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You can just say "he has a few different opinions than my peer group" and leave it at that. Heck, you yourself can even form your own opinions -- it's fine -- d
by Exoristos 2y ago
You can just say "he has a few different opinions than my peer group" and leave it at that. Heck, you yourself can even form your own opinions -- it's fine -- don't look so aghast.
- ben_w 2y agoDifferent opinions is not the problem. My own opinions differ plenty from my peers. Even that the opinions are outside my Overton Window isn't itself a problem, because (as with most of my nationality) that window excludes the 2nd Amendment and yet I can be here on this American website. Problem is, quite a lot of the weird stuff looks like defections in the IPD sense.
- thinkcontext 2y agoI put spreading conspiracy theories about Dominion voting machines (this week), plots by Jews, vaccines caused Lebron James' son to pass out, Paul Pelosi's attacker was actually his gay lover, etc in a different category than "he has a few different opinions than my peer group". Something has gone terribly wrong.
- smolder 2y agoI don't think he's actually as dumb as that, he is just playing the same counter-intelligence game as other people on the right, because telling the truth isn't as advantageous for them. People buying into that stuff are morons, but useful to the republican party all the same.
- ben_w 2y agoNeither I nor thinkcontext said "dumb". What you describe is still a defection in the iterated prisoners' dilemma sense.