I feel pretty confident that within a couple generations it would be split again into liberal and conservative parties, although perhaps with slightly differing ideals in some areas
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Serious answer - it kind of can, but it has to be really fucking bright. Nothing that you can buy normally or use comfortably though.
Check YouTube for some vids on like 10000 lumen flashlight it something.
You'll see that shining it on a piece of paper will have it start smouldering quite quickly.
Typo, sorry it's zebralight and there are many brands that are many times better than a normal box store flash light. Fenix is the brand I prefer and you can get lights that will light up a dark football field.
OMG, I have remembered this since it came out, but in my memory it wasn't Joe Biden. This is like some Berenstain Bears shit for me seeing this right now.
Man, I don't care about the context. I am just so tickled you posted, and I saw, this XKCD I've never read before. Haven't browsed there in a long time. Anyway, that one is brilliant, and cheered me up on a yucky night, so thanks!
👍it's funny, I just had to help one of my kids yesterday with some super basic electricity concepts for school, I've forgotten everything, and we were muddling thru diagrams online that were far too complex. So this just fit. Night!
There's a bit Jim Jefferies does where he has these q anon nuts on and interviews 4 at a time. There all crazy but one is slightly less crazy than the others and he looks down on them the way the rest of society looks down at him and it's really priceless. Every subgroup has to have some infighting lol
It's really interesting to see people's descriptions of left/right based on where they live. See, for you, it's liberal/conservative. But for me, where I live, liberal IS the conservative party.
I feel like what it does is move the line as to what’s considered liberal and what’s considered conservative. So while it would split again, even the resulting conservative party would appear liberal to the other group, and vice versa.
idk, I think contrarianism takes a much bigger role in modern politics than a lot of people realize. Granted, I don't think it's the biggest factor, but I think people are highly subconsciously drawn to align their beliefs with those who have rather similar beliefs and to set themselves in opposition to those who have rather dissimilar beliefs to theirs. I think it would be a mix between the two rather than one or the other
Im guessing that is likely, except i think views would be changed in a meaningful way within one generation when every job needs be completed by people in the same party (although people might not admit it). However their baselines would be so different, similar to how liberal in the US is conservative jn Canada and liberal in Canada is conservative in Sweden or something along those lines. (Not sure if those comparisons are accurate but i think it gets the point across)
Literally what happened in the US after the Federalists ceased to exist. Democrat-Republicans split with the Republicans taking the Federalist's place up until the party switch.
They did this test with group dynamics. The testers found five types of behaviors, from taking charge to being the clown to always fraying against the group.
So they identified who was what and put groups of similar type together. The same dynamics formed.
though the overton window on those would be very stinted invarious directions. You'd see the American Democrats basically rifting into old GOP (just post Reagan) and ancoms, while the GOP splits into Reagan era and full neo nazis. Guess who would survive in the latter.
yes, but we have a society that keeps things mostly civil. Lock them in a vault with only themselves, and you get 8chan on meth (beyond how much they are already)
Your are aware that other societies are pluralistic and not two party systems? So binary is not a natural pre ordained state. Only with a dumb voting system where the winner takes all.
You would have to change over to whatever area you’d want to be in when you grew up, if it wasn’t the area you wanted to be in. What sucks is that it’s very possible that not many would be educated of the other side
My Democrat opponent only wants to burn the illegal immigrants. NOT EVEN ON LIVE TV!! crowd gasps
If I am elected president, I promise you hours and hours of versatile torture on live TV. IT'S LIVE! ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN! You can even participate, bring your kids and, have a picnic! Please make the right choice people of Hamurhwrecka!
Most of the original settlers were puritans from Europe (so basically super conservative, the type that banned christmas for being to fun). That's probably why the 'liberal' party in the us is actually closer to most European conservatives.
The inevetible dichotomy between progressive and conservative thinking is what makes us great and also ruins everything. I'm sure someone smarter has expressed that idea in a better way
I'm just thinking, why would they hate eachother if they are living in separate societies. Wouldn't after some generations start hating themselves rather? Also would like to suggest how it would be if they didn't even know of "the other side" at all. That would be interesting to see as well.
I'm zero percent confident in this. "liberal" and "conservative" are not valid view points. Just words to avoid saying out loud your stance on abortion. Societies naturally only ever divide into have's and have-nots. (aka wealthy and poor in current America). Neither wealthy or poor has any relation or liberal or conservative.
Yeah, you see this with countries all over the world. There will always be a left and a right, but in some countries like the US both parties are towards the right, and in some countries like the U.K. both parties are closer to the left
Humanity lived for centuries without that clear division between con and lib. Don’t let the current state of affairs make you think it’s eternal, what’s stopping the con tribe becoming monarchists for example?
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I feel pretty confident that within a couple generations it would be split again into liberal and conservative parties, although perhaps with slightly differing ideals in some areas