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Nicole ParsonsReminder that #KochNetwork is pro-Nazi.
They fund fascism in the GOP.
https://www.prwatch.org/news/2016/01/13014/koch-daddy-and-nazis-revealing-timeline
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/01/koch-brothers-father-built-oil-refinery-for-the-nazis
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@Npars01 @sandlapper37 I'm sorry (wait these guys are nazis so not sorry) Cock Network
JustNate@sandlapper37 my "greatest generation" grandfather knew better than to outwardly be part of the KKK, but he was definitely an enthusiastic supporter of their ideology. So let's maybe reserve some of the hero worship. There were American fascists around in WWII.
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Nice paper on the illusion of moral decline: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06137-x For millennia people have been saying that morality has declined during their lifetime. But there's not much evidence for this continuing decline of morality. "If morality has not declined, then why do people think it has? Although there are surely many good answers to this question, we suggest that one of them has to do with the fact that when two well-established psychological phenomena work in tandem, they can produce an illusion of moral decline. First, numerous studies have shown that human beings are especially likely to seek and attend to negative information about others, and mass media indulge this tendency with a disproportionate focus on people behaving badly. As such, people may encounter more negative information than positive information about the morality of ‘people in general’, and this ‘biased exposure effect’ may help explain why people believe that current morality is relatively low. Second, numerous studies have shown that when people recall positive and negative events from the past, the negative events are more likely to be forgotten, more likely to be misremembered as their opposite and more likely to have lost their emotional impact. This ‘biased memory effect’ may help explain why people believe that past morality was relatively high." (1/n)
André Nantel@sandlapper37 Based on exit polls, three of them voted for Trump…and it’s pretty obvious who didn’t.
RenéWiersma@sandlapper37 The generation that voted for Nixon, Reagan, GWB, but okay.