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When I search for a current political topic on twitter, I find a lot of posts from popular and usually verified accounts from both sides of the spectrum, using this rhetoric which shares this identical... cadence? Style? I'm not sure the word for it. But some recent trends with these accounts are starting tweets with "to be clear...", making liberal (lol) use of line breaks, and ending on some short "mic drop" sentence. Like this:

"To be clear, if you're opposed to student debt forgiveness, you're not advocating for 'fiscal responsibility'.

You're just an asshole."

I'm assuming that this trend is just influencers noticing what gets a lot of engagement lately, but they're all copying it so well that it almost feels like they're being coordinated. It's uncanny.



To be clear, that's just the cadence of modern communication: Grandiloquence is out, qualifying language and mic drops are in.

You're just out of touch.


>Grandiloquence I like this word! Thanks, I am one of today's lucky 10,000.

I think I am going to start using it in the grandiloquent tone and cadence of Matt Berry.




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