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SrRd_RacinG
06/27/22 11:34:51 AM
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What makes you think this won't happen to you, too?

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Turbam
06/27/22 11:35:47 AM
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Aren't you the "two men past the age of 25 shouldn't hang out" guy?

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Derwood
06/27/22 11:36:34 AM
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False. I've become more liberal as I've aged (as have my parents)
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DarkBuster22904
06/27/22 11:37:28 AM
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More accurately, every generation tends to be even more liberal than the last, creating the illusion that old people get conservative.

The Boomers are a somewhat unique exception; they were big enough to basically ice all subsequent generations out of political power, and so adopted steadily more conservative policy as they aged so they could consolidate wealth and power. Most other demographics won't have that kind of strength-in-numbers.

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Lost_All_Senses
06/27/22 11:37:29 AM
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If you become wiser, you usually become less loyal tp whatever side you were originally too loyal to. You become able to think outside of white and black. Or Blue and Red in this case

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Sackgurl
06/27/22 11:39:36 AM
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SrRd_RacinG posted...
What makes you think this won't happen to you, too?

because data suggests this is a stupid axiom that oversimplifies to the point of being fundamentally wrong

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2014/06/26/the-political-typology-beyond-red-vs-blue/

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/07/09/the-politics-of-american-generations-how-age-affects-attitudes-and-voting-behavior/

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AP3Brain
06/27/22 11:40:18 AM
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I'm in my 30s and more liberal than ever before. It's just another false saying.
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scamatoru
06/27/22 11:44:26 AM
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when u become a parent shit changes, u aint gonna want ur kids brainwashed with all the bs u pretended to support

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Derwood
06/27/22 11:44:57 AM
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scamatoru posted...
when u become a parent shit changes, u aint gonna want ur kids brainwashed with all the bs u pretended to support

LOLWUT

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GrandConjuraton
06/27/22 11:49:29 AM
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Sackgurl posted...
because data suggests this is a stupid axiom that oversimplifies to the point of being fundamentally wrong

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2014/06/26/the-political-typology-beyond-red-vs-blue/

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/07/09/the-politics-of-american-generations-how-age-affects-attitudes-and-voting-behavior/
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TheOnionKnight
06/27/22 11:50:23 AM
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AP3Brain posted...
I'm in my 30s and more liberal than ever before. It's just another false saying.

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RenescoStCewl
06/27/22 11:51:05 AM
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Turbam posted...
Aren't you the "two men past the age of 25 shouldn't hang out" guy?
Yes he is.

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Solar_Crimson
06/27/22 11:51:41 AM
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scamatoru posted...
when u become a parent shit changes, u aint gonna want ur kids brainwashed with all the bs u pretended to support
Hot take from someone who unironically used the term "wrongthink".

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SrRd_RacinG
06/27/22 11:51:57 AM
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AP3Brain posted...
I'm in my 30s and more liberal than ever before. It's just another false saying.

Older bro. I'm not talking about from age 15 to 35.

I'm talking from 40 to 60+, which I imagine most of us are not old enough to have experienced yet.

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Heineken14
06/27/22 11:52:46 AM
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It's because you start going senile.

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gigageek1500
06/27/22 11:56:50 AM
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Hopefully if this happens it's because the center in the US is moving toward where the countries we consider our peers are and I just don't seem to be on the left anymore.

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Sackgurl
06/27/22 11:56:56 AM
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SrRd_RacinG posted...
I'm talking from 40 to 60+, which I imagine most of us are not old enough to have experienced yet.

pew research says you don't know what you're talking about

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The_Yahtz09
06/27/22 11:59:53 AM
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"two men past the age of 25 shouldn't hang out"
wtf, what a wild (asinine) take.

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Lost_All_Senses
06/27/22 12:00:56 PM
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Heineken14 posted...
It's because you start going senile.

Lol

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gunplagirl
06/27/22 12:01:57 PM
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It's not that you become conservative because you get older. It's that as people grow older they typically will accumulate wealth and want to protect it and grow it. However, those who are poor or with medical problems tend to be more liberal and they also strongly tend not to live as long. Then factor in things like how the AIDS crisis killed an entire generation of gay men off...

It's survivor bias at its peek. It isn't that those who live long become conservative, it's that those who are lucky enough to accumulate wealth will be more likely to live long and in order to protect their own interests they turn conservative, while those who aren't so fortunate tend to die much younger.

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emblem boy
06/27/22 12:05:55 PM
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Ehh. As I've gotten older I've spent time trying to understand and research various actual conservative ideologies. I'm in my early 30s I realized I'm not that conservative.

I have realized thought that I sometimes come to my more progressive opinions based on different rational than others. Like, there are good and bad arguments for some progressive things, and seeing the bard rational annoys me greatly.

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Sufferedphoneix
06/27/22 12:10:06 PM
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Heineken14 posted...
It's because you start going senile.

Past a certain age you grow less likely to change in your ways. What was once progressive to you becomes the norm then new things come up and you become the old old man bitching about the youth and the things they do.


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emblem boy
06/27/22 12:10:43 PM
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I do think the general population is way more conservative, in the US, than they themselves think they are.

