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Re:The new silent majority: People who don't tweet by pvarangot on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @04:09PM (#30607001)
In my experience running joke and pseudonymous Twitter accounts most "respectable engineers" talking about politics on Twitter are not posting about their real problems as much as trying to appeal to signal they belong to a certain culture because it's beneficial for their careers or their public image. There's a lot of exceptions of course but honestly most good engineers will probably be tweeting the interesting political stuff that really affects them from behind an account for say "Signal", "Tor", "the EFF" or whatever and not with their personal name.

I am really into politics and participate in political debate on Slack or Discord servers and private Signal or Telegram groups with an identity that can be traced back to me with zero effort almost daily or weekly. Some are bigger than others. I would never ever do it on Twitter unless I was trying to start a side-gig as a journalist or a cult-leader or whatever. Not caring about what people on Twitter say about politics is far from not caring about politics at all.

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Re:The new silent majority: People who don't tweet by LAC-Tech on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @05:51PM (#30608402)
I care about my public image only so far as how I can use it to help others.

Letting everyone know this is probably really good for your public image. You sound so selfless.

It's pretty sad to realize that there are people who go through life only doing things based on how what they do will benefit their image or perception by others.

Some people have the the ability to do it subconsciously, perhaps without even realising it.

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Re:The new silent majority: People who don't tweet by pvarangot on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @06:02PM (#30608539)
> Some people have the the ability to do it subconsciously, perhaps without even realising it.

As an LGBT latino software developer thanks for this. I was not even thinking about "diversity issue" when I wrote the the grandparent post but I'm not surprised it's the first thing that came up from a "Twitter Star".

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Re:The new silent majority: People who don't tweet by pvarangot on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @07:40PM (#30609517)
I didn't say that, you are the only one here talking about a fight and people who need stuff so I think I'll leave you to it as you seem to be the expert. As I said I was not even thinking about issues that affect me at the workplace when I wrote that, I was more thinking about like who has to be president of what country or whatever Facebook is doing or not doing.
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