issue-agnostically: this actually owns "im angery because she's pleasant and interesting and that people like others for this rather than judging them on MY absolute advantage, having the Correct Opinion's at any given time" sailers law but for actually this is just sailers law https://twitter.com/EternalBusboy/status/1129375876020416512 …
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Replying to @eigenrobot
serious question: what specifically selects for this style of rhetoric? the posturing, the absolutism, the throwing out blame, the vitriol, etc. these are all negatively correlated with coalition building and therefore with success in politics.
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Replying to @danlistensto
think it's probably a typical case of individual incentives being disaligned from stated organizational goals
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Replying to @eigenrobot
to me it just sounds like left-coded Rush Limbaugh. is this audience tailored for maximum outrage? what's the angle here. who benefits from this? it's not like she's got a revenue model based on this so what gives?
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Replying to @danlistensto
not quite right but first pass, alt politics is highly social and being deranged is easy way to credibly demonstrate ingroup loyalty
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don't overlook the value of somebody whose deranged energy you can piggyback along on when all you normally want is to crawl into bed and die
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