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Michael Tae Sweeney@mtsw.bsky.social |
The frequently asserted conservative belief that liberals grow up in bubbles and aren't exposed to conservative ideas and so need to be forced to be exposed to conservative ideas is so far removed from reality it's insulting.
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Marv
@marvinbutters.bsky.social
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They don't want people to be exposed to their beliefs, they want them inflicted upon people
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Dan
@dandwiggins.bsky.social
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I see conservative ideas every time I drive past planned parenthood. It's not helping their case.
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Charlie
@charliezegers.bsky.social
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It’s not that we haven’t been exposed. It’s that we’ve rejected those ideas as unacceptable.
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Dani
@daniexists6.bsky.social
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I got my "liberal ideas" because my dad, a conservative, preached how Bush helped get so many executions done as governor during the 2000 election, and I was five.
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Isabel Cooper
@isabelcooper.bsky.social
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Right? It's like these folks think we don't have asshole uncles.
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Cate 🐬
@catebridget.bsky.social
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conservatives are the ones in a bubble. they truly believe that everyone thinks like them and the dissenters are a tiny margin. they have no idea that 70% of the country wants abortion, believes in human caused climate change, wants gun control, etc etc.
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Kari - 😷 Remember them ☂️
@kswenger.bsky.social
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Totally opposite in my personal experience. Conservative bubble until my 20's.
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Andrew Brown
@playcritically.bsky.social
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I've heard conservative ideas my whole life, it's why I hate them so much. They demonstrably do not work but they never fucking die.
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JR Smith 🦀
@abysmallytall.bsky.social
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Every time a conservative complains about being silenced, I wonder "by whom?". I went to UMCP in the mid to late aughts and they simply were never capable of shutting the fuck up.
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Marianne Heaslip
@marianneh.bsky.social
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Some of my earliest memories are of my grandad being long term unemployed after Thatcher deliberately destroyed the industry he worked in to break the unions, and people in my family being called 'the enemy within' by the Prime Minister. Would have loved to grow up away from conservative ideas.
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Mike Gianella
@mikegianella.bsky.social
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it’s the usual projection thing, too: it’s far more likely you’ll get the kid who grew up in a heavily right-wing area with no liberals (or, more accurately, the few liberals there not risking bullying or worse) being exposed to them for the first-time in college than the other way around
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5th wave Fremenist 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🐔
@droctorock.bsky.social
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Literally the opposite of the truth!
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Buttercup Q. Skullpants
@zoombox350.bsky.social
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It’s so hard to know what conservatives believe, what with the belligerent flags and bumper stickers, and the unhinged immigration/antivax rants in the comment section of just about every newspaper article ever. They’re such shrinking violets.
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New Year’s Steve
@lessdismalsci.bsky.social
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Worth noting that the evidence for this, to the extent it exists, is studies where liberals answer that conservatives, for example, oppose abortion because they want to control women rather than because they just care so much about babies.
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Paul Tree
@paultree10.bsky.social
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The actual kids in true ideological bubbles are conservative homeschooled kids but I have literally never once seen that discussed.
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BearPondBoy🍦
@bearpondboy.bsky.social
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They hate the idea that some of us very intentionally pried ourselves out of the conservative bubble BECAUSE we were exposed to the REST OF THE WORLD. Troglodytes cannot see beyond their holes.
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Random scientist
@randomperson.bsky.social
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100% spot on. My family and I grew up in Utah and as minorities, saw what "family values" meant if you weren't Mormon or white. Big reason why lots of us went to more liberal places and why many of my Asian friends moved to other states.
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Tricksy Belden
@tricksybelden.bsky.social
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Conservatives never try to understand the rest of us. There are no Duane Reed safaris, Ben Shapiro isn't visiting campuses to sincerely understand why young people are rejecting them. It's so disingenuous.
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Madeleine
@luubean.bsky.social
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I truly believe it's the other way around. Liberals have learned to tolerate and live with diverse people with diverse opinions. In my experience, it's conservatives who haven't been exposed to much outside of their beliefs.
