when somebody's beliefs change depending on what people around them believe, so that they can maintain an exact balance of weirdness
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a lot of people are less logical than they are aesthetically opposed to bad arguments. if they hear a bad argument they recoil into the opposite belief. they will always believe things that are unpopular bc less people are deploying bad arguments about unpopular things
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some people unconsciously shift their beliefs as soon as the beliefs become popular, specifically in order to stay in a "weird" social position, the beliefs are secondary
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Replying to @sympathetic_opp
I suffer from this impulsive contrarianism consciously, but it's hard to fix "having predictable political opinions is boring" great, I'll have even more predictable opinions! "atheists are boring" great, I'll be even more atheist! "contrarians are boring" great, I'll be e
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Replying to @mechanicalmonk1 @sympathetic_opp
not even to be weird, when I think about it there's just a part of me that's like… "take it personally! pick a fight!! grrraaargh fuck em" I don't know what its problem is I'm often not even in practice a part of the group that's being targeted by these statements
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Replying to @mechanicalmonk1 @sympathetic_opp
my mental handle for this is "I just really hate bullies" (possibly also related to "plucky underdog / support the underdog" cultural memes) but also to become viral, a take has to become overly dumbed down, and that makes it annoying. So, aesthetics?
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Yeah, these are both basically it for me. There's a very specific visceral reaction that comes when I know that someone is going to coerce me to go along with their opinion but clearly doesn't have the grounds to actually convince me of their opinion.
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