He wrote both of those articles a very long time ago This article he chose to mention as his examples of the problem with doxing were MtFs being "deadnamed" and a cop reporting police misconduct in a prog-friendly way rather than when a prog 2 minute hate targeted cop got doxxed
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @Outsideness
That does seem like a pattern. Idk. I keep saying there's a lot of ruin in him- he could be like 40% more biased and still well-worth reading.
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And I'm saying it because that's something I'm pretty sure of, but I also think he has actual principles. You're right that there's a cultural affinity for the left, and this distorts his thinking. But such is to be human.
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(This is one reason the line about McInnes is worrying- saying mean, inaccurate things about your enemies to get a laugh was a line he hadn't previously crossed, modulo some obvious jokes. (...)
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Replying to @CoughsOnWombats @Outsideness
If you were a Nurgle worshiper and were in control of FDA how do you maximize the power of your lord? You don't start making bioweapons, you throw sand in the gears and passively block disease fighting while spreading the idea that you're vitally important to fight disease.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @Outsideness
I think that's an important dynamic, and I do see it in places. There are two environments you can do this in, and they greatly affect your execution.
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In the first one, no one is paying much attention. You're not trying to outwit smart people who will critically evaluate if what you're doing makes sense; you're trying to come up with facially plausible excuses your enemies can't puncture with ten-second soundbites.
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(I think most politics is at this level. Why did California ban plastic straws rather than, say, instituting a Pigovian tax? They weren't actually trying to help the environment, and they didn't care about fooling anyone who was actually paying attention.)
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In the second environment, people do care, and they're paying attention. You're actually trying to deceive people who don't want to be deceived by you. A *lot* of what you do is exactly what you *would* do if you weren't lying, because you don't want to leak evidence.
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If Scott's playing to the second sort of audience, the McInnes thing was a serious slip up; people noticed it, and compared notes, and thought about what it says about his credibility. If he's playing to the first sort, we'll find that out quickly.
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Sometimes mistakes happen when you don't know what you don't know. Scott is ensconced in such a leftist bubble that he might have thought that statement was just what a reasonable person would say.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @Outsideness
What I'm hoping. Six years ago, Scott wrote an article called "I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup" that let me crawl out of my ideological bubble. Hard to put into words how much I owe him for that. (...)
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That doesn't mean auto-agreeing with anything he says, or failing to notice when he gets things wrong, or failing to look for patterns in the things. But it does buy him an awful lot of screwups before I'd stop being fond of him.
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