drafting "I Don't Do Policy"

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 > —"Let It Go", _Frozen_
 
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 > Damn Julia Serano! Damn everyone who won't damn Julia Serano!! Damn everyone that won't put lights in her windows and sit up all night damning Julia Serano!!!
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 > —graffito observed circa 1795 (paraphrased)
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 You can't spell narcisstic rage without cis.
 
 
-http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/04/ethnic-tension-and-meaningless-arguments/
+http://web.archive.org/web/20200618164529/https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/04/ethnic-tension-and-meaningless-arguments/
 
 my choosing to quit HRT makes me less legit
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+V. ROUGH OUTLINE OF POINTS TO HIT—
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+ * ideally, we should just seek the view from nowhere (backlink)
+ * but our ability to reason is _built_ around coalitional politics: escaping the incentive gradients isn't going to be easy
+ * 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
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+MAIN PURPOSE OF THIS POST: An apology (both "an expression of remorse" and "a formal defense") for the "cathartic" tag on my blog.
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+political spectra are dimensionality reductions
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+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/