Ignoring politics is an indulgence of the privileged class. If you curate your feed to avoid it then you are perpetuating harm.

This is at least the argument that you will hear. On the one hand completely shutting out political content does seem like a let them eat cake attitude. But of course it isn’t binary. The problem is that the political content is everywhere now and it’s toxic. I don’t want to ignore the problems of the world and I also cannot allow the endless yelling to drag me into depression.

If you ignored twitter and chose to be active in local politics you would be doing more actual good than 10 people tweeting 20x a day.

10 people tweeting 20x a day is a pretty low bar.

I'd wager to say anyone that's active in local politics is doing more good than 90% of politics-tweeters.