“Winning The democratic party cares about laws and democratic norms. Trump cares about winning.”
I doubt that you passed the IIT. I presume MAGA republicans would say that they’re the ones that care about Freedom and Democracy while the democrats are the two-faced cronies of the Deep State.
Yeah maybe. I tried to write what I think is true, but from the perspective of someone with different values. If I included things I didn’t think were true then that feels like I’m mocking Trump supporters and I don’t want to do that. For example: “The democrats are letting in immigrants who are eating cats and dogs, people’s pets. Trump would stop this”. Obviously it’s a belief held by MAGAs, and if it was true then it’s a good argument to vote for Trump. But I don’t think it’s true, and therefore it’s a very bad argument.
I highly doubt anywhere near the majority of Trump supporters (or even Trump himself) give any credence to the literal truth of those claims. It’s much more likely that they simply don’t care whether it’s literally true or not, because they feel that the “underlying” is true or something of the kind. When it comes to hearsay, people are much more forgiving of literal falsehoods, especially when they acknowledge there is a kind of “metatruth” to it. To give an easy analogue, of all the criticism I’ve heard of Christianity, not once have I heard anyone complain that the parables told by Jesus weren’t literally true, for example. (I do believe my account here passes the IIT for both groups, btw.)
A steelman is not necessarily an ITT, but whenever you find yourself having “0% support” for a position ~half the population supports, it’s almost guaranteed that the ITT will be a steelman of your current understanding of the position.
This is a pretty good example of the dangers of steel-manning I think. The disagreement, on the face of it, seems to revolve around both values and truth claims.
It seems there is a pretty substantial disagreement between you and MAGA republicans on which of the two parties are most subverting due process and democracy. [ see the rethoric around ‘the swamp’, ‘deep state’ , ‘lawfare’ and the Trump assasination attempts etc]
I would guess that this is plausibly the largest crux between you and MAGA republicans. I would be skeptical you can have a real dialogue with a MAGA republican if you deny this part of the disagreement.
“Winning The democratic party cares about laws and democratic norms. Trump cares about winning.”
I doubt that you passed the IIT. I presume MAGA republicans would say that they’re the ones that care about Freedom and Democracy while the democrats are the two-faced cronies of the Deep State.
Yeah maybe. I tried to write what I think is true, but from the perspective of someone with different values. If I included things I didn’t think were true then that feels like I’m mocking Trump supporters and I don’t want to do that. For example: “The democrats are letting in immigrants who are eating cats and dogs, people’s pets. Trump would stop this”. Obviously it’s a belief held by MAGAs, and if it was true then it’s a good argument to vote for Trump. But I don’t think it’s true, and therefore it’s a very bad argument.
I highly doubt anywhere near the majority of Trump supporters (or even Trump himself) give any credence to the literal truth of those claims. It’s much more likely that they simply don’t care whether it’s literally true or not, because they feel that the “underlying” is true or something of the kind. When it comes to hearsay, people are much more forgiving of literal falsehoods, especially when they acknowledge there is a kind of “metatruth” to it. To give an easy analogue, of all the criticism I’ve heard of Christianity, not once have I heard anyone complain that the parables told by Jesus weren’t literally true, for example. (I do believe my account here passes the IIT for both groups, btw.)
A steelman is not necessarily an ITT. The ITT for any “average X supporter” is always going to be very underwhelming.
A steelman is not necessarily an ITT, but whenever you find yourself having “0% support” for a position ~half the population supports, it’s almost guaranteed that the ITT will be a steelman of your current understanding of the position.
This is a pretty good example of the dangers of steel-manning I think. The disagreement, on the face of it, seems to revolve around both values and truth claims.
It seems there is a pretty substantial disagreement between you and MAGA republicans on which of the two parties are most subverting due process and democracy. [ see the rethoric around ‘the swamp’, ‘deep state’ , ‘lawfare’ and the Trump assasination attempts etc]
I would guess that this is plausibly the largest crux between you and MAGA republicans. I would be skeptical you can have a real dialogue with a MAGA republican if you deny this part of the disagreement.
@Pazzaz That’s the Ideological Turing Test. I agree that really ought have been written out in full.