Thread. I was ready to write something very similar to this two years ago, but got overwhelmed by my notes, it felt too big.https://twitter.com/caroljsroth/status/1060348895102943232 …
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I still have the text file on my desktop: "Thesis 2: Progressives in The Current Year have been inside the most glorious epistemic bubble since the court of Louis XVI. If they want to recover, they need to jettison the media bong they've been sucking for the last five years.
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"Instead, they suck even harder on it now. They use performative anger and ingroup reinforcement to protect themselves from new information. Some tips on how to stop, and what to do next." Two years ago...heh, yeah, about that.
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IIRC, I wrote that before the Hillary Clinton/David Brock/Neera Tanden court-in-exile spawned The Resistance, as a thing separate from the woke-identitarian and red-rose factions of the American left. The madness is worse than ever. The end, no moral, no hope.
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A couple of other clips from that text file - "your addiction to rage has made you both insufferable and gullible. insufferable is a problem for the people around you. gullible is a problem for you. and you have become so very, very gullible."
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in another frame, you find the same thing happening in the private sector, with Google and YouTube:https://twitter.com/nicholatian/status/1060355337704767489 …
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I don't understand the connection here.
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