for - youtube - podcast - I've had it - Lindsay Graham is Gay - conservative political parties - closeted LBGTQ - Republican party - closeted homosexuals

summary - This program raises a very important, but ignored issue that is salient to the polycrisis - conservative religions harbor many closeted homosexuals who actively promote harmful LBGTQ hatred because they are in such denial - Complexity - simultaneous being both - conservative religious and - homosexual, queer, bi or trans - creates a pathological - contradiction - denaialism - self-hatred - hatred of LBGTQ community - Political parties that are conservative are composed of a majority of religious conservatives - hence, they also have a majority of CLOSETED homosexuals, gay, queer, trans, bi people - The denialism and self-hatred manifests as political policies that are harmful to the LBGTQ community

for - role reversal - tech bros - from left to right - role reversal - tech bros - from liberal to conservative

for - adjacency - scientific paradigm shift - confirmation bias - universal behavior - liberal / conservative dynamics - progress

adjacency - scientific paradigm shift - confirmation bias - universal behavior - liberal / conservative dynamics - progress - It is a natural for humans to be both conservative and liberal - If we weren't liberal, there would be no progress - At the same time, we recognize the value of existing traditions - they worked and helped us to survive - Confirmation bias is conservative - why tamper with something that isn't broke? - Yet novelty is a behavior that even the staunchest conservative displays - It is nonsensible to think we have only one but not the other aspect, we have both

for - liberal woman dates conservative men - they feel unheard

for - cosmopolitan magazine - liberal woman dated conservative MAGA men - insight

insight - Interesting insight about how deeply he identified with Trump on a personal level, He projected all the criticism Trump receives as his own.

for - quote - liberal woman dated conservative men - He clearly had no idea he was out with someone he once threatened to kill.

for - liberal woman dating conservative MAGA men - dating a man who sent her death threats. Wow.

for - stats - liberal dated 60 conservative, MAGA men in a year

for - quote - manosphere - most insecure men I've ever sat down with - Vera Papisova - Cosmopolitan magazine - news - liberal dating conservative men for a year - youtube - CNN - This woman dated only far-right men for a year. "They were so insecure" - to - Cosmopolitan magazine - article - Vera Papisova - I Spent Nearly a Year on a Conservative Dating App as a Liberal—Here’s What I Learned - https://hyp.is/HNRDRBkdEfCBit8g4X4cAg/www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/a63679179/political-beliefs-dating-app-experiment/

Die Vorsitzende der englischen konservativen Kemi Badenoch verzichtet heute in einer Rede auf das Net Zero-Ziel für 2050. Dieses Ziel wurde 2019 unter einer konservativen Regierung gesetzlich festgeschrieben. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/17/conservative-party-to-ditch-commitment-to-net-zero-in-uk-by-2050

for - article - Counterpunch - Trump and the Conservative U.S. Counter-Revolution

In der King's Speech zur Eröffnung des britischen Parlaments kündigte die Regierung weitere Vergaben von Lizenzen für die Öl- und Gasförderung in der Nordsee an. Diese Politik der Konservativen wird als Versuch angesehen, der Labor-Opposition zu schaden und der Bevölkerung zu suggerieren, eine konsequentere Klimapolitik werde zu wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Problemen führen.https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/nov/07/anti-green-measures-in-kings-speech-are-desperate-political-play-by-sunak

Many in the southern United States are converting to Orthodox Christianity, a conversion which is tied into patriarchal ideas on the far right.

• for: insight - conservative vs liberal - speed of sdopting social norm

• insight

  • liberals are voted in to speed up adoption of a new social -
  • conservatives are voted in to slow down the acceptance of a social norm
  • paradoxically, humans have both a conservative and a liberal nature. We naturally have a tendency to both conserve and to try new things.

