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1. Member
   RightAngles

   @RightAngles

   7:38 AM EST ⋅ Dec 15, 2019

   Jon1979 (View Comment):

   You know, it’s not really a childishly angry celebrity reaction to an election that didn’t go their way until at least 2-3 of them have tweeted out they’re moving to Canada, because they refuse to accept the voters’ decision (though with Britain, I suppose the angry progressive celebs could move to France, because everything going so great right now for Macron over there…..)

   Ha! OH they’ll love Canada, where they’re allowing themselves to be invaded and outnumbered by immigrants in turbans and hijabs who are running for elected office.

2. Coolidge
   TBA

   @RobtGilsdorf

   2:26 PM EST ⋅ Dec 15, 2019

   Judge Mental (View Comment):

   The Cloaked Gaijin (View Comment):

   I wish Twitter would stop showing me tweets from hopeful hours ago — Nigella Lawson

   I was somewhat surprised to see this as she is Jewish and her father is Nigel Lawson who was Chancellor of the Exchequer in Margaret Thatcher. He is somewhat famous for saying that “the NHS (single-payer health care) is the closest thing the English people have to a religion.” Apparently he chaired the Vote Leave campaign.

   I remember how Dennis Miller mentioned that he upset Nigella Lawson’s cooking segment once.

   Miller fished out a big hunk of brown meat and bit into it. His gastronomic appraisal: “Yeah – that’s Dead Animal all right.” Quivering with barely controlled rage and contempt, Lawson bade Miller try some dessert- a Meringue/Pomegranate confection she called “Massacre In The Snow”, which Miller described as “Dessert for the Donner party”. … Miller summed up her reaction at the end of the show: “We’ve got a copy of her book here and I think the Author’s picture gave me the finger too!”

   I gotta believe a fair portion of the anger came from being named Nigella.

   If only the birthing doctor had known how to properly spell ‘Nutella’. 

3. Coolidge
   TBA

   @RobtGilsdorf

   2:32 PM EST ⋅ Dec 15, 2019

   Jon1979 (View Comment):

   RightAngles (View Comment):

   

   During the worst of the ESPN wokeness kerfuffle with former president of the network John Skipper two years ago, Fox Sports’ Clay Travis made the point that Skipper and ESPN were programming their network based on the idea that angry SJW users on Twitter represented a far higher percentage of their audience than was actually out there. They in essence killed their ratings to make a tiny fraction of people (and possibly their sock puppets) on social media happy, when you can never be woke enough to make those people happy, and you can argue that Disney just did the same thing in crashing their main “Star Wars” franchise, by marketing the latest trilogy towards making angry progressives on Twitter happy, because they somehow have convinced themselves the woke crowd represented the bulk of their young target audience.

   Labour did roughly the same thing in the run-up to Thursday’s election, and the question now is whether or not the same phenomenon is going to hit the Democratic Party 11 months from now, when the 2020 election takes place. Are they going to think that catering to the angry woke SJWs on social media is the path to victory, because the vast majority of people under 35 and urban-dwellers all think that way, or are they going to back away before next November and risk the ongoing wrath of the Twitter mobs?

   In the olden days of  yore back-whensome years ago there was a rubric that X amount of letters that get written to your company (complaints usually) were equal to a larger amount of the population who cared but not enough to write letters. 

   Twitter turns this on its head as even the people who do comment on something don’t necessarily care; many are simply signalling to their inactivist friends.