• andys_nuts [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Twitter also gets you uncut brainworms with prominent peoples' names on it, which is fantastic. Never before have we had a window into the mind of a guy like Chuck Grassley

    • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Twitter also gets you uncut brainworms with prominent peoples’ names on it, which is fantastic.

      I feel like this is a good thing.

      The bad takes being short and uncut makes them harder to hide, easier to see.

      If you can dress them up with a lot of unnecessary jargon, you can make it seem like you have a point, when you don't.

      • andys_nuts [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        100% agreed. It's also a great means of chipping away at the myth that people in power usually get there by being especially smart or capable. If you can see that members of the American aristocracy are on the same page as that dumb guy you know from work, that might translate into a greater willingness for people to radically depart from the "common sense" of that aristocracy.