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Andrew Neumann
@theneumann64.bsky.social
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Yeah I would be delighted to be in some kind of bubble where I wasn’t constantly being exposed to Fuck Joe Biden bumper stickers and hearing people causally say racist and homophobic shit amid unrelated conversations but I’m not, nor is almost anyone else.
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Claire 🐝
@isolinearchip.bsky.social
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I grew up in a very conservative area and then deliberately whiplashed myself to Berkeley for college and let me tell you, that conservative bubble is so fucking thick because the people inside it have the thinnest skins imaginable. The bubble is protective. They need it to survive.
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Kerry Reid
@kerryreid.bsky.social
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There was a former theater prof in NC I tangled with about this many years ago. He was lamenting how stereotyped and "bullied" his rural white kids were. I asked him how he thought it compared to what Black kids face. Of course he dissembled. He knew liberal "bullying" didn't involve physical harm.
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Nope
@torshi.bsky.social
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Yeah, god, I WISH I had somehow managed to avoid exposure to conservative ideas
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Justin Wallace
@justingwallace.bsky.social
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Their putrid stink washes over us every single day. It's their own fault so many of us find it repugnant. Maybe they shouldn't have such horrifying ideas in the first place.
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@cosettemuffintop.bsky.social
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The past few years I feel I’ve had conservative views shoved down my throat and legislated on me and trust me, it has made them no more appealing 😏
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kathotdog.bsky.social
@kathotdog.bsky.social
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I grew up with Republican parents, grew up in the south, not super right-wing (at least not till late in life), but education, history, the arts are important growing up, and they raised 4 very liberal children.
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DANA STEVENS
@thehighsign.bsky.social
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It's like when people from smaller towns in red states act as if people in cities have no clue what life outside the coastal metropolis is like. Why the hell do you think we moved here?
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JoyousPanther
@joyouspanther.bsky.social
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To balance out liberal authors in school, they should also be forced to read early 90s Ron Paul conspiracy theory newsletters.
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Audry T. ~ she/her
@audryt.bsky.social
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I'd say about 90% of the liberals I know were raised by conservative shithole values, which is specifically what radicalized them into being loving, accepting, all-inclusive flaming activists. The other 10% are kids those liberals raised, who stay liberal because their childhoods were inclusive.
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Highway Rob
@undulynoted.bsky.social
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Also note that their concern is not for the allegedly embubbled lib kids. Their concern is that their owns kids' bubbles must be given equal shrift to the alleged lib bubbles.
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@karberg.bsky.social
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Conservatives *LOVE* a captive audience who are either too polite or are otherwise duty bound to tell them to shut the hell up. (thanksgiving dinner, service industry cashiers/clerks, public servants who can’t argue back, children, etc…)
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Ms. Ivette 🕯☽ ⛤ 🔮🖤
@bunnylove403.bsky.social
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Well my dad was a conservative, so I grew up around that. He would watch Fox News and tune into the Rush Limbaugh radio show. Well, I’m quite Progressive. If a conservative is polite to me and wants to share their views in a polite manner, I’m open minded to that.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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The exposure a lot of liberals get to "conservative ideas" is watching bullies kick the ass of the gay kid in their class, which is honestly a much better summation of conservative ideology than reading the national review or whatever is.
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Grumpy Rootbeer
@grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social
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Conservatives live in by far the most completely isolated information bubble. It's how they can believe in the existence of enormous welfare programs exclusively benefiting minorities and immigrants in defiance of the reality of the material world. This is of course just one small example.
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WeirwoodTreeHugger
@weirwoodtreehug.bsky.social
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I grew up in a progressive city with progressive parents and attended progressive schools and a progressive church. Conservative viewpoints are so coddled and promoted by the culture that despite all this, I already knew everything about conservatism by high school graduation.
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brianjay
@brianjay1317.bsky.social
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if anything, the exact opposite is true. their whole world is just the tv in their living room with a burnt in fox news logo.
