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Re:GCHQ intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users... by w_t_payne on Thursday February 27, 2014 @12:44PM (#7313593)
It is no accident that socially conservative ideologies are correlated with right-wing / authoritarian politics. It is such an age-old instrument of manipulation and control that I am tempted to believe that it is innate and ingrained into our biology.
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Re:GCHQ intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users... by rhizome on Thursday February 27, 2014 @01:02PM (#7313736)
Just to be clear, there is a such thing as leftist authoritarianism, and that its effects can also be cast as a kind of social conservatism.
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Re:GCHQ intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users... by sitkack on Thursday February 27, 2014 @02:54PM (#7314547)
As a leftist off of the numberline in Seattle, I can corroborate that thought terminating groupthink is alive and well across the social spectrum.
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Re:GCHQ intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users... by w_t_payne on Thursday February 27, 2014 @04:59PM (#7315459)
Sorry ... I didn't mean to imply that right = authoritarian. Leftist authoritarianism clearly also exists.
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Re:GCHQ intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users... by collyw on Thursday February 27, 2014 @01:18PM (#7313861)
This site has some nice information on it...

http://www.politicalcompass.org/ukparties2010

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Re:GCHQ intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users... by gaius on Thursday February 27, 2014 @05:39PM (#7315754)
It is no accident that socially conservative ideologies are correlated with right-wing / authoritarian politics

Now you are just being silly. The USSR sent homosexuals to the gulags. China considered homosexuality to be a mental illness up 'til 2002, it is only when they started to become capitalist that they relaxed! In the UK it is the right-wing Tories that are bringing in gay marriage.

Attitudes towards homosexuality are simply not correlated with left-right politics.

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Re:GCHQ intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users... by thesimpsons1022 on Thursday February 27, 2014 @11:13PM (#7317208)
the ussr was socially conservative.
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Re:GCHQ intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users... by trhway on Thursday February 27, 2014 @05:05PM (#7315504)
>I am tempted to believe that it is innate and ingrained into our biology

yes, it is part of our species favoring r-selection

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/K_selection_theory

(progressives are the ones who favor K-selection)

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Re:GCHQ intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users... by samstave on Thursday February 27, 2014 @04:41PM (#7315312)
>tempted to believe that it is innate and ingrained into our biology.

Nurture vs Nature.....

I don't think this is anything but a negatively nurtured situation....

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