do you really think it that big a deal outside the twitter(and other social media) sphere? Most people I know have moved on, they got jobs to do lives to lead. Plenty to talk about other than politics.
do you really think it that big a deal outside the twitter(and other social media) sphere? Most people I know have moved on, they got jobs to do lives to lead. Plenty to talk about other than politics.
Probably true. But given the disconnect between what politicians tell us that Americans want & what Americans actually want I'm going to bet that most politicians don't get anywhere near "average" Americans unless forced to by circumstance. But I bet they all look at social media. QAnon is a great example. I've never met a Republican in meat space who even knew what QAnon was, yet it still gets the retread treatment in shoddy "MAGA-heads & their wacky conspiracy theories" articles by shitlib faithful.
yeah - I think we are being swayed by videos of deranged people in their cars.
the problem is that this is back business as usual for the pols. the election is over, the consultants will have a very merry xmas with the money they made helping Harris lose and the "trump is hitler" pols are in "well thats politics" mode. the press who went all in with that and traded in their credibility for below congress level ratings (because your congressman can fix a parking ticket so is useful in some way, a journalist is not) are completely effed and screaming at the sky hoping enough people will join them.
do you really think it that big a deal outside the twitter(and other social media) sphere? Most people I know have moved on, they got jobs to do lives to lead. Plenty to talk about other than politics.
Probably true. But given the disconnect between what politicians tell us that Americans want & what Americans actually want I'm going to bet that most politicians don't get anywhere near "average" Americans unless forced to by circumstance. But I bet they all look at social media. QAnon is a great example. I've never met a Republican in meat space who even knew what QAnon was, yet it still gets the retread treatment in shoddy "MAGA-heads & their wacky conspiracy theories" articles by shitlib faithful.
yeah - I think we are being swayed by videos of deranged people in their cars.
the problem is that this is back business as usual for the pols. the election is over, the consultants will have a very merry xmas with the money they made helping Harris lose and the "trump is hitler" pols are in "well thats politics" mode. the press who went all in with that and traded in their credibility for below congress level ratings (because your congressman can fix a parking ticket so is useful in some way, a journalist is not) are completely effed and screaming at the sky hoping enough people will join them.
Yeah, pretty much.
Social media seems to be, primarily, an anxiety creating machine.
It also seems to be a bot ranch where bots of different persuasions can stick their bot tongues out at each other.
Its level of influence mystifies me since so much of it turns out to be hogwash & bullshit in the end but that's what we've got.