Thread by @insomnochick

Did it occur to you Wokists that there's almost no difference between your irrational obsession with Fauci, and the hard-core MAGA crowd's obsession with Trump? In essence? None. So y'all are gonna point fingers at each other when people talk about "Mass formation psychosis," 1/

but that doesn't mean it's not happening. Just because you can see it in others, doesn't mean you're not also guilty of participating, it's just the particulars that vary. So how do you know you're really on the outside watching collapse on slow motion? 2/

1. You consult sources from a variety of POV, independent as well as establishment.
2. You identify and question ALL premises, looking for data and objective facts to back up what you're being told.
3. In the absence of data you do your own background research as best you can 3/

4. You ask lots of equations, and are prepared to be wrong about things (and admit people have points when they do)
5. You don't attach virtue or vice to facts, or draw false equivalencies.
6. You provide definitions of words like "they" that are quantifiable and objective. 4/

In other words, names, titles, institutions, not tribes or groups of people organized around arbitrary criteria, immutable characteristics, or even parties unless they have an opportunity to disavow platforms with which they disagree.
7. You avoid terms "always" and "never" 5/

8. Most of all, you can observe your own behavior and thinkings processes, explain them without using anyone else as a foil at all, and are comfortable standing alone in those opinions, even if the majority of those around you snarls and demonizes you. /END

*questions, not equations