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Most people don’t care about politics. They still use FB products. A third of people don’t even vote.

*A third of Americans don't vote

You may not care about politics, but politics cares about you. (To be more specific, politics cares about what it hasn't stolen from you yet.)

> unheard of in history for the far left and far right to experience the same issues

That doesn't seem true. They were both excluded entirely from broadcast media.

> It must be basically unheard of in history for the far left and far right to experience the same issues in such a similar way, I wonder where it may lead. The enemy of my enemy is my friend, after all.

That's not actually true: they're not experiencing the same issues. The socialist pages are restored, but I don't think Facebook will do the same for QAnon or Three Percenter groups.

The contemporary left is too puritanical about the use of language for (far) left/right groups to even begin to have a dialogue. They've both had an antipathy towards big tech for a while now, but they're both spending all their bandwidth on one another.