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It's not pure mental illness. To many, this site is a pox on our society.

Here's a past explanation foone's position: https://twitter.com/foone/status/1440697266059153439

And in a way you've even proven foone right. You're insinuating that they are mentally ill. I don't know why you feel that it's okay to treat other humans like that, but I hope you get the help you deserve.

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I don't think "sometimes I get tagged when people link to content I wrote and sometimes internet commenters don't do research to find out people's preferred pronouns" is a "pox on our society"

See, you've misunderstood. To many a website is a pox on society. To many, if you don't completely agree with them, you're the same as a Nazi. I suppose life does become more interesting if you have no sense of scale, can't conceive of nuance, and think everything is life or death.

I understand what you're getting at but the behaviour is just neurotic and childish in general. That thread you just linked is about 30 straight tweets of insane, near incoherent topic switching rambling about a situation this person has created themselves by caring about what pronouns a stranger calls them.

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