Lol no you can't Jesus Christ I think I know more about playing this game than you do and as a result I'm a lot more jaded about it than you It's not actual persuasion of any kind, it's just entertainment
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You're like completely enthralled by the dopaminergic feedback loop of social media and you don't even realize how you're just rationalizing what it does to your glands personally as some kind of analysis of wider society or whatever
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Nobody's watching you argue with the troll Nobody gives a shit The troll is dangling the idea of a peanut gallery ready to leap into the arms of the alt-right lest liberalism be proven false and hollow as cheap bait It's bullshit though
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Replying to @arthur_affect
It's not one troll. It's not the direct hits. It's the aggregate effect. Again, this is not news. We understand this. Before it happened online it happened in cafes and pubs. We know what subtly fringe ideas being spouted without pushback does to normalize them.
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It really isn't The aggregate effect of your time spent phonebanking is so much greater than the aggregate effect of anything at all you do on Twitter I promise you nothing that happens here matters that much
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MudDude4
Especially, bluntly, when it's someone with 7 followers doing it
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Heh. Once again. People in this place arguing with you? They're not speaking to *their* followers.
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Replying to @MudDude4
Yeah my followers aren't seeing me talk to you right now and they won't unless I actively try to broadcast this conversation
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Replying to @arthur_affect
First post got a couple hundred impressions. You know how hard it is to get a couple hundred impressions? It used to be a massive effort. Again, it's not about one post or one argument, it's about the entire thing working together. You and me don't matter, the whole thing does.
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Whatever Do what you want, knock yourself out
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MudDude4
Just ask yourself if it's not a little too convenient that what seems like your moral duty to oppose fascism is also exactly what the social media companies want you to do to maximize engagement
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It's not just convenient, it's their entire business model. And until we disband them or find a way to regulate speech within them, it's also how the democratic process works now, because we let a handful of douchy tech bros define our social engagements. We're so boned.
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