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Re:The Boring Conservatism of Elon Musk by schiffern on Friday December 16, 2022 @12:54PM (#34017749)
I don't agree with his theory, but I also don't think it's a coincidence his "history" only extends back so far.

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

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Re:The Boring Conservatism of Elon Musk by coding123 on Friday December 16, 2022 @12:58PM (#34017812)
I encourage you to test it out. Ask people:

What is your favorite decade?

What political party were you associated with IN that decade - be honest?

What political party are you now?

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Re:The Boring Conservatism of Elon Musk by schiffern on Friday December 16, 2022 @01:21PM (#34018107)
I think you're commenting on real trends (economic and political) in the ongoing post-Reaganomics/post-Thatcherism era

However, you greatly overstate your case by saying that an individual person's politics can be "revealed" "just" based on that alone, or that the difference between parties is "just" equivalent to two decades.

A road grader is a wonderful machine, just don't try using it as a scalpel. :)

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/706889

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/wbna46057552

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