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Darwin would have called this “thinning the herd.”

Ironic Star Wars meme.exe

very concerning news

We cant let them win. Someone give me three bags of cocaine. Stat.

You would think the race to the urns hasn't yet properly started, yet here we go

Well the average conservative is 50 years old, and the average liberal is 35 years old (in the USA). That alone can explain a higher death rate.

I don't want to be that guy but... that's just because Conservatives skew older. And they've been skewing older for generations.

The right wing propaganda machine is geared towards insulting young people and pandering to old people. Consequently, independents and unaligned voters and squishy liberals skew conservative as they get older.

But we had this dynamic under Bush. We had it under Reagan. We had it under Nixon. You need to run all the way back to FDR to find an elder plurality for the liberal party. And that was only because of Dixiecrat southerners trading on progressive economics to sustain their apartheid social order.

Bigotry skews older. 70s feminists become 90s Girl Bosses become 10s TERFs. Millennial rainbow techbros become Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. Your parents go insane from Fox News playing in the background for twenty years.