Welp, ladies 'n germs, it looks like my experiment in reaching out to the MAGA side is pretty much done.
I banned MC because I got tired of his insults and bad faith trolling. I submitted a post for LATW this morning before banning MC, but it got blocked or hung up. I presume I'm kaput there.
The experience was useful but unpleasant. Most or nearly all MAGA people see me as a radical leftist who insults, lies and Dog only knows what else. I get lots of insults from that crowd, but essentially no useful feedback. They don't challenge my fact assertions or point out flaws in my reasoning. Instead they just criticize and insult me.
I dug deep into the situation with Pxy. It made some interesting comments about the MAGA mindset, which I posted here two days ago.
The research confirms what you've experienced firsthand: MAGA operates within what scholars call "epistemic closure" - a completely self-contained information ecosystem where any challenge to their worldview is automatically interpreted as evidence of the conspiracy [or false belief] they believe in. …. This isn't mere bias - it's what researchers call "truth subversion": deliberate practices designed to destroy the very concept of shared factual reality.
That sounds right to me. With those MAGA folks there definitely is little shared factual reality with the rest of us. Also hardly any trust or good will, but plenty of negative vibes and ill-will.
In all of this, I've been doing a lot of deep diving with Pxy. ð It also said that me continuing to try to make my fact and bias error reduction set better is at a point of diminishing returns. It's something about asymptotically impossible or whatever. So I'll just leave it alone for a while .... probably. ðĪŠ
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