based on the parties ive been to the right is better at operating a functional small scale society
but the left is better at impersonal social warfare. see @hradzka on these matters
these two things may be related
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Replying to @parafactual @visakanv and
for the first one, i went to a loosely righty meetup on a farm a couple years ago maybe fifty people everyone contributed to cooking, cleanup, slaughter, chores, shopping spontaneous order everywhere, zero infighting, great bonhomie
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Replying to @eigenrobot @visakanv and
when i hung out in lefty spaces there was also much love, often, but I always came away with the sense that no one had their shit together and everyone was also on the verge of personal implosion, things felt very cobbled together and tenuous and everything was dramatic
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Replying to @eigenrobot @visakanv and
hmmmm correlation != causation i could think of many reasons that unstable people tend to become left leaning
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Replying to @parafactual @eigenrobot and
my sense is righty people have a mostly-shared model of how things should be – it's a broadly idealized vision of the past. easy consensus lefty people have tremendously divergent models of how things should be – many different futures. chaotic, discordian
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Replying to @visakanv @eigenrobot and
so like a simplification of the entire discussion is like, "why are chaotic people so chaotic", through that lens it becomes kinda self-evident
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i agree with this. it explains why the right is so unified
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this is 100% correct irl
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Replying to @eigenrobot @visakanv and
gonna think about which of these i prefer and update my political beliefs accordingly
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