPC’s? You know what, man. You are what you is. Maybe you’re too young to get the reference, but you are what you is, and that’s all it is. Be careful who you’re keeping company with, because they know it, too.
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God damn you truly are stuck in your own ass aren't you. How's your shit smell Tommy? Like fucking roses? Here's an idea. If it sucks here, log off, delete your account, and go hang out on Twitter with the Nazis.
What a statement.
You speak with the diction of a fucking idiot.
"NPC?" Jesus Christ. You think of yourself as an intellectual?
Dumbest fucking post I read today 😂. Wild stuff
Careful, you’re going to hurt his feelings.
Hardly
Regardless, how you came up with that trash post is beyond me. Twitter isn’t toxic cesspool of nothing but fake accounts stroking fascism not like this is perfect, but it’s significantly better than that shit hole.
Guess your response means I’m not a NPC. 🤣
Wouldn’t be my 1st time. 😇
Someone has to do it.
Apparently
So if you’re so certain about that, why are you here?
This one is for you specifically
"anyway, please take me seriously."
Projection
hey man you contribute nothing but bile to the public sphere, maybe consider fucking off, yeah?
Do you regret signing the Harper’s letter
youre one bad day away from being a groyper arent you
I predict he will instead be one of those "I didn't help Trump and everything is the fault of the NPC brigade that didn't listen to my wise counsel" Richard Hanania types.
Those who disagree with me are unpersons doesn’t seem like the healthiest mindset.
spoken like someone with firsthand knowledge
Oh wow, solipsism. Definitely the mark of a serious thinker.
The most insufferable aspect of your condescension is it's total lack of any rational basis in your talent or skill or intelligence. You're a dilettante, you dumb posh bitch.
Nice try, but your attempt at abject loathsomeness falls short by inclusion of the word “almost”. Still loathsome of course but we know you can do even worse.
Just gonna leave this right here for no particular reason. bsky.app/profile/jool...
It’s absolutely meant to dehumanize.
See ya loser...
Bait used to be believable
You like spending time with the fascists because you are a moderate fascist
Not my experience and I pull no punches. FB and Twitter are both cesspools. BlueSky is the only civilized group so far.
Bro is named ‘Chatterton’
When someone on X assumed from something I posted that I am Jewish, they replied with a pic of an oven with the door open and the caption, "Can't come back soon enough." That has never happened to me on Bluesky, nor do I see it happen to others I follow. A bubble, maybe, but not a hellscape.
You’re mad. People are much more polite on Bluesky than I ever remember on Twitter and the muting and blocking functions work better.
Personally, I'd do some soul-searching if I found myself being more comfortable amongst the dregs of society still posting on Twitter. But then I have the capacity for self-awareness, so I can see the challenge here.
This is an unbelievably closed-mindedly scolding post.
Do you still like beating women?
Gee I wonder why you don't get scolded on the fascist Nazi platform
Leaving X for Bluesky definitely had a strong "did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage" vibe, for a while. But X is a toxic waste dump breeding hate, outrage, and conspiracy theories, so no regrets about giving it the flick. 😊 www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qQj...
Wow, can't imagine why nobody likes you
SCOLDS! Yes!! Can get a schoolmarms??
Of course you would say that, king of dogshit opinions worded in the most convoluted and pretentious way possible so as to feign sophistication and distract from the total absence of any ideas. You're being dragged because you prefer literal nazis to being impolitely criticized for your trash views.
Aw, did you get called out for being awful? Did it hurt?
What you mean is that the people on Bluesky disagree with you, while the people on Twitter/X agree with you.
Have not encountered that here? Sounds like a skill issue on your part.
Yes the site with AI MechaHitler is clearly the less toxic place
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"People are critical of things i say on this website and clearly thats just as bad a white nationalism"
This is definitely a you issue
"at least the guys at the nazi bar are nice to me" says more about you than I think would be wise to leave unexamined
I mentioned in a comment that he seems to prefer a veneer of niceness over actual kindness, you’re not wrong. Nazis can be nice to individuals that they… “like” but there is NOTHING kind about them & saying “well, at least they allow me to have unpopular opinions without a fight” isn’t a good thing
Well, um, no.
