Twitter C/D

He's a hidebound grump who hates millenials afaik

I had a IRL pal retweet lag∞n yesterday and that was weird. Worlds collide.

Half the people I follow now just seem to spaz about trump ever 43 seconds.

basically whats going on in my head but i try to keep it down to once an hour on the tl

i got mad today on twitter

― lag∞n, Friday, September 16, 2016 7:34 PM (thirty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Thats what twitter's all about innit?

i thought it was about jokes

can't stand FdB

humorless thin-skinned white dude campus leftist crybaby who blocks everyone who disagrees with him

he quit twitter forever for like a week a while ago lol

his tone is so sanctimonious and blegh that even when i agree w him my instinct is to disagree

lol flopson I haven't gotten any notifications so either I commented on a dead thread or he's blocked me in some way on fb now

it was a comment about this article: http://thebaffler.com/salvos/degrasse-tyson-kriss-atheists
he somehow missed the point and was complaining that homophobic, racist evangelicals are a much bigger threat than atheists so why are you picking on atheists

commented to this effect: imo if evangelical christianity disappeared tomorrow these people would still have the same in-group/out-group ideas and be just as racist/sexist/resistant to change

I mean, Trump is the great uniter of a bunch of these people and the far-right christian types fell over backward finding reasons to support his godless ways

Sounds like his schtick. he seemed overly concerned with the efficacy of the movement ("don't wate time criticizing what i perceive as a lesser evil, focus on overthrowing capitalism!")

Which is typical orthodox leftbro humorless impenetrability to the tenets of intersectional anti-oppressive movements.

It's like Marxists have never heard of the strategy of "doing both"

get you a movement can do both

I think we were just talking about FDB on another thread but I can't remember which, and I find him very hit-or-miss.

Or like they're scared that if they question any aspect of their beliefs then the whole edifice might collapse

Xxp

fdb is awful though to be fair i confuse him w/ friedersdorf

I started by following a bunch of liberal-to-left media people/bloggers etc. and so far my feed is kind of depressing, it's just this frenzy of people shitting themselves about trump's fallon appearance, trump's hotel thing, trump's hair, how the media should stop giving trump so much coverage, etc. I feel like there's a lot of denial going on about what the media is/are and about how good Trump is for it, even as its members express how upset they are over the phenomenon they are part of.

I still have all my election filters in place so I miss anything actually using the candidate names etc

we need better image recognition filters imo

Which is typical orthodox leftbro humorless impenetrability to the tenets of intersectional anti-oppressive movements.

It's like Marxists have never heard of the strategy of "doing both"

― slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Friday, September 16, 2016 3:15 PM (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

also just like, ur not gonna overthrow capitalism maybe ever but def not anytime soon so maybe in the meantime could do some of those things

My feeling is that capitalism is either going to fuck itself up, proving him right, or not, proving him wrong, and I can't really change that so I'm just gonna sit back and watch capitalism play itself right

(him = Marx)

It's like Marxists have never heard of the strategy of "doing both"

― slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Friday, September 16, 2016 3:15 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao otm

Idk, I'd much rather read Adolph Reed than FDB (not that I necessarily agree with either) but the critique of soft-liberal identity politics from the left seems like a useful provocation at times. Whether cranky Marxists are correct is less important than ensuring progressive politics doesn't end up as the endless repetition of woke dogma.

I started by following a bunch of liberal-to-left media people/bloggers etc. and so far my feed is kind of depressing, it's just this frenzy of people shitting themselves about trump's fallon appearance, trump's hotel thing, trump's hair, how the media should stop giving trump so much coverage, etc. I feel like there's a lot of denial going on about what the media is/are and about how good Trump is for it, even as its members express how upset they are over the phenomenon they are part of.

― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Friday, September 16, 2016 3:24 PM (twenty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

aw /sigh/

twitter is definitely better when you follow real people and not brands or companies, though prob 80% of my twitter use is to stay connected in my field so i do follow a lot of libraries, academic departments, universities, and orgs. i've been involved in a lot of diversity/inclusion/social justice work in my field so a good chunk of my feed is black lives matter and social justice stuff in higher ed. i think i need more weirdness though. using it for work too makes me hesitant and sometimes guarded to post certain stuff so i haven't really gone in 100%

i can't follow too many social justice accounts, a lot of them are just so high-frequency they instantly dominate yr feed. you get enough of it just by following normal people and seeing the RTs imo

idk if I'd call weird twitter "real people" but they're familiar to me

a lot of them are just so high-frequency they instantly dominate yr feed.

yes!

Idk, I'd much rather read Adolph Reed than FDB (not that I necessarily agree with either) but the critique of soft-liberal identity politics from the left seems like a useful provocation at times. Whether cranky Marxists are correct is less important than ensuring progressive politics doesn't end up as the endless repetition of woke dogma.

― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Friday, September 16, 2016 2:50 PM (twenty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah I think there is something to this. It's sort of a fine line because some of the stuff fueling the "woke dogma" is very legit, but it can also lead into this terrible maze of individualistic/atomized non-analysis. Also because in this election all that "woke" stuff was pretty quickly coopted by the Clinton campaign and used against Bernie Sanders supporters.

I would follow you marcos! I keep twitter totally separate from my professional life tho
I am @joshuabizabcock

I basically just follow friends, ILx0rs, and the occasional entertaining celebrity account (Ralph Bakshi, Daniel Pinkwater, Sarah Silverman, Julia Wertz etc.) I can handle people that post a million things a day though gtfo with that shit

tweeting constantly is what twitters for actually

tweeting constantly is what twitters for actually

lol

heh

good one very timely

also fwiw imo the discussion the media is having amongst itself rn re how to cover trump is extremely important and may save human civilization from violet collapse, even tho its "the media" criticizing "the media" which i know is hard to understand

it's very important and will not amount to anything because they aren't going to suddenly stop needing ratings/views/clicks

It's also a "discussion" that has been going on for like 9 months now to no avail.

ah yes clickbait lol

it's very important and will not amount to anything because they aren't going to suddenly stop needing ratings/views/clicks

yup

my twitter is good content

still - I look forward to the tweet that saves human civilization from violent collapse, what a glorious tweet that will be, enshrined forever in the annals of human history

clickbait actually --http://www.adweek.com/socialtimes/files/2012/03/twitter-egg-icon.jpg

still - I look forward to the tweet that saves human civilization from violent collapse, what a glorious tweet that will be, enshrined forever in the annals of human history

*cracks knuckles* guess it's time for me to return to twitter

finally techbros will rest contentedly, secure in the knowledge that they have indeed made the world a better place rather than a non-navigable cesspool of misinformation, lies, and racism-filled comment boxes

if you think the medias important you might want to also consider the fact that where they talk amongst themselves cld also be important, or maybe all the ppl itt who are all i dont really use twitter but these are my expert opinion on cld be right

the boilerplate sighing and sarcasm i guess vaguely resembles insight if u squint or close yr eyes altogether