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shanen

(349 posts)
Mon Sep 3, 2012, 03:44 PM Sep 2012

Can the RomneyBot distill wisdom into tweet-sized bits?

RomneyBot: I worked hard, though I never had to, but poor people will never work unless we force them to work like slaves.


That's the latest tweet of my RomneyBot. Is it capturing a pearl of wisdom? Actually I kind of think that's closer to how the Ayn-Randian Paul Ryan thinks, but another one of the problems of Twitter is that they evidently want to make it hard to handle more than one identity at a time. I prefer to focus on the RomneyBot, but maybe someone else wants to create a RyanBot?

As regards the analysis of the latest tweet, the ambiguity at the end is deliberate and almost an exploitation of the length limit. Does it mean wage slaves? Is it a reference to racists who wish they still had black slaves?

However, the main theme that was bothering me as I was composing this one was the twisted nature of the neo-GOP projections. They FIERCELY assume their opponents are terrible lazy people, among MANY other horrible traits. However, they also project their OWN worse traits and accuse their opponents of being and doing terrible things. There are so many examples that I don't know where to start, but I think the most dangerous might be "Obama will do ANYTHING to steal this election" while at the same time they are clearly doing anything they can imagine to steal the election. However I feel like going down the list...

Anyway, on the topic of RomneyBots on Twitter, there is another thread that contains a bunch of the tweets, but there was almost no interest in the topic. Is that a rejection of Twitter? Or the single RomneyBot linked to 25 other RomneyBots is just too trivial? So far I haven't managed to revive any of the others, as far as I can tell... It appears that most people who have created a RomneyBot have abandoned it fairly soon...

For whatever it's worth, I think a large number of active and linked RomneyBots could have an influence in the Twitterverse. I don't know if that would matter in the real world of elections bought by the neo-GOP...
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Can the RomneyBot distill wisdom into tweet-sized bits? (Original Post) shanen Sep 2012 OP
Criteria of politically successful tweet? shanen Sep 2012 #1
 

shanen

(349 posts)
1. Criteria of politically successful tweet?
Mon Sep 3, 2012, 04:29 PM
Sep 2012

Well, the tweet "I worked hard, though I never had to, but poor people will never work unless we force them to work like slaves" by the RomneyBot seemed to get under some people's skins... Not sure if it's a good advertising policy, but I selected some of the candidates from people who had just mentions "slaves" or "work", and also shared it with the herd of RomneyBots.

All things considered, not the impact of millions of paid political ads from the neo-GOP showing the Democrats as puppy-eating monsters. *sigh*

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