Twitter C/D

all of these tweets about donating to the NC republicans to help them (!!) after someone firebombed their office are really something

fuck giving money to NCGOP obvs but could be a smart move strategically to loudly take make a big show of taking higher ground on something like this in face of all the brutal shit Trump supporters are going to do (and he's going to applaud)

it has zero strategic value

I mean, you know, if a Trump campaign worker was killed in the firebombing and people were donating to a gofundme to support his kids or something, maybe that's be "rising above differences." But this was a fucking insured building. What a bunch of rubes.

like you might think you are taking the higher ground, but what you are doing is donating money to the NC republican party. you are literally a donor to one of the more outspoken, anti-trans rights organizations in the country

otm

And really I think the fact that any liberals think this off-the-mark "good faith" act of pointless kindness would do anything to "heal the divide" or whatever just shows how naive and unprepared they are for the fight they are facing.

I said it myself on twitter, but if there is an olive branch to be extended to people in that group, this is not it. Outreach works best on a person-to-person basis. Having dinner and polite discussion with some NC republicans and a handful of your transgender friends might help you come to an understanding. Facelessly giving money to people halfway across the country because someone who is in no way associated with you did them harm, that is probably going to be covered by insurance, is asinine.

Maybe people have some false guilt about it? idk, I guess if you felt a little happy they were firebombed and are giving them cash to feel better about it, then maybe you need to work on divorcing your feelings from actions you had no part of

also lol: https://twitter.com/saladinahmed/status/787867882579435520

just cuz u don't like NCGOP (me neither) dosnt mean its unstrategic

p clear at this pt trump is going to go as dirty as possible, outclassing him probably the best move (although i hope she trolls him harder on wednesday night than she did the 2nd debate)

spraypainting 'nazi republicans get out of town' and torching the place is so badass tho lol

like you might think you are taking the higher ground, but what you are doing is donating money to the NC republican party. you are literally a donor to one of the more outspoken, anti-trans rights organizations in the country

― mh 😏, Monday, October 17, 2016 12:24 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's not about the literal moral higher ground, it's about how it's perceived

feel like itd be best to vandalize trump buildings tho

just cuz u don't like NCGOP (me neither) dosnt mean its unstrategic

― flopson, Monday, October 17, 2016 12:38 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah but their entire strategy is "we'll show them we go high and be sympathetic"

if it was to be a genuinely compassionate person, maybe wait to see what they actually need instead of throwing money in an online bucket immediately? if it's to reinforce your image, then maybe you should find a better group to support? if it's to convert voters, then maybe you're the vulture here?

udgi

how naive and unprepared they are for the fight they are facing.

― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Monday, October 17, 2016 12:26 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you mean the election she's about to win by a double digit margin? lol

did you guys see who actually started this harebrained donation fund, really

feel like itd be best to vandalize trump buildings tho

― lag∞n, Monday, October 17, 2016 1:46 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

can we get hoos on this

yeah, I totally get it, the idea is you donate to show
- you're not allied with people that destroy offices
- you're a sympathetic human being
- liberals are people too
- you are a cynical person who thinks the emotional allegiance of republicans can be bought in the wake of what isn't even that big of a tragedy by sending some money online for unspecified reasons

"sorry some people I don't even know bombed your office. I agree with what they wrote on the side of your building, though. If I give you some money will you not firebomb things, and maybe be less of a nazi?"

ur thinking too `Twitter`. irl election is all about the marginal Republican holding their nose to vote Trump staying home instead; seen cynically, this should budge that dial

yah, they might have the $$ to man a call center and get those republican voters to the polls

heh, true

the "funny" thing abt this is the republican nominee is actively consorting with actual nazis and every liberal in the world is all if i had been in germany 1933 i wldve stood up to those monsters, given the chance theyre donating money to the nazis

(in some weirdo moral grandstanding)

having said that it is likely a minor prob meaningless pr victory

feel like itd be best to vandalize trump buildings tho

― lag∞n

what's the point of vandalizing buildings that ugly, really

the county this is in has a five-to-one ratio of democrats to republicans

spite, i guess xp

the county this is in has a five-to-one ratio of democrats to republicans

― mh

and a local reputation for being "left of trotsky", to quote one of my nc fb friends

idk I just keep thinking about how someone might have done the landlord a favor if this is one of the buildings leased during campaign season that could really use a remodel

the local obama hq from some years ago (formerly a blockbuster video) got a big old remodel and is now one of my fave restaurants with reclaimed wood and all the 2016 cool restaurant signifiers

in a few years theyre gonna be kicking themselves for not preserving that authentic 1990s decor

Trump's buildings have the best style, tremendous styling

if this inspires someone in that county to be a very well-liked republican leader in the future who cites this as the beginning of their bipartisan records then I will enjoy the delicious egg on my face xp

funny thing is almost no trump buildings are actually owned by him these days, the developers just license his name, and now his name is mud, his primary revenue stream is dry

aint no one want another season of the apprentice

there's an account about drone delivery service called @dronesdelivery that seems to just retweet random shit with the word "drone" in it, including stuff about drone airstrikes killing people in Yemen and stuff that isn't even about drone aircraft at all

congrats you have now met a spambot, there are 1,000,000,000 more like it

i have removed my govt name from twitter and now feel free to say and do whatever i want

just flagged your account so you are forced to associate a phone number with your account

^_^

joke's on you, I signed up when twitter sent you text messages so they've had my number since 2006

i don't care if twitter knows, they don't care

i just said some very mean things about u on twitter though

dat mean u canno say whadever guy

i flag u

http://s2.quickmeme.com/img/bb/bbb8ba2835c418ef7d5d685134e9f620799a788179eadc6c8e008bdb59151747.jpg

ok nothing illegal

just jokes about illegal stuff

I started a rn semi-pro account to try to follow politics and industry news and stuff and occasionally tweet about it and my field in a more mature and less rageful way.

i have one of those but its fn boring, now i only use it to check the feeds of ppl who have blocked me on normal feed

yeah so far it's slightly useful in that there are some good specialized journalists and publications that I would probably forget to check on the web but now I just follow through my feed. It's already alerted me to a few stories I was glad to learn about and probably would have missed.

had my first block by someone i actually like (@delong) the other day, p bummed. I think he blocked me because I complained that he was using .@'s and was fucking up every thread he was in. yeesh

If you complain about someone in a petty way while @ing them you'll get blocked yeah