I genuinely seriously hate Twitter brain, this idea that "what's really going on" in *anything* -- culture, politics, law, science -- is reflected by what's trending on here Whatever value this website has is in talking about things that *don't* happen on here
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Obviously I'm one of "everyone on Twitter" and I say this because it's so damn painful realizing nothing you say or do here means a goddamn thing in the real world people actually live in, and it's so frustrating watching other people fuck around who haven't gotten that memo
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Like, shit, the disconnect between "Asian-American Twitter" and actual Asian America is HUGE All I have to do is talk to my relatives -- my parents or my brother -- to know that Are you shocked that 31% of self-IDed Asian voters voted for Trump? You shouldn't be
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People who were shocked that Aaron Coleman won his election in Kansas City Well, sure, Twitter dunked on him plenty, and big national pubs wrote op-eds roasting the fuck out of him -- read mostly by "plugged-in" politicos in big cities
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But the KC Daily Star put their attacks on him behind a paywall, and afaik the local evening news never actually did a spot on him (why would they, it's a single State House seat) He was "nationally viral" on Twitter but apparently never went locally viral in his hometown
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So, big surprise, the predictable fact that he was on the ballot unopposed means he won It's always like that People repeatedly shocked and confused that a tweet can go "viral" and get like 200,000 unique impressions and yet nobody who actually matters has ever even heard of it
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I still think about the Arab Spring and the incredibly self-aggrandizing role tech people gave Twitter in that whole series of events
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This nonsense where people deliberately conflated "using Twitter as a tool to evade censorship and communicate with people you already know irl" with the totally different, much stupider idea that "Twitter is where politics happens now, tweeting is organizing"
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People turning their pfps green and shit I really do feel like the wave of green-tinted icons that swept Twitter in 2009 encapsulates the utter narcissistic stupidity that would define the Western clique of "everyone on Twitter" for the next decade
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conclusion: Joe Biden lives in a society?
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I mean I maintain that this theoretical “everyone on Twitter” was still right on both counts, regardless of the mainstream success of both of these parties.
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