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It’s a common causality error—many good and important things scare the normies. Thus, some people start to conclude that *scaring the normies* is itself good, that it has some causal relationship to The Good, because so many things that advance The Good also scare normies.
But, of course, bad things can scare the normies too, or unimportant things, or obnoxious things. It’s not a very good heuristic.
It is, however, also a pretty easy way to demonstrate to members of a countercultural/subcultural in-group that you are one of them and not a normie.
So between that and the causal attribution error, a lot of people in insular, outlier communities like American socialism or Rationalists/EAs (despite being ideologically very different) will gravitate to normie-scaring as both a community-building/status-seeking exercise, and/or as a genuine confusion about what’s morally important and good
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Joe laying down hard truths here. This is why a place like Avengers Campus fails while Pandora soared. There is nothing fantastical about hanging out in a fake military-like base in a nondescript location. With Pandora everyone leaves the Avatar movies wanting to be there.
Joe Rohde on the challenges of adapting Marvel into the Disney Parks.
“Marvel is a character brand. When we watch these movies or read the comics, our primary investment is in the psychology of the character. Spider-Man is a great example of this. Spider-Man’s life is a constant emotional crisis of one kind or another. It’s almost more of a soap opera format. So, you have an art form — the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the Marvel Comic Universe — in which settings are disposable and are disposed of in order to drive character development. That works great in a film, but when it comes to place-making, it is difficult to lock yourself on the experiences of places, which is part of what makes theme parks theme parks. All through your day in a theme park the primary actor you engage with is the architecture and the landscape."
(latimes.com/travel/newslette…)
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This is an underrated part of the discourse. Like it's fine if you think the coffee thing is stupid, but if you rage out to a ridiculous degree at everything you think is stupid you're showing yourself to be someone a company won't want on staff
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“A plurality of Dems support four of them, including a military coup and death by natural causes.”
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I do think the answer still is to push yourself out of your comfort zone but also itd be nice if normies weren't so non confrontational and actually tell you what you're fucking up instead of making you play social Simon Says
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People don't realise that 50% of the interview is how good you are and 50% is whether you're an asshole, because an asshole is useless in a team no matter what their skill.
Not taking an interview seriously would flag you as an asshole.
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there's nothing more heartbreaking or plaintive than locking eyes with a dad who is being rushed out of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum by his hideous ungrateful family because its 4:30 pm in august and they want to go back to the holiday inn.
Hasan’s popularity comes largely from the fact that he can rattle off a bunch of stuff very fast on livestreams and by the time anyone could verify anything he’s already moved on to another point
Doesn’t work so well in a one-on-one interview with a journalist
Hasan is asked a single follow up question and immediately proves himself wrong
Hasan: All the way back in 2001, had 66% approval that America in some way, shape or form, was responsible for 9-11...
Alex: What poll is this?
Hasan: I might have actually presented it more favorable than it actually is... In 2001, 33% of all Americans said that US wrongdoing might have motivated 9-11 attacks
Alex: But that's less than 66%
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Ilham Omar and Zohran Mamdani clearly do believe in the idea of America. You think they don't because your idea of America is wrong and incompatible with the Constitution
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Just say No you fucking moron! Have some awareness of what is happening and what you are being used for! Or deny the premise. Don’t say YES!!!!
He clearly gets upset when candidates don’t defend him, well use your fucking brain as to why!
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It’s pretty sad that the rightwing machine has money to make their own films, yet after YEARS of complaining about hamfisted & overly political movies, the best they can fund are hamfisted and overly political movies. It’s just their own version of ‘the message’ or whatever.
They did it. They really did it.
@realDailyWire actually made a “Gays for Palestine” scene. In case you’re wondering how that works in Gaza.
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folks, what are we doing here
this was standard Republican presidential rhetoric from Reagan through Romney.
I find it a little disconcerting how quickly even (very) recent political history has become apparently unknowable