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Nix Onyx
@nixonyx.bsky.social
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Yeah. It's quite similar to Christians who assume I'm an atheist because I somehow made it to adulthood in the western world without ever hearing about Jesus. MF I went to church every Sunday til I was 18. I am aware of what the Bible says. I have heard your arguments & they're still not convincing.
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Eulogy
@eulogy.bsky.social
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I had some ham radio guy at the race out here last week start yelling at me when I disagreed with him on his dumb bullshit. I told him to stfu. Facts don't care about their dumb feelings. Those ppl live in the bubble that is for sure.
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DigsUpDeadFolksStuff
@trowelblister.bsky.social
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1st time voting was a primary. Old geezer at the Grange Hall gave my Republican parents shit for "letting" me be a Democrat. Like none of us who grew up rural & surrounded by conservatism didn't break out 1st fucking chance.
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gray
@graylikethecolor.bsky.social
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both my parents are conservative. i was raised in a Reagan/Bush house. wasn't until after college/leaving the small town & met people who didn't look like me that my views changed.
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rogergathmann
@rogergathmann.bsky.social
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It isn't mean to be a discription of reality, but a way of leaning on centrists country club types who own and edit media, and it almost always works. Which makes for a perfect system of deniability to gaslight the people who buy that media. Nobody in the equation really believes it.
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Galfritius
@revival-hour.bsky.social
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Every accusation is a confession
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craplord (they/them) 🏳️⚧️
@craplord.bsky.social
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it ALSO implies that liberals simply DO NOT EXIST where conservatives do and vice versa like…excuse me?!?!
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John Stehlin
@jstehlin.bsky.social
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It’s probably more accurate to say that liberals grow up amongst conservative bullies (I certainly did, even in the “liberal bubble” of Charlottesville) and then flee to more tolerant places as soon as is practical.
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Penguin 🐧😷
@penguin42.bsky.social
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We are constantly exposed to conservative/fascist ideas. We can't avoid them.
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Brandon Hyde’s mind garden
@throwingthings.bsky.social
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Hell man I had Facebook
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EJ Pratt
@ejpratt40.bsky.social
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Is this bubble in the room with us now? Asking because I need a quiet place to rest.
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@coasterspaul.bsky.social
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I figure College Republicans probably polarize college students into becoming MORE liberal or progressive on net, since they tend to select for the weirdest and most hateful, and then make it their mission to annoy everybody else. They're the least silent group imaginable!
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Arash Mohebbi
@thatoldbear.bsky.social
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Just another confession about how their ideology can only be imparted by force, not reason
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Kim Marshall
@dangerblond.bsky.social
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Grew up in the south, surrounded by conservative people. Even the “hippies” in my family were racist. I realized before age 12 that the way we treated black people was wrong and unfair, and like Molly Ivins said, once you realize they’re lying about race, you realize they’re lying about everything.
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Matthew Johnson
@seasouthern.bsky.social
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I grew up in rural South Alabama and was at my church three nights a week and found out that not the Infantry or even Special Operations could make me man enough to keep dick out of my mouth. I know a few conservatives.
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C.A. Pinkham
@eyepatchguy.bsky.social
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We can’t help but be familiar with every one of their ideas because they’re constantly shouted at us from the rooftops. Theyre bad ideas! We hate them!
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Mithos
@mithos343.bsky.social
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The conservatives that elite-pundit class guys think we need to listen to (intelligent, erudite, educated conservative writers who aren't bigoted and just happen to be right of center) DO NOT FUCKING EXIST.
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Greg ”Shalashaska” Kinnear 🏳️🌈
@tedcruzinusa.bsky.social
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There’s some shitheel writer who works for a conservative think tank in the area who writes at least once a month about a lack of “intellectual diversity.” Meaning nobody wants to listen to his bullshit about DEI. But he’s correct, there’s little mainstream coverage of ideas to the left of Reagan.
