Our friend group used to avoid politics but since Twitter became X everyone has gotten more extreme in different directions and our group chat is full of people subtweeting each other's political posts and I miss when we could just hang out without everything becoming a political litmus test.
More people experience this than they realize.
Social bonds dissolving under the pressure of polarized political performance on social media platforms.
“Where Are You with Twitter and X — the politics of outrage?”
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