[-] Objection@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Right wing people tend to be subservient and just fall in line and vote Republican. People on the left tend to be less pragmatic

People are always saying this, but is there actually evidence that it's true? The Libertarian Party regularly gets more votes than the Greens, so if anything it seems like the opposite is true. Ross Perot got the most votes of any third party candidate in history, and in both the elections he ran in, Bill Clinton won. In 2016, Trump refused to rule out the possibility of a third party run if he didn't get the nomination, and it appeared to be a serious possibility.

So is this claim just based on vibes or what?

[-] Objection@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

No, it's literally what you said. Is what I described not a counterfactual?

[-] Objection@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

Name one time when that's happened.

[-] Objection@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's much more likely that they're ordinary people acting according to well known psychological patterns of tribalism. People can hold different beliefs or values without being paid actors.

[-] Objection@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago

I am not a soulist. In fact, I consider it to be an extremely dangerous ideology. If you're successful in undermining consensus reality, we're going to have dragons and vampires running around terrorizing people. The moment reality becomes mutable enough for someone to turn themselves into something with mind control powers, like a mind flayer, we're all fucked.

I am trans and neurodivergent, and I take offense at this statement:

Obviously, soulism is more attractive to any trans person than realism, because it offers faster and more complete transition than any realist ideology.

Trans identities are not a rejection of reality. I don't find your ideology appealing in the slightest. I believe in objective science, and the science is 100% on the side of trans people.

[-] Objection@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago

It did start back up though. And we don't know if further research could bring the costs down. I'm not proposing it as a magic bullet, just as one potential way to get nighttime coverage.

[-] Objection@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago

Swing and a miss. Try going in the opposite direction.

[-] Objection@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago

Which was probably the intent from the start.

[-] Objection@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago

It's like when Republicans call everything to the left of them "woke," but the Democrat version.

[-] Objection@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago

Are you a Maoist?

[-] Objection@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago

Hillary Clinton thank you for bringing that up. What do you think the window would be if Hillary Clinton won? Easy, it would be further left. You’re making my case for me.

Instead Trump won and guess what happened to the Overton window? It went off the cliff to the right. And it’s still there because he won and could win again. You’re making this too easy.

It is, in fact, very easy to have a conversation when you're only having it with yourself.

If you agreed with everything I said, do you think that would make you more correct or less correct? That's right, more correct. Therefore I'm right. You're making my case for me, this is too easy, blah blah blah.

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