Tag: Social media

Politics on Social Media

I think a lot of political discussion on social media is… like unproductive cause the actual complete answer is book length and really complicated and like you have an answer, in fact several people have written really thorough answers to the question/responses to the argument, but like a response of “this book explains why you’re wrong” doesn’t work as a productive argument because social media discussion sort of exists in a limited time frame so…???

Like I mean it’s mostly that like it’s just not suited to the platform and like maybe we could create a better one for discussing politics but I don’t know what’d look like.

robtromboning:

let me demonstrate my point wrt doctoring social media using my twitter

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here’s my original tweet here

if i right click and click “inspect element” on chrome and find the line that says my actual tweet like so

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and select that line, right click, and click “edit as html”

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I can type in whatever i want like this

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and like that i can make a screenshot that says that i like to eat children and use it to call myself out

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and thats why you should’t believe screenshots of tweets at face value w/o a link to the original tweet

This is important