How a discord server convinces democratic and republican strategists that Twitter is real life.
A wider analysis of the data I've collected from the last 3 months on the Destiny (
@TheOmniLiberal) and his twitter impact. This online community-- also known as DDG, is the reason Hasan Piker is on the news every night. By amplifying everything against him, they created the illusion that he was far more well known and more importantly, more hated than he actually is. This extends beyond a single streamer, to the broader "left" in general. Other common targets are Zohran Mamdani, Abdul El-Seyad, and Bernie Sanders.
They have tried to paint this obsession as "warning" the democrats about Hasan piker and the threat of the DSA left, but the numbers don't actually back them up. Much of the critical discussion of the progressive left from democrats is actually driven BY their community.
It's time people online realize how much of the liberal anti left discourse is poisoned by a single discord server who's goal is to attack the left from the "liberal" position.
py, pandas, networkx, twitter api.
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