🔗 The group chats that changed America | Semafor:

Many of the roughly 20 participants I spoke to also felt a genuine sentimental attachment to the spaces, and believed in their value. One participant in the groups described them as a “Republic of Letters,” a reference to the long-distance intellectual correspondence of the 17th century. Others often invoked European salon culture.

It never fails to amaze me the degree to which these clowns and continuously upward-failing Richie Riches want to imagine themselves to be these world-historical players like the ones they hear about on all the bullshit history podcasts they listen to.

My guys, the better comparison is the groupchat my 14yo is in with a bunch of his buddies.