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justcola posted:I signed up to Twitter so I could follow interesting people but most of it just aggravates the gently caress out of me so I'm going to delete it. Don't know how people can go on it every day. Funny, I just deleted my Facebook account, and reinstalled Twitter after a few years without it. I guess it's about how you tailor your feed, I'm now slowly getting rid of all melts and blocking even terribler people early and often. So I'm left with useful info from Correct people, it's still a good tool for listening and learning. But part of that does come from the good people dunking on the terrible people, so you end up reading the latter anyway. E: part of the problem before was having joined Twitter early and following famous people for fun, then never getting round to deleting them when they turn out to be liberals, very sensible liberals, or fash. Notable survivors so far: Alex Winter, Colin Mochrie and of course Michael Rosen. Bobstar fucked around with this message at 14:50 on Jun 16, 2020 |
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goddamnedtwisto posted:https://twitter.com/MarcusRashforrd/status/1272861517080342528 It must be really freeing to have the confidence to spout out any old bollocks without having to think if you're correct or not.
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bessantj posted:It must be really freeing to have the confidence to spout out any old bollocks without having to think if you're correct or not. The worst are the people going "bootstraps!" in the comments because they've had tough times but always managed to put food on the table. Therefore everyone else must be spending their money on "lip filler and fags". QED.
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The Perfect Element posted:I know counter-factuals and hypotheticals are completely useless and inane, but it's amazing to think of how a Corbyn government would have been treated if it had churned out this many gaffes and u-turns (and deaths) in the last six months. Would have been nice if Corbyn had stayed on as Leader though. "Told ya so" made flesh.
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Bobstar posted:Funny, I just deleted my Facebook account, and reinstalled Twitter after a few years without it. I guess it's about how you tailor your feed, I'm now slowly getting rid of all melts and blocking even terribler people early and often. So I'm left with useful info from Correct people, it's still a good tool for listening and learning. But part of that does come from the good people dunking on the terrible people, so you end up reading the latter anyway. I dunno how anyone can put up with Twitter or social media as a whole. Guess I've been living with my head up my arse for 32 years with regards to just how tragically awful and repulsive the views of of people in this country are once you give them a platform and a megaphone that sounds across the whole world. Just reading some of the responses to those tweets about school dinners during summer were utterly revolting. I'm ashamed to be sharing this dying rock with them. 
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Who are the "many socially conservative and economically radical young activists"? Like even when I was younger and didn't know poo poo about poo poo re: economics and governance or systemic effects, I still couldn't see the point in social conservatism. How do you get to the stage of having radical economic ideas as a young person in 2020 and still give a poo poo about what LGBT people are up to or think the drug war is a good idea?
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Prince John posted:The worst are the people going "bootstraps!" in the comments because they've had tough times but always managed to put food on the table. Therefore everyone else must be spending their money on "lip filler and fags". QED. No doubt it'll be getting a bit Four Yorkshiremen in the comments.
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DeadButDelicious posted:I dunno how anyone can put up with Twitter or social media as a whole. Guess I've been living with my head up my arse for 32 years with regards to just how tragically awful and repulsive the views of of people in this country are once you give them a platform and a megaphone that sounds across the whole world. Just reading some of the responses to those tweets about school dinners during summer were utterly revolting. I'm ashamed to be sharing this dying rock with them. Yeah you need a fairly high tolerance/resignedness to that kind of thing, and using this thread as a "best of" may well be a better idea. But if this thread helped radicalise me economically, Twitter helped move me socially away from a floppy "can't we all just get along" just by listening to people and reading articles and books I wouldn't have found otherwise. Re-watching ER during this lockdown reminds me of the lackluster sources of education on, say, trans and race issues that the mainstream media/entertainment provides. Like I know ER ran from 1994-2009, but I keep wanting to bake them an "At Least You Tried" cake... Facebook on the other hand was just a dull catalogue of everyone I'd ever met.
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quote:Young members for a Blue Labour revival. It is time to revive Labour’s radical traditions of Work, Family and Tradition for a new generation. We're against scroungers, chav mums and queers, and things that aren't Traditional*. *white posting about posters maybe but  https://twitter.com/mehall/status/1272884529590603784
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sebzilla posted:The red line just bombing off the bottom of the preview image is Extremely Good Yeah I had a good laugh at that.
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Spangly A posted:I'm not sure just when the footballers started really understanding how to flex political muscle but holy poo poo I love it. Organising this right as the clubs are about to return and the government need the circuses back was fantastic It was when Matt Hancock decided to try using them as scapegoats to deflect criticism from himself during his pandemic briefings.
