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aub.bsky.social

18 October 2026 07:12

I think this is a general pattern, though, and you'll see it more when the political climate swings back to the left in the u.s., I suspect starting this year, where people will once again become reluctant to *say* certain things while still absolutely *believing* them in their hearts.

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aub.bsky.social

18 October 2026 07:12

so you'd have people reading blogs or following individuals widely agreed to be racists or eugenicists or fascists or whatever, and quietly agreeing with many of those beliefs, while never really advocating them directly themselves. they used those beliefs to make predictions but would not say so.

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aub.bsky.social

18 October 2026 07:12

I saw this pattern in TPOT often before the Musk acquisition: there would be significant effort spent to maintain plausible deniability & obfuscate one's actual beliefs through various means, while indirectly boosting or playing devil's advocate for those beliefs to shift the Overton window abt them

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aub.bsky.social

18 October 2026 07:10

and yet the ick is had & decisions are made. indeed, indeed

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aub.bsky.social

18 October 2026 06:54

how many secret predictive beliefs do you have? by that I mean: things that you believe, which you use to predict things that will happen in general or under specific conditions, but which you do not share publicly for some reason.