It also takes people who are mentally "on the fence", and tips them over the edge.
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Plus the colors clash.
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As someone else mentioned, social media was designed for virality and people (including the nuts) are having political discourse on it.
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A bit of chicken and the egg problem, I think. While some crazy ppl may always exist, functioning communities can absorb them and stabilize them. Social and econ disruptions destroy communities and leave them unmoored (and prob generate more of them) 1/
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And presence of many unmoored directionless ppl ignored by conv politics (bc "what they want" is not clearly defined) provide opp for demagogues who rile them up further for their own adv. And, in an unhealthy pol env, some of them snap and go over the line. 2/
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We need more communities, in the long run, at least, I think, if we look to stem the rise of crazies in both politics and society
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Don’t you realize your people have already lost? Mainstream media is dead and will never regain. Welcome to the new world. Your knees have been chopped off
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Divisive politics is all generated by the media and the left. We all know it. Quit trying to act like we don’t.
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"Trump is like a laser!", says Noah Smith.
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