My partner and I agreed to stop doom-scrolling Twitter together but they keep sending me outrageous political posts 'just to share' and I can't tell if they want me to be angry with them or if they're processing their own rage and I'm getting caught in the crossfire.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people trying to change their relationship to inflammatory content while unconsciously using each other as emotional dumping grounds.
“Where Are You with Twitter and X — the politics of outrage?”
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