I really do think liberals did a lot of harm to themselves by deciding to consistently use "astroturfed", "fringe", "crank", "sockpuppt", etc to describe their enemies Which has culminated in the whole "bot" thing
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I mean, a lot of times it is true, but so what It's not actually the important thing Bad beliefs aren't bad because they're *unpopular* The assumption that the ordinary real people all around you are decent and hold decent beliefs is a *terrible* assumption
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If you look at history and see how popular slavery was, how popular the German Nazis were, how popular every single bad thing was - which it *had to be* in order to cause real harm - you just can't maintain this worldview
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BREAKING: humans generally have trouble pretending to believe something they don't actually believe
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