Twitter C/D

One guy's head way too big for his body, one guy's head way too small for his body. Goddamn mutants.

Is Ackman the subject of numerous sexual assault accusations too?

no, he’s an ostensible social liberal rich guy who doesn’t have any real interest in the world but decided to use his financial/social capital to protect his israeli wife’s interests by awkwardly thrusting her further into the light, day by day

he also met up with and has been boosting that one guy who is challenging Biden for the dem ticket. apparently the one artifact of his genius guidance has been the deletion of anything that looks like diversity, equity, inclusion from the campaign platform

also he’s been doing X spaces with Elon & co. just a divorced from reality idea about what’s relevant. the average voter probably just thinks “these are guys I heard of who went a little kooky lately” if they know them at all

idk maybe everyone does have Brand Brain now but outside of the people who spend way too much time there, I assume most Barstool readers just see it as a casual funny thing they browse and not a part of their identity. not that familiar, but I think the entire personal alignment with stuff like that is not the norm?

Last January, I noticed something peculiar in my 2yo’s bedroom that - after a year of obsessive reporting - led me to a profound cosmic revelation about what’s even possible in our universe. A 🧵. pic.twitter.com/pHFStIdawh

— Latif Nasser (@latifnasser) January 26, 2024

read it earlier, excellent thread

moon-lore need its own thread!

Last January, I noticed something peculiar in my 2yo’s bedroom that - after a year of obsessive reporting - led me to a profound cosmic revelation about what’s even possible in our universe. A 🧵. pic.twitter.com/pHFStIdawh

— Latif Nasser (@latifnasser) January 26, 2024

oh ffs i mean this: a million moons

Just posted that to say hey twitter can still have wholesome content plz sign up

every time I log into twitter now I have a few follows from women called like Firstname_Lastname34 who have ~5000 following, ~25 followers, no posts and obviously scraped profile photos, they don't seem to be sending me messages, so no idea what form of spam this is yet.

while ago i was curious what the fake egirl followers were about so id add them to a list when they followed me and occasionally check in but they never did anything, they were all the same theyd post a few photos follow a bunch of people then go dormant and eventually get banned, idk what the deal was possible whoever was doing it was aging the accounts cause maybe the platform considers them more legit if theyre on there for longer and i just didnt follow them for long enough but they mostly seemed get banned in big purges so its a mystery, guess they couldve been dming the the people who followed them back trying to scam them

I can't with all these libs mourning the Lost Golden Age of Twitter gtfo it was always a shithole

As someone who has a broad experience with literal shitholes located beneath genuine shithouses I can attest that some shitholes are far more disgusting than others. just sayin'

this tweet is like a small work of art

"Bears are not 'just like dogs' and should not be kept as pets. You should never feed or approach a bear." pic.twitter.com/2X7FZ0PRVA

— Daniel (@growing_daniel) January 29, 2024

I don't really use Twitter much anymore but when I do hop on I always see something like this:

Cannabis is a silent epidemic wreaking havoc on the American family.

A friend brought some of these over and I drank two around 8pm.

My body completely shut down and I slept from 9pm until 10am. I slept through Sunday Mass.

How is this legal, with such innocent packaging? pic.twitter.com/8ziBXSmfYt

— Justin Murphy (cath/acc) (@jmrphy) February 4, 2024

look, ten years ago I would've instantly diagnosed this as a troll, but nowadays it's kind of hard to tell because right wing influencers really are that clueless sometimes. of course it absolutely is, because this drink has no THC in it, plus that "I missed Sunday Mass" bit is a bit too on the nose. but it makes me wonder why things are this way now - are the Charlie Kirks, Candice Owens, Jordan Petersons, Ben Shapiros, etc etc really that stupid, or do they pretend to be? does it really matter? the point is that we're past the point of outrage bait now and now firmly in an era where you drive engagement simply by posting the dumbest, most braindead shit possible. and this has seeped into every faction of Twitter too, like NBA Twitter is full of fake quotes and idiotic comparisons, where you're not actually trying to say anything but rather get people responding to your posts so it reaches as many people as possible. I guess all forms of social media have this problem, but Twitter now is actively incentivizing this, which is why things got notably worse the instant Elon started offering to pay people who got a lot of engagement. and now everyone's a Krassenstein brother. even the people I follow who I still *like* - the ones I'll actually open Twitter for - cannot help but respond to this shit.

