• @tsonfeir@lemmy.world
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    266 months ago

    It’s brain damage. Lead, lack of oxygen, microplastics, what have you. Mix that with fear, anxiety, narcissism, etc and you have the perfect right-wing voter. A “do as your told” voter.

    • admiralteal
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      236 months ago

      Most of the water-born microplastics are tire dust. Byproducts of car-dependent modern life.

      And, as someone else in the thread quoted, another requirement of the law is a full ban of any policies designed to increase walkability or access to transit, which would be the way to fight back against those microplastics.

      The most important rule for conservatives: they do not want to turn over a better world to their children. They want their children to suffer in all the same ways they did. They believe progress is inherently bad and must be resisted. And I mean, of course they do… that’s the definition of “conservative”.

      • Ooops
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        36 months ago

        And I mean, of course they do… that’s the definition of “conservative”

        That was the definition a long time ago. Nowadays it’s not about resisting progress or conserving anything. They actually fight hard now for progression… into the wrong direction.

    • @floofloof@lemmy.ca
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      6 months ago

      It’s not brain damage. That’s another form of the perennial “it’ll be fine once the oldies are dead” fantasy. It’s just regular not-too-smartness plus selfishness and the fear and personality issues you identify. If nothing changes there will be plenty of people like this in the lead-free generations too.

      • @tsonfeir@lemmy.world
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        36 months ago

        Brain damage is not limited to the elderly. Also, environmental brain damage is never going to go away. There is no waiting for them to die.