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> It really feels impossible to escape these types of political statements on the platform now.

Following Babylon Bee isn't mandatory. If you do, nor is reading the replies. FWIW I see memes not the thickest 18 year old on Twitter.



As I said, it’s basically on every post, even a non-political post like announcing that a new Twitter CEO has been chosen. I used Babylon Bee as an example because you said that you didn’t see this trend and mentioned that you read the Babylon Bee.


> As I said, it’s basically on every post, even a non-political post like announcing that a new Twitter CEO has been chosen.

OK I think I understand what you're saying - every discussion turns political? Twitter has been that way since 2015. It's the world's public square. Only difference is people are allowed to disagree with Californian liberals.


It’s not the worlds public square.

It’s a gladiatorial arena (maybe WWE/performance art would be an even better metaphor) for the US culture wars. If they could please get it over with soon so we can return to normal programming, that would be great


Yep that too. I’ve often said twitter is a MOBA and it’s always been that way, way before October 2022. I once spent an awful morning having Jake Archibald and his 40K followers abuse me because I didn’t like the ’fetch’ spec.




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