Littlejohn's brain wrote:bluebellnutter wrote:Jesus, now "Archduke Franz Ferdinand" is trending on Twitter. Apart from the fact both got shot somewhere in the eastern end of Europe, the two situations both internally and geo-politically really aren't even slightly similar.
People need to calm the fuck down already. 2016 has been shit but fucking hell.
This ironic we're all doomed act I'm seeing from some lefties on twitter is really starting to get on my nerves.
Not just Lefties.
As a tech person, I cringed when twitter was launched.
There are plenty of places where people can discuss stuff or "do social".
The character limit was (a few clever posts excepted) a guarantee of dumbing down.
I double-cringed when BBC radio started using twitter to script its evening news programming.
Twitter, for politics, has always been, and always will be a magnet for twits, shills and trolls.
See the 2 most prominent Manhattan residents, Mensch and Trump.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. Aristotle