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Repeating it all those times hasn't made it true.
... What? Edit: Oh, your profile says " "obvious troll" ". Okay then. Checks out.
https://www.popehat.com/2012/09/19/three-generations-of-a-ha...
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Indeed. When ~journalists~ spend their whole day on Twitter, it means their resolution of the world is incredibly minute. Think about the most significant events from 2005. If you're looking back at that resolution, the small day-to-day stuff gets filtered out. The signal to noise ratio of what's actually significant is pretty good. These journalists are literally involved in the minute to minute . They wouldn't even…
>They wouldn't even notice the signal if it kicked them in the head, because they live in the noise. This is a pretty apt description for that entire group, really. Many people live exclusively in the consumer world and have largely abandoned foundations of society like building a family or participating in local community, and I think it manifests in the internet tribalism we see.
I step in and out of engaging in political discourse online, but spend most of my time outside of it. I only come back to test my (hopefully) improved perspective to see how my worldview holds up against the critiques that the internet throws at me.
I'm about due to another half year or more recess away from social media, though. It definitely wears on you.
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Golly, this is so "show me the man and I'll find you the crime" going on here. Are liberals actually too stupid to know when the vote is?
The upcoming midterm elections are expected to be very close, with low turnout favoring Republicans. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/democratic-lead-continues-to-gr... So a strategy for Republicans lately is to reduce turnout. Voter roll purges, disenfranchisement of felons, stricter voter ID laws, and closing polling stations are some legal ways to reduce turnout. Groups that are less concerned about appearing above-bo…
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But with that said, what isn't 'far right' these days ... I'm just counting down the days until Bernie is called far right because he's not throwing bricks through Starbucks' windows.
Bernie is anti open borders, calling it basic globalist shilling. "It would make everybody in America poorer—you’re doing away with the concept of a nation state" I bet if you repeated his opinion but didn't use his name on Facebook, some, uh, [leftward people with very reflexive opinions] would show up to argue with you.
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The upcoming midterm elections are expected to be very close, with low turnout favoring Republicans. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/democratic-lead-continues-to-gr... So a strategy for Republicans lately is to reduce turnout. Voter roll purges, disenfranchisement of felons, stricter voter ID laws, and closing polling stations are some legal ways to reduce turnout. Groups that are less concerned about appearing above-bo…
Election fraud? Are you serious? Your response is pretty much the essence of why this meme is a huge hit: because it's true. It's like the left is just jealous they can't meme and aren't funny anymore.
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The upcoming midterm elections are expected to be very close, with low turnout favoring Republicans. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/democratic-lead-continues-to-gr... So a strategy for Republicans lately is to reduce turnout. Voter roll purges, disenfranchisement of felons, stricter voter ID laws, and closing polling stations are some legal ways to reduce turnout. Groups that are less concerned about appearing above-bo…
Election fraud? Are you serious? Your response is pretty much the essence of why this meme is a huge hit: because it's true. It's like the left is just jealous they can't meme and aren't funny anymore.
Evan James has a good writeup on the sort of anxieties around society that sprung up the NPC meme [0]. There's a portion which I think has a kernel of truth, although it is definitely generous to the kind of people that immaturely lashed out and made very low-effort twitter accounts which wound up propagating the meme: >The far right can be profoundly intuitive creatures, who feel more deeply than cursory glances sug…
It confuses me, because "don't take things at face value" and "don't just follow a script" is, well, postmodernism. It's also anticapitalism. It's also a commentary about peoples reverence of traditional gender roles and religions. Actually, I totally fail to see why it's a conservative meme at all, unless it's being repeated without any attempt to consider broader implications.
How about they proceed to ban bots instead? That would IMO make twitter much more useful, but of course it would kill 95% of their “user base” and traffic.
This may be an unpopular opinion, but I’d prefer if this culture war crap were kept off HN. There are plenty of other places to discuss this, just because Twitter is involved doesn’t mean it’s related to tech.
The speed at which the media have rounded against this meme is breathtaking. Are some memes inherently powerful and just need to be controlled? Why are they powerful? How much longer can 30 year old boomers be let sip Monsters outdoors? It's not right.
Memes are propaganda on steroids.