1/ Imagine there are two competing belief systems that are well-partitioned by an accessible identity. If one group is mostly wrong and the other is less wrong, given the right conditions (excess deliberation in particular belief contexts), errors tend to *multiply* quickly.
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5/ While the MAGA tent — a mixture of useful fool racists and an indifferent upper class that just wants deregulation and tax cuts to pull out ahead further — believes in some remarkable, nonsensical, and self-serving things, their continued power contaminates EVERYONE's beliefs.
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6/ I don't say this to excuse anything about that axis of fuckery. 2015-on has been the moral test of a generation and they are the abject failures. However, the longer we're under this chaos regime, the more likely it is that we all believe in bullshit. So mind your beliefs!
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(This will end up as a lengthy, interactive data biz that I’m working on. Abstraction in tweets is like reading tea leaves sometimes.)
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