the key skill for being part of an online ideology clique is the opposite of reading comprehension, where you take the high-speed inference engine that people ordinarily use to understand other people and instead use it to generate novel misreadings that demonize the speaker
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the modern father of this discipline of reading anti-comprehension is Cardinal Richelieu: "If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged."
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many a crusader for truth and justice knows the sickening lurch in the stomach when one wakes up one day to find a popular kid turning this technique, which one never thought oneself vulnerable to, against them: the sure and certain knowledge that one is already outgroup
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fuck i wish i were one of you jacknuts who constantly changes their display name to jokey shit so i could change mine to Cardinal Poorelieu
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