“Basket of deplorables” is actually a pretty good portfolio strategy. Most assholes are just assholes but some are on to something and it’s typically undervalued because of cloud of negative valence.
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Liberal (and true-religious) analog of baskets of deplorables is baskets of misery: doing toxic emotional labor nobody else will to alleviate suffering. It can yield very high spiritual returns if you survive.
In both cases, median outcome is mindrot, exceptional is high returns
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I used to use a version of this belief as a teenager to justify spending way too much time around assholes 🤔
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Did you invest meaningfully though? It’s only worth it as an investment strategy. In every other way it is a costly brain-rot thing.
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Venkat the phrase “devil’s advocate” is not meant to be taken literally
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Important to distinguish between disagreeable and deplorable. Deplorables might even be polite/civil. It’s the moral repugnance their views evoke that is the problem. If a racist or misogynist is the first to discover anti-gravity, I want to know, but I don’t want to be friends
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