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0 pointsshrimp_emoji3y ago0 comments

There's this natural starting point that politics are created equal and so it's unusual that people with more brainpower would skew more toward one politics than the other. But it's simply that neither of those are true.

Almost every right-wing position I can think of is like the knee-jerk reaction a child would have toward that given issue. "Trans SCARY and WEIRD and BAD. God REAL. Taxes BAD; GTFO and let me build a private castle around myself with my money cuz there's no point in giving back to society. Hustle harder, ignoring that it's 99% luck and a byproduct of the system. Gays ICKY. Treehugging is LAME. Guns are COOL. Isolationism on the world stage is BASED who cares about that shit over there lmao." It's no surprise that people with more education go the other way.

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tatrajim3y ago

If you rely on caricature to assess social reality, you will find ample confirmation for your beliefs.

Upon reflection, you might possibly wonder, though, why many Chinese, including a number of my friends and colleagues in Beijing, Hangzhou, Kunming, and Hong Kong deeply envy Americans for the 2nd amendment and wish they had access to firearms to address issues in their lives.

As a antidote to parochialism, consider living abroad for decades and reading news outside the English-language bubble.

nudpiedo3y ago

I am sorry to be the one telling you that, but apparently you are believing parody as reality. It does happen in all countries that some media only show the dumbest people and opinions and a complete group as if these would be a representing majority of that group.

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