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Fountainhead this
@jaocomms.bsky.social
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It’s not supposed to comfort you, it’s to comfort them
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Kendra Maas
@dnakendra.bsky.social
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Yep those of us that got out were clearly "brainwashed" by our liberal professors. Compared to those that stayed in and only went to the right christian colleges. Challenging what you've been indoctrinated in from birth=brainwashing.
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Potomatic
@onbluskysku.bsky.social
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No not *those* ideas. The good ideas. The ideas the speaker has
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Riot Poof
@riotpoof1120.bsky.social
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This is so true. I grew up in Utah and came from a very progressive family, and just participating in class and trying to challenge the conservative religious slant was exhausting. There was a bubble, but it wasn't leftist.
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Greg Stolze
@gregstolze.bsky.social
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Conservatives want liberals to listen to them for one simple reason: Other conservatives don't want to. The thing both left and right have most strongly in common is exhaustion with everyday rightists.
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whet moser
@whet.bsky.social
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it's entirely about punishment
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Thorne Identity
@thorneidentity.bsky.social
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we were exposed. Jim Crow, the death of the ERA, the murder of MLK & JFk. The COVID death toll. The Tulsa Massacre. Rosewood. Urban Cancer clusters. Anti-Voting rights. Anti Affirmative Action. Anti-Body autonomy. Anti environment. I could fill 10 bibles with my exposure to their shit "beliefs."
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Flakey Foont
@flakyfoont.bsky.social
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I was exposed to them but I rejected because they were so hateful and ignorant. and that was back before conservatives became insane morons. they were just racist assholes back then.
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BRAK AND BLUE
@yinkadoubledare.bsky.social
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They also think that it must be "indoctrination" when their conservative bubble kids go off to college and dump their conservative indoctrination growing up, when it's really just meeting lots of other people and seeing all that conservative indoctrination about them was full of shit.
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Vidmaster
@vidmaster.net
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Growing up in northwestern Montana and being exposed to almost exclusively conservative ideas is a huge part of why I’m so anti-conservative now.
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Jen Zamolodchikova
@katyaandyourdad.bsky.social
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Great example of whatever they say, it's the exact opposite.
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Becca
@tigerpantss.bsky.social
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I mean, I grew up Jewish in a small central Florida town, so literally the opposite of a bubble. I grew up in their bubble, and it radicalized me, essentially. Being exposed to their ideas radicalized me against them. So, yeah. Thanks for the exposure, assholes! When someone shows you who they are..
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Charter School Abolitionist
@maniccage.bsky.social
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Growing up in a nw Illinois rural town of 5,000 where gay people had to stay closeted until they left - that wasn't an ideological bubble at all.
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Bus D. Sinclair 🏳️🌈🏴☠️
@melbeast.bsky.social
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Gotta love the idea that those who live around not just more diversity, but more people in plain numbers are the ones living in a bubble.
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@buckley19608.bsky.social
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low-info dyed-in-the-wool Republican acquaintance heard me start up a leftist rant and interrupted with "what about all the stuff that's worth learning from conservatives?" and I swear to god he had never heard "such as?"
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En Buen Ora
@enbuenora.bsky.social
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if only liberals could get red-faced bigoted right wingers screaming in their faces for even more hours a day, this would help those crazy liberals to understand that the screaming bigots are correct
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Benjamin Johns
@baj.bsky.social
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"You've never been exposed to the conservative intellectual perspective." Nah man I've been on a train and heard the mentally ill guy ranting about "dirty foreigners" and the "vaccines control your minds" shtick I basically have a master's degree from Prager U.
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silver
@silverboots.bsky.social
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Growing up exposed to conservative ideals *is what made me a liberal*.
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@countanton.bsky.social
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It’s so true. The nature and premise of university culture, which I grew up in, is that you’re exposed to different ideas. It is, baseline, “liberal” for sure, but I knew plenty of right-wing kids, libertarian profs etc. I don’t think small-town Christian Nationalists can say the same.
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Artologica
@artologica.net
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East coast lib here. I grew up in Indiana. Can confirm.
