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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by smackeyacky on Thursday April 14, 2022 @08:13AM (#31025842)
With respect, the handbill or pamphlet was about the most subversive means of communication he saw, in an age when literacy wasn't universal.

The social media morass is something entirely different.

There is no precedent for the mass hysteria of something as dumb as Qanon. Dead presidents dead children emerging from the grave to save the world?

Oh wait...Jesus...David..rocks...easter.

Nvm.

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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by soundnote on Thursday April 14, 2022 @11:30AM (#31028227)
The Taiping Rebellion in Qing China between 1850 and 1864. It was started by a man called Hong Xiuquan who failed his mandarin examinations, fell into a psychosis of some kind, and came to believe he was the brother of Jesus. The cult he started was wildly successful and turned an entire province into a cultist theocracy before being quashed by the Qing.
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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by op00to on Thursday April 14, 2022 @10:37AM (#31027612)
It took hundreds of years of proselytizing by some very highly educated people for Jesus David rocks Easter to have an affect on the world.

Today, people who barely can string coherent thoughts together can have an instant platform to spread idiocy.

I guess what I’m saying is the risk is much greater now for idiocy to take over than before.

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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by deadpannini on Thursday April 14, 2022 @11:27AM (#31028196)
The main change new technologies bring is that we can now see that a great many people disagree with us.
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