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  1. Twitter is a propaganda intercom system for people who like short bits and simplified information.

    Thus, that is why it has mass market appeal.

    As for the Left, they will never give up. Short of Death itself.

  2. A khasuren di kalleh is tsu shayn
    (A fault-finder complains even that the bride is too beautiful)

    Der vos hot nit farzucht bittereh, vaist nit voz zies iz
    (He who has not tasted the bitter does not understand the sweet)

    A shlamazel falt oifen ruken un tseklapt zikh dem noz.
    (A fool falls on his back and bruises his nose)

    and some favs without the translations:

    Ver es varft oif yenem shtainer krigt tsurik in di aigeneh bainer.

    A meiseh moyd hot faynt dem shpigl.

    A ligner glaibt kainmol nit

    sum shtain zol men klogen nor nit bei zikh zol men trogen.

    Fun kinah vert sinah.

    Im hatimtoon haya tippa, ata hayita okianoos!

    Tsedokeh zol kain gelt nit kosten un gemilas-chassodim zolen kain agmas-nefesh nit

    Enjoy!! Yiddish is wonderful in its rich sayings and wisdoms… and a lot easier to understand than vedas, tsun tsu, etc…

  3. im sorry… i need to put up one more that really really sums up twitter and this stuff.

    Drayt zakh vee a foorts in roosl.
    blunders around like a fart in the pickle-barrel
    (One who has no idea where he’s going or what he’s doing there)

  4. Don’t forget to notify the T&S gang when YOU are offended, and their advertisers and board of directors that they are working toward driving you away, to the detriment of their various bottom lines

  5. Mr ghost, you are too clever for words.

    I agree with you Neo, just not into it. Twits tweeting!\

  6. Ymarsakar:
    “Twitter is a propaganda intercom system for people who like short bits and simplified information.”

    It’s a news feed with links, too.

    Ymarsakar:
    “As for the Left, they will never give up.”

    They are beatable, though.

    Generally speaking, genuine activists don’t give up and the Left is activist. So, the way it works is activists never give up … the Left is activist … as for the Left, they will never give up.

    The way to compete against the Left that never gives up is to be activist that never gives up.

    You’re right that they never give up, but once you play the game needed to compete for real in the arena, the Left can be displaced while the social condition they’ve constructed can be deconstructed and reconstructed in the form you prefer. Of course, the game never ends because once displaced, they can push back by the same method and assert their social preference. Then you can push back as long as you’re still activist.

    At this point, the Left seems nigh unstoppable only because they’re virtually unchallenged by their putative competition, the Right, in the only social cultural/political game there is.

    In my experience, once the Left is confronted head-on with real competition, activist-vs-activist, they’re as beatable as anyone else in any other competitive team game.

    The notion that the Left can be neutralized only by “Death itself” is a cop-out. The vast majority of conservatives reject activism out of hand, therefore, they have yet even to try to compete versus the Left in earnest.

    It’s very easy for any competitor, leftist or otherwise, not to give up when they can leisurely run up the score and reap the spoils of victory practically unopposed by a putative competition that refuses to compete.

  7. I second the disinterest. If “the soul of whit is brevity”, then the flip side of brevity is mental laziness. By definition, the mentally lazy lack both depth of understanding and breadth of intellect.

  8. I’ve been on Facebook for four or five years and have mostly enjoyed it, but it can sometimes be pretty trying. Even more, it can be a huge distraction. I went off it for Lent this year and am considering not going back. I do like having contact with old friends and distant relatives, and have even had a few civil discussions about controversial subjects. Also a few very nasty ones.

    But Twitter: I knew from the moment I heard of it that it was not for me. The worst thing about Facebook is the quick-hit political snark, and the damned “memes”. And as far as I can tell Twitter is pretty much nothing but that stuff, except when it’s the most trivial of trivia.

  9. I never really got Twitter either, although I have an account – for book publicity, mostly.
    It seemed to be more for drive-by one-line sarcasm (which some wits can use to good effect, like Iowahawk) but I am just more into longer-form blogging.

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