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Old people have no idea what it's like to be 12 years old and have access to multiple globally accessible media platforms on which you and all of your peers can broadcast your worst moments.
If a 12-year-old sent out a tweet the first day Twitter was accessible to the public, they are now 29.I think plenty of them have found that out when they're 30, 40, 50 and 60 years old and had their livelihood crumble out from under them over one ill-advised tweet — sometimes from when they were 12.
Don't put it on the rank and file Americans.
If a 12-year-old sent out a tweet the first day Twitter was accessible to the public, they are now 29.
Thank you for serving.Just the opposite. I tell kids all the time joining the military is a great start. I left home at 17 and have essentially been independent ever since.
I don't know. You tell me. How many have actually had their careers/lives ruined over one dumb tweet (that didn't simply more or less reflect their overall body of work but went "just a little too far this time")? I'm having trouble coming up with examples. Maybe the PR person whose racist tweet blew up while she was on an international flight? But then ultimately became kind of a cancel culture cause celebre for a while as a result? Bring the goods. Because the other examples I can think of aren't exactly how you describe it when you peel back the onion a bit.