advancing a genuinely held view that affronts prevailing sentiment in a given online forum is a wild and illuminating experience. if you have one you’re keeping quiet, and have a thick skin, i recommend giving it a try sometime. just make sure you’re well-stocked for both time and patience first.
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1) to abandon your defense of the view and go back to keeping it quiet
2) to become simultaneously radicalized by your antagonists and drunk on your supporters to the point that you make contrarianism your whole identity