artifex@piefed.social to United States | News & Politics@midwest.socialEnglish · 4 hours agoU.S. Political Polarization Didn’t Rise Gradually—It Spiked After 2008, Study Findsthedebrief.orgexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up116file-text
arrow-up116external-linkU.S. Political Polarization Didn’t Rise Gradually—It Spiked After 2008, Study Findsthedebrief.orgartifex@piefed.social to United States | News & Politics@midwest.socialEnglish · 4 hours agomessage-square13fedilinkfile-text
Polarization in the U.S. didn’t rise gradually. A new machine-learning study shows it surged after 2008- but why?
minus-squareSnot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·3 hours agoHmm I wonder what significant thing happned in 2008 that broke racists brains?
minus-squareMelodiousFunk@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·3 hours agoMy parents before Obama: your regular run of the mill uninformed apolitical bigots My parents after Obama: your regular run of the mill uninformed hyperpolitical bigots
minus-squarebrucethemoose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-22 hours agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_social_media I remember 2008. That’s when my classmates got into social media.
minus-squareSnot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·53 minutes agoTrue, 2010-2012 was when people thought you were weird for not having a Facebook account.
minus-squarebrucethemoose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·40 minutes agoBingo. I was in high school, so right in the jaws of all of that.
Hmm I wonder what significant thing happned in 2008 that broke racists brains?
My parents before Obama: your regular run of the mill uninformed apolitical bigots
My parents after Obama: your regular run of the mill uninformed hyperpolitical bigots
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_social_media
I remember 2008. That’s when my classmates got into social media.
True, 2010-2012 was when people thought you were weird for not having a Facebook account.
Bingo. I was in high school, so right in the jaws of all of that.