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The edgy conservatives who frequent HN these days will be notably silent in offering a response to this. They don’t view anything that is going on as incorrect

The edgy conservatives who frequent HN these days will be notably silent in offering a response to this. They don’t view anything that is going on as incorrect or “the wrong direction”.

hobs 9mo ago
In some ways some people are literally blinded to the problems they cause because as you say, they do not and some say cannot see the problem. A good discussion on the topic is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jooEsmOOm2k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jooEsmOOm2k tl;dw - authoritarianism and conservatism directly impact your cognition and ability to reason about the world and prefer abductive reasoning and avoiding new information. "Republicans don’t want to hear this, but there’s a pretty long-standing body of social science research that indicates people who have right-wing attitudes, particularly regarding religion and epistemology, appear to have lower cognitive capacity." (and it gets worse with age because you do not receive new information)
- testfrequency 9mo ago
  What makes this disillusionment even more difficult to claim is that it’s the same argument that’s used to counter liberals by saying they are all sheep, etc. Which, leads us to simply morals and ethics. Two sides with two different views who both are angry at the other for not having their views. That’s not to say both are right, but there’s surely one side that has a lot more care for us all as humans vs thee.
  - tstrimple 9mo ago
    "They are all sheep" is rich coming from the most conformist group in existence. There is a reason they use "blue-haired" as an insult. Their rugged individualism can't tolerate deviating from the flock for acceptable hair styles. Conservatives are clowns. They would be funny, except they are destroying our country.
- cmxch 9mo ago
  So basically ideological phrenology.
  - hobs 9mo ago
    It's interesting to see cognitive blindness in action!
tjpnz 9mo ago
Counterpoint: they know this president is complete dogshit but don't want to openly admit it.
- mindslight 9mo ago
  "I don't like everything that he does. Why are you so fixated on him? You have TDS. Libtard." At this point I assume they just have it on macros like the old MUD days. And to extend the analogy, they're playing as low-wisdom trolls.

The edgy conservatives who frequent HN these days will be notably silent in offering a response to this. They don’t view anything that is going on as incorrect or “the wrong direction”.

hobs 9mo ago

In some ways some people are literally blinded to the problems they cause because as you say, they do not and some say cannot see the problem. A good discussion on the topic is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jooEsmOOm2k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jooEsmOOm2k tl;dw - authoritarianism and conservatism directly impact your cognition and ability to reason about the world and prefer abductive reasoning and avoiding new information. "Republicans don’t want to hear this, but there’s a pretty long-standing body of social science research that indicates people who have right-wing attitudes, particularly regarding religion and epistemology, appear to have lower cognitive capacity." (and it gets worse with age because you do not receive new information)

testfrequency 9mo ago
What makes this disillusionment even more difficult to claim is that it’s the same argument that’s used to counter liberals by saying they are all sheep, etc. Which, leads us to simply morals and ethics. Two sides with two different views who both are angry at the other for not having their views. That’s not to say both are right, but there’s surely one side that has a lot more care for us all as humans vs thee.
- tstrimple 9mo ago
  "They are all sheep" is rich coming from the most conformist group in existence. There is a reason they use "blue-haired" as an insult. Their rugged individualism can't tolerate deviating from the flock for acceptable hair styles. Conservatives are clowns. They would be funny, except they are destroying our country.
cmxch 9mo ago
So basically ideological phrenology.
- hobs 9mo ago
  It's interesting to see cognitive blindness in action!

tjpnz 9mo ago

Counterpoint: they know this president is complete dogshit but don't want to openly admit it.

mindslight 9mo ago
"I don't like everything that he does. Why are you so fixated on him? You have TDS. Libtard." At this point I assume they just have it on macros like the old MUD days. And to extend the analogy, they're playing as low-wisdom trolls.