• thesprongler@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I get a little bit excited every time there’s a Breaking News alert on my phone. Unfortunately the definition of breaking news is now such that it basically means someone retweeted something stupid.

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      5 months ago

      GAME OVER: [Person with center-left politics/retired GOP politician with no skin in the game] TOTALLY HUMILIATES [Trump/MTG/any GOP demagogue] with argument

      …it’s a just a tweet into the void that nobody with any stake in said argument will ever read

      Thanks, HuffPost, MSNBC, et al, for basically all being MeidasTouch