So @iridienne was, in fact, correct
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Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne and
I don't understand the critique--"Scott's anti-Trump article did not prevent Trump's election"? That critique could also be made of every journalist who wrote an anti-Trump article My suspicion is that Scott's article did more than most
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Replying to @PlzBeSensible @iridienne and
My suspicion is that the months and months Scott spent reassuring "Gray Tribe" and "Red Tribe" people in "Blue Tribe Enemy Territory" that they weren't terrible people and their resentments and insecurities were valid and all that shit did far far more than that one article
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Replying to @arthur_affect @PlzBeSensible and
The big moment where you turn around and pull a judo maneuver and "spend the capital you've accrued" does not work You can't spend months befriending a Nazi telling them being a Nazi is not so bad and then suddenly go "Ah HA, the big reveal is that it IS bad"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @PlzBeSensible and
Jesus fuck like I'm not on the Internet and I haven't seen this corny-ass story a million times "And then I looked my friend Hans in the eye and said 'Those Jews you talk so much about... I am one of them' And silently, he began to weep" Gag me
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Replying to @arthur_affect @PlzBeSensible and
This particular article is especially garbage because HE IS ON THEIR SIDE He AGREES that the woke cancelation mobs of raving SJWs are about to tear apart the Republic and he's trying to argue Trump is a BAD STRATEGY for opposing them
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Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne and
That's how you persuade a Republican that Trump is bad--explain that he's a bad way to make the country great. Do you know how persuasion works? You understand what the person you're trying to persuade wants and then show them how to get it.
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Replying to @PlzBeSensible @iridienne and
What I understand about persuasion is that it mostly doesn't work
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Replying to @arthur_affect
lol, for people who came up in the "arguing with christians online" phase of the internet, rationalists seem to have a real hard time grasping that
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Replying to @perdricof
They're just in it for the debate itself, they never really expected or wanted to win The debating was the performance and the pleasure, for its own sake, pure masturbation
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That's their critique of "SJWism" and "cancel culture", of course "You're just a cruel hateful person, you ENJOY attacking people for its own sake, you ENJOY being an asshole, it's what you WANT to do" And sure, I will readily cop to just plain being a prick
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof
But hey, you know what, my nasty little dopamine rush at least leads to something substantive in the world changing The people who possibly are just getting their jollies breaking windows and pulling down statues because destruction is fun have accomplished so much more than you
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