The Semantics Sheriff

Speak honestly using precision and clarity.

Check your premise.

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@JustinJJJackson @SwipeWright @BretWeinstein Posting a criticism of Colin's post criticizing Bret's post.

Am I tracking this accurately?

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@Hebro_Steele Looks firey but mostly peaceful.

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@Real_YuanZhang Narrative-alignment as a signal of group loyalty. Defending an instrumental belief shows commitment to the group.

The belief's function is to provide that opportunity.

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@vincentneilho That's just group defense of an instrumental belief. The value of the belief is in its function (group coordination, sorting, status, loyalty signaling). Not its relationship to reality (truth).

They are using narrative-alignment to signal group loyalty.

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@newstart_2024 Women on the left are afraid to say it because their side will turn on them.

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@wesyang It's an intifada.

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@wesyang @heterodoxan Indigenous uprising.

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@IanFerrin @SwipeWright Thanks.

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@IanFerrin @SwipeWright Arguably this is because it is an instrumental belief. It’s not a map of reality. It's a flag that signals group affiliation.

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@LaLONeill @genspect @JenniferSey @SenSanders He doesn't need to know. He knows that saying this is how one gains status within the DNC.

That's as deep as his understanding needs to go.

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@DanielPriestley He's not making an economic argument. He's making a tribal argument because that keeps working for him.

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@AlinejadMasih

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Nuremberg.

[Claire 🦎 @burnyourbinder]

I decided I was "nonbinary" at 12, then a "demiboy," then a trans boy around 13, and then a week after my 14th birthday I was on testosterone and being referred for a mastectomy. this is not harmless adolescent identity formation, this girl is on a conveyor belt which leads to irreversible medical harm. the adults encouraging this belief are complicit in the harm she may one day have to reckon with. there is no excuse, in this day and age, to say you couldn't have known better.

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@AdamZivo It's ok to apply shame to transsexuals and anyone else who lies or tries to manipulate other people.

And if they do it around children it's ok to intervene.

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@michaelshermer @ScienceBasedMed Sure, if we ignore all the motivated reasoning, asymmetric application of standards, intentional obfuscation, attacks on anyone who asked basic questions, coercion, and the actual mutilation of kids.

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@RockChartrand Accidentally achieving exactly what you said you were going to do seems like an unnecessarily complicated take.

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@salltweets @jk_rowling @KirralieS Strong claims are defended with honesty, precision, and clarity and attacked using manipulation and coercion.

Weak claims/beliefs are defended with manipulation and coercion and attacked suing honesty, precision, and clarity.

The method becomes diagnostic.

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@JenniferSey @heterodoxan Ideology is a powerful drug.

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@LeonaAngelaVII @JenniferSey @Veritaserum44 At what level of strength does a man become a woman?

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@DumisaniTemsgen @NYCMayor "Nakba survivor"