Alex Jones claims we’re going to start a civil war on the 4th of July. Darn it, my body armor’s at the cleaners!
What Democrat could bother starting a civil war, since Trump’s already close to achieving the conditions for one?
Apparently on Twitter, the left has decided to write their own Ken Burns letters from Civil War: The sequel:
The earliest tweets tended to have the general structure of most that have followed: use of stereotypes based on recent events and consumer culture, most having some ironic component.
Some are unclear about the POV of authorship using the original structure of Burns’ use of letters in a war narrative, likely due to not ever having watched the original film. So few are self-critical of being consumers of genre as a commodity, but that’s Twitter, the post-it-notes for false consciousness.
A few celebrities (Wilson, Schindler) have weighed in with more interesting entries that reflect their own abilities.
And then there’s the idiots trying to be clever but due to lexical limits only address their language sub-groups, much like original Trump tweets, reminding us how racist those incels on 4/8Chan are.
The less literate and generally more RW tended to bandwagon in, with it being fairly easy to separate the respective ideological biases (neoconservatives trying to punk the Trump cultists, gays making fun of Mike Pence, etc) from those doing a quick ad hominem hit.
Often there’s the forgetting the salutation and signature closing conventions used for analog letters rather than the conventions for emails or text messages.
Those doing actual parodic meta-criticism can therefore be separated in quality from the mere satirically reactionary. There are so few using images, and even fewer using them in interesting ways.
The tweet volume allows some probabilistic range of data to qualitatively estimate when there might be a bot written to generate such tweets. Trend data analysis should be interesting and this could be an interesting dataset until it gets co-opted.
And then there’s the trolls who try to condescend however humorlessly, which are as frequent as the spammers taking advantage of the hashtag, much like the stupidity of the causal meme from Alex Jones.
In a Culture War there certainly are casualties and collateral damage, but this was at least a laugh for a while until it settled back into the malaise that might occur when Trump or some other WH hack tries to use the hashtag.
Meanwhile, back in reality….
Dana Milbank: That’s why the left-vs.-center and insurgency-vs.-establishment constructs don’t fit this year.
Politico reported this last week that Our Revolution is in “disarray,” with “no ability to tip a major Democratic election.” Yet two months ago, after only two primaries, Politico reported that “the Bernie wing” had already won “the battle for supremacy” in the party.
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