Re:Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'
by endtime on Monday August 09, 2021 @07:55AM
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Isn't it funny how COVID has caused the government-inclined to want more government and the government-disinclined to want less government? Almost as if this complex issue about which we still don't have all the facts has just made people feel that their prior beliefs have been confirmed? I wonder if there's a phrase for a bias like that.
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Re:Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'
by dTal on Monday August 09, 2021 @08:42AM
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Are you saying that Covid has had zero net effect on people's political inclinations? That the stark lesson in the importance of coordinated action has only hit home amongst those who were already "government inclined"? Because I don't that's true.
Re:Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'
by titzer on Monday August 09, 2021 @01:27PM
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I would put it more broadly. COVID was put in service of continuing culture wars and political infighting, like literally everything else. People hate each so much they would rather have death (for them or for themselves) than agree. It's crazy. Everything politicized, even goddamn PPE and vaccination.
> those who were already "government inclined"
It isn't so much "government inclined", or even left versus right, it's in-tribe vs out-tribe. Some tribes, clearly, have only become more entrenched and delusional.