Re:Peter Thiel backs conservative dating app The Right Stuff
by xyzzy21 on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @04:40PM
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You are presuming conservatives think like progressives - where ideology is paramount - it's NOT and they DON'T. Read Jonathan Haidt's book about this.
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Re:Peter Thiel backs conservative dating app The Right Stuff
by bduerst on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @05:12PM
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>You are presuming conservatives think like progressives - where ideology is paramount - it's NOT and they DON'T.
One has only to look at recent events [1][2][3] to see that is not true at all. I think the main difference is that conservatives do not consider their opinions to be ideological, but fact, as is evident with Covid vaccination statistics.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-organizers-plan-co...
[2] https://www.npr.org/2021/12/06/1057344561/anti-vaccine-activ...
[3] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-sports/trump-ur...
Re:Peter Thiel backs conservative dating app The Right Stuff
by true_religion on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @05:46PM
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I don’t think progressives consider themselves to be ideological either.
On all the topics where progressive values have won out (abortion, trans and gay rights) progressives view themselves as being unbiased and damn near apathetic (e.g. the messaging of it doesn’t affect us, thus we don’t care to make laws against it).