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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You can use this search link to see all the threads in my ever-growing #Twitter guide:
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Or just start at the top: twitter.com/mwiik/status/8
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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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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'm not trying to start a movement. I started this deep dive into twitter initially b/c people were begging for to make changes that…
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...they could have done themselves via fully using the existing twitter mechanisms, though these were not readily apparent.
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(btw, all the links in my initial reply here work for me, if they don't work for you, please be specific & I will try & fix if I can)
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It's not that. I simply did not understand the connection with the tweet you were replying to at first.
It is difficult to expose the problems I see with the left (as it involves twitter use) in a form which is both clear yet not insulting.
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It's quite possible I'm just delusional, but as I saw it the tragedies in Charlottesville showed left & right escalating the situation...
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