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It's ya boi Nixo 🍉
@nixostorme.bsky.social
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and then conservatives meet one person with announced pronouns and freak out as if they have never met a person who has done that before (and they may not have, because conservative live in their own bubbles, and people who are "different" know to avoid them)
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Informema
@informema.bsky.social
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What conservatives can’t grasp is how so many of their kids, who endured childhoods of explicit indoctrination in conservative families, conservative schools, and conservative religious orgs find their own, different path as adults, so conservatives assume that libs must have out-indoctrinated them.
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Dee Severe 🐶🌊🎬🏈🎶🇵🇸
@deesevere.bsky.social
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I'm on Twitter. I do not lack for conservative ideas. I also remember being forced to go to church as a little kid, and our pastor being racist, remember thinking, I'm getting away from these people just as soon as I can. And I did.
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Trapp Godd
@trappgodd.bsky.social
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I grew up in a red area of a red state, surrounded by conservative "ideas" at all times and all it did was make me realize that these are cruel, hateful people.
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Just S
@justs.bsky.social
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What conservatives know and fear most is that many liberals (🙋♀️) grew up in religious, conservative communities, and the instant they escape to somewhere with broader, more accepting viewpoints, never look back. So many of these campus screeds simply litany of blame for why their kids never visit.
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Jakespeare’s Wrath 🌈
@swashbucklr.bsky.social
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Conservatives assume that the correctness of their ideology is so self-evident that the only way one wouldn't be a conservative is if they grew up in a bubble. Righties are literally surprised every time someone disagrees with them.
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Elementary My Dear
@mzwatson.bsky.social
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I've always found it funny that, in my experience, it's the kids who move away for college, and while there get exposed to a whole assortment of cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints who become liberal while it's the ones who've never left our town of 2000 that say liberals live in a bubble.
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Random Dangling Mystery
@sidslang.bsky.social
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Hard to imagine anybody doesn't know what conservative ideas are, they've had the same ones for a century or two and they've all failed multiple times
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🦀 Shawn Morris 🦀
@theshawnmorris.bsky.social
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reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/echo-chamber...
This meta study suggests that we don't live in echo chambers and they don't increase polarization but /too much/ exposure to adverse views increases polarization.
Recent study on echo chambers: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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We Put the FBI Man Into the Medicine Lodge
@2facedjanus7927.bsky.social
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It's the exact opposite- liberal families try and raise their kids, no matter how flawedly, to think critically and examine the variety of beliefs. Conservatives make it clear even trivial deviations from their parents' ideology is the deepest betrayal and try to isolate them from difference.
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Think. It. Through. 🙅♂️
@cfaller96.bsky.social
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Every Republican Accusation is etc.
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Rogue HCI Guy
@roguehci.bsky.social
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Most leftists are leftists because they were confronted with conservative ideas once.
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Carpinche
@claiborne.bsky.social
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A lot of it is the steadfast conservative belief that they should be deferred to in all things, and if that's not the case it must mean that there is something wrong with those who disagree.
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Alex Cruikshanks
@alexsaysstuff.bsky.social
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I think a lot about this 2020 article about Evangelical Trump supporters explicitly saying they support Trump because they want to remain in their tiny Christian fundie bubble, shielded from encountering any other perspectives, and force their kids to stay in it too:
www.nytimes.com/2020/08/09/u...
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Jennifer R. Povey
@ninjafingers.bsky.social
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Thinking of where I grew up and smirking. It was the kids from the nice conservative families that lived in bubbles.
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'viktor shtrum'
@viktorshtrum.bsky.social
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everyday Americans go to their jobs and are exposed to conservative ideas and spend 8 hours living in a hard right wing version of reality where they have no say in anything.
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@elacordeonachi.bsky.social
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Oh yeah, I was already left leaning in high school, but growing up in the age of Morton Downey Jr. and the band of boys in our politics class forming a political party with a platform that included rounding up the homosexuals, putting them on an island, and nuking it til they glow pushed me further.
