Comment on I've noticed that lemmy as a whole is much more leftist than reddit (outside of political servers of course)

• mindbleach@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Politics being genetic, of course.

  What?

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  • DrQuint@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Politics aren’t genetic.

    But they ARE communal. Where you grow decides 90% of what you believe in.

    It’s actually why I disagree with the top comment chain that smarter means more left leaning. I think it’s more that left leaning communities have better education standards and lead to smarter generations. Cause and effect reversed.

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    • HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The ability to propagate the politics depends mightily on the success of the community though. It’s sort of the other side of the ‘brain drain’ principle-- if people have to leave the community for educational or economic opportunity, they’re probably not going to be able to reconstruct the same echo chambers.

      Even when you see a preserved group within a larger population (think of Chinatowns and Little Italies), they’re inherently getting a lot more cultural exchange than back in the home country.

      A lot of the most self-destructive policies (neglecting education, running the environment into the ground, skate-where-the-puck-was-in-1972 economic policy) are just begging for decades of brain drain. The kids are going to leave because there’s simply nothing there but the Gizzard Extraction Plant, and that got automated in 2032.

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    • _finger_@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      In some ways yes but it can have the opposite effect too. I know lots of left leaning people who grew up in super religious/conservative families and hate everything about their beliefs.

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    • pinkdrunkenelephants@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What top comment chain? They’re all talking about Reddit censoring leftists, not talking about the intelligence of any faction. The most I’ve seen are people making fun of the right, but that’s to be expected.

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      • DrQuint@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        This is the thread’s first reply chain if you sort by top:

        lemmy.world/comment/1614009

        Federation may make things wonky I guess.

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  • LambdaDuck@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    politics aren’t genetic, but they are obviously still inheritable

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  • Diprount_Tomato@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you take in account that they’re raised in their parents’ household it’s not ridiculous

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• bibliotectress@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t know. I think it depends more on where they grow up and who/what they’re exposed to (in person and online). At the high school I work at, we have a bunch of lgbtq+ teens whose conservative parents have no idea they’re queer or go by a different name. But I also don’t live somewhere like Wyoming with a much higher conservative population. I live in a college town in a (barely) blue county surrounded by red counties in an ultimately very blue state.

  I hope we find a way to kill the online radical right pipeline and continue to expose more teens to other ideas, other cultures, and other ways of life, and maybe it won’t matter so much who their parents are.

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  • Diprount_Tomato@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A blue county surrounded by red counties in an ultimately very blue state

    Tell me you live in California without telling me you live in California

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    • bibliotectress@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      ;)

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    • Hobbes@startrek.website ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Speaking of Reddit, here’s an overused response that needs to be left behind with all the other unoriginal crap responses.

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• JTode@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The thing about that is, if they’re ignorant, their kids will be ignorant too. And what that adds up to is just the same thing we’ve got: a large group of people who are subject to whatever momentary persuasion happens to reach them on any given day, and a political/ruling class that can work with that just fine, so they are taking steps to hamper education sufficiently that this can endure for an indeterminate amount of time before we all burn.

  What those large populations do react to, is missing a meal or three. And so far, these aristocrats seem to understand that whatever else they try to pull, they must always service the fundamentals: bread and circuses.

  See you at the coliseum.

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• Teodomo@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But if that logic held wouldn’t religion tend to increase instead of decrease?

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