Twitter is actually a positive political development. Watching kingmakers and academics present their case unedited is the most visceral argument against technocracy I can think of. Papa Vlad: "The bluechecks will sell us the tweets with which we will own them."
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Replying to @lou_keep
It's just because they haven't really adapted to the format yet. The ratio of clarifications/context to "meat" in average bluecheck tweet is, unfortunately, growing.
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Replying to @chernobylski
I mean, fair enough. Hot takes are hot takes. Still, the fact that heat-of-the-moment elites act like angry teenagers is kind of the point. Less interested in their clarifications than their instincts, especially when it comes to politics.
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Replying to @lou_keep
They will inevitably make singular tweets unisolatable - the same process that happened with TV broadcasts. It took ~20 years to quell natural instincts there, culminating in Obama-like speech design. But agree that it's good while it lasts.
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This sounds interesting! Do you have a link to anything that describes this phenomenon?
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