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Madness Table
@rollforphobia.bsky.social
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They’ve been exposed to them and discarded them, but since conservatism’s whole grift is that everyone secretly knows conservatives are right, they must have been exposed wrong.
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Kevin James
@kmj.bsky.social
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Absolutely. Conservative ideas are some of the most overexposed views in the country. I don’t know anyone who is even slightly politically engaged that doesn’t know every conservative position on basically any issue one can think of
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lowtax speedrun enjoyer
@rickywlmsbong.bsky.social
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it’s the complete opposite, which is remarkable given tv, news, music, whatever, largely covers lib areas. but libs will visit and read about and try to understand conservative areas
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@drsixsmith.bsky.social
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…but I thought a liberal was a conservative who hadn’t been mugged yet.. wait— is THAT what they mean by “exposure to conservative ideas”?
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Cheryl
@cheryleigh.bsky.social
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Or maybe I grew up in a conservative bubble and broke out. Hypothetically, obvi.
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Ken Yee
@yuweiquan.bsky.social
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This liberal remembers when this guy Rush Limbaugh got a start with a controversial political radio show on local Sacramento station KFBK in the 80’s.
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Tired Art Goblin
@spaceturtleart.bsky.social
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My relatives have gotten better about not saying this stuff around me, but you never know when one might suddenly go off on an antisemitic rant, or start talking about chemtrails 🙄
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The Republic Is Ours To Save
@ejwillingham.bsky.social
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If anything, in this situation (in my very personal, lengthy experience), the pressure of conservatism and the abuses it enables intensify the propensity to embrace a more expansive, inclusive philosophy, just a really strong feeling of needing to protect self & others from that threat.
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OttoTanoshiiNeko
@ottotanoshiineko.bsky.social
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Cruelty, racism, fascism, institutionalized poverty aren’t positive aspects of life😠
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Red Lori Bright Eyes
@redloribrighteyes.bsky.social
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actually I was raised by republican monsters - one of them a pedophile! I chose to be the exact opposite of everything they were.
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Orion Kidder
@orionkidder.bsky.social
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It's a real, "have you heard of the lord...?" situation. Like yeah, dude, every fuckin' day, and I'd love to not hear about him for a little while if you don't mind.
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Dr. Catherine Kehl
@tylik.bsky.social
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I mean, lack of exposure is the only reason why we're not evangelical chistians, so it follows...?
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Chris Fitzgerald
@cofitzgerald.bsky.social
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I grew up in the Land of Steady Habits. My high school was George H.W. Bush’s final 1988 campaign stop. My classmates ran the gamut from Bush Republican to Kill ‘Em All and Let God Sort Them Out. They grew up only knowing Reagan. I was sufficiently exposed. I’ve never voted for a single Republican.
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Ceiling Cat
@ceilingcat.bsky.social
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“If only liberals had been given an introductory education in white supremacy, Christian apologetics, anti-abortion, anti-DEI and anti-vax rhetoric.”
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Estarianne
@estarianne.bsky.social
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I grew up in the 80s lol.
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Charm City Slicker (57-35)
@sprawlhater.bsky.social
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I grew up in Dundalk during the George W Bush administration, I've had enough "welcome to America, speak English!" and Jeff Dunham "jokes" for one lifetime thanks
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KPH
@kph.bsky.social
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lol I grew up on US military bases
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Evo Daily
@evodaily.bsky.social
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That's how conceded their ignorance is. Everyone but them are in a bubble. They lack all self-awareness. They turned being tolerant and empathetic of others bad by making the term "woke" "bad" and then claim the rest of the country, every race, religion, culture and philosophy is in a bubble.
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JM
@jonmarke.bsky.social
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Projection, i reckon.
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@tidinzeo.bsky.social
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It's more hilarious when you know that kids who go to college and university, i.e. get out of their bubbles, are more likely to be progressive once out of their bubble even if they stated conservative, because getting exposed to diversity humanises the people conservatives demonise.
