Are "Post Unpopular Opinions" threads about: - finding the walls of your echo chamber? - encouraging naive outgroup members to expose themselves? - providing a formal justification to make ingroup-divergent claims, thus asserting your status if your thread is seen as legitimate?
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why might expressing unpopular opinions publicly "let off more steam" than doing so privately?
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shrug, it's very common to feel as if an unwitnessed event hasn't really happened
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fwiw I meant "privately" as in "to a friend or two, offline" but I agree -- there seems to be a distinction between "publicly witnessed" and "witnessed only by close friends or even nobody" does this have to do with the romantic "authenticity" quest? desire to show True Self?
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definitely feels like it
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