You know the old joke about the elderly Jewish guy who prefers to read Nazi newspapers because it's reassuring to hear that "We're always winning"? That's unironically like 50% of the reason I used to read Scott Alexander's blog and similar sources
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He and his friends are so performatively terrified of the overwhelming, all-devouring power of "online cancellation mobs" it was genuinely an ego boost "It's me, Scott, your worst nightmare! The avatar of Moloch! I'm on Twitter and I call things racist! BOO!"
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Anyway I don't know how much of this is a genuine pathology and how much of it is a cynical ploy for attention - with someone like Scott the line is very blurry - but you all can see he's "canceling" himself right
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It's like the episode of MASH where Hawkeye is so terrified of his friends pranking him he can't eat or sleep or bathe and becomes a paranoid smelly jumpy wackjob and then they tell him they didn't do anything and letting him think they would was the prank
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