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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Jul 2019

    On the one hand, Twitter Is Not Real Life. On the other hand, Mean Lefty Twitter Is The Worst Thing Since Revolutionary Terror. Strangely, the same people seem to believe these things.

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      2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Jul 2019

        If I had to pick a position, I'd say Twitter Is Not Real Life. But it's more complicated: the real left isn't on twitter but in the upsurge of union militancy & popular protests. But many in elite use annoyance at Twitter critics as proxy for their anxiety about mass protests.

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Jul 2019

        The left is, as both God & Lenin would agree, often infantile. But no infantile leftism matches the sheer fecklessness of "twitter isn't real life but if the meanies on twitter don't stop criticizing me Trump will win."

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      4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Jul 2019

        Let's put this to the vote. The Twitter left is:

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      1. The Rob Crowe‏ @robcrowe00 27 Jul 2019
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        They are snowflakes.

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      1. Michael Low‏ @mlow29 27 Jul 2019
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        And mean righty Twitter?

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      2. Michele Kelly‏ @MkellyDc 27 Jul 2019
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        I wish mean lefty Twitter would put its actions where its tweets are.

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      3. Brandon Jonely  🌹‏ @Aldowyn 27 Jul 2019
        Replying to @MkellyDc @HeerJeet

        Hard to know how many of us/them (i do not deign to adjudicate whether I am part of "mean" lefty Twitter) are, really

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      2. Vetarnias‏ @Vetarnias 27 Jul 2019
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        "Twitter is not real life" has become meaningless now that this platform has become the means of communication privileged by the president of the United States.

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      3. Vetarnias‏ @Vetarnias 27 Jul 2019
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        I've said it before and I'll say it again: I very much imagine a war - a real geopolitical war, not a culture war carried out from the fringes - being started over a tweet.

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      2. Howard Prime‏ @BluishCheckMark 27 Jul 2019
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        I don’t understand what you are trying to say. What ppl mean when they say twitter is not real life, is that it represents a smaller percentage of the population than you would otherwise think, not that they don’t exist.

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      3. newznewznewz  ☮️‏ @newzandsuch 27 Jul 2019
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        He’s calling out the hypocrisy of the right. Either twitter doesn’t matter OR the leftists on twitter are a national threat. Both can’t be true but they hysterically claim it to be so.

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