"#tumblr trying to be like #tiktok then trying to be like #twitter then giving us the 3rd unreality inducing immersive ad, its staff members being condescending to the userbase, the #marketing team trying to parasocialize their way into your pockets, #youtube trying to do away with adblockers after upping the percentage of ads by 40% and making it so even if your video is demonetized watchers will still get them, youtube removing the dislike button then making it so you don't get a home feed if you have watch history turned off, #google being able to remove your synched bookmarks if they don't comply with their policy, if i listed every way in which twitter has gotten worse in the last year this post will be as long as a novel, #ai generated articles and images everywhere, google searches sucking ass in general, reddit charging for its api, #KOSA being introduced into the US senate, tiktok in general, every #socialmedia under the fucking sun introducing #login walls, being unable to browse most sites on mobile from the sheer amount of popups taking over your screen WAUUUGH social media being products and thus requiring infinite growth and thus trying to introduce newer and newer shit that #alienates its dedicated #userbase. saturated sludge era of the #internet"

https://www.tumblr.com/thelearnedwobbly/727283302810173440?source=share

What happens when the leadership of a political party becomes so #extreme, so out of touch with its voters, that it #alienates many of its own #activists and elected #officials?
No need to guess. Just cast your eyes upon #Georgia, one of the nation’s electoral battlegrounds, where the state Republican Party has gone so far down the #MAGA rabbit hole that many of its officeholders — including Gov. Brian #Kemp, who romped to re-election last year despite being targeted for removal by Donald Trump — are steering clear of it as if it’s their gassy grandpa at Sunday supper.
What’s happening in Georgia is a cautionary tale for pluralism, an example of how the soul of a party can become warped and wrecked when its leadership veers toward narrow extremism.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/opinion/georgia-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare