Their desire for dopamine kicks from pointless thumbs up numbers from strangers online is more powerful than their desire to not support Nazis.

First of all, it’s not the gas prices this time

Americans, even MAGAs, have hated this war since day one. Read conservative Reddit and Facebook pages, no one is defending this that isn’t being paid to defend it

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And, you know, the F-bomb.

They don’t care. They need their anti-intellectualism as badly as fundamentalist Christians.

And your purity position is that a Nazi in power that threatens everyone is better than “not perfect”.

I don’t know about that, but the gardener out here must be high as hell or something this morning…

Let it be finished tonight.

Progressive Puritanismtl is the reason why Trump got elected both times.

Neither Hillary nor Kamala were progressive enough so a large enough portion of people just didn’t vote.

Meanwhile, so Republicans always vote.

You just can’t help yourself.

Thank you for demonstrating the point in the most predictable way possible.

You see this readily on Lemmy.

I can be like, “I’m definitely pro-access to hormone treatments in most circumstances for adults, but I still think having transitioning a person’s sex is a big decision, should be made cautiously, and can have lasting psychological effects.” And I’ll get 100+ down votes.

I don’t think so. What I’m lamenting is that our society is so far removed from having actual community that people can’t even imagine what life was like back then when parents wouldn’t give any thought to kicking their 9 year old kids out of the house to go run around their cities because the parents knew that everyone in town knew who their kids were and everyone looked after each other, and especially the kids.

That really was normal for most of human history.

But I do find it funny how Lemmy people will one jerk down vote anything that causes them any minor about it cognitive dissidence.

Never stopped.

Just gonna leave this here…

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=is+being+religious+associated+with+getting+happier&l=1

We are probably going to disagree on cellphone access being better for the kids.

In 1913, 700 miles was practically across the country. That was further away than most adults traveled from their birth town in their lives.

Yes, the store thing was just an example. The point is that before the 1970-80s basically ALL kids were “free-range”. In the 80s a PSA would come on tv that asked the parents if they knew where their kids were, and often than answer was ‘no’. (That’s literally the moment when parents started being shamed for not being helicopter parents.)