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RT @SethAbramson: (UPDATE2) Big House of the Dragon surprise coming to RETRO in a few hours! I have a follow-up to my last article on HOTD—… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: I know, Julia knows, the American people know, and the Kremlin knows that a Red vote on November 8 is 100% a vote for Rus… — PolitiTweet.org

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One can get discourse on this phenomenon as easily from academia alone as one can learn about both sides of the Force by speaking only to a Jedi. — PolitiTweet.org

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The question is not, is the internet changing us, or could we have avoided that change, or how destructive will that change be, but will digital culture—chaotic as its transitions are—be *efficient* enough at hurtling us through this period of human evolution, or linger overlong. — PolitiTweet.org

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Yes, of course the internet renegotiates our relationship with reality. That is banal. But that renegotiation preceded the internet, and in fact the internet operates as a quickening that hurries us *past* the growing pains of this process faster than would otherwise be the case. — PolitiTweet.org

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Just yesterday, Liz Cheney, who follows this feed, echoed something I wrote years ago: Trumpism has initiated the end of the Republican Party. The question was always how dangerous things would get during the variably long period in which this happens. It remains a key question. — PolitiTweet.org

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In other words, it’s not about what the internet lets people do—but how it enables them to feel and relate to themselves and others. The former is a bounded set, the latter unbounded. Looking only at the former makes the future seem inevitable; the latter, perpetually transitory. — PolitiTweet.org

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Digital culture both supersedes and organically erodes digital infrastructure—this is #metamodernism at work—so those still grappling with the latter are ill-equipped to even enter (let alone start) a conversation about how digital *culture* will be the final arbiter of this era. — PolitiTweet.org

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Teaching journalism at UNH, I saw that much scholarship in the field is turgid because it engages digital-era infrastructure but not digital culture, and is insufficiently interdisciplinary. The internet remains our best hope for beating autocracy—but not in the way most suppose. — PolitiTweet.org

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All this is wrong—the initial line of thinking and self-correction; wrong historically and wrong conceptually—and I aim to write a RETRO article on this soon. The main thing is that the phenomena Rosen identifies are pre-internet, and digital hyper-atomization poses a *solution*. — PolitiTweet.org

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But they don’t dwell in the same space, Jay. Kari Lake—say—doesn’t think she’s in an election; she thinks she’s the slow-motion victim of a far-left election-fraud conspiracy her opponent is aiding and on this basis won’t agree to accept election results. What “same space,” that? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: (🔐) NEW at RETRO: Bothsidesism Invades Westeros: An Incredible First Season of House of the Dragon Ends with a Wet Fart… — PolitiTweet.org

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@RevolverOPSalot That is true. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jeffkravitz I realize. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ShoalBear Yes. Not every tweet can encompass 90+ years of controversy. — PolitiTweet.org

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PS3/ I would also wait until you get your first job in professional (as opposed to amateur) media before you put anyone else’s credentials in your mouth, let alone Asha’s. — PolitiTweet.org

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PS2/ Asha needs no one to defend her, and is indeed far tougher than me. I write you, @BradleyDevlin, because for some reason you’re a follower of my feed—and therefore I can be certain you’ll see it when I dress you down like the recalcitrant child you’re working so hard to ape. — PolitiTweet.org

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PS/ Bradley, understand that when you leave your far-right safe spaces you enter Adult World—where everyone knows no “city was burned down,” climate change is provably real, mass looting is something gangs of opportunistic organized criminals often pursue, and people change jobs. — PolitiTweet.org

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No city was burned down and no leader applauded arson. Analyses concluded the looting was largely by organized crime. I don’t know what a climate tantrum is but imagine it involves agreeing with 98% of scientists. I publicly opposed statue-toppling. Bradley—you sound hysterical. — PolitiTweet.org

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@RevolverOPSalot Don’t care. Must happen either way. Any hypothetical ex post PR debate is no reason not to do what’s objectively the right thing and do it right now. — PolitiTweet.org

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(MORE) https://t.co/aC6fnAGdQ2 — PolitiTweet.org

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This *isn’t* a real Adidas ad. But it *is* the message that Jews—in fact, people around the world—are getting from Adidas right now. If Adidas doesn’t #DropKanye, it’s making clear to prospective customers in perpetuity that an antisemite *can* be a face and voice for its brand. https://t.co/feIjKPvmCH — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @NatashaBertrand: ...and dialogue. We have not heard any reciprocal statement or refrain from Moscow that they are ready in good faith t… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @NatashaBertrand: State Dept spokesperson Ned Price's response to this today: “In order for diplomacy to take place, there have to be pa… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @GuardianUS: US accuses Chinese spies of plot to steal secrets in Huawei investigation https://t.co/tRRAe6AOPD — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @attn: .@BarackObama has some thoughts for Gen Z about Pete Davidson's dating life, aliens, and why you should register to vote. Go to… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MacFarlaneNews: Standby... hearing is beginning in OathKeepers seditious conspiracy case... As judge determines next steps... now that… — PolitiTweet.org

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I know, Julia knows, the American people know, and the Kremlin knows that a Red vote on November 8 is 100% a vote for Russia. There’s simply no arguing the point anymore. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MuellerSheWrote: BREAKING: Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman pled GUILTY to felonies in a robocall scheme in which they targeted 85,000 voter… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Acyn: Crist: I’m pro-business. I want to make sure we keep our businesses open. I’m not the Governor who attacked Walt Disney World.. I… — PolitiTweet.org