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Re:Ethnic violence in Ethiopia has been supercharged by hate... by MrMan on Monday September 14, 2020 @08:37PM (#24476706)
Ted nugent was not able to get regular Midwestern moms and dads to "like" his civil war calls to arms in the tens of thousands before social media
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Re:Ethnic violence in Ethiopia has been supercharged by hate... by COGlory on Monday September 14, 2020 @08:51PM (#24476804)
What does liking something actually accomplish, though? And how do we compare it to pre-social media? How do we know those people didn't already have that preference, but had no medium to express it, and so no one knew it existed?
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