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Has reading TheMotte (including the old culture war thread on /r/ssc) ever made you change your mind about anything substantial?
Yes. I'm now leaning towards pedofascism.
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Nothing substantial, but it made me more conspiracy minded than ever before.
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Yep, I've changed my position on Christianity, HBD, and various other topics quite a bit from reading the motte. It's part of why I'm still around.
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It mostly just introduced me to new ideas about subjects I have never seriously considered before. Very useful in this regard
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Not directly, but it has provided the foundation for some changes.
The most notable change came about in the wake of the Rittenhouse shootings. From reading the Culture War thread(s), he was very clearly acting in self defense. In the months that followed, his opposition completely ignored everything inconvenient and spouted braindead takes that went against easily-accessible evidence. If they had done half as much research as I did, they would easily see their own mistakes. Therefore, either A) they saw the mistakes, but made the erroneous statements regardless, or B) they didn't do the research. From that, I formed the hypothesis that they simply don't care about truth and facts.
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