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[–] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 84 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Yes, somehow when a conservative murders (or tries to murder) someone, they're just a mentally ill lone wolf and this in no way reflects on their ideology, which coincidentally somehow manages to keep producing vastly more of these mentally ill lone wolves compared to others.

[–] Ipodjockey@lemmy.world 27 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 23 points 4 months ago

Yes, not quite sure what to make of that. Maybe conservatism needs to go to therapy?

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's almost like encouraging people to believe the nonsense you want them to believe enables them to believe any nonsense.

[–] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Well, that, and also it seems like conservatives are more likely to have dark triad or tetrad personality traits – Machiavellianism, psychopathy, narcissism and everyday sadism.

(Sources in a spoiler block so it's not a wall of text)

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In the present research (N = 675), we focus on the relationship between the dark side of human personality and political orientation and extremism, respectively, in the course of a presidential election where the two candidates represent either left-wing or right-wing political policies. Narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and everyday sadism were associated with right-wing political orientation, whereas narcissism and psychopathy were associated with political extremism. Moreover, the relationships between personality and right-wing political orientation and extremism, respectively, were relatively independent from each other.

We found eleven significant correlations between conservative [Moral Intuition Survey] judgments and the Dark Triad – [narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy,] all at significance level of p<.00001 – and no significant correlations between liberal [Moral Intuition Survey] judgments and the Dark Triad. We believe that these results raise provocative moral questions about the personality bases of moral judgments. In particular, we propose that because the Short-D3 measures three “dark and antisocial” personality traits, our results raise some prima facie worries about the moral justification of some conservative moral judgments

I ran a follow-up study testing the Dark Triad against conservative and liberal judgments on 15 additional moral issues. The new issues examined include illegal immigration, abortion, the teaching of “intelligent design” in public schools, the use of waterboarding and other “enhanced interrogation techniques” in the war on terrorism, laws defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman, and environmentalism. 1154 participants […] Twenty-two significant correlations were observed between “conservative” judgments and the Dark Triad (all of which were significant past a Bonferonni-corrected significance threshold of p = .0008), compared to seven significant correlations between Dark Triad and “liberal” judgments (only one of which was significant past p = .0008).

[–] FMT99@lemmy.world -3 points 4 months ago

Lemmy has a real problem listening to what people say and instead injecting their own narrative, and this is a great example. Where in my post am I defending conservatism or making any kind of statement as to "which side" produces more crazies? Fact is the has been the only assassination attempt in many years, despite an insanely vitriolic political environment. That goes to show even the crazies are not coming out en masse to start shooting at politicians.

I mean there was hammer guy, we can probably count him too but even so it's pretty clear these are mentally unstable individuals, not the average conservative as Lemmy would love you to believe.