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@nclud.bsky.social
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"People in bubble angry that people they mistreated leave bubble as soon as they possibly can, accuse victims who left of 'living in bubble'"
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Allison Hantschel
@athenae.bsky.social
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I would love to be less exposed to conservative ideas like "poors should just die already" but they run the fucking country.
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Ms Lizzie
@lizzyrat.bsky.social
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I’ve heard that. Always fun to respond that when I was growing up my dad worked at The Heritage Foundation, so yeah. I’ve been exposed
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Bob Booten
@bobooten.bsky.social
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Saturday afternoon tv when I was a kid was Joe Pyne and wrestlin’
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🏈 🦇 Elly 🍉 🇵🇸
@blakasmoko.bsky.social
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of anything it’s the complete opposite I was raised so strongly Republican for the first 18 years of my life, that I had kneejerk emotional reactions to liberal views as a college underclassman it took a fair bit of growing pains to realize *I* was the one in a bubble from the rest of the world
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Artemis Cornelius Maximus
@artemiss812.bsky.social
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Or we grow up in conservative areas whose ideas and actions inspire us to turn liberal
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Georgia Z
@seedarkly.bsky.social
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It's conservatives who live in bubbles! I've helped a year with local food bank and I can already disabuse ppl of their beliefs. We house disabled veterans in apts I can't afford. For families to receive help, they have to be registered with the city... but so many ppl tell me they "know" otherwise.
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Eris Anarchy🧿
@scenedemon.bsky.social
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It’s funny because conservatives are usually the ones who were raised in a bubble
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JoyComethInTheMorning
@sheadapts.bsky.social
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That's a weird one. Every time a conservative knows my attitude, I'm on their shit list, and badmouthed 16 ways to Sunday. It's a 'given'.
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The Living Void Terror
@phaius.bsky.social
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I think they think that because they probably grew up in conservative communities that were hostile to liberals who kept quiet because they were afraid of vitriol (and these days, threats of violence). I grew up near an army base, so hearing conservative ideas and ideologies isn't foreign to me.
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Garlax, The Weasel King
@garlaxweaselking.bsky.social
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Your classic “every accusation is a confession” situation I’d say.
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Pyrholidon Enthusiast ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
@pyrholidon.bsky.social
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Many of us are even from incredibly conservative families and grew up in very conservative environments.
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Shugunou
@shugunou.bsky.social
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It's projection. Conservatives are exposed exclusively to conservative beliefs growing up which makes them conservative. That's why conservatives are so anti-education. They know educated people won't vote conservative.
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Matt Blair
@mjmbca.bsky.social
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“Maybe if liberals didn’t all live in such a bubble, then they’d understand why we need to ban all these books.”
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The Maltese Falco
@jimhenleymusic.bsky.social
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If I want to be exposed to conservative ideas I can walk around the corner to the evangelical church run by the white pastor. Meanwhile there are people in deep-red counties who couldn’t find a liberal on one tank of gas
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S.M. Allard
@heystu818.bsky.social
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Right? I'm liberal, but conservative politics ran through my father's family tree. (My mom's family were center-left Kennedy Democrats.)
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SanMarcos 🍉🍒🚤🏭 Meme thief
@sanmarcos.bsky.social
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Is whoever said that aware that in places like Alabama, Democrat means black or allies? These conservatives are saying they don't see beyond the white faces they focus on.
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Bi King Gent 👑 💖💜💙
@thesnarkygent.bsky.social
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Like many conservative Evangelicals, my parents homeschooled me explicitly so they could keep me in a bubble where they controlled the information I had and couldn't get access to alternatives to that worldview
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c______z
@boshyboo.bsky.social
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I have lived in a conservative bubble all my life it's called America
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Terence Lau
@terencelau.bsky.social
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I grew up in a fairly religious Southern California town where the main political commentary we got was Wally George on channel 56
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Noamar Garciachomsky
@kduffchicago.bsky.social
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I followed Tomi Lahren and Seth Dillon on Twitter and read Thomas Sowell. I read Fox News. My conclusions from exposure to them is not treating them as the monsters that they are will have a price paid in blood.
