But I would warn against making the assumption they're all children of conservatives

I would also suggest there is a core of far-leftists driving the thing, and most terrified normies who go along with it because they're scared of being outed as non-virtuous

I'm looking for data on that it's a hypothesis that would explain a lot. a good place to start is just ascertaining if they hate their mothers and why. unfortunately data's a bit sparse (net searches yielded unrelated gibberish)

Short of large surveys, I don't know what options you've got

since I just formulated a means to try and test for this hypothesis a grand total of 3 hours ago I haven't gotten to robust on it yet. stage 2 is posting on discord looking something.

You wouldn't even be in a position to test this hypothecy with a survey

if twitter wasn't a hole I'd just survey twitter directly.

internet is basically an irl equivalent of wh40k warp

Even that comes with issues - it's a social media platform - how do you target the survbey to get a representativ sample?

IT'd be like Drudgereport running a poll on their webpage - you're going to get a massively skewed participant set

find the hashtags infested with blue checkmarks.

So you'd target leftists deliberately?

that's totally not bias

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yes that's who I'm after. they're the subject of the research it's a theory about them in particular and they're the majority of twitter's active userbase.

I don't think that's true

Twitter is a global brand

For the purposes of your study, define “leftist”.

They might be the majority of twitters active userbase in the USA

And that may be linked to age - leftists tend to be younger

People tend to shift right over time as they gain wisdom and their priorities/responsibilities change

what does right even mean

is it right to be wrong or is it wrong to be right

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I've toyed with the idea that "right wing" as an idea technically doesn't exist and only exists as an antonym to "leftist"

Alienated, for the purposes of this conversation we can divide the population into "leftists", "the right", and "centrists/normies"

It's impoosibly broad as the leftists use it, Harazuy

true centrism has never been conceived

centrism isn't a position, is why

pragmatism is

pragmatism isn't a synonym for centrist

because centrist has no single agreed upon definition

correct

technically neither does left or right.

centrist is only defined by not having extreme views

yet, you can identify a leftist based on their position on specific ideas

same with a right winger

what happens when you're me and you're basicly an even split of extreme left and extreme right views.

however

not so easy with the right

you can also confuse them, provided you desire a specific result