i just want to point to this as another exhibit of the root cause of why this government is probably going to fall in some way in october, be it halfway to minority or all the way out the door, and that reason being that it's a government composed of people that live an arm's distance from everybody else.

the government has a message about the carbon tax, and it wants to get past the media filters and directly to young people, so it does up a little video to talk directly to voters. then, it posts it on the internet.

great, right - it's using modern technology to get through the media, and that's the smart thing to do, clearly.

...except they posted it on twitter. and, probably from an iphone, too.

https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=11&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjm1Z2y4d7hAhUmTd8KHQWbDjkQwqsBMAp6BAhNEAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FJustinTrudeau%2Fstatus%2F1119006107622674432&usg=AOvVaw1X-jVb12wBhvIxTBwu4gZ0

i apologize for the google link, but i actually have a *twitter* line in my ad-blocking software to stop the embeds from showing up in newsfeeds. that is, i've purposefully blocked my browser from accessing the link to the video, as spam.

most people aren't going to go to such lengths to take twitter out of their lives, but my inability to even hit the link is indicative of the poor tactic being employed, here, which is itself a reflection of the bubble that the government exists within.

the reason they posted it to twitter is, of course, because they all use twitter, and that's obvious enough from observing them. they're the kinds of people that are glued to the twitter feeds on their (i)phones 24/7, and that are surrounded by other people that are glued to the twitter feeds on their (i)phones 24/7. in the absence of a representative sample, such uniformity of behaviour might actually appear normal to somebody that is behind this obfuscating veil of twitter-tinted sunglasses. but, a cursory analysis using things like statistics and market research would quickly collapse the bubble, were it to be actually carried out - pretty much the only people that use twitter are upper class liberals, that is people that act and think just like the people in the pmo. call it a circle jerk or a chant in the choir; you'd probably pick the latter, if you use twitter, even if the former is more widely stated.

and, if you were to ask them "why didn't you post it to youtube or facebook?", you might even get back some kind of snobbish response about youtube users being inferior to twitter users.

and, that's why they're going to lose.