Everyone has a quiet internal voice saying "I can't possibly die bc of this, I've never died before" and it is the reason ppl diehttps://twitter.com/fakedansavage/status/804104830239141888 …
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Replying to @arthur_affect
To get wonky abt it everyone currently alive by definition has survivorship bias which means literally everyone is biased toward optimism
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"You wouldn't be so optimistic if you were dead" is a Debbie Downer thing to say but the fact we don't say it is a big reason we fuck up
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"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger" doesn't actually mean that there aren't tons of things that do kill you
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Anyway yeah the proliferation of "Don't panic, we will survive Trump" pieces will be looked back on fondly by those of us who do survive
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"I said that no matter how bad things got we'd survive, and look, here I am" - a German in 1946 who is a complete douchebag
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