The (((echo))), explained

[natyanayaki]

If you read Twitter recently, you'll have noted that a wide range of figures have changed their Twitter names to incorporate a series of parenthesis. The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg, for example, is now (((goldberg))), and we've also got Center for American Progress president (((Neera Tanden))) and Politico finance writer (((Ben White))).

Even the

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[tabaqui]

I hadn't heard about this - Twitter is not my thing - but wtf. People being fucking gross, will it *ever* fucking end?

[natyanayaki]

i don't know if it'll ever end. sometimes i use my alternative spelling for certain gross humans --> hewmans

[screamingintune]

thank you for this post, OP, I've been wanting to know what was up with all the parentheses all day!

the explanation is more horrible than I imagined :(

[natyanayaki]

i didn't know that this stuff with the parentheses was going on, and after reading i just needed people who would be outraged with me, ya know?

[mimblexwimble]

we just have to find new ways to be terrible...

[blackjedii]

Burn Twitter.

To the -ground-.

[sugartitty]

Wow, I don't use Twitter so I had no idea this is going on. Incredibly disturbing.

I have a lot of criticisms of HRC but I'm hoping that she pulls it all together before November. I've been reading a lot about the rise of far-right nationalist/white supremacist groups in Europe and the US and how Trump has helped fuel that, and that man cannot be president. I'm disgusted with the GOP and people like Paul Ryan who pretend to have values and denounce Trump's extremist rhetoric but still say they're going to support him. It's utterly spineless. Maybe Trump really would walk back on a lot of his far-right stances if he became president, but it wouldn't matter because his election would still make these terrible people feel validated and emboldened, and he's already helped them by normalizing their hate speech on mainstream media news outlets.

[louisiane_fille]

This. All of this.

Thank you for articulating what I couldn't find words to describe. His whole campaign has been a nightmare.