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I’m still trying to get my own studio apartment
If there’s one great way to turn people either hard left or hard right, that would be it. Impoverish them. Take away from them what their own parents took for granted.
Have you considered cutting out the avocado toast or inheriting a shit ton of money? It’s really not that hard.
I hear cutting down on Starbucks also helps. In fact, leading a life devoid of little pleasures can make you a millionaire in about…never.
41, stable finances, kid, decent job, and still BETTER DEAD THAN RED!
And just to be 100% clear, since I know that phrase meant something completely different 50 years ago, Republicans can get ass-fucked with a spoon
It’s all nice and all, but where does the picture comes from?
I have never ever been right leaning ever except for when i was a kid and adults told me right wing was better for some reason. I just go further left and mostly down away from authoritarianism.
40 and still not anywhere close.
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The older I get the more injustice I see the angrier I get. The only difference between now and my twenties is I know who to direct my rage at and it burns hotter then ever.
I don’t think I have seen this but the reason we see this effect is murder. The richer you are the older you you manage to live. Either you are too poor and misadventures get your. Or the things that you have progressive beliefs about will get you oppressed and maybe murdered by society. I don’t think it is intended. It could easily be so however, it is just a slow oppression and crushing of everyone in society.
Yeah there is hardcore survivor’s bias.
Also the statement is at best only partially true for the older bougie and middle class fucks who lived through the 80s-90s as neoliberalism did it’s best to delegitimize socialism, and who dominate todays discourse about that period, due to wealth and survivor bias.
My friends who have kids now did become more conservative. But most of them are very religious and grew up going to church every Sunday. So… I think they might have had a certain influence.
I’d guess those friends were always that conservative, it’s just that now they have less energy and incentive to tone it down around friends…combined with having more to lose now.
After I had kids I found Satanism and became a communist. I have no idea what your friends are doing but they’re doing it wrong.
I was actually more right wing as a kid. Now that I’ve learned some things about the world that’s when I became a left leaning liberal.
Went from voting far right in 2017 (fucking welfare abusers ) to far left in 2022 (fuckibg corporations costing three times more than welfare) kek
greatest comeback
I’m at a pretty low level of rightishness, but I fluctuate a bit. I’ve been socially left since my late teens and sort of homeless but libertarian economically. My personal ethics are definitely closer to some left-lib ideologies.
I’m really uncomfortable with subjective categories. My brain wants objective lines. I’m also extra empathetic. Working out a personal philosophy that fits both is kind of time consuming, but worth it because my brain really likes objective lines.
liberal
Don’t stop there… commit fully to the dark side
In my 30s now. Def more conservative. Paying more than $10k in property taxes that go towards schools where the children that I don’t have go to.
You live in a society???
I’m convinced that people who think like this don’t even know how a society functions. Like, i bet if he answers he’ll come back with “no, i don’t want stupid people everywhere i just don’t see why i should have to pay for schools my kids don’t use” or something like that. They’re kind of predictable in my experience.
taxes that go towards schools where the children that I don’t have go to.
The alternative is being surrounded by uneducated people, so this has never bothered me.
Underrated point!!
Would you rather pay more and keep people educated and busy… or pay less and have them find ways to occupy their time 🚓
If OP didn’t want to pay those extra taxes they should have settled elsewhere where there is no nearby school IMO
My old man has told me this my whole life and I always tell him no, because I’m not a cunt. 42yo so far and still going strong.
I’m more conservative than a lot of people here, but no, I’ll never be a religious nut cheering on death. If that’s conservative they can keep it.
Kinda true though, I’m conservative on my terms.
I have heard this my entire life and now that I recently have kids and a home, I find it to be an insane take. If anything, the greater my knowledge of the world becomes the MORE liberal I am. I’m significantly more aware of rigged systems and injustice as I age.
Reality has a liberal bias.
“people get more selfish and small minded as they age, that’s just a fact!”
