which is more destructive to accurate understanding of the world, “whatever our team uses to advance itself is true” discourse or “whatever the other team uses against our team is false” discourse?
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these are great results because my hot take is that the correct answer is option 2. you at least have the option of trying to shape your own team's discourse to be less bullshit; requiring outgroup claims to all be false forces you into a reactive stance you aren't in control of
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this means you can be trivially made to demand that your team treat clearly true statements as false or at least unsayable, which is the position that progressivism increasingly finds itself in, especially since the alt-right picked up provoking it as a fun pastime
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and of course anybody who answered option 4 is either a contrarian shitposter or an admirably unabashed cordyceps host, so it's nice to have numbers on those in my followers even if disambiguating them is problematic
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yes yes i'm sure you still prefer things in some sense
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