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Opinions are bad criteria for friendship

And they distract us from all the very good reasons to like or dislike someone!

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Ben Dreyfuss
May 07, 2021
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Freddie deBoer has an interesting post up about the high school dynamics that underlie a lot of the internet drama that cloaks itself in political fighting:

People don’t dislike each other because of abstract politics or morals. That’s not how humans function. People dislike each other because of pure lizard brain shit, the…

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