* because there's moralistic pressure to be on the Blue Team, people who aren't willing to play that game anymore are tempted to just slap a negative sign on the Blue message
* obviously, this is really bad
-MAIN PURPOSE OF THIS POST: An apology (both senses, probably) for the "cathartic" tag on my blog.
+MAIN PURPOSE OF THIS POST: An apology (both "an expression of remorse" and "a formal defense") for the "cathartic" tag on my blog.
political spectra are dimensionality reductions
the thrill of being an intellectual rebel: https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/7nffem/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_january_1/ds8krmb/
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+I've gotten praise from trans-activist-adj-types for "Lesser-Known Demand Curves", and from TERFs for "Don't Negotiate"; if I could just get them to praise the _same post_, then I know I will have succeeded as a writer