there is a style of tweeting that for lack of a better word i'll call "stating honest beliefs that undermine other people's coping mechanisms" and i feel more conflicted about it now than i used to
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most of the time when you do this you'll just produce resistance and inoculate people against the belief in the future and sometimes you might produce existential despair instead idk it's tricky business
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has "load-bearing beliefs" as a concept / meme spread around these parts yet? it's a really useful handle. very vivid imageery. conflicts between opposite load-bearing beliefs are a major source of online tension, maybe the primary one idk
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it's more respectful lol not taking a stance on whether the belief is true or false or even helpful or unhelpful, just that it's holding up something