• ClaraBecker@threads.net@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    Look, you have an optimistic view on this but impotent complaints don’t solve anything besides venting your frustrations. In objective USA, there are two parties on the national stage, one of which is actively, malignantly harmful. Detracting from the lesser of two evils is a boon to the greater.

    I swear to god, if trump wins because of public sentiments on the internet again, I’m going to subtly inflict alcoholism upon every republican I know. Enjoy your relapses, fuckos.

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      6 months ago

      Real simple. I could shut up and you would see no change. Just not hear the conversation about it directly. If you think I or any of the tiny percentage of the real world impact the Internet has is gonna be the changing factor you are incorrectly assuming and overconfidently ascribing power to what happens here. In this fraction of a fraction of a percentage.

      Good luck with that prank though. Sounds like a banger of an own.

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          6 months ago

          In January 2023, a study from New York University’s Center for Social Media and Politics about the influence of Russian trolls on Twitter found they had little influence on 2016 voters’ attitudes, polarization, or voting behavior.

          And it was mostly Facebook ads. Really misunderstanding what the dangerous part of the Internet is. Not the discussion space.

          We are all already polarized and in our lanes here. And stop being age-ist. We are all in this together.

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            I didn’t mean it to be ageist, it’s just contextual. In the same way that I cannot see an American younger than gen y understanding what the world was like pre-9/11 past an academic level, I can’t see someone younger than 15 in 2016 truly understanding the spontaneous change in the internet in the year preceding the election. It was so tumultuous that, and this is was remarkable to watch in real-time, conspiracy theorists completely flipped across party lines. It literally flipped the crazy script. I admit that I should have phrased it differently, though, and I apologize for that.