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DickEmery posted:Would have been nice if Corbyn had stayed on as Leader though. If Corbyn were still leader, we'd have seen the most amazing of takes and mental knots from the media attempting to defend the Tories actions. And obviously never ever concede that they were wrong, or that Corbyn was right. Semi-related: https://twitter.com/epiplexis_/status/1272892739185672194
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Guavanaut posted:Ah, that famous tradition, Tradition. I liked posting that one, but the favourite take I found was this one https://twitter.com/TheStuffOfMemes/status/1272878839136485379?s=19
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That's got to be Poe's Law, right? Then again, we live in the hell reality where ACTIVATE, Drugstore Culture, and Change UK were a thing so who the gently caress knows.
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:My exposure to twitter is exclusively this thread. You lot are my filter so i only see the crème de la crème of twitter, thank u for you're sacrifice Just so you're aware, despite this threads focus, Twitter is not 95% Weetman, 5% Glinner/pissflaps being anti-trans. It also has capybara gif accounts
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Pesky Splinter posted:"The Maybots always were a bit twitchy. That could never happen now with our behavioral inhibitors. It is now possible for me, by omission of action, to allow to human beings to be harmed. " ~ Keir Starbot I admire its purity. A survivor... unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality. - the Tory brain
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OwlFancier posted:I mean if I wanted to I could register not-that-young-anymore guillotine-everybody-labour and claim I was a large group of activists across the UK and beyond.  I'll set up the twitter account. You can manage the wiki.
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Pesky Splinter posted:That's got to be Poe's Law, right? The last tweet in the thread specifically mentions defending the party from liberals, if it's not a straight-up troll I wonder if it's a Turning Point USA or similar astroturf account, given that using liberal to mean leftist is a peculiarly USA-ian term AFAIK.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Just so you're aware, despite this threads focus, Twitter is not 95% Weetman This is not true, and is a trap set by Tetsuo Tweetman to add more mass to its biomechanical matrix. Archaeology Hat posted:Beyond what leaks through from this thread my twitter experience is 90% cute animals and people telling jokes of varying quality. See, I only see Twitter filtered through this thread and it's a blasted hellscape in which people with apparently infinite free time scream at each other. I think Charlie Brooker said that Twitter is a video game, and he's right; it gamifies discourse into a series of likes and LOLs and owns and yet it's seen by some as a space in which legitimate political activisim and journalism can take place. And yeah I can just about see how that's possible, but I'd have to have radical brain surgery before I could engage on that level
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Jippa posted:I only survive twitter by curating who I follow to a tiny amount of decent people. It's really not worth it. Just let other people sift through the poo poo and post interesting stuff here. I only follow Ash Sarkar and Unite  XMNN posted:https://twitter.com/jimwaterson/status/1272770743584133120?s=20 Reminded of when Laura K tried to define what shitposting was (and seems her wrong definition was taken up by the government in terms of graphic design since, strange that) Prince John posted:I'm getting flashbacks to when Corbyn was in charge, and all the blue ticks were saying "where is Corbyn on <insert topic here>???!" and we were all sitting ITT and saying "he's been talking about this all week". Fair do's, I just think with him mostly appearing to back the government on other issues or being silent on others, one would be forgiven in thinking that children must starve whilst negotiations are ongoing. The Theresa May comparison seems a bit apt in that the media fawned over them at first and being 'adults in the room' but they end up being an obelisk of attempting to please everyone/no-one. justcola fucked around with this message at 15:46 on Jun 16, 2020 |
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justcola posted:obelisk of attempting to please everyone/no-one. Ah, the early NOD prototype that was a disaster on the battlefield
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Ah, the early NOD prototype that was a disaster on the battlefield Theresla coil?
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It's kinda weird how as you get older you start to think maybe kane was the good guy.
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OwlFancier posted:It's kinda weird how as you get older you start to think maybe kane was the good guy. IIRC, it ended up turning out that he really was.
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Darth Walrus posted:IIRC, it ended up turning out that he really was. I never really played the later ones but it's hard not to look at the early games as like, GDI propaganda to justify why they totally had to leave Africa to get turned into tiberium so they could mine it to feed the economy of northern Europe.
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justcola posted:I only follow Ash Sarkar and Unite Ash is great but as you probably know she just gets the worst people constantly attacking her. I couldn't really handle all that either.
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