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Anagram Doe
@anagramdoe.bsky.social
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the liberals must be in a bubble because if they were exposed to conservative ideas they'd be conservatives already
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Joey Protons
@tankhammer.bsky.social
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I mean... every accusation seems to be some kind of confession so it tracks.
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lovesdaryl 🌹🇺🇦🇪🇺
@lovesdaryl.bsky.social
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Whoever has the gall to assert this should take my pulse and blood pressure while I am watching the news which are teeming with „conservative“ ideas being forced upon me every night.
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Richard Moon
@rmoonhill.bsky.social
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I was fed a steady stream of George Will bullshit and McLaughlin Group horseshit and Gee That William F Buckley Sure Makes Some Points goatshit my entire young life and all it did was make me way less likely to give "just a conservative" any credit for being barely humane, at all.
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Frame the Narrative
@framethenarrative.bsky.social
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Especially when the inverse is much closer to reality.
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Fabian Elfeld
@nocheinautor.bsky.social
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Indeed! In fact liberals are so drenched in conservative ideas they usually believe in them almost as badly as conservatives do.
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Vituperative Erb
@vituperativeerb.bsky.social
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You can tell none of these people went to like ASU or Ole Miss
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Jay
@ureverydayjay.bsky.social
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Funnily enough I did grow up in a bubble. An ultra conservative evangelical Christian one. Uno reverse babey, that shit radicalized me to the left so hard after I saw how they treated me and my friends and now they wonder why I don't ever want to come home for Christmas.
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Facetiously Esoteric
@facetiousone.bsky.social
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The majority of families in America have at least one relative that's MAGA, if not an entire branch or more.
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Durty Bear Seb ➡️ Folsom Sep 26-30
@sebbearva.bsky.social
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As always, they are projecting and the reality is the exact reverse. Little homeschooled or private schooled kids learning about the big wide world when they go to college and then deconstructing.
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Jade Cargill stan account 🍉🇺🇦🇺🇸
@adaytaramember.bsky.social
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Same group of people who think Minneapolis is a wasteland, NYC is in constant chaos, and the NYT is far-left
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Zach Simmons
@zjsimmons.bsky.social
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Love to be lectured about living in a "bubble" by the folks whose favorite news network had to pay 3/4 of a billion dollars for lying to their audience.
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Jacob
@aracauna.bsky.social
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I spent the majority of my life in conservative bubbles. Being exposed almost exclusively to their ideas did nothing to make me conservative. Most of it actually pushed me away.
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Tommy
@tommyg.bsky.social
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But have you simply tried to conservative harder?
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Chase Burke
@cburke.bsky.social
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Famously, no one ever moves to the city from the country.
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Timid Tanuki
@timidtanuki.bsky.social
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I grew up in a rural town in southern Indiana with a population of less than 600. Both were moderate conservatives. They both become Trump supporters and borderline QAnoners. I was exposed to PLENTY of conservative ideas. What passes for "conservative" now is insane fascist theocratic stupidity.
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🦇 Dark Raz 🦇
@raz411.bsky.social
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Not even mentioning those of us who grew up in conservative homes.
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BrassCastle MA $47/$700
@brasscastle.bsky.social
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They love to force feed kids Conservative ideas. And lead paint chips.
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Tonks Moriarty 🏳️⚧️
@tonksmoriarty.bsky.social
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I literally grew up in a household where the loudest political voice was my right wing immigrant (to the UK) antisemitic mother.
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Asher: Hopefully Springing Eternal
@asherd.bsky.social
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I used to be an insufferable high school/early college conservative (I have no idea how anybody from high school still talks to me) and my parents will *still* try to use this line of accusation against me!
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Krista Koeller
@kristalerista.bsky.social
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My conservative church in 2001: Muslims don’t value life as much as Christians do because they believe in reincarnation. Me: kbye
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