#Phonepunk#
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Why do so many of our British posters have an unhealthy obsession with American politics and a radical left viewpoint? It seems to be really, really common....
i feel like this is a consequence of political dialog in the age of social media. no longer is it just US media driving the discussions, you have people chiming in from all over the world. all the time. on every issue. instantaneously. most of the world is far more leftist than US thus you get people with different ideas of what to expect of the left vs. the realities US citizens have to deal with.
furthermore, the foreign online influence is somewhat disruptive, since foreign people mostly know about the US from media. thus we in the US get whatever picture of the US the media wants to put out to world (Dumb Americans), we get that reflected back on us, often in echo chambers, etc. while at the same time getting shamed for not being as woke as the rest of the world. maybe this is part of why purity politics are such a problem recently, the left eating itself because the world is comparatively more left than the US. add to that all kinds of old stereotypes brought up as strawmen, etc. it's really the shit hitting the fan.
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