"Teens with anime avis and display names like Dark Joker 5.0 have accomplished what the complete works of Noam Chomsky never could: they finally discredited the New York Times op-ed page." This is quite possibly true. https://www.carlbeijer.com/2019/09/i-was-wrong-about-twitter.html …
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seriously. polite people wouldn't point out how incredibly stupid they are at the cocktail parties their circles ran in pre-twitter, but all their colleagues are on twitter or near it, so they're here because their narcissism won't let them not be here.
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because they like to imagine themselves as voicing the perspective of the common man without actually interacting with the common man (except in Beirut taxis or whatever)
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BC it penetrates their ego and breaks their protective bubble in a way other forms can't, everyone has their phones with them 24/7
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it's the ratio
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i mean that seriously, it's staring them in the face, a concrete measure of how many people think they're right and how many think they're morons and the ratio does not flatter them
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Insults from equals are not as biting as ones from uppity commoners.
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On their nerves or under their skin. Choose one, you can't have both.
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