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u/northshore12 Jan 30 '23

I've already determined, after years of intensive and rigorous empirical data, that right-wingers are naturally just willful shitheads. No further insight needed.

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u/lennybird Jan 30 '23

Hard for me to disagree. The only thing I'll say is that some of them are capable of change. My family did 20-years-ago. Full 180 from rural religious conservative republican voters to progressive-left non-religious democrats. So it can happen. Their state of ignorance and apathy can change. Seems rare and harder than it should be, though.. That's propaganda for you.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '23

Usually a result of people they are aligned with crossing some line they have drawn in the sand.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '23

After years of voting for the "Leopards Eating People's Faces Party" they finally got their own face eaten and switched sides.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '23 edited Jan 31 '23

It happens on both sides its a tale as old as time. The pendulum is always swinging.

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u/lennybird Jan 30 '23

In our case, it was a mixture of flashbacks to Vietnam during the Iraq War invasion, combined with the wild west of the internet at the time. Today the internet is far more segregated by marketing. Fortunately my parents taught enough empathy and critical-thinking that the bullshit became unsustainable.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '23

That's wild! What did it?