This sort of asinine, duplicitous, hyperbolic nonsense is (partly) why the American left is utterly lost: https://medium.com/danthropology/when-did-online-atheism-get-into-bed-with-the-neo-nazi-movement-d6e3cb49e3f1 …
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It's really disturbing & rather sad in a way. He only took on this persona in the last year or so. It's baffling to me.
Maybe it's a tribal polarization thing. More extreme positions = more affirmation from your tribe = more prone to confirmation bias. Repeat.
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That's a good point & it may indeed be at play here. But in this case, it's a bit odd as I'm not sure there's much of a tribe to appeal to
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I think the tribe might be on Facebook. It's very tribal is Facebook! :)
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Ha! Good point
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