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Re:Do psychedelics make you liberal? Not always by oxymoran on Monday September 06, 2021 @08:37AM (#28433074)
It’s stupid to frame this on the political spectrum. Psychedelics most certainly open your mind and your heart. But if you happen to be deluded into believing in a mass child trafficking conspiracy orchestrated by Democrats, your heart is going to be open to these hypothetical trafficked children while demonizing the other party.
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Re:Do psychedelics make you liberal? Not always by Applejinx on Monday September 06, 2021 @09:00AM (#28433230)
This. You're not going to get anything that you don't already have. It's going to reformulate what's already there, perhaps for good, perhaps for ill. You're shaking the etch-a-sketch and gazing in awe at the clean field of possible art and creativity. It'll be still you drawing the new lines, though.
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Re:Do psychedelics make you liberal? Not always by hunterb123 on Monday September 06, 2021 @09:36PM (#28439918)
There are and were mass child trafficking rings though. Epstein, Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton were all involved, a girl in court said they were both on pedo island, Bill with 2 girls, she was with Prince Andrew. I'm sure there were Republicans involved too, but does that matter? It's no conspiracy.
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Re:Do psychedelics make you liberal? Not always by boredumb on Monday September 06, 2021 @08:43AM (#28433118)
I think someone is deluded but it's probably not the straw men you're chasing after.
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Re:Do psychedelics make you liberal? Not always by mehphp on Monday September 06, 2021 @08:47AM (#28433142)
I'm curious if you could elaborate.
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Re:Do psychedelics make you liberal? Not always by FredPret on Monday September 06, 2021 @09:13AM (#28433326)
A tiny number of very fringe people believe the Democrats-abduct-kids thing
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Re:Do psychedelics make you liberal? Not always by trypietry on Monday September 06, 2021 @05:32PM (#28438342)
Based on the ubiquitousness of certain memes, I think there are more than you believe. Unless all the posts on qanoncasualties and hermancainaward are fictional.
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Re:Do psychedelics make you liberal? Not always by FredPret on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @01:22PM (#28447336)
Memes are a few kb of data and can be copied ad infinitum by a few actors.

Opinions are complex brain structures and take time to develop and grow in the population.

An abundance of the former has almost no correlation with the later.

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