i swear to fuck you could state a human tendency as 50.1% vs. 49.9% and the first thing you'll get is someone in the 49.9% using themselves as obvious proof that there couldn't possibly be such a tendency
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It’s a weird vibe coming from a country whose political system was explicitly constructed to thwart “tyranny of the majority”.
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one gets the distinct feeling that the majority would *not* have voted for that
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As a minority opiner, it’s actually 50.01% vs 49.99% thank you very muchly
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Somehow the closer to absolute parity between belief sets is the more marginal and fringe the small set seems
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You give people the opportunity to signal they belong to some special, exclusive group, and they're going to take it. I mean, isn't that pretty much what social media is for? Some are just better at it.
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inb4 "not me!"
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Trumplanders; not even once
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The democratic argument is "by gum, that's legitimate because this is the process we agreed to." Small step from "legitimate" to "good" - arguably even a necessary myth for social cohesion.
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Westerners not really all that much less conformist than Asians. Noticeably less, sure, but still more conformist than not.
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