Oliver Bateman Does the WorkVerified account

Why do people even think following someone is a sort of endorsement or alliance? What even counts as an endorsement or an alliance? An effect of an almost purely symbolic politics is that the issue of whether something *causes* something good or bad is almost never even broached.

Social media is to politics like what the Chinese room is to language. We see in front of us a million tiny flags and we're scolded if we wave the wrong ones. Nobody can quite tell us how the flags connect to the outside world and why some are good and some bad.