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I guess you can put a weirdly optimistic spin on it. If you corner a rat it will turn around and fight like hell. Maybe this surge of bigotry is the rat knowing it's cornered. But we'll see. The political policies have tangible outcomes. The race back to the middle ages is going to fuck up women's lives. Getting murdered by militant police ends lives, but it also influences how other people live their lives. I don't think we really know yet what abuse on the internet does to people. What effects do toxic internet communities have on people and culture? I guess we'll find out eventually, but I don't suspect we'll like what we find out.