Marshall Plumlee
89 posts
.@elonmusk , you repealed the “misgendering” rule in April of 2023. Why has this been reinstated? For X to be a free speech platform, it is imperative we are allowed to speak truthfully without penalty.
“You can gauge someone’s ignorance by the number of phenomena they explain with the same answer. Those who blame many different issues (e.g. war, poverty, pollution) on just 1 cause (e.g. capitalism) are recycling explanations because the demand for answers outstrips their supply.” — @G_S_Bhogal We could call this monothinking. This got me onto another idea which might explain why you get ostracised for not being a card-carrying extremist or cookie-cutter ideologue. If I know one of your views, and from it, I can accurately predict everything else that you believe, then you’re not a serious thinker. If you tell me your view on abortion, and from it I know your stance on immigration and healthcare and gun control and vaccines and taxation, it seems likely that you haven’t arrived at those beliefs on your own. Rather, that you’ve just unquestioningly adopted an entire suite of beliefs from some group. You’ve outsourced your worldview to the crowd. These people are very predictable. I can be pretty confident about what they’ll say if a new social campaign comes along, because it’s exactly what everyone else in their group will say. This is why anyone who thinks for themselves and doesn’t adhere to a cookie-cutter ideology wholesale is so unpopular. You are an unreliable ally. Sure you might agree with me on abortion, but I know that you disagree with me on your opinion of Donald Trump. These unreliable allies need to be treated with much more skepticism and distance. In a tribal warfare game, the most reliable members are the most popular. Something to remember if you ever feel like you don’t fit in.
Someone who passes all of her 7 requirements was probably already snapped up in his 20s. If you are still looking in your 30s, aren’t the best guys usually already married? 🤨
Joe Rogan, once a vocal evangelist of New Atheist talking points on religion, now yearns for the "just and righteous" Kingdom of God and believes the world "needs Jesus...for real." That's quite a change, but his journey is emblematic of a wider shift in attitudes towards religion.
