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Elessar Zappa

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5. It's not the same thing.

Reply to maxrandb (Reply #2)

Sun Nov 6, 2022, 04:30 PM

Nov 2022

There’s a ton of Twitter users (maybe the majority?) who use Twitter for non-political purposes. They might, however, absorb politics as background noise. If that background noise is totally right wing without a progressive counter, then some of these non-political users might become more and more right wing.

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Seth Abramson thread (NINE postscripts) on why he thinks Twitter is important for progressives [View all] highplainsdem Nov 2022 OP

I agree with him. Makes no sense to cede the space. mahina Nov 2022 #1

Yep. we can do it Nov 2022 #3

Agreed. I am staying, for now. nt crickets Nov 2022 #6

JFC! These are like the folks maxrandb Nov 2022 #2

It's not the same thing. Elessar Zappa Nov 2022 #5

He's right. Emrys Nov 2022 #4

Meh. Raftergirl Nov 2022 #7