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Social media does not promote middle ground because that doesn't maximize engagement. Everything must be maximally divisive, maximally triggering, and compress

by api 3y ago

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.

zzzzzzzza 3y ago
maybe politics is a support vector machine and the division is the hyperplane XD
- uoaei 3y 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.