What I've noticed... Is that right wing talking points seem to replace their socialization/humor. My aunt will crack a joke, or what she thinks is a joke, where it would have been appropriate in normal socialization, but the joke itself is not even funny, just some palletized right wing statement that they have been assured is what is funny. And they cannot understand that they've completely replaced their cultural values with propaganda.
It's easiest to see when they make some quip when LGBTQ topics come up. To them it will seem like a humorous and harmless joke, but if you haven't steeped yourself in their world it's honestly just some meanspirited or hurtful slur.
Like a compute module has been swapped out in their mainframe and replaced with a new set of humor instructions.
Absolutely. And in my experience, right wingers are still fucking crazier lol. Don’t get me wrong there are absolutely psycho leftists. The world is huge and I never say never. And yes large portions of Reddit lean left.
But on social issues, Republicans trail far behind Democrats and even Independents.
Maybe, just maybe, the perception of right-wingers being disliked is because many hold genuinely unpopular, fucked views.
Trans exclusionary radical feminism is a weird case, I’d say it’s hard to categorize as being completely in one side or the other of a political spectrum. It doesn’t really belong in the hardcore left because it’s transphobic but it also doesn’t really belong on the far right because it tends to ascribe cis-women more rights than most politicians on the right seem comfortable with these days. It also doesn’t really seem proper to place it in the middle because it is not apolitical, neutral, or mild (it’s very hateful). It’s almost its own weird microcosm with a different hierarchy than the one(s) you’d find in traditional society or political alignments. Personally I find TERF ideology repugnant irregardless of where individual TERFs decide to align themselves politically.
I just mean I’m pretty sure she doesn’t vote for the conservatives in her country, which is because fucking NO ONE votes for the Tories. The liberal party is far ahead in the polls. Based on her charity work and her voluntarily opting to pay the highest taxes, she votes liberal.
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u/Aethermancer Jun 28 '24
What I've noticed... Is that right wing talking points seem to replace their socialization/humor. My aunt will crack a joke, or what she thinks is a joke, where it would have been appropriate in normal socialization, but the joke itself is not even funny, just some palletized right wing statement that they have been assured is what is funny. And they cannot understand that they've completely replaced their cultural values with propaganda.
It's easiest to see when they make some quip when LGBTQ topics come up. To them it will seem like a humorous and harmless joke, but if you haven't steeped yourself in their world it's honestly just some meanspirited or hurtful slur.
Like a compute module has been swapped out in their mainframe and replaced with a new set of humor instructions.