The puzzling poll that made many Twitter users angry

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by pyentropy • 3 years ago

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Twitter users are all angry, that's the point of the platform.

Anyway, this (sort of spoiler alert) is basically the same thing as what the joker did in The Dark Night, he thought people were assholes that would fight one another to save themselves and he was wrong. Only politicians do that.

JohnFen• 3 years ago

People have a very strong tendency to think that everyone else is largely the same as they are, so when someone asserts that "everyone is like X", the meaningful thing they're really saying is that they are like X.

pyentropy• 3 years ago

The character limit incentivizes content that's polarizing and evokes strong emotions, because you are competing for attention without the ability to express subtleties/details.

rsynnott• 3 years ago

At this point, people started arguing, with some blocking each other: how come it feels right to pick blue if it’s so wrong?

Eh? It isn’t wrong, unless you’re a sociopath.

The puzzling poll that made many Twitter users angry

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