Exactly.
If anyone is under the impression no one, or at least very few people, think this stuff, they’re mistaken.
If you’re aware a lot of people do, you don’t have to expose yourself to it all the time to hear, or hear about, and understand it.
If anyone is under the impression no one, or at least very few people, think this stuff, they’re mistaken.
If you’re aware a lot of people do, you don’t have to expose yourself to it all the time to hear, or hear about, and understand it.
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It's not like we won't get to hear the thoughts of conservatives for the next four years considering they run the government now too...
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1. Politicians need to go to where voters are and try to win votes for what they want to do.
2. The rest of us don't have to behave this way; we just need to not get in the way of politicians doing their jobs (which is to win votes and run the government).
Either way, I don't work for any politician, part, or campaign. The goal of my writing is not to manipulate citizens into voting a particular way.
power of “rootless white males” who spend all their time online and could be radicalized in a populist, nationalist way
"I realized [they] could connect with these kids right away. You can activate that army. They come in through Gamergate and then get turned onto politics and Trump
Surely Nicholas doesn't dismiss propaganda or micro-targeting propaganda & other factors.
I read it as concluding that the team that won actually had the purer bubble and managed to bring more into that surreal space.
But Nicholas is only noting that:
Dems space is more open to receiving outside arguments (& lost)
GOP infospace is more impenetrable to outside arguments (& won)
Open spaces can be poisoned w/broad & micro-targeting, as you noted, w/o the space being a bubble.
More impenetrable to receiving outside arguments = cognitive dissonance from over saturation.