Facebook Follies of Friends and Families

[CountDeMoney]

Yes.  Colbert's crowd has not followed him over to network. His ratings suck.

And yeah, she's a spinoff. 

[derspiess]

He's no longer a spinoff.  The Colbert Report was.

[frunk]

Does this explain all of Facebook.

Costly Signaling

This connects to meme propagation in an interesting way. Memes that everyone agree with typically don't spread very far because they don't signal anything about the sender. Nobody is tweeting that "2+2=4." But controversial memes make a statement. They cause people with an opposing view to respond with opposing memes. As CGP Grey beautifully explained, opposing memes synergistically help each other to spread. They also create a cost for the senders in the form of antagonistic pushback from believers in the opposing meme. But from the view of costly signalling, this is good! If you have enemies attacking you for your beliefs, you better demonstrate your belief and commitment by spreading them even more! Both sides get this boost of reliable signalling and are motivated to intensify meme wars.

[Jacob]

Does this explain all of Facebook.

It only explains the meme warfare part which isn't all of Facebook.

[11B4V]

True or pants on fire?

[CountDeMoney]

True or pants on fire?

He went to Miami U of Ohio on SSN survivor benefits from the death of his father, who was apparently a rather very successful Wisconsin lawyer, so the benefits were flush enough to pay out-of-state tuition. 

Now, normally I'd give somebody a pass on something like that, what with losing a father, which totally sucks ass, but yeah...after all that, when your idea of welfare cuts are so draconian that even nuns are moved to such a point of disgust that they've got to get on a bus to drive all the way to DC to remind you that that's not how you were raised, you've got a bit of a perception problem.

People who use a ladder only to pull it up after themselves as fucking assholes.

[FunkMonk]

Supposedly the Speaker of the House, Paul D. Ryan, after coming to DC and meeting all the homeless people (which is quite frankly half the city), has come round and is more open the disadvantaged poor.

[Ed Anger]

I didn't know he went to Miami of Ohio. What a dick.

[CountDeMoney]

Apparently Wisconsin wasn't posh enough.

[FunkMonk]

Doesn't matter. Trump will crush him.

[CountDeMoney]

He already has.  Ryan's a fucking pussy.  Race Bannon's already beaten the shit out of him.

[11B4V]

[FunkMonk]

 

[grumbler]

Supposedly the Speaker of the House, Paul D. Ryan, after coming to DC and meeting all the homeless people (which is quite frankly half the city), has come round and is more open the disadvantaged poor.

  That's a good one.  When I retell it, though, I will probably cast it as "Paul Ryan walks into a bar" joke, because only nerds use the 'walks into DC" version of the gag. 

[Razgovory]

I prefer to skip into bars.