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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.
If you make sure that you never ever stop learning and that there is never an end to the process you will eventually go further.
Don’t stop.
I will never stop learning. This is actually something I admire my parents in. They never stop learning new things
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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
liberal
Don’t stop there… commit fully to the dark side
I feel that. I was raised in a religious household and had some weird beliefs, but time and education has made me a communist.
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.
40 and still not anywhere close.
Mmmm, really? Now explain trap music to me… 😇
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.
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
There are more than enough conservatives with bizzare esoteric tendencies.
You become conservative when you lose ability to adapt and learn, thereby yearning for the days when you were you were younger and, as you mostly falsely remember, “times were simpler”, which is a delusion caused by the different lifestyle and world perception you used to have. Now you’re just older and scared because you forgot to keep up with the times.
They still think people become more conservative due to age and not socio-economic conditions.
People become more conservative once they actually accumulate wealth that they can use, and don’t want policies passed that will reduce that wealth.
Millennials and younger generations have not the opportunity to generate the same amount of wealth by their 30’s or even their 40’s as Boomers had.
Therefore leftism and liberalism will be more predominant in these younger generations.
Anecdotal, but me (millennial), my boomer parents, and a number of my friends have been fortunate enough to collect varying levels of wealth. Almost all of us are relatively more progressive than 10-20 years ago.
Doesn’t help that the conservative party in my country has gone batshit crazy.
Been forever since I’ve got to bust this one out
What is the plane picture?
I think it’s the most common places that the planes got hit when returning back to base during WW2, it’s most commonly used when discussing survivorship bias. Which I believe is their intent with said picture.
It’s a famous example of survivorship bias. The idea is, adding armor to planes make them heavier, so you want to minimize where you put armor. After some flights, you take note of where the bullet holes are in the planes that come back.
Where do you put more armor? Do you put it where there are the most bullet holes? That seems to be where the planes are being shot the most.
The problem is, your sample isn’t representative of your underlying population. These are the planes that came back. If they get shot it the cockpit, they die.
So, where should you put the armor? Well if they can get shot and come back, it’s not all that important, so put it everywhere else.
During WW2, the Allies wanted to armor their planes better so more would survive missions. But armor is expensive and heavy so you’d have to prioritize where to put it.
So they go out and collect data on the returning planes to see where they’d been hit. That picture is basically the data collected: where returning planes had sustained the most damage.
So most of the engineers looked at that and went “Aha, the points with the most damage should be armored, since they get shredded up pretty good.”
And one engineer went “Um actually, if they got shot there and came back, armor doesn’t matter. We need to armor the spots with no bullet holes, since a plane shot there wasn’t able to return.”
And so it was, and they called it Survivor Bias.
In this case, it’s survivor bias about becoming more conservative as you age
It’s an old diagram showing where damage to an airplane could be identified after it returned to base without crashing while still damaged.
In short, the places you don’t see damage are parts that the plane can’t get hit in if it is expected not to crash before landing again.
Survivorship bias.
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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.
Kinda true though, I’m conservative on my terms.
51, still not a conservative
Boomers got more conservative as they grew older because they’ve been eating shovels of propaganda since reagan and never learned how to fact check like younger generations
Don’t belive everything you read online, kids!
Proceeds to freebase Facebook conspiracism like it’s the 70’s again
Don’t forget the leaded gas fumes and rampant racism!
