𝓝𝓪𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓮 𝓦𝔂𝓷𝓷  💎

In particular we need to stop imposing significant social costs on changing one's mind. It's a big barrier to persuasion.

This is really good advice because for most people, changing your mind about something or admitting you were wrong is hard enough without people rubbing it in your face. This could make it so people are much more resistant to change if they feel like their dignity is at stake.

I remember really enjoying your livestream with her awhile back. I’ll admit to being judgmental toward people who were ever duped by Trump (for better or worse), but I’m certainly happy that she’s grown as a person.

Seriously: This is why I like you. Hyperbole and petty shitnosing are bad looks on either side. Your side is not helped by your bad arguments or your bad attitude, regardless what side that is.

I agree in part but Theryn herself has really built up a wall of hostility on her own over the years, so I just never bothered talking to her or folks like her. I got little patience for those that seek to prop up the hierarchy that left my parents broken and poor.

Well said contra

Yeah people are coming off like rational skeptics over here lately. I don't agree that optics are everything in the same way neocons/alt right do (or else tearing down that Saddam statue would have fixed the middle east forever ) but come on you guys.