The thing about social media that people (me very much included) readily forget is that a lot of the associated harms are suddenly mass-observable effects caused by other, long-running fuckery processes.
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"Social media is destroying democracy!" Okay, but — I'm a millennial whose first real exposure to politics was listening to the adults in some Big Important Rooms selling adults in rooms with TVs that Iraq was a clear and present danger worthy of my generations blood on, so...
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...maybe this place isn't the principal mutagen. Hard to imagine that an American politics that permits a party to just lie relentlessly in defense of a vile buffoon was suddenly deformed by a mirroring panopticon.
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