november 4 dem (jokes about how republicans got obliterated in the midterms)

A thing that used to be great on Twitter and is starting to get really good on Threads are big individual things or happenings that inspire all kinds of commentary and jokes. Big sporting events and tournaments (Super Bowl, World Cup, recently the WNBA Finals) are good for this. Famous people dying —— that's another good one. When a famous person dies and they were actually good people while they were alive (Dolly Parton is a good recent example), Twitter used to be —— and Threads currently is —— a place where lots of people would tell lots of stories about that person, or share old clips or articles about them, or talk about their own personal fan experiences, and you'd get to learn all kinds of little things and weird things about that person and the lives they impacted even if only through a film role or a song and, like, ask in the glow of a life well lived. This said, it is way, way funnier when a famous person who sucked dies. And a corollary to that, kind of, is what bad…

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