Der britische Minister für internationale Umweltangelegenheiten ist zurückgetreten. In seinem Rücktrittsschreiben wirft er Premierminister Sunak vor, an Umweltfragen uninteressiert zu sein und die internationale Führungsposition Großbritanniens in der Umwelt- und Naturschutzpolitik aufgegeben zu haben.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jun/30/zac-goldsmith-resignation-letter-in-full

Pat Robertson, Who Gave Christian Conservatives Clout, Is Dead at 93 by Douglas Martin

Direct link to Thatcher

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD [@PeterHotez]. (2021, December 15). Many thanks @Finneganporter while i predicted some of this, a part that caught me off guard in the pandemic was the rise of contrarian intellectuals from conservative think tanks or even Harvard Stanford so desperate for relevance they aligned themselves with far right extremists [Tweet]. Twitter. https://twitter.com/PeterHotez/status/1471100070250508288

How cherry-picking science became the center of the anti-mask movement. (2022, February 14). Gothamist. https://gothamist.com

Andersen, K. (2022, January 25). The Anti-vaccine Right Brought Human Sacrifice to America. The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/human-sacrifice-ritual-mass-vaccination/621355/

Is this a general feature of the conservative far right of constantly denying our humanity and care for each other?

Adam Bienkov. (2021, December 14). Conservative MP Desmond Swayne says the “carnage” on UK roads is “certainly killing more people than Covid at the moment”. For context there were just 1,460 deaths on British roads in the whole of 2020, compared to more than 4,000 deaths of people with Covid last month alone. Https://t.co/NVD6SxhTKB [Tweet]. @AdamBienkov. https://twitter.com/AdamBienkov/status/1470783359064358929

ReconfigBehSci. (2021, December 13). RT @peterdodds: Excess deaths are now above 900,000 in the US. Conservative estimate as reporting takes weeks to fill in: Https://cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm… [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1470436197935763456

Thoughts and prayers. A lot of thoughts and prayers. They buy in to emotions alright, to belief: sympathy & benevolence are reserved for the community, for those with moral caliber as high as theirs, while attempts to prepare & make better are regarded as too rational, destined to become rotting hinderments, unable to be improved or addressed; they believe in the perpetual constant & ongoing failure of the rational, and only in their own emotions.

Conservatives actively resist society allowing itself to prepare against ills or trying to improve the common welfare. It seems to trust only in it's ancestors & it's own superiority.

Mason, R., & Devlin, H. (2021, December 8). Boris Johnson rushes in Covid plan B amid Christmas party scandal. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/08/boris-johnson-plan-b-covid-measures-england-omicron-vaccine-passports-mask-wearing

Hignell, B., Saleemi, Z., & Valentini, E. (2021). The role of emotions on policy support and environmental advocacy. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/45pge

Tanase, L.-M., Kerr, J. R., Freeman, A. L. J., & Schneider, C. R. (2021). The effects of President Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis on hoax beliefs and risk perceptions of the virus in the U.S. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/frxt8

Wales to press ahead with Covid pass plans despite calls to re-run vote | Wales | The Guardian. (n.d.). Retrieved October 7, 2021, from https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/oct/06/wales-press-ahead-covid-pass-plans-clubs-sporting-events

I wondered where the group from The Weekly Standard had gone... looks like most of them moved here during the Trump era.

Sadly, this site has no RSS feed...

Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA. (2021, May 7). 6/ Many young Americans want to ‘wait & see.’ But they also want to do what their friends are doing. If you’re a teen or 20-something (or really anyone), be a role model! Take that selfie pic/video when you get vaccinated and post it online. Https://t.co/rB2zPmm4aK [Tweet]. @celinegounder. https://twitter.com/celinegounder/status/1390786119374184452

Tory billionaire bankrolled ‘herd immunity’ scientist who advised PM against lockdown | openDemocracy. (n.d.). Retrieved June 27, 2021, from https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/tory-billionaire-bankrolled-herd-immunity-scientist-who-advised-pm-against-lockdown/

Gugerty, L., Shreeves, M., & Dumessa, N. (2021). Biased belief updating in causal reasoning about COVID-19. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/bfw76

Swenson, A. (2021, April 20). Study lacks evidence on masks, isn’t linked to Stanford. AP NEWS. https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-629043235973

It's interesting that Loeffler mentions increasing the overlooked conservative's vote-- it does make me wonder if her reaction would have been the same had she won. Furthermore, this is where Blow begins his examples of conservative leaders and their takes on recent election results (exemplification).

