The existence of those videos are poor representations of reality. The algorithm loves content that tells us what we want to hear
Go watch Fox News and see how every problem they talk about Trump has the last word on. How they make Republicans feel like they’re constantly being stepped on and condescended by Democrats. How Trump is taking a personal and active role in solving problems
Is it all bullshit? Obviously. But it’s the same as the algorithm. People watch things that tell them what they want to hear
I feel like people consistently forget just how much of bubbles both we and them exist in - we see those videos because they are extremely optimal content for engagement on the left.
And they see only positive, propagandistic coverage of what’s happening, and the dumbest caricatures of us and the people they disagree with possible.
That is the nature of how the bubbles we exist in shape our perception. Like you can scroll through a million top posts on r/ tumblr in action or kotaku in action and think that every liberal or leftist that exists is dumb as a brick and never makes any good points. We can scroll through a million posts of trump voters who are realizing what he’s doing actually hurts them but that doesn’t mean they’re reprentative of the whole.
There are lots of those cases available because of the law of large numbers, and schadenfreude means those posts will always do super well and then people will try to post more of them
I feel like I see polls between 40% and 70% of republican support whenever a new poll shows up. It depends on who they ask and where they ask. We will never actually know what everyone thinks unless they literally ask everyone.
They are. They answer polls about trump as if they’re being asked about the republican party. Which they will never leave or criticize - unless it becomes woke!
No way so many Republicans can remain this delusional. There are so many “I didn’t vote for this!” videos floating around.
The existence of those videos are poor representations of reality. The algorithm loves content that tells us what we want to hear
Go watch Fox News and see how every problem they talk about Trump has the last word on. How they make Republicans feel like they’re constantly being stepped on and condescended by Democrats. How Trump is taking a personal and active role in solving problems
Is it all bullshit? Obviously. But it’s the same as the algorithm. People watch things that tell them what they want to hear
I feel like people consistently forget just how much of bubbles both we and them exist in - we see those videos because they are extremely optimal content for engagement on the left.
And they see only positive, propagandistic coverage of what’s happening, and the dumbest caricatures of us and the people they disagree with possible.
That is the nature of how the bubbles we exist in shape our perception. Like you can scroll through a million top posts on r/ tumblr in action or kotaku in action and think that every liberal or leftist that exists is dumb as a brick and never makes any good points. We can scroll through a million posts of trump voters who are realizing what he’s doing actually hurts them but that doesn’t mean they’re reprentative of the whole.
There are lots of those cases available because of the law of large numbers, and schadenfreude means those posts will always do super well and then people will try to post more of them
I feel like I see polls between 40% and 70% of republican support whenever a new poll shows up. It depends on who they ask and where they ask. We will never actually know what everyone thinks unless they literally ask everyone.
I’ve seen one or two a day, we’re in day ~370 of Disaster 47, so that’s about 600 of them?
They are. They answer polls about trump as if they’re being asked about the republican party. Which they will never leave or criticize - unless it becomes woke!