I know a guy who used to be a conservative, until he went to college.

He also told me he still reads Fox News, but with a critical eye, and so he can easily counter things his conservative friends (and family) tell him.

I remember him telling me that, and occasionally look at Fox News to see how they see things.

Here's an interesting one full of scary buzzwords like "Socialism" and "Communists".

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/far-left-network-helped-put-alex-pretti-harms-way-made-him-martyr

I know a guy who used to be a conservative, until he went to college. It wasn't "woke professors" that change him to a liberal, it was being in an actual city instead of the small town he grew up in.

Meeting more diverse people made him realize he was fed lies about others while growing up.

So yeah, if you ever wondered why the right wants to shut down education and universities, that's one reason.

He also told me he still reads Fox News, but with a critical eye, and so he can easily counter things his conservative friends (and family) tell him.

I remember him telling me that, and occasionally look at Fox News to see how they see things.

Here's an interesting one full of scary buzzwords like "Socialism" and "Communists".

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/far-left-network-helped-put-alex-pretti-harms-way-made-him-martyr

We also learn that an Airtable spreadsheet is "a sophisticated tracking database" used by "far left agitators"...

I know a guy who used to be a conservative, until he went to college. It wasn't "woke professors" that change him to a liberal, it was being in an actual city instead of the small town he grew up in.

Meeting more diverse people made him realize he was fed lies about others while growing up.

So yeah, if you ever wondered why the right wants to shut down education and universities, that's one reason.

@rasterweb a "MAGA for Mamdani" supporter was interviewed for this episode, from #MorePerfectUnion, and he said his awakening to the values of socialism was a visit to Japan, and needing to get healthcare while there, and discovering how well it worked for him, the human who needed healthcare and got it.

https://youtu.be/ICroxl2r1B8

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime."

- #MarkTwain, The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It

@morgan I saw that video last week! It makes you confused but also hopeful?

I remember back in November AOC doing a livestream and finding out people voted for her but also voted for Trump... One guy said "You both stand up for people and say what you think!" and, uh, well...

@rasterweb I feel like an extreme outlier on mastodon. grew up in a suburban religious household and went to college at big state school. My roommates told me I wasn't conservative. My Dad in his final years liked Trump, and was a bit of an us vs them, good vs bad person.

I don't think my views have changed much. Liberals don't know what conservatives hear and vs versa. I tried listening to conservative media, but they are so low brow, wow the amount of divisiveness! I had to move to podcasts.

I know a guy who used to be a conservative, until he went to college. It wasn't "woke professors" that change him to a liberal, it was being in an actual city instead of the small town he grew up in.

Meeting more diverse people made him realize he was fed lies about others while growing up.

So yeah, if you ever wondered why the right wants to shut down education and universities, that's one reason.

@rasterweb I guess I'm a communist Marxist socialist because I'm on my local "encrypted" ICE Signal group, carry a whistle and know how to use a spreadsheet.

OK then... That's a weird way to redefine words... But fine.

@rasterweb I feel like an extreme outlier on mastodon. grew up in a suburban religious household and went to college at big state school. My roommates told me I wasn't conservative. My Dad in his final years liked Trump, and was a bit of an us vs them, good vs bad person.

I don't think my views have changed much. Liberals don't know what conservatives hear and vs versa. I tried listening to conservative media, but they are so low brow, wow the amount of divisiveness! I had to move to podcasts.

@rasterweb a "MAGA for Mamdani" supporter was interviewed for this episode, from #MorePerfectUnion, and he said his awakening to the values of socialism was a visit to Japan, and needing to get healthcare while there, and discovering how well it worked for him, the human who needed healthcare and got it.

https://youtu.be/ICroxl2r1B8

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime."

- #MarkTwain, The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It

@morgan @rasterweb

Nothing is ever "real" to them until it is personal. See also "the only moral abortion is my abortion"

@poleguy @rasterweb

Disagree, liberals do indeed know what conservatives hear and what they say.