The tendency is to blame "partisan politics", but people have always been opinionated and combative about political beliefs. It's the process of runaway polarization, where any issue fractures on party lines once it passes an internet event horizon, that is new and frightening
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Dropping a brick of heroin on every doorstop would probably have been less damaging than giving people an always-on device that communicates news about the world through the people who matter most to them. But we YOLO'ed our way into this world, and now have to YOLO our way out
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In red areas, it’s clear to everyone that it’s more Fox and rightwing talk radio than social media. Facebook has an effect, but Murdoch does more harm than Zuckerberg in red areas, as crazy as that sounds.
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I think there is a tendency by people who don’t listen to the radio to vastly underestimate how important radio is to the people who do.
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I think certain aspects of our polarization are so baked-in that avoiding them is virtually impossible. So for instance Blue really cares about expertise and credentialing in its politicians. Red was always going to freak about mandatory masks because it reminds them of shariah.
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I was saying yesterday that I think “feeling Muslim-y” is definitely possibly a key part of it. Happen to think the tone of hate is off for masks “feeling Asian-y” just being the issue, but probably there too.
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My archive backups are failing since 4 days. Messaged you multiple times.Can you please fix?
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Off to go fix!
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I do not believe a window ever existed. Health is intrinsically political.
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