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To: snarkytart

“”The entire social media platform is toxic and killing
freedom””

It won’t end until social media ends. Anyone could see this coming from a long way off - nothing but problems. How did the country survive before it? Well enough, thank you very much.

I wonder if the fund stays intact...surely hope so. Candace did the right thing and bless her.


21 posted on 06/07/2020 2:36:01 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Thank You Rush

It won’t end until the left is running for their lives.


26 posted on 06/07/2020 2:39:33 PM PDT by robowombat (Orthodox)
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To: Thank You Rush

It’s the twenty-first century Tower of Babel.


46 posted on 06/07/2020 3:19:20 PM PDT by LateBoomer
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To: Thank You Rush
“”The entire social media platform is toxic and killing freedom””

It won’t end until social media ends. Anyone could see this coming from a long way off - nothing but problems. How did the country survive before it? Well enough, thank you very much.

To put this into the perspective it deserves:

“From the London Times of 1904” – Mark Twain – published 1898

Funny to think of “1904” as being in the distant future!

In this short story (written at a time when the landline telephone was a new thing), Mark Twain dreamed up an invention called the “telelectroscope”.

In the story, this telelectroscope used the phone system to support a global network for information sharing (Um, anyone else thinking dial-up?) which would be visible and audible from anywhere. His short story involved people from around the world being able to keep up to date with each other’s daily deeds, to quote “the daily doings of the globe made visible to everybody, and audibly discussable too, by witnesses separated by any number of leagues”. So, basically, he predicted both the internet and social media way back in 1898 when most people hadn’t even heard the sound of a phone ringing.

7 Science Fiction Stories that predicted the internet (and how we use it)
49 posted on 06/07/2020 3:34:50 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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