Twitter also gets you uncut brainworms with prominent peoples' names on it, which is fantastic. Never before have we had a window into the mind of a guy like Chuck Grassley
100% agreed. It's also a great means of chipping away at the myth that people in power usually get there by being especially smart or capable. If you can see that members of the American aristocracy are on the same page as that dumb guy you know from work, that might translate into a greater willingness for people to radically depart from the "common sense" of that aristocracy.
I still think there's far more good-faith discussion on twitter
and the lack of downvotes also adds to that, but a lot of it also has to do with the user populace
Twitter also gets you uncut brainworms with prominent peoples' names on it, which is fantastic. Never before have we had a window into the mind of a guy like Chuck Grassley
I feel like this is a good thing.
The bad takes being short and uncut makes them harder to hide, easier to see.
If you can dress them up with a lot of unnecessary jargon, you can make it seem like you have a point, when you don't.
100% agreed. It's also a great means of chipping away at the myth that people in power usually get there by being especially smart or capable. If you can see that members of the American aristocracy are on the same page as that dumb guy you know from work, that might translate into a greater willingness for people to radically depart from the "common sense" of that aristocracy.