Yeah man the Nazi site is so much better and more open minded you fucking jackass
If the Nazis like what you have to say and the non-Nazis don't like it, you should probably reflect on what that means about what you're saying.
Far, far worse? Really? This is very likely to be demonstrably false unless of course we’re using the sliding scale of objectivity that is so popular these days.
you are objectively wrong
With all respect, one platform is algorithmically promoting the worst race science shit I’ve ever seen in a public square. I’m so confused how that’s not a deal breaker. To me you have to have a moral code outside of “which Internet forum best protects my fragile emotions.”
Yes, Thomas the Chatterer, when you're paid to enable fascism it's much better on the platform named as a heil to Hitler. Whereas normal people on an open protocol platform see you as exactly who you are. bsky.app/profile/chat...
Trumpet butt hurt people don’t like him.
There are a few third rail topics here (regulars know what they are; I won't even mention) and a few nutcases. Not the ambient nightmare that is Twitter.
I’m a fan of yours but this is one of the most patently bonkers things I’ve read in some time.
You’re just upset that your book for shitty reviews and are trying to take it out on your “lessers.” Classic moron behavior
Nazi say what?
"Aww my feelings got hurt. I'm just gonna go back to the Nazi Bar now." -You, essentially
You need to say retard more so they block you
If being closed- minded is not willing to subject my core values to revision , than I am closed -minded . Alternatively, I prefer that we can pursue two strategies. We can be open -minded in certain contexts and closed -minded in others , and the use of Twitter is non negotiable.
If you feel like you receive a warmer reception on a platform full of Nazis, isn’t that kind of a tell?
If you are getting scolded more on Bluesky than on X, that speaks volumes about the value of your contributions.
Pointing out that perhaps Bluesky is mean to you because your writing is mediocre only confirms your thesis, right?
Shut up
The amount if delusion one must have to believe what you just typed is nothing short of astonishing. You need to be committed. You have completely disconnected from reality.
Have you tired crying more?
People just dislike you in particular. Most of us experience much less harassment on Bluesky than Twitter.
why can't you write like a normal person with an idea to convey?
I refuse to believe this isn’t a Thomas Chatterton Williams parody account.
Sufficiently advance satire is indistinguishable from sincere idiocy.
Who the fuck is this guy? How the fuck does anyone give him any attention let alone giving him space to writte in the Atlantic?
He has some rich benefactors who want their godawful opinions laundered in the Atlantic, mostly.
It is. I don't think he means for it to be, but it definitely is.
Please cry more, Big Man.
Eat shit you dumb nerd
Weird that the site with all the Nazis gives you the best experience and fewer challenges to your ideas.
My contention is that you should still be on Friendster or you hate freedom
If you don't have thick skin when you start posting on BLueSky you will by the end of your first day.
Luv Malone’s posts. Dems could more of his intellect. . Please!
Here's some more of the "civilized and high-minded" content Thomas is talking about on Twitter.
Tom definitely agrees with the first two of those
Things you say when you beat your highschool girlfriend and blamed it on hip-hop.
Imagine thinking people refusing to find common ground with fascists, being as bad as actual fascists. 🙄 Thanks for admitting that you're more tolerant to open racism, Nazi rhetoric, hate speech, and bigotry, than you are with people who find those things disgusting. @theatlantic.com Get your boy.
This is literally the problem with centrists and the right, and people like @chatterton.bsky.social . They say that because you dismiss an ideology or idea that it makes you close-minded. It's literally *moral relativism*, and it's dystopian as fuck, because they imply moral truth doesn't exist.
To them, you have to engage in Nazi ideology, in reading Hitler, because he "might have some good ideas", and if you don't, then you're close-minded, then your an "NPC", a person who can't "think for themself". In reality, Nazi Ideology is rejected because it's immoral, pseudo-scientific, and BS.
This person cares more about gaining attention and arguing relativistically than getting at the truth of the matter, because they are a fraud. They don't care about truth. They care about arguing. They care about besting people in debates. They care about being contrarian. It's dishonest.
