I mean, its very easy to see why by just walking into each circle for a few minutes.
Conservative social media circles are usually angry, but hyping each other up. Its a lot of "fuck this guy!" and clapping. It might be building towards violence, or hysteria, but its motivating people regardless.
Leftist social media circles do a lot of the same things, but there is this undercurrent through it all of terror. They are constantly scared of something coming, of this and that, and they don't feel themselves able to defend against it.
That's what I constantly see as the big difference. Right-wing social media is scared of something coming but happy to go down swinging, whereas Left-wing knows it'll get obliterated if something comes and is trying to cope.
That was part of what was suggested in the video. Another part is that while both spheres can come off as "mean", they do it in very different ways.
As they put it, Conservative social media is like a locker room, where people will make fun of each other, but the hits are usually something to either take jabs at someone else in the name of mutual rivalry, or it is the type of thing that you are going to forget about it after the fact.
But in Liberal social media, it is "Mean Girls 24/7", where everyone is backbiting, gossiping, and trying to tear each other down not even to advance their own standing, but to keep them from getting up.
And needless to say, one leads to far more mental instability than the other.
I mean, its very easy to see why by just walking into each circle for a few minutes.
Conservative social media circles are usually angry, but hyping each other up. Its a lot of "fuck this guy!" and clapping. It might be building towards violence, or hysteria, but its motivating people regardless.
Leftist social media circles do a lot of the same things, but there is this undercurrent through it all of terror. They are constantly scared of something coming, of this and that, and they don't feel themselves able to defend against it.
That's what I constantly see as the big difference. Right-wing social media is scared of something coming but happy to go down swinging, whereas Left-wing knows it'll get obliterated if something comes and is trying to cope.
That was part of what was suggested in the video. Another part is that while both spheres can come off as "mean", they do it in very different ways.
As they put it, Conservative social media is like a locker room, where people will make fun of each other, but the hits are usually something to either take jabs at someone else in the name of mutual rivalry, or it is the type of thing that you are going to forget about it after the fact.
But in Liberal social media, it is "Mean Girls 24/7", where everyone is backbiting, gossiping, and trying to tear each other down not even to advance their own standing, but to keep them from getting up.
And needless to say, one leads to far more mental instability than the other.