Republicans winning the battle for the internets.

[tpfkaw]

They're imposing "regime change" on the series of tubes!  I think this is because of their surge among Gen X . . .

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0810/41278.html

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[Lief 🗽]

[joke about how twitter users are generally idiots so it's not shocking that they'd support Republicans]

[Eraserhead]

Twitter is an evil force for conservatism/fascism. No sane leftist should ever become involved with it.

[CatoMinor]

Twitter is an evil force for conservatism/fascism. No sane leftist should ever become involved with it.

[Free Palestine]

[joke about how twitter users are generally idiots so it's not shocking that they'd support Republicans]

Hurrdurr people who support Republicans are stupid.  I'm so intellectual and liberal, only a stupid person would disagree with my ideology.

[The Mikado]

Man, the GOP can have Twitter.

[??????????]

[joke about how twitter users are generally idiots so it's not shocking that they'd support Republicans]

Hurrdurr people who support Republicans are stupid.  I'm so intellectual and liberal, only a stupid person would disagree with my ideology.

Remember, Fox News only makes up fake stories.

[cannonia]

It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes.

[Free Palestine]

It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes.

Too soon.

[Shilly]

[joke about how twitter users are generally idiots so it's not shocking that they'd support Republicans]

Hurrdurr people who support Republicans are stupid.  I'm so intellectual and liberal, only a stupid person would disagree with my ideology.

This post doesn't really help your case though.

[memphis]

Twitter is rather strange in that it's a new technology used primarily by olds. I can't think of another example of this phenomonom.

[J-Mann]

Twitter is rather strange in that it's a new technology used primarily by olds. I can't think of another example of this phenomonom.

Artificial hearts? Titanium hips?

[You kip if you want to...]

[joke about how twitter users are generally idiots so it's not shocking that they'd support Republicans]

Hurrdurr people who support Republicans are stupid.  I'm so intellectual and liberal, only a stupid person would disagree with my ideology.

Well, yeah...

[Хahar 🤔]

What a weird thread.

[angus]

They're imposing "regime change" on the series of tubes!  I think this is because of their surge among Gen X . . .

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0810/41278.html

reasonably interesting article.  there are facts.  (a sequence of them, by the way, and not a series.  there's a difference.  look it up.)  I think it's mostly bullshit.  Not that it's false, because it's real.  In the same way that the sight, stench, and feel of a heap of freshly-produced ungulate evacuate is real.  But it's just like that:  something to be noted, with caution, and then stepped over.

Then again, I don't do twitter.  And I am the quintessence of Generation X.  The phrase was coined the year I graduated from College to describe those just graduating from college.  We're arrogant and shallow.  Too young to care about the social mistakes of our hippie parents and too old to get hung up on social causes.  Nor do I care much for facebook.  (I'd like to claim that I don't do facebook either, but the truth is that I have at least seven accounts.  I keep creating them, usually for the purpose of looking at pictures of friends who are either too lazy or too stupid to actually send me digital photos of their children, and then I forget my username and/or password and have to create another facebook persona to go in and look at the next one who sends me to facebook.  So I'll just admit that I don't much care for facebook.)  But any time you read that so-and-so has x-million twits or y-million facies, just remember that most of them are redundant, since most twits, I suspect, are like most facies:  folks who have as many accounts as they have visits to those idiotic sites, owing either to a lack of sobriety, or perhaps malice, or, more likely, general forgetfulness.

As for McCain, he's about as lousy a Republican candidate as I can image.  Twits and tweets and geeks aside, this is the guy that managed to lose Indiana, after all.  He certainly didn't win my vote in the general election last time.  I managed to find the lever to vote for the other guy no matter how many piles of dung I had to step over to find it.

[Eraserhead]

Twitter is like the new AOL in some ways.

[Holmes]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyf4LGQdbB8&feature=player_embedded

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

The only think I've learned by reading this thread is that people really don't like Twitter.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

The only think I've learned by reading this thread is that people really don't like Twitter.

Gee, you mean people aren't interested in a site specifically designed for uber-attention whores who honestly believe other people really care about what TV show they are currently watching or what they are currently cooking for dinner? Most Twitter users make BushOklahoma look introverted. My point about "I am walking to the grocery store now" type posts was hyperbole, but on Twitter it's a reality.

[Lunar]

The only think I've learned by reading this thread is that people really don't like Twitter.

Twitter contains far more genius that people give it credit for.  Taking a complex thought down to 140 characters is a work of art.

Also: http://laughingsquid.com/twitter-the-movie/

[Citizen (The) Doctor]

When the GOP takes over 4chan, then I'll be convinced they've won the internets.

[The Mikado]

TheDoctor, did you see the Oregon Tea Party controversy?  Speaking of the GOP and 4chan. 

[Eraserhead]

I bet Mikado is on /b/ every day.

[The Mikado]

I bet Mikado is on /b/ every day.

No, actually, I've almost never been there.  I'm a goon, not an Anon.

[Citizen (The) Doctor]

TheDoctor, did you see the Oregon Tea Party controversy?  Speaking of the GOP and 4chan. 

LOL, I just found that haha.  Well at least they don't "own" the place yet (*shudders to think about the Palin fakes that would be put up*)