Good thread. The epistemic closure he talks about is absolutely a phenomena, but two points: 1) both sides do it (the left calls people racists and nazis, and if anyone protests or disagrees, their data is ignored because they are obviously ALSO racists and nazis). >>>https://twitter.com/normative/status/1298738662532935681 …
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5/ As with the WWII example, if we thought that Hitler was a genocidal madman and his government was full of fanatics and liars in 1939, then when the claim goes out in 1943 that there are no death camps, appealing to "but he's a liar" is good epistemics, not circular.
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6/ So re the Deep State, I ground my belief in it in things like James Clapper of the NSA lying under oath in 2013, or the IRS targeting conservative charities c. 2011-2012 I have AMPLE evidence that the Deep State exists, and had it before Trump ran for POTUS.
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7/ Additionally, I am not a fan of Trump. He's a liar, indecisive, arrogant, narcissistic, incompetent, vane, lacks any overarching strategy. He's a disaster. ...but these are not the charges that are made by the Deep State and others. They argue that he's
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8/ bad for US security (see the thread QT-ed in #1 above). And on that note, I can look at the evidence for myself, and disagree with the conclusions. TLDR: epistemic closure is real, but not everything that looks like epistemic closure actually is.
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