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  • So basically, the more people who believe in the value of some thing, the more that thing holds actual value?

    Yes. That's how value works.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_value

    The paradox of value (also known as the diamond–water paradox) is the contradiction that, although water is on the whole more useful, in terms of survival, than diamonds, diamonds command a higher price in the market.

  • Hillary Clinton warns against Trump 2024 win: ‘Hitler was duly elected’
  • Most people would never vote for Sanders. He lost the primary and his supporters never shut up about how it was "rigged and stollen" from their God-Emperor.

    But nope they ran with her they wanted to lose.

    The "GIVE US BERNIE OR WE'LL GIVE YOU TRUMP" people helped Trump win, not Clinton voters.

    Online pissbabies never realize they're a minority even within their own party.

  • Opinion | Why Does the Right Hate America?
  • Unironically, they hate us for our freedoms.

    We have the freedom to read and say what we want, and they can't stand to hear their beliefs challenged.

    We have the freedom to have sex and not get sick or pregnant, and they can't stand their purity religion being disobeyed.

    We have the freedom to be who we are, and they can't stand to see their simplistic notions of sex and gender disproven.

    We have the freedom to not be religious, and they can't stand to see irreligious people living happy lives.

    We have the freedom to ignore them, and they can't stand not being the center of attention.

  • YSK About Debate And Meta-Debate
    slatestarcodex.com Varieties Of Argumentative Experience

    In 2008, Paul Graham wrote How To Disagree Better, ranking arguments on a scale from name-calling to explicitly refuting the other person’s central point. And that’s why, ever since 200…

    Varieties Of Argumentative Experience

    A good post about the kinds of arguments people use online, including tactics which are about the argument itself or some of the people involved in the argument, as opposed to being about the argument's supposed topic.

    You should know this to, one, avoid pointless "debates" where no actual issues get debated, two, to improve your own debate style to focus on the issues that need to be debated most, and, three, to see when others are merely acting like they're debating without actually debating the core issues the debate is supposed to be about.

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