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0 pointsapi2y ago0 comments

Social media does not promote middle ground because that doesn't maximize engagement.

Everything must be maximally divisive, maximally triggering, and compressible into <200 characters.

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maybe politics is a support vector machine and the division is the hyperplane XD

Kind of, yes. All politics is arbitrary line-drawing. There's a bit more to it in that the lines are contextually dependent on what exactly is being politicked about and usually not static.

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0 pointsapi2y ago0 comments

Social media does not promote middle ground because that doesn't maximize engagement.

Everything must be maximally divisive, maximally triggering, and compressible into <200 characters.

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zzzzzzzza2y ago

maybe politics is a support vector machine and the division is the hyperplane XD

uoaei2y ago

Kind of, yes. All politics is arbitrary line-drawing. There's a bit more to it in that the lines are contextually dependent on what exactly is being politicked about and usually not static.

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