I’m dumbfounded that you think her message to Lilli was ghoulish. You seem to be parroting all those politicians who claim after a shooting, “This isn’t the time for politics.”
There are 22 more words here!
There are more words of sympathy than there are of Vote Harder!
I don’t think we’re going to agree here, but to me, telling a kid who just got shot that it’s up to her personally and her generation to stop gun violence is weird no matter how many sympathetic words you put in front of it.
Calling for gun control after a tragedy is absolutely warranted. Calling for actions from the victims themselves isn’t. Seems clear to me.
Everyone needs to take action. And yes the new generation is critical.
I think you have to be working very hard to be outraged by that tweet.
Scuzz
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Why would anyone assume she isn’t registered to vote?
Did you somehow miss “…if you haven’t already”?
Thrag
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It doesn’t come through in the transcript if they were addressing that person specifically or speaking in general with the statement about voting. It’s a tweet not a direct message. Twits commonly address the crowd/void in their replies and not just specifically the person being replied to.
Scuzz
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My bad, but you did cut off the tweet at exactly that point. I went with your quote instead of looking back at the original.
I was focusing on the first half of the tweet, in order to bring it to the attention of someone else who didn’t seem to know it was there. I wasn’t trying to trick anyone.
Scuzz
5637
Didn’t say you were. As I said, the mistake was mine.
Let’s spend the next 50 posts talking about a tweet!
Isn’t that CNN’s schtick?
Suffice is to say I am anti-Twitter, and would never use it as a source for anything. Glorified comment section because mirco-blogging isn’t a thing. (and if it is, it’s bloody fucking stupid as hell circa 2006)
If a renowned expert wants to drop a quick comment or two on their area of expertise, Twitter is pretty great. If you’re trying to peice together something happening real-time or that’s being hushed up for opsec, it can be a useful tool but there’s a very poor wheat/chaff ratio so it helps to keep an eye on who has been reliable. If you’re instead trying to glean insight into news or the current state of affairs and just taking first come, first serve on a search result then you’ll likely have a better time sticking your head in a blender.
ShivaX
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Yeah, it’s all about sources and points of data at the end of the day.
Which a lot of people are really bad at, so you end up with people citing Andy Ngo and thinking they’re onto something.
Nah. McSweeney’s illustrates the ‘Liberal’ Stupid Shit quite well in this regard…
Everyone posts tweets as a source AKA look at this Internet comment message!
