There are a ton of Right Wing media voices who serve literally no function beyond throwing out one bad faith, ridiculous take after another in order to distract the Left from discussing real and actual issues and serve as nothing but social-media antipathy lightning rods.
I keep saying this: social media has been around long enough and we’ve all lived through its poisonous offspring the Trump Years that we absolutely, no question about it, need to start changing our strategies on and expectations of the medium. And fast.
You can use social media for information, communication, education, and organizing purposes, but first you have to realize this corporate space was designed and tuned specifically to create altercations, misinformation, miscommunication, and create the illusion of power.
The literal health of our society depends on us rejecting the spectacle and commercialization of politics. We’ve seen only a glimpse of the consequences if we can’t do that. Change the usage. Learn from the very, very recent past.
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