Absolute horseshit. Twitter has open Nazi rhetoric, hate speech and all sorts of foul shit, all over it, with no regulation. You can write the N word, and no auto flag, but cis? Auto flagged.
@theatlantic.com Your writer think this type of content is more open minded and acceptable than people on Bluesky who say this shit is bad. Do you feel the same?
I have some news for you about The Atlantic.....
No, I know, they're trash, but I still would like to give them shit about being trash.
Thinks*
I was totally shocked when I looked this guy up and saw he wrote for the Atlantic. I was totally unsurprised, on the other hand, when I found out he had beaten up his high school girlfriend and blamed it on hip hop music.
Holy shit. This guy is a horrible person. What the actual fuck @theatlantic.com
So I'm sure he's right at home on X.
No wonder he feels more comfortable there.
Whaaaaaa?! Jfc
ikr?? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Wild, what a dickhead.
The reviews of your terrible book in major publications are more savage than anything on here
Oh, cry me a fucking river. Just leave. You sound exhausting. 🙄
Oh wow, I see you’re actually a massive cjunt, who writes shitty books about your abysmal behavior. bsky.app/profile/drma...
And you're surprised by this?
No
It’s because you know you’re stupid and have nothing useful to say
Thank you, exactly. Anyway, I wasn't really asking. This was how I meant it. bsky.app/profile/jimp...
Oh I can field this. It’s because you’re a dope.
Cue 500 posts telling you why you shouldn't even be allowed to speak, and it's your fault if you get any mean posts, because your opinions are all bad and wrong and your book is terrible, and five hundred people needed to tell you this together, because...uh...reasons. Healthy social media reasons.
I think which site is worse on allowing harassment and abuse depends on if you're measuring by sheer volume or intensity.
Wait, the literal Nazi site run by a Nazi? LOL, you suck.
lol, you’re such a baby
Maybe it's just you, bud.
I follow you. I disagree with you on some things and agree on others, and I wish you didn’t have (or cultivate) this reputation of being one of the Villains. I wish you’d post here more, and I get why you don’t But you cannot really believe Bluesky angryposting is worse than Twitter’s literal Nazis
He just told you that he would, in fact, rather be hanging out with the Nazis.
Yes, one of many things we disagree on
You just wrote “I cannot believe you would rather” do this thing he just told you he would rather do. That’s all I’m saying: you’re telling this guy that you cannot believe the thing he just told you about himself. Maybe stop following him, if you disbelieve him, then?
Hit dog hollars
You’re trying to get attention.why come here if you don’t like it .Stay on Twitter. You’re not a serious person
The Nazis just like you
The National Review liked his book on 'woke chaos.'
"The fascists welcome me with open arms, while the anti-fascists are quite rude!"
you like xitter because it lets you write excruciatingly long meandering sentences
"Everyone hates my work on bluesky, unlike on x the everything app. The fact that you can actually manage to get banned for abuse on Bluesky and not on x is a coincidence."
BlueSky is a functional website. X is filled with bots on bots and an algorithm that weighed toward and pushes alt-right, far right, and right content. It's turned into Fox News.
An algorithm so far out there that its own in-house A.I. turned into a Nazi.
You take yourself so very seriously.
Would you like me, who spent his last days on Twitter after Trump's reelection hurling death threats to bigots and tankies alike, to be more open to the benefits of Nazism? Or perhaps the truth of race realism? Or how the Holodomor was a hoax? Or, or, or.
Nastiness on Twitter may not happen to *you*, sir, most likely because you toe the line in order to feel accepted and appreciated. But it happens to gay folks, jews, trans folks, and women more than you're able or willing to see. You are just willfully blind to it all.
Us Bluesky folks didn't leave Twitter cuz we are sensitive jerks, we left because there's a real white power/nazi problem on there. Do you not recognize that? Oh wait, I guess the being Nazis is our fault, yeah? "The Left created the nazi problem" or something. Yes very astute very perceptive.
This is absolutely delusional. You're not attacked by the Nazis on Twitter because you align with them in major ways.
"I prefer Nazis" we know Tommy
Sounds like a deleted scene from Snatch with Statham and Graham.
I’m shocked that the DC Wheelie guy finds Nazism inherently civilized