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Cognitive scientist at Harvard.

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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker May 10

    Political affiliation is a matter of identity and self-expression, not economic self-interest (particularly among the well educated).https://nyti.ms/2G1vPRS 

    6:16 AM - 10 May 2018
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      2. Alex Jay Brady‏ @AlexJayBrady May 10
        Replying to @sapinker

        If you think climate change isnt real and that women and racial minorities have had it too easy for too long, support Trump and the 'conservatives.'

        3 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
      3. Kenneth Buff‏ @KennethBuff May 10
        Replying to @AlexJayBrady @sapinker

        Yeah, I think hate definitely has more to do with it for poor people. It literally makes no sense for them to support Republicans.

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      4. Alex Jay Brady‏ @AlexJayBrady May 10
        Replying to @KennethBuff @sapinker

        Trump was notable supported by two power blocs; the ultra rich who saw an easily bribeable guy in power as a great way to extract money from the state, in the form of tax cuts and other concessions, and by the MAGA crew; mainly older white people who hate...

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      5. cronos‏ @MusicVampire May 10
        Replying to @AlexJayBrady @KennethBuff @sapinker

        Orrrr you could listen to what many people responded to. Jobs, securing borders and enforcing the rule of law, and a more positive outlook about their home.

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      6. Kenneth Buff‏ @KennethBuff May 10
        Replying to @MusicVampire @AlexJayBrady @sapinker

        Bullshit.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      7. cronos‏ @MusicVampire May 10
        Replying to @KennethBuff @AlexJayBrady @sapinker

        Im just telling you what people cheered for at many trump rallies. You can believe what you want.

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      8. Kenneth Buff‏ @KennethBuff May 10
        Replying to @MusicVampire @AlexJayBrady @sapinker

        They charred for “Locker her up” and “Build the wall.”

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      9. Alex Jay Brady‏ @AlexJayBrady May 10
        Replying to @KennethBuff @MusicVampire @sapinker

        "securing borders and enforcing the rule of law," is code for terrorizing immigrants, migrants, refugees, and racial minorities,as is 'rule of law.' These are the same people who scoff at protests against police brutality against black people.

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      2. Curt Doolittle‏ @curtdoolittle May 10
        Replying to @sapinker

        Not true. People vote their tribes if tribes are competing, and people vote classes if classes are competing. In an homogenous polity people vote class/economically (Power), and in a heterogeneous polity they vote tribally (Power). Or for Signals (Power). They just vote power.

        2 replies 0 retweets 6 likes
      3. Kenneth Buff‏ @KennethBuff May 10
        Replying to @curtdoolittle @sapinker

        How does your statement cancel out Pinker’s?

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      4. Curt Doolittle‏ @curtdoolittle May 10
        Replying to @KennethBuff @sapinker

        People vote POWER given the CONDITIONS of competition. That's why Democracy works for selecting priorities in a homogenous polity but not choosing differences in a heterogeneous polity, and why there is so much friction between American 'tribes'.

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      5. Curt Doolittle‏ @curtdoolittle May 10
        Replying to @curtdoolittle @KennethBuff @sapinker

        Any time we state an incomplete premise we feed discord by supplying bias confirmation by doing the cherry picking for them. He stated an incomplete premise in order to feed the confirmation bias of a majority faction - not the Truth. ("The Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth")

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      6. Curt Doolittle‏ @curtdoolittle May 10
        Replying to @curtdoolittle @KennethBuff @sapinker

        The NYT article conveys is that it is that virtue signaling is a form of conspicuous consumption that one forces others to pay the indirect cost of. Or stated directly: we are burning the most valuable form of capital in the world (homogeneity and high trust) for virtue signals.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      7. Curt Doolittle‏ @curtdoolittle May 10
        Replying to @curtdoolittle @KennethBuff @sapinker

        If you cannot make a statement in social science using economic terms, then either you don't know what you're talking about, or you are engaged in selection bias, or worse, deception. Hence the rise of "Economic Imperialism" in the Academy as a counter to social pseudoscience..

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      1. Steve Peters‏ @petesfg May 10
        Replying to @sapinker

        when "the meaning of life" devolves into "telling other people how to behave"

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      1. Martin Lavin‏ @Real_SF May 10
        Replying to @sapinker

        Studies have shown confirmation bias is more prevalent amongst those with higher IQ.Makes sense those who attend college are more likely to have higher IQ.Significant possibly.Among my Progressive friends I noted under Obama,they seemed a little lost.Their bond was not as strong

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      1. David Parks‏ @pgasaluki May 10
        Replying to @sapinker @instapundit

        Gotta be with the Cool Kids and besides being a Liberal is easy just memorize the Trigger words and you don't have to think.

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      2. Forest Spirit‏ @EarthenBlueSky7 May 10
        Replying to @sapinker

        Which side are you on...is not the most intelligent question. It keeps wrecking humanity this having to choose a side and demonizing the other..

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      3. Atheist (2008)‏ @yanderiction May 10
        Replying to @EarthenBlueSky7 @sapinker

        If a side is defined by a set of beliefs that are proven to be horrid, it is perfectly acceptable to ask the question which side are you against.

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      4. Forest Spirit‏ @EarthenBlueSky7 May 10
        Replying to @yanderiction @sapinker

        I said that it's a non-intelligent question, that's all. Show's the level of humanity's intelligence and civilization.

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      5. End of conversation

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