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You could run fascism or right wing racism with a different set of symbols, I would think, but... just as well they don't.

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Apart from this bunch of morons, every fascist movement to date managed to take some kitsch version of their own history for symbols.

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It's a pretty low bar to set, but they still managed to trip over it OTOH, it's a shame they've totally outmaneuvered the left online.

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I try here, but it seems it's so much easier to use twitter to make things worse than it is to make things better

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Aug 14, 2017

You can use this search link to see all the threads in my ever-growing #Twitter guide: twitter.com/search?f=tweet Or just start at the top: twitter.com/mwiik/status/8

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I feel like either we aren't talking about the same thing, the link is wrong, or I'm not properly understanding what it means. Clarify?

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It means that my early dreams about trying to make twitter into a truth machine were naive; it's much more of an outrage machine. #FML

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Well, Twitter is a mouthpiece for (most of) its users, no? It will be as we are.

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I think it goes **far** deeper than that. There are aspects of the left that make it far more vulnerable to button-tweaking than the right.

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I meant mostly that you'd need to start a new movement, not give better tools to a movement as incompetent as the current one.

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I'm not trying to start a movement. I started this deep dive into twitter initially b/c people were begging for

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to make changes that…

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Not saying you are. Saying the ones who are already working on it are not doing a very good job. I'd try to help, but very MEH on politics.

2:25 PM · Aug 14, 2017Twitter Web Client

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I'm pretty much desperate for work at this time, but my career skills are too old & out of date for much outside of using twitter