Suddenly, my Twitter feed was bombarded with messages all sharing the same common traits:

1: I did not know or follow these users.

2: The message had zero retweets.

3: They blame Christianity, the NRA, or "toxic masculinity" (no joke) for the recent Orlando shooting.

Before anyone calls me an NRA member or churchgoer (I'm neither, I don't even have a gun) I would like to stress the fact that these are the ONLY groups which you can blame without getting targeted by the website's shadow ninjas. This is Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, 4chan; anything big enough to enter the radar screen.

This isn't a recent thing for me, though this is my first time noticing it on Twitter. Any conservative or simply not-neoleft-enough area of the web I've been hanging out on has experienced this. It's always some appeal to emotion in the form of a picture with bullshit text on it. No conversations, no dissent tolerated, and Mark Kern (lead developer of World of Warcraft) was recently hard-banned temporarily for saying radicalized mosques should face the same scrutiny as everyone else in society.

I just thought I'd like to let everyone know. But before anyone treats this as a call to action, a forewarning:

war is peace

freedom is slavery

ignorance is strength

In the book, NOBODY EVER made any honest attempts at persuading people peacefully. Nobody dissected it, nobody debated, nobody explored. The sayings were put there to catch anyone who can't resist the urge to ask questions, so they could be hauled off to the Ministry of Love where they would be tortured extensively then executed after society gets one last chance to see them as a 'reformed' party loyalist.