How far Left, could a Leftist Left, if a Leftist could Left, Left.

Landlord said:
I respectfully disagree here. Way too many people cancelled, doxxed, careers ruined, exposed, etc. via twitter

Yep. But those progressives are actually impacting culture and policy. The reckless journalists are pushing news from and to twitter. Living in Chicago for 4 years the amount of people  involved in campaigns, protests, marches, social work, etc. that I know who's ideology is primarily informed by twitter is... a lot. It's way too cavalier to dismiss it as just a silly online thing. It's a tremendously powerful place as far as shaping news and culture and it's pretty damn scary tbh. 
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#1: That's true. What I meant to say was that political news Twitter is a medium that's great for getting news out quickly, but because it's such a bubble it's often hard to gauge whether breaking news will actually resonate and have impact with the broader nation or whether it just seems like big news inside the bubble because it's breaking. I've fallen into this trap many times myself.

The doxxing culture of Twitter and social media in general is terrifying. It's a side effect of social media that we really don't have a good answer for right now.

#2: You're probably right. I can't speak to being overly involved in those aspects of Twitter or life in a progressive area in general.

 
Waldo said:
This is awesome. The media is so obsessed with hot takes. As long as individuals can weather the initial storm, they are golden. Virginia had a weird couple of weeks back there. 
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The Babylon Bee isn't "the media." It's satire, like The Onion or Mad Magazine.

 
Waldo said:
The statement is what I was asserting to be true, not the source. 
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Ah. Well, you're probably right on that one. Trump has proven that time and again, and now other politicians are taking that page from his playbook. Just deny everything and ride it out.

 
I say sketchy because I grew up skateboarding. Never knew the racist undercurrents of my sick gnar shredding upbringing.

Man after reading through some of the rest of her tweets she's almost a parody account :lol:






 
Landlord said:
I say sketchy because I grew up skateboarding. Never knew the racist undercurrents of my sick gnar shredding upbringing.

Man after reading through some of the rest of her tweets she's almost a parody account :lol:
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I see accounts like this all the time and after seeing a dozen or so tweets like the above, I'll stop and say "Wait, this is a joke right?" 

 
Fru said:
I see accounts like this all the time and after seeing a dozen or so tweets like the above, I'll stop and say "Wait, this is a joke right?" 
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As I was scrolling through some of her tweets I had to think for a moment to be sure it wasn't actually a parody account. Reason being, Titania McGrath, which is a parody/satire account, sounds remarkably similar at times:




 
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