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Theoretically, a person who aligns with terrible things that are promoted by terrible people in positions of power are terrible. Sure. Why do we believe this truck owning person is conservative? Because they are "protesting" electric vehicles? Because they seem uneducated or proudly ignorant?
So if we associate a stupid person with "deduct a point from conversatives" without any basis for knowing they are conservative, are we educating ourselves about conservatives or are we making a reality that is comfy and understandable because we ourselves are stupid?
That's about it, yes.
Seeing them use a giant pickup truck to ruin the day of electric car owners simply for the sake of pissing them off and asserting their dominance is a pretty good basis for knowing they're conservative. The first time I encounter an asshole pickup driver who hates electric cars and loves to spoil the day of anyone who drives one, yet who embraces left-wing politics, I will change my mind about the "right wing" stereotype. Until then, it has a pretty solid hit rate.
Well good luck finding such an instance when people's identities are predetermined by your internet feed.
Your refusal to admit reality must be so endearing among your friends.
It's just that people are inherently bad at making statistical guesses. I don't have any assumptions about this hypothetical person, other than I disagree with blocking charging stations.
And I'm not sure what value is realized with circlejerk hatred, for you or for anyone else. I would argue that it's a waste of time. Everything we choose to spend our time on accumulates and makes us who we are. It scares me to become a bitter devisive old man because of imaginary rage bait that trains me to associate hatred with a group of people.
You keep on making excuses, but you keep ignoring that there is only one political party that's in a tizzy about gas stoves and stating that rolling coal is a form of free speech.
You can make all the excuses you want... but your chosen political views* show that you hate the reputation that they have spent the last 22 years reinforcing.
*a hit dog hollars
What are my political views? I don't know any conservatives that hold either of those opinions. What percent of conservatives do you think roll coal? How many people who roll coal are political versus apolitical? Just curious.
I don't know what you mean by that saying.