pretty funny you can safely assume this guy is chronically sleep deprived and is mad about finally sleeping

"my body completely shut down" sleep is the cousin of death

look, ten years ago I would've instantly diagnosed this as a troll, but nowadays it's kind of hard to tell because right wing influencers really are that clueless sometimes. of course it absolutely is, because this drink has no THC in it, plus that "I missed Sunday Mass" bit is a bit too on the nose. but it makes me wonder why things are this way now - are the Charlie Kirks, Candice Owens, Jordan Petersons, Ben Shapiros, etc etc really that stupid, or do they pretend to be?

― frogbs, Tuesday, February 6, 2024 10:05 AM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

could be an ad tbf

are the Charlie Kirks, Candice Owens, Jordan Petersons, Ben Shapiros, etc etc really that stupid, or do they pretend to be?

yes

heh

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slightly worried about getting murdered, got to get these "leftists drive like this" tweets off tho

they used to make westerns abt guys like this

idk how yall feel about Stancil but I think he is generally right about social media making everyone insane

He certainly seems a bit insane

Whoever he is

i think hes a genuine idiot whos farming engagement by making everyone hate him

he's right about this though

its not an original or unusual observation, the only difference is stancil is using it as part of his most annoying guy possible routine

and im sure hes totally wrong about how it functions tho i cant claim to be a deep stancilologist

Hstancil

I keep thinking he's someone who reeeeaaaaalllly loves a pencil

What people see on Twitter is still made up of what people say on Twitter.

Which raises the question: if a tweet drops in the forest of promoted blue checks and ad inserts so that no one sees it, does it still make a sound?

I am generally sympathetic to his political views, but I think he is largely motivated by a belief that posting is Important because it shapes the discourse ("proud member of Do Something Twitter"), which can lead him to act hysterical at times because he's convinced himself that what he's doing is very high stakes. I think I followed him for a time but stopped because I just found him kind of annoying -- and he would end up in my feed pretty regularly anyway.

problem with Stancil's argument is the higher the ratio of Nazis/bots/crypto scammers Twitter has the less culturally relevant it'll be

its pretty generous to say that stancil has political views, i would say he more has politics fever

online centrist pundits are funny whatre doing no ones ever going to invite you to davos whats the point of all this

its sad they missed the blogging to legitimacy pipeline, now whats left some sort of smoldering wasteland, a single voice crying over the horizon "chappo trap house needs to vote"

I'm not really on Twitter much anymore, so maybe he's changed, but I don't really consider Stancil a centrist. I think of him as a standard liberal wonk who's frequently frustrated with the Democratic Party -- but not because it's too far left but because it's sclerotic and out of touch with the modern information environment. (Brian Beutler is another guy in that lane.)

for me personally its important not to develop an opinion on any of these people

WS is apparently relatively effective in his day job but is channeling hard GWB-era blogger vibes in a space that is 1. not a blog 2. exists in 2024, not 2004

it was kind of funny when people from his state were asking him wtf he was doing and he was replying with "I don't know who you are" to people who were like "we have talked in person and we have been to the same events"

eerie resonance between the old democrat obsession with the mythical swing voter and the online democrat obsession with the the legendary non voting socialist, canvasing windmills

Unfortunately when you're online you run into a lot of non-voting socialists

its not actually a lot, is the thing

they're just loud

are they even or are people just very interested in them, for whatever reasons.......

there are a lot of non voters in the country, are a lot of them high info socialists taking a stand, no

suspect that even most of the highly engaged in the is voting important argument people from the its not that important leftist side are in fact voters, and theyre mostly just reacting to very annoying dense people like will stancil

cause whatre you gonna do engage in a thoughtful debate on the merits of civil society with that fucking freak

there are a lot of non voters in the country but the non-voters who are online talking about politics tend to be socialists

And they are very concerned about vote shaming