Message from @Harazu Keshtah
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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
there are significant areas of variability
specifically in the globalism vs nationalism
there are always variabilities
not much variability in bona-fide leftists