The saddest Twitter is people in Turkey or Hong Kong try to interpret presidential tweets as part of a coherent framework representing some sort of long-term strategy. There's so much at stake, but nobody believes it's who talked to him last or what was just on Fox and Friends.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Lindsey Graham
I’ve been staring at this and wondering which government he’s more desperate to reach by tweeting at them—Turkey or US? (Rather than using any actual official channel...). Future historian: “But he hadn’t @ either”.https://twitter.com/lindseygrahamsc/status/1181714248977833984 …
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The defining characteristic of our time is elite failure and corruption. Everything else flows from that.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Lindsey Graham
He figured out how to actually reach the president! Being a senator from the same party:
Twitter:
Fox and Friends:
https://twitter.com/lindseygrahamsc/status/1181907363294404609 …zeynep tufekci added,
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Now people in Turkey and probably in Northern Syria are trying to figure this out. If this doesn’t kill the myth and the conspiracy of the omnipotent USA directing everything from afar, I don’t know what will.
If the stakes weren’t so high, we could laugh at the hilarity.pic.twitter.com/K2wkgPfFTs
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On the contrary, I'd expect it to feed the myth that there's a competent hidden hand running everything behind the scenes, since the alternative is unthinkable. (That applies to people reading in the US too)
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Nate Schenkkan
This is my current galaxy brain take:https://twitter.com/nateschenkkan/status/1184561715398266882 …
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I really like Mulaney's "horse in a hospital" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU2ye11FyIQ …
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