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Great tweet from a Marjory Stoneman Douglas student who was told to shut up on twitter: (Original Post) applegrove Mar 2018 OP
The smart kids strike again. NBachers Mar 2018 #1
These young people have lived social media all their lives gratuitous Mar 2018 #2
These kids are really something. PatrickforO Mar 2018 #3
When I Was In High School I Worked In The Orchards All Summer PaulX2 Mar 2018 #4
what their supporters don't realize is 1500 radio stations attack those kids every day certainot Mar 2018 #5
And even if "the kids" dont hear it, it still hurts them. pangaia Mar 2018 #6

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
2. These young people have lived social media all their lives
Wed Mar 28, 2018, 12:17 AM
Mar 2018

They've seen it all online, so if you're gonna go at them, better bring your A game. They will chew you up.

PatrickforO

(14,514 posts)
3. These kids are really something.
Wed Mar 28, 2018, 12:56 AM
Mar 2018

Their articulate 'back at you' attitude and social media savvy may well take our citizenry to the tipping point - so we wake up and become involved instead of just showing up to vote (if even that) then crossing our fingers and hoping those who are in charge won't muck up things too badly.

Nope. We have to be knowledgeable, informed, articulate and hold our elected officials accountable for their actions. That is what responsible citizens in a republic do, and that is the only way we will take this republic back from the billionaire parasites.

 

PaulX2

(2,032 posts)
4. When I Was In High School I Worked In The Orchards All Summer
Wed Mar 28, 2018, 01:00 AM
Mar 2018

And all we did was stand on top of our ladders and give each other sh*t for 8 hours a day.

A kid who is not afraid of adults who act like assholes doesn't mind crushing them with snarkiness.

Your move NRA scum.....

 

certainot

(9,090 posts)
5. what their supporters don't realize is 1500 radio stations attack those kids every day
Wed Mar 28, 2018, 01:03 AM
Mar 2018

it's all over the place but when limbaugh says their names and disses them he knows 600 radio stations and a pack of blowhard wannabes on 1000 other stations are all going to trash them also, often worse.

pangaia

(24,324 posts)
6. And even if "the kids" dont hear it, it still hurts them.
Wed Mar 28, 2018, 01:26 AM
Mar 2018

That kind of pervasive, all encompassing negative emotion does reach them. It travels on the planet's psychological pathways to all of us, but especially to those who are the targets of the negativity.

It is very destructive.

So i feel we all have to send them all the positive energy we can in whatever way possible.

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