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Re:Stop that It’s not Tourette’s but a new type of mass soci... by tshaddox on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @09:05PM (#33889868)
> one would rarely be exposed to ideas that are extreme, unhinged, insane or downright weird

Except for the ones that were widely believed and accepted, of course. Or are you excluding those via a somewhat circular definition of "extreme," "unhinged," etc.?

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Re:Stop that It’s not Tourette’s but a new type of mass soci... by blix on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @01:32AM (#33891335)
'Extreme' and 'unhinged' only have meaning relative to a baseline of what is widely believed and accepted.
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