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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 19 May 2021

      I've detected a new shibboleth in a micro-tribe adjacent to mine: the use of the world "cruel". Mask policies are "cruel". Closing schools during pandemic is "cruel". etc I find this shibboleth distressing, bc it's a retreat from rationality / embracing emotion & projection.

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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 19 May 2021

      2/ To describe someone's actions as cruel implies that: * they entirely agree with you on the costs (huge) * they entirely agree with you on the benefit (small) * their motivation for the policy is to cause distress I disagree with progs on lots of things, but ...

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    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 19 May 2021

      3/ I think that most of their policy prescriptions are based on the fact that we do NOT share axioms. We do NOT agree on costs, and we do NOT agree on benefits. Yes, sure, 2% of their ideas are villainous "twirl mustache and cackle", but 98% are not. (& same re conservatives)

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    4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 19 May 2021

      4/ When someone leaps straight to calling a policy "cruel", it makes me think two things (about the person calling the policy "cruel", not the person proposing it): * they fail the Ideological Turing Test * they are emotional and not logical

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    5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 19 May 2021

      5/ Another shibboleth of the same red sub-tribe is calling things "satanic" or "demonic". Right, right, I get it, it's an expensive signal to show that you're a Believer (expensive bc believing in God isn't terribly unpopular or weird, but believing in Satan and demons is).

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 19 May 2021

      6/ and, yes, a few things are literally "satanic" or "demonic", but most are not. I recently saw a friend call the income tax "satanic". Neither Satan nor God really care about tax policy. Jesus spoke on the topic and said that tax policy is re the physical world and ...

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        2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 19 May 2021

          7/ leave secular topics to secular authorities. ...and yet the same tribe chimes in "no, no, he said that about ROMAN tax policy. INCOME taxes are far worse." Frens, you're so zoomed into the leaf you can't see the forest.

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        3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 19 May 2021

          8/ God doesn't care re marginal tax rates or policy incentives, and He doesn't care if the authorities tax the product of your fields, or just your fields directly (on a tangent, how is taxing a productive asset better policy, or better Christian morality than taxing outputs?)

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        4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 19 May 2021

          9/ The stupidity in this thread I'm referencing culminated with someone say "I'd pay taxes to Caesar, but our government is no Caesar". OMG, read a book. As terrible as our government is, it's 1% as bad as Roman governments.

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        5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 19 May 2021

          10/ (I say this w some reasonable confidence; I majored in Roman history)

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        6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 19 May 2021

          11/ Anyway, I guess my thesis statement here is something off in the direction of a Spider Jerusalem quote, except tempered with a bit of hope. It's not that I hate you all, it's that I hate how you behave / think. ...but you can think better. Give it a shot.

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        7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 19 May 2021

          12/ Quit it with the shibboleths. Think through what your words are actually expressing, and decide whether you really want to say those things. (Most things that you say, you heard from other people first, and most other people are idiots, so maybe don't just repeat things?)

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        8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 19 May 2021

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted The King of Wrong

          13/ thanks I hate ithttps://twitter.com/KingOfWrong/status/1394992788031279108 …

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          The King of Wrong @KingOfWrong
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          Welcome to the Age of Emotion
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        9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 19 May 2021

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted James M

          14/ thanks I hate it (but, seriously tho, I think you're right, but ... man, this is some 1984 shit, where Oceania and Eurasia use identical tactics bc they've converged on the ultimate tools)https://twitter.com/Jubalnc/status/1394993066272985089 …

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          James M @Jubalnc
          Replying to @MorlockP
          Characterizing opponents as "cruel" carries a powerful emotional valence and is very persuasive to normies. Outgroup has been using it for years, and I suspect its adoption by Ingroup is intended to level the playing field.
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