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Study finds growing social circles may fuel polarization

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Re: Study finds growing social circles may fuel polarization

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

stackedinserter wrote: post #225
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #223

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> Wide gulf between "far right" and Nazis Not really, and I say this with genuine surprise. The folks who support January 6th are also incredibly quick to support ignoring courts, suspending habeus , concentration camps (sorry, extrajudicial domestic detention explicitly based on probable cause that begins and ends with race, followed by attempted exfiltration from protection from the law), and, like, straight up adm…

Based on your wording, everything that's right to your position, that you label as "balanced and center" of course, is "far right". I'm probably far right to you, because I have some right-wing views. It had some meaning maybe 10 years ago but now it's washed out terminology. Keep thinking that you're surrounded by nazis, if it keeps you warm though.

> everything that's right to your position, that you label as "balanced and center" of course, is "far right"

Nope. I have plenty of conservative and right-wing friends. We disagree on a number of social issues, and occasionally, economic ones too.

They don’t support violently overthrowing the U.S. government, or using the military to secure what they can’t at the ballot box, however, and so aren’t far right.

> Keep thinking that you're surrounded by nazis, if it keeps you warm though

Straw man. I don’t personally know anyone who is far right. Out of the folks in the administration, I can only really finger Miller and the DOGE bros as bona fide racists and far right agitators.

Re: Study finds growing social circles may fuel polarization

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Post by johnny22 »

Jensson wrote: post #86
johnny22 wrote: post #52

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so how would a user know which one to choose? I already get analysis paralysis as a software dev enough.

> so how would a user know which one to choose? Word of mouth, that makes peoples needs drive the algorithm rather than profits.

That is indeed important, but it's not enough.

Re: Study finds growing social circles may fuel polarization

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Post by VagabundoP »

JadeNB wrote: post #240
VagabundoP wrote: post #239

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I'd assume this was measure previously, maybe im wrong, but it seems like something you could and would have been measured in the past.

But how can you measure except subjectively, and how can you compare subjective measurements when the whole point is that people's very idea of the meaning of phrases like "close friendship" have changed?

Its not my area, but apart from the the person subjective opinion there would be indirect ways to measure it. again I'm just guessing without looking around.

Re: Study finds growing social circles may fuel polarization

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Post by stackedinserter »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #241
stackedinserter wrote: post #225

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Based on your wording, everything that's right to your position, that you label as "balanced and center" of course, is "far right". I'm probably far right to you, because I have some right-wing views. It had some meaning maybe 10 years ago but now it's washed out terminology. Keep thinking that you're surrounded by nazis, if it keeps you warm though.

> everything that's right to your position, that you label as "balanced and center" of course, is "far right" Nope. I have plenty of conservative and right-wing friends. We disagree on a number of social issues, and occasionally, economic ones too. They don’t support violently overthrowing the U.S. government, or using the military to secure what they can’t at the ballot box, however, and so aren’t far right. > Keep…

How do you label someone "far right" then? Try to describe it without CNN bs like "kids in cages". E.g. why Elon Musk is "far right", in your opinion?

> I have plenty of conservative and right-wing friends.

Lol, I guess the "I'm not antisemite, I have jew friends" blueprint is still popular. We both know that you don't, though.

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