• elbucho@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    why do conservatives want x?

    Because they’re cunts. That is the answer. It doesn’t matter what the question is, the answer is that conservatives are cunts. It explains the entirety of their behavior.

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      Well, but that doesn’t explain anything. Of course you can always go deeper with “why” questions and at some point you have to be satisfied, but asking “why are they being cunts?” is not going too far. Being a cunt usually has no benefit and is not desirable, so using it as an explanation for human behavior is not sufficient.

      The answer should include the supposed reason why conservatives think being a cunt would be advantageous to them, i.e. why they’re choosing this over other beneficial behavior.

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        Being a conservative doesn’t make them a cunt, being a cunt makes them conservative.

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          You’re trolling, right? Have you really never met or heard of a cunt that leans politically progressive? I assure you, they exist.

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        I’m satisfied with the answer “because conservatives are cunts”. If you’re looking for a deeper answer, you won’t find it. Just accept it and treat these people accordingly.

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          11 months ago

          But there is a deeper answer, there always is.

          In this case, we have much worse socialization today. There’s no sense of community anymore, no natural places to go to meet people, families are smaller, it’s much easier to pick up and move somewhere else ending up in an unfamiliar environment with no friends, and so on and so on.

          If you have bad socialisation, you end up with bad social skills, so you end up being rejected everywhere you go, so you end up wanting to control people so they have to stay with you, so you don’t end up alone.

          Thus the fantasy of getting a woman to agree to marriage and not being able to leave is appealing and secures these people voters.

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              It’s too easy to think no farther than “lol they just suck, doesn’t matter why”. The topic is over, you can feel better (superior) and don’t have to deal with anything difficult.

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            11 months ago

            Conservatives being cunts is not a modern phenomena. You are assuming modern changes caused an ancient consistency.

            Like saying that recent video game trends are the origins of skin cancer.

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            There is a deeper point yea, but sometimes the deeper points just come back full circle to “they’re cunts”.

            Sometimes there isn’t though. Sometimes cunts are just born naturally and that’s just the way people are.

            We can get into family systems and their environments, stages of development, and apply any and every psych theory we can; blame it on the lead, the microplastics etc. and they’re still cunts at the end of the day.