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We're just making fun of people treating any news as evidence for the superiority of their tribe. Then making fun of ourselves for asserting the superiority of our tribe by making fun of others.
I think the serious use of this post is to look at your own thinking, notice you're doing those mocked things, and stop.
I am not used to this level of meta.
EDIT: and thank you for clearing that up.
You're welcome.
But that's just two levels. If this confuses you, either you should read Hofstadter and Death Note and MoR, or you shouldn't.
Agreed, but I think taking levels in (analysis/understanding of) meta is just overall too useful to not at least try. Those three are also excellent recommendations whether or not you understand meta well.
So, the whole point is about LWers making fun of people who make fun of everyone else who disagree with him(blue/green) in a particular point. Konk should put this on the text.
Making fun of Blues who make fun of Greens, and also making fun of LWers who make fun of the above. And that would spoil the joke.
I just realized that if you interpret nyan's original comment at the top of this thread as being about the meta, then it sounds like he's one-upped all of this with further meta-fun.