Like Lord Haw Haw, but without the travel.
Meta: I think you should avoiding "theread reader" sites in general, in favor of just going to the original. They're mostly adding an additional layer of tracking and advertising that benefit themselves, and not the author (not that Twitter itself is great for that, but authors have some tools for dealing with it, and it's where they've chosen to post).
I just don't know how else to make multiple tweets readable on the blog? I suppose I could cut and paste the content over myself as text?
That's too much work. You don't have to solve the problems of content providers using Twitter. Twitter sucks, it's not your job to fix it.
Heartily endorse 4.
But the real solution to Twitter is to not have anything to do with it at all. Bring back blogs!
Another of the viral threads like this (finding IMDB listings) focused on rally organizers specifically in Southern California. Overdetermined AF!
5.2: That's the idea of substack, except that these are blogs you have to pay to read. So the substackers still need Twitter as a place to advertise their blogs.
This does shed a different light on all the conspiracy theories involving "crisis actors".
The right wing theories about crisis actors at mass shootings are interesting in light of how often the FBI has been in contact with mass shooters, sometimes even seemingly egging them on. It reminds me of the Q Anon pedophile theory in that it's an insane version of something that is actually true.
I saw this thread earlier today, and I dunno. I'm sure the way they've read it is correct in some cases, but I suspect in other cases the modeling or whatever is just because people, even conservative people, sometimes have side-hustles. Most obviously, Lauren Boebert owns a novelty bar. Maybe she's hamming it up a bit, but I can't imagine the conservatism isn't real. I definitely don't think she got recruited into it off of a talent site. And Tomi Lahren's been doing this for years (who I went into this paragraph thinking was Caitlin Bennett, who was doing this kind of stuff in college).
Broke ... people ... are also happy to be paid for presenting a more extreme version of themselves
That kind of sounds like an uncharitable description of professional activism.
also, sometimes hilarious jokers on the Internet sign up for stuff in other people's names, and even program computers to do so in bulk! the little scamps.
If you find my OnlyFans, it's someone else.
That kind of sounds like an uncharitable description of professional activism.
I mean, if the activism is destroying the nation, do we have to paint it with the same brush as more legitimate forms of activism?
14: Depends on our goal? If we're trying to understand the processes involved, I think using the same word as we'd use in other contexts is more useful, or at least would make it easier to explore the differences. If we're trying to denigrate them because they're indisputably awful and that's all, then yeah, paint away.