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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. This is actually a great example of what I'm talking about - First, about 100mm of those users are in the US, but even so - the attention is fragmented, and in a fragmented economy, the value of holding strategic channels increases.
  2. Pretentious? Gosh, I'm sorry. What can I do to demonstrate the sincerely of my contempt?
  3. Y'all don't understand the game here. Twitter is not a business or a profit seeking enterprise. Money is abundant and highly concentrated. Attention is scarce and highly fragmented. Twitter is the single most important center of the attention economy. Whatever trivial economic loss is incurred when politically active or news aware progressive and liberal people abandon it is absolutely worth it compared to the enormous value of the power of having all that attention and undisrupted feedback, not to mention unwanted scrutiny. Do you guys not understand that liberals/progressives leaving Twitter is what they want? Don't you understand they want it that way? Can you not tell? If they wind up short money and long power, that's a good trade for them. PS, this is aggy, like "t.u."
  4. So we should run away from discourse we find offensive or dangerous. Got it. Sure, I’m naive for staying in occupied territory. Liberals and progressives who have retreated from Twitter are smart, politically savvy and above all, not thin-skinned or pussies.
  5. Congratulations on your retreat from the public square I guess.
  6. Agree 100% incidentally Longstreet is the sole confederate general I wouldn’t mind naming things after.
  7. This is fine
  8. Jesus these people keep digging
  9. Chad Pergram is THE essential congressional beat reporter. One of the best people to follow Twitter.
  10. You need Monkey Shoulder
  11. Braxton Bragg, along with John Bell Hood, was one of the worst Generals of the Civil war and was reviled by the men under his command. It’s very likely that naming bases after them was a sort of in-joke at the idea of naming southern bases after confederate generals. I can’t think of anything more shameful for Texas and South Carolina than bases named after two traitorous, abject failures, and therefore I am very supportive of this move.
  12. No. You seem you be confused. There’s no issue with a diversity of opinion or a dissenting view. The other day there was a spirited argument after I pointed out (correctly) that in fact the Danish claim to Greenland is exceptionally weak, and ours is quite strong , and at any rate the Greenlanders should decide such things. Because so many people here are ready to oppose anything Trump wants, I got some pushback. That’s a diversity of opinion. what you are saying is that young acolytes of the richest man in the world should get a pass for things my kids would get fired for. That’s not a diversity of opinion. That’s special treatment for the powerful and well connected.
  13. Is it? I had this game circled for months and forgot it was on until I got a score alert. I feel nothing.
  14. That woman can EAT
  15. I drive your mom crazy
  16. Without question.
  17. Thank you for mansplaining key theoretical elements of my lived professional experience to me. However, you are making a category error. You seem to be under the impression that Twitter is still primarily a business that exists to create an operating profit, and that by staying on the platform, politically active and news aware people who object to its takeover as a propaganda platform are making it more successful. Neither of those things are true. You also seem to be under the impression that leaving Twitter is working on some level as a political isolation strategy, and it’s not. It’s only isolating progressives.
  18. I certainly hope so, but the chances of political conflict moving into the physical realm are exceptionally high and for some populations we’re already there. As usual, white progressives will be the last to recognize it, until they in the crosshairs, precisely because they have largely withdrawn from right wing spaces.
  19. No. The venue is everywhere. All channels, all spaces. You tube for one thing, Twitter for another, and so on. It is asymmetric and asynchronous opposition that forces them to play whack-a-mole and exhausts their capacity for containment while forcing their divisions open.
  20. Well I’m still on Twitter, so I’m not sure you are coming from a position of authority on this one. Wait. Stop. You think you win a propaganda fight with an existential threat through meaningful conversation. Do you understand what’s at stake here? The British will NOT allow the colonies to assemble militia on Lexington common. Honestly surprised you think that’s possible, Captain Parker.
  21. Indeed I cannot imagine a better example of the progressive mindset than taking your own product off the shelves and calling that act “voting with your feet,” as if the buyers will seek you out if you make your product harder to find. Extra credit for lecturing a market professional about “the freemarket.” This you? “And in closing, let me add that my privilege protects me from the consequences of losing elections. Therefore I don’t care about the people who I choose not to understand or engage with, even though they collectively form a majority.”
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