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I barely use Twitter, but I don't understand using Twitter for political discussions. To me it seems that it is a horrible platform for it. 280 characters isn't

I barely use Twitter, but I don't understand using Twitter for political discussions. To me it seems that it is a horrible platform for it. 280 characters isn't enough space to do much actual discussing of politics. It's enough to throw meaningless insults at the other side or post meaningless virtue-signalling type content, and that's about it. Maybe I'm wrong though, because I don't really use the platform much.

hannasanarion 4y ago
It's good for quippy slogans and volume-based demonstrations. One of my favorite accounts @TheWarOnCars, a pro-cycling and transit urbanist podcast, spends most of its timeline retweeting famous people complaining about traffic or parking with the phrase "@Person, welcome to the war on cars". The idea is to point out that, even people who say they love cars and promote suburban-style development, pretty clearly hate the everyday reality of living in a car-centric city when they're not talking in a political context.
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