I think liberals yelling at accelerationist leftists on Twitter are more likely to alienate the accellerationist-curious than pull them toward voting Biden.
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Replying to @studentactivism @arthur_affect
Sure. Silence on the face of increasing radicalization is a well known way to stop radicalization. We've known that's not how it works for what? Fifty years now? What we haven't figured out is how to stop it on the Internet. Doing nothing is not it, though.
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It used to be media gatekeepers who stopped it. Now they are either part of the problem or cut off from the online radicalization loop. With no alternative for pushback, Trump wins again, because his playbook works online and ours doesn't.
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If you think "yelling" won't work I really hope there's another alternative to stop the spiral, because inaction is clearly not working. Trump just got 200000 people killed and he's catching up in the polls, so...
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Replying to @MudDude4 @arthur_affect
My alternative to yelling at strangers on the internet? Build relationships with people to your left based on common interests and goals. Engage with people you know, respectfully. Make the affirmative case for your position. Organize.
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And, again, recognize that attempting to convert never-Biden leftists is a poor use of time and energy that could otherwise be spent on more productive forms of electoral activism.
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Replying to @studentactivism @arthur_affect
"Never-Biden leftists" are just Trumpists. Obviously. How naïve are we here? There are two types of interactions in this, again, straight-up culture war: interactions that get Trump elected and interactions that don't get Trump elected.
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If you have a way to make an affirmative case that leads to Trump not being elected, I very much encourage you do that. If you are on the Internet telling people to not push back against bad-faith narratives that get Trump elected, you're getting Trump elected.
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Replying to @MudDude4 @arthur_affect
I'm on the internet telling people not to waste time that could be spent on more productive work having arguments with strangers that aren't going to change anyone's mind. And now I'm going to take my own advice and tap out of this one.
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Replying to @studentactivism @arthur_affect
Showing up the radicals prevents the bystanders from changing their minds as the environment around them radicalizes. Absolutely it does. There's mathematical models about how it does. That's why Trumpists are so obsessed with "owning the libs" over consistency or ideas.
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