“But of course, eating soy is in fact coded extremely blue in the US, and being able to enforce it/banning barbecues would signal blue tribe dominance and red tribe submission, with all that entails. (Natural experiment: take two red-tribe towns, inject soy into the meat supply of one without telling them, tell the other one that you replaced their meat with a soy-based substitute while actually doing nothing. I bet that the meat-eating town will come out more”soypilled” on tests of attitudes over time.) ”
“Natural experiment: [describes the opposite of a natural experiment][pretends nonexistant experiment results justifies his beliefs]”
Seriously, the armchair empiricism here is also off the charts.
This obsession with soy is still one of the weirdest things to come out of the online reactionary movement
This is literally the same cadence, content, and intensity of old D&D forum threads where people tried to come up with broken multi-class builds.
I say this not to make fun of gamers (I roll dice myself) but to illustrate how little any of this has to do with the real world.
I used to be a conservative like you, till I took a soy bean in the tum.
“without telling them”
I always forget that one of the ideas from these communities is that ‘we should have less ethics on research’.
Imagine being this scared of a bean
also peak Enlightened Centrism
That sub is the intellectual equivalent of poking at shit with a stick.
I live in Austin, Texas, well-known for ‘blue tribe dominance’ in a red tribe state, and there are at least nine bbq joints in a five mile radius of my apartment.
Have I missed some recent development? Why are there suddenly a lot of comments and posts related to believing/disbelieving something according to who else believes it? Or am I just seeing a pattern where there is none?