Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
There is this weird opinion that unlike the very online, normies are indifferent/apathetic to politics and are just absorbed in their narrow normie lives This is 100% untrue. They’re all powerfully committed to unexamined politics, and their absorption in narrow lives is the most political thing on the planet
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Benjamin Basche
@basche42
I think this is true for the middle and lower middle classes (most of America) but not really the working class. They’re mostly tuned out
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Gökhan Turhan
@gokhan.eth
working class usually determine the outcome of elections, for ex., in Türkiye.
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Benjamin Basche
@basche42
Yeah, Not in the US
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