It's hard to avoid the conclusion that Bluesky has been a net negative for US politics. They corralled everyone on the left into a little glass fishbowl where they shout at one another & everyone else ignores them. Meanwhile, all the pols & institutions stayed on X & are being dragged farther right.

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When this sort of game of telephone happens it’s like two weeks before the person in question is hitler 2, according to a post referencing a post referencing a post

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We can pretend that everyone in the world is reasonable like us, and not fight against the endless army of lunatics, but that really just makes you the Democratic Party circa 2016

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“Woke ideology” is broadly correct. People who use their ideology to prosecute petty interpersonal feuds are toxic, but hardly confined to the left

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This game should be intensely familiar to everyone by now. You can either let them lead you around by the nose until they make you into a lunatic, or you can say “No, this is bad-faith ritual abuse and I won’t participate.”

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