Times info@bylinetimes.com (https://bylinetimes.com/), Byline. „Cambridge Analytica Psychologist Advising Global COVID-19 Disinformation Network Linked to Nigel Farage and Conservative Party“. Byline Times, 2. Februar 2021. https://bylinetimes.com/2021/02/02/cambridge-analytica-psychologist-advising-global-covid-19-disinformation-network-linked-to-nigel-farage-and-conservative-party/.

(lazy checking)

Ecker, Ullrich, Brandon Sze, and Matthew Andreotta. ‘No Effect of Partisan Worldview on Corrections of Political Misinformation’, 20 August 2020. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/bszm4.

Barrios, J. M., & Hochberg, Y. (2020). Risk Perception Through the Lens of Politics in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic (Working Paper No. 27008; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27008

Raihani, N., & de-Wit, L. (2020, April 21). Factors Associated With Concern, Behaviour & Policy Support in Response to SARS-CoV-2. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/8jpzc

Bajak, A., & Howe, J. (2020, May 14). Opinion | A Study Said Covid Wasn’t That Deadly. The Right Seized It. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/14/opinion/coronavirus-research-misinformation.html

Kenward, B., & Brick, C. (2020, May 15). Even Conservative voters prefer the environment to be at the heart of post-COVID-19 economic reconstruction in the UK. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ebzhs

Lawson, A., & Kakkar, H. (2020, May 19). Of Pandemics, Politics, and Personality: The Role of Conscientiousness and Political Ideology in Sharing of Fake News. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ves5m

Pieper, D. (2020, May 1). Challenging social systems under the threat of pollution: Replication and extension of Eadeh and Chang (2019). Retrieved from psyarxiv.com/axbj4

Rosenfeld, D. L., & Tomiyama, A. J. (2020, April 22). Can a Pandemic Make People More Socially Conservative? Longitudinal Evidence from COVID-19. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/zg7s4

Conway, L. G., III, Woodard, S. R., Zubrod, A., & Chan, L. (2020, April 13). Why are Conservatives Less Concerned about the Coronavirus (COVID-19) than Liberals? Testing Experiential Versus Political Explanations. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/fgb84

Rosenfeld, D. L., Rothgerber, H., & Wilson, T. (2020, April 22). Politicizing the COVID-19 Pandemic: Ideological Differences in Adherence to Social Distancing. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/k23cv

Rosenfeld, D. L. (2020, April 22). Political Ideology and the Outbreak of COVID-19 in the United States. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/jrpfd

Each and every word of this can be debated upon.

What comes under basic infrastructure?

• I presume everyone thinks about high investment hard infrastructure like roads, rail networks, fibre optic and electric lines, airports etc.

• Are public schools and colleges included?

• Are medicare and social safety nets counted as basic infrastructure?
• Is defining criteria of intellectual property and granting patents counted?
• What about public transportation?
• Funding early scientific research?

Or do we expect all of these to be funded through charity?

This is the second or third reference to this I've seen now in the past couple of months. I obviously need to read more Lakoff, though the general conceit rings true to me on its face.

Actually, this is an underestimate as the "25% of the worst affected reefs (the top quartile), losses of corals ranged from 83-99%." http://theconversation.com/how-much-coral-has-died-in-the-great-barrier-reefs-worst-bleaching-event-69494

this is interesting because Americans are very similar to people who live in El Salvador, there are a lot of similarities.

a social device for maintenance of the status quo