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Karen Davis's avatar

My Aspie bookend children ages 26 & 28 got off Twitter years ago calling it a social cesspool. They’ve also figured out how not to be a-holes despite their awkward social skills. What rubs them the wrong way about the Twidiot-in-Chief is that he’s about the worst poster child for high functioning autistics you could get. He’s a provocateur for all the wrong reasons and when my two naive young men can see that you’d like to think the rest of his following could too. Hope for the masses is a hard thing…you’re constantly disappointed.

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Really enjoyed this one. Thanks for the link to the Weekly Standard piece. Almost 10 years old, and just as true as the day it was written. As a 35-year veteran of the journalism/communications biz I've had a front-row seat to the analog-to-digital transformation. I appreciate the technological advances -- my current laptop is considerably superior to the old Trash 80, and I enjoy reading books on a tablet -- but I'm also a social media luddite. I've had to use Twitter and its slightly less sinister cousin Facebook for professional purposes, but I avoid them in my personal life. I can't imagine there's too many people out there who care about my political opinions, or what I had for dinner.

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