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Sympthsical

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11. Our culture is our politics. That is what social media has done.
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 11:05 AM
Jun 2025

Every aspect of culture is now infused with politics. Every television show or movie we watch, the music we listen to, the books we read, the video games we play. All of it is fodder for a social media machine that unrelentingly demands that people take sides.

Increasingly what you watch, read, play, or engage with becomes a marker of your identity.

And who people vote for becomes very tied up in that.

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Stop being nice go for the juggler, Historic NY Jun 2025 #1
+1 dalton99a Jun 2025 #5
It's those white middle class nice patterns. ananda Jun 2025 #14
Excellent advice! Kid Berwyn Jun 2025 #16
Not to worry Fiendish Thingy Jun 2025 #2
There is truth to this RJ-MacReady Jun 2025 #3
+1. Ditch the cause celebre du jour and political correctness bullshit. Focus on economic issues dalton99a Jun 2025 #8
Why are you using republican talking points Keepthesoulalive Jun 2025 #13
Democrats always focus on economic issues and policies, that's what the party is. betsuni Jun 2025 #19
Gen Z men are voting right all over the world. Gen Z women are doing the opposite. pecosbob Jun 2025 #4
Democrats should learn to fight to WIN, not to run away and cower in fear or act like deaf mutes dalton99a Jun 2025 #6
It seems like most of these assessments lack concrete analysis of ideology and politics. David__77 Jun 2025 #7
Our culture is our politics. That is what social media has done. Sympthsical Jun 2025 #11
I agree with that. This is a matter of identifying causality. David__77 Jun 2025 #15
The 2020 categorical imperative was to put that MF traitor behind bars and we failed Ponietz Jun 2025 #9
This article reads almost word for word what I've been posting on DU the past two weeks Sympthsical Jun 2025 #10
The Dems are on the winning side of most issues according to the polls. From woment's rights, to education, to Ping Tung Jun 2025 #12
GOP through Fox News and right wing news created one winning issue for them: an imaginary immigration dystopia andym Jun 2025 #17
Trump is popularising America First nationalism, and pretending to solve an imaginary immigration crisis andym Jun 2025 #18
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