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I hear people talk like this on the phone. The one I hear a lot is: "It's not about X, it's about Y1. It's about Y2. It's about Y3." Where Y is usually something humanizing.

Proving or disproving intent is hard, in court trials often taking days of witness testimony and jury deliberation.

These hot-take/title patterns "X is about Y1" are exploiting the difficulty of disproving them.

I often see it in the pattern of "Behavior of Group I Dislike is About Bad Motive."

I agree. LinkedIn is completely dominated by AI slop replies to AI slop posts these days.

It's almost worse than Twitter.

"Formulaic headlines considered harmful"