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What does that even mean in the context of a discussion like this? Doesn’t make any sense lol.

• forgetfreeman 3y ago
  Doesn't it? I think we all agree performative behaviors have taken center stage over the last couple decades (see also: online influencers, prepper culture, and the shitstorm over "woke" culture). Quibbling over bullshit minutia with no specific larger goal in mind, especially in public forums, is just another manifestation.
  • lazide 3y ago
    Or your original point was half assed and you’re just angry you can’t actually make a better one? I don’t think PFAs are some essential vitamin or minerals. But some quantifiable risk information is essential to actually making a useful analysis. Like other types of substances we’ve done nearly the same thing to ourselves over, like dioxins, PCBs, etc. Most if them might just be as bad as silicones, some of them might be worse, some of them better. And it’s weird that none of that is allowed to be discussed. You’re the one being performative here.
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  • therealdrag0 3y ago
    I think you have an overly broad or ungenerous (is this what the cranky kids call “bad faith”?) definition of “performative”? “Bullshit minutia” is pretty subjective. If my hippy friend says “the govment should ban chemicals in foods”, arguing about what “chemicals” mean is not bullshit it’s critical information for a fact based argument. If anything ignoring facts and logical minutia could be called performative, since then your words matter less than your saying <anything> that tickles feelings.