7 Replies to “Social Disease”

  1. This is actually an Atlantic article by Yascha Mounk:
    https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/political-leaders-should-stop-caring-about-twitter/588004/

    It warns that most people do not do twitter politics, that those who do are unrepresentative of the {American} population, and that people in decision-making roles are wrong to give much credibility or to respond to twitter storms;

    // President Trump is a case in point. He has rightly intuited that a significant portion of the American population is anxious about the influx of immigrants in the country illegally. But egged on by his die-hard fans—who ensure that his tweets about immigration are especially popular, with many of them attracting more than 100,000 likes—he has embraced policies, such as separating children from their parents, that are rejected by a vast majority of Americans.
    Trump’s likely Democratic opponents fare no better. //

  2. Twitter sentiment is like turdo la doo’s convictions. It has the appearance of being a mile wide, but it’s only a millimeter deep.

  3. Believing that tweets are representative of your customers/voters may lead to unintended consequences.

    Warning: Consequences are closer than they appear in the optical distortion of a convex side view mirror.

  4. And our Liberal government is paying a cool million a year to push that styrofoam iceberg where it needs it to be. And the “great” citizens, of this “great” country, are going to reelect them with an even greater plurality than the last time. And Scot Moe will continue his noble war “against” the carbon tax, by continuing to pay the carbon tax.

    It is time to burn it all down; live on your feet in the free west, or dies on your knees in Canada.

  5. Styrofoam Iceberg would’ve been a great name for a circa-1967 psychedelic rock band.

  6. dont have a twit acct.
    never twitted.
    a temp fakebook acct was in a fake name in a diff city etc.
    never been ID thefted either.

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