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The Principles of Cheerleading for Peace, Humanity and Democracy.
Or: How to Fight Fascism by Being Bloody Nice
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#facciamorete
#TheResistance
#FBPE
The Principles of Cheerleading for Peace, Humanity and Democracy.
Or: How to Fight Fascism by Being Bloody Nice
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Twitter is a discursive space and, by consequence, a discursive battle ground. 2/
In a discursive battle ground, some of your important objectives are.
1)Making your own viewpoints visible
2)Supporting the viewpoints of your leaders
3)Establish community with your allies
4)Energize and support your allies to go on; give them a sense that they are winning
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1)Making your own viewpoints visible
2)Supporting the viewpoints of your leaders
3)Establish community with your allies
4)Energize and support your allies to go on; give them a sense that they are winning
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Each of these have a negative side, of course, you want to limit your opponents success on each of these points. You want to make the bugger lose hope.
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But we are cheerleading now, so let's note instead that to convince your opponents and turn them into friends and allies is also a way to suppress enemy fire. 5/
Cheerleading is ideal for all of that. Like really really ideal. Like pop-pom waving ideal. Like a real smart idea ideal. 6/
Plus you look better doing it. 7/
And you get to have all the fun 8/
So, how do you do it? Well, it's a question of being nicer than a good cuppa. 9/
When you engage people on Twitter, engage people you LIKE. Lend them your heart, and more than anything: lend them your timeline, and lighten up theirs. Say "thanks", say "with you all the way," shout and wave your pom poms for them. 10/
Go full-on #MarieKondo on them and make their timelines spark joy. Chuck the rest. 11/
What are the effects of that? Well very good if you compare them to the objectives in tweet 2. You do remember tweet 2, don´t you? If not, go back and look again. I'll wait right here. 12/
By cheerleading for a viewpoint you support you make your own view visible without RT'ing something insufferable with it. Technically, and to an extent discursively, all retweets ARE in fact endorsements. #DoNotRetweetTrump https://twitter.com/GenreResearch/status/948886135224315904
If you see a person you like saying something you like. Express that. This will carry their message out to your timeline. Comment on their tweet even just to say thank you. 14/
It WILL give them a sense of success, a small kick, a lil high. You are weaponizing those endorphines for good things. 15
And if people open their tweets they will see support for the viewpoint. This will give them the sense that the speaker is not alone, but is speaking for and being appreciated by many. 16/
That someone cares for the speaker, supports the speaker, finds the speaker reasonable, and has the speaker's back. Even if it makes them look slightly silly. 17/
Which, not incidentally, is true. 18/
So, cheerleading for what you like will
1) Make your own viewpoints visible
2) Support the viewpoints of your leaders
3) Establish community with your allies
4) Energize and support your allies to go on and give them a sense that they are winning
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1) Make your own viewpoints visible
2) Support the viewpoints of your leaders
3) Establish community with your allies
4) Energize and support your allies to go on and give them a sense that they are winning
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It offers a way to dominate the discursive battle ground that is twitter while being nice to people.
Unsurprisingly, you'll like yourself the better for it, feel less lonely and less helpless.
What's not to like?
To the pastor's wife here, that's almost evangelical.
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Unsurprisingly, you'll like yourself the better for it, feel less lonely and less helpless.
What's not to like?
To the pastor's wife here, that's almost evangelical.
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And you can do it. I know you can. You are awesome! GOOOOO YOUUUUU!!!
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And, as if to demonstrate the point of the above thread, here's @sarahwollaston feeling well after having made a move that took enormous courage: https://twitter.com/sarahwollaston/status/1098321675278520338
