Tag: Twitter
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Republicans Are What Happens When Tribalism Goes Nuclear
Americans are going to the polls – at a mid-term – in record numbers. That includes a lot more of the youth vote than has ever voted before. It also includes a lot more women. They registered to vote – many for the first time – because the Supreme Court took away their rights! And,…
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Why Don’t More Men Get Themselves “Snipped”?
Full transparency (this is the part where I drop trow). I’m “snipped”. In 2002, a year after my daughter (child number two) was born, after a series of conversations with my wife, I agreed to undergo a vasectomy – as the principle form of birth control my wife and I would use going forwards. This…
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Why (Unfortunately) Twitter Matters
In a logical world, social media shouldn’t matter the way it does. In a logical world, everyone would have access to the same information. We all might judge it differently but at least we’d all be starting from the same place: a reality based on what we all agree we know. I canceled my Facebook…
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Racism – Like Beauty – Is In The Eye Of The Beholder
Asking a racist if he’s a racist is like asking a stupid person if he’s stupid. Guess how he’s going to answer. In fact, even having to ask if someone’s a racist usually means the person asking the question either IS a racist himself or has no idea what racism is — which means he…
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Can Twitter Be Fixed? Or Has “The Fix” Always Been In At Twitter?
When I turned on my computer this morning, I learned that I am now banned from Twitter for a week. The offending tweet (I sooooo wish I had taken a few more moments before responding and screen captured it) was mild to put it bluntly. I said I wished that Donald Trump – with his…