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Sufferedphoneix
06/27/22 12:11:54 PM
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emblem boy posted...
I do think the general population is way more conservative, in the US, than they themselves think they are.

Yes. I work with a lotta self proclaimed liberals that are homophobic as fuck.

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Lost_All_Senses
06/27/22 12:12:28 PM
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emblem boy posted...
I do think the general population is way more conservative, in the US, than they themselves think they are.

We know. The conservatives act like it's not the case to fear monger their base. They need to constantly make them feel on the brink of losing everything they are accustom to. They treat any small thinglike it'll have an immediate giant snowball effect.

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Southernfatman
06/27/22 12:16:10 PM
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I used to be a moderate when I was a teenager. I'd have mostly moderate liberal views with some conservative ones. I would watch a lot of political TV from both sides. I'd watch CNN and Fox News, Bill Maher and Bill O'Reilly, and et cetera. Didn't take too long to realize the right were either jerks or insane. As time went on I became more and more liberal to the point I'm very progressive/leftist now in my early 30s.

Anyone with any sort of sense can see that conservatism, or at least America's warped version of conservatism, is total bullshit that exists just to make the rich richer and keep them in power by oppressing everyone else.

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The_Korey
06/27/22 12:17:07 PM
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"You either die a liberal or live long enough to see yourself become the konservative..." ~ SrRd_Man 2022

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Dat_Cracka_Jax
06/27/22 12:18:07 PM
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Opposite is happening to me

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averagejoel
06/27/22 12:19:34 PM
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gunplagirl posted...
It's not that you become conservative because you get older. It's that as people grow older they typically will accumulate wealth and want to protect it and grow it. However, those who are poor or with medical problems tend to be more liberal and they also strongly tend not to live as long. Then factor in things like how the AIDS crisis killed an entire generation of gay men off...

It's survivor bias at its peek. It isn't that those who live long become conservative, it's that those who are lucky enough to accumulate wealth will be more likely to live long and in order to protect their own interests they turn conservative, while those who aren't so fortunate tend to die much younger.
came in here to post... basically this

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SrRd_RacinG
06/27/22 7:29:30 PM
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Bump

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Vicious_Dios
06/27/22 7:32:23 PM
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I've grown more and more conservative as I age. <_<


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brotrrwinner
06/27/22 7:33:03 PM
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With age comes wisdom

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a-c-a-b
06/27/22 7:33:17 PM
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Turbam posted...
Aren't you the "two men past the age of 25 shouldn't hang out" guy?
Lmfao.

I forgot about that.

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TheBrainbuster
06/27/22 7:33:22 PM
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Generally the older you get, the more conservative you become.

nah

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pNaught
06/27/22 7:35:46 PM
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I've never seen convincing data that political attitudes change directionally with age.
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PiOverlord
06/27/22 7:40:45 PM
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I'll have to side with the earlier argument made that our future generations are just more liberal than we were. The right/left shift, in theory, shifts more to the left each year. Who knows, maybe decades from now, those called progressives now will share the same beliefs as the conservatives do in the future. I mean, the word progressive implies you are trying to progress from where you are currently. If progressives get everything they want, that is the new norm, the new standard to conserve. Then, a new generation of progressives will rally for a new cause(s).

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Derwood
06/27/22 7:40:51 PM
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Liberal/Conservative correlates much more closely with Urban/Rural than it does with Older/Younger
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Gwynevere
06/27/22 7:45:19 PM
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Nah I veered extreme left as I got older and realized that work culture fucking blows. Turned me Anarcho Syndicalist real quick

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David1988
06/27/22 7:52:46 PM
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Turbam posted...
Aren't you the "two men past the age of 25 shouldn't hang out" guy?

Only if theyre alone together in a room, its still fine to hang out otherwise

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Smackems
06/27/22 7:58:22 PM
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Turbam posted...
Aren't you the "two men past the age of 25 shouldn't hang out" guy?
I got tc tagged with some pretty unflattering shit

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AngelouRozaki
06/27/22 8:00:36 PM
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[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

pretty much this for me
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Xethuminra
06/27/22 8:05:56 PM
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I mean, how old we talkin here?
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Smackems
06/27/22 8:07:19 PM
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I typically float around between center and center left and I'm 34

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LordOfTheCats
06/27/22 8:08:16 PM
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I used to be a far-right conservative as a kid. My dad talks about politics a lot, and he is extremely far-right, so it kind of rubbed off on me as a kid.

Later on, when I was in high school, I started to learn more about history and politics, and it started to dawn on me how dumb my beliefs were. So I started to listen more and more to what the other side was saying, and I pretty much did a 180 on most of my beliefs.

I now identify as a social Democrat, so pretty much the opposite has happened in my case.
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bsp77
06/27/22 8:17:34 PM
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I am 45 and am more liberal than I used to be

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_HayleyWilliams
06/27/22 8:18:29 PM
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I was conservative and then I grew up.

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Zaltera
06/27/22 8:18:39 PM
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Derwood posted...
False. I've become more liberal as I've aged (as have my parents)

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