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Twitter has barred hundreds of accounts for posing as liberal activists

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Re: Twitter has barred hundreds of accounts for posing as liberal activists

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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.

Re: Twitter has barred hundreds of accounts for posing as liberal activists

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I confess this campaign is a puzzlement to me. There are a bunch of people all repeating the same idea as a way of critiquing people they believe are... all repeating the same ideas?

Wouldn't that be how you would critique that sort of thing? I dont think it's that hard to get.

Re: Twitter has barred hundreds of accounts for posing as liberal activists

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post #5

I confess this campaign is a puzzlement to me. There are a bunch of people all repeating the same idea as a way of critiquing people they believe are... all repeating the same ideas?

Is it really that hard to understand? At its simplest level, the NPC meme is an extension of "I'm a member of [insert outgroup here], look how dumb I sound" trolling.

Re: Twitter has barred hundreds of accounts for posing as liberal activists

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Cmon the meme is kinda funny.

It's also kind of stupid. As in, very tiny amounts the things that the "joke" tries to attack are based in reality. Its as if they cannot accept that large numbers of progressive or liberal minded people exist.
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