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Cake day: November 6th, 2023

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  • Not necessarily. If someone is genuinely socially liberal, they won’t like politicians that dehumanize minority groups. They won’t necessarily want to pay to protect them, but they’d generally be in favour of laws to protect them, etc.

    I am not fiscally conservative, but I’ve met people like this. Pro-gay marriage, pro-abortion, probably even pro-churches-paying-taxes.

    But cutting funding to education to lower taxes? Sure. Anti-public transit (unless they’re smart and know that public transit can be more efficient). Anti-international spending. Stuff like that.

    But I live in Canada, where we actually do have a “Centre-ish” party that’s generally fiscally conservative to an extent, but socially liberal. And our right-wing party isn’t quite as big on the dehumanizing aspect. Banning abortion isn’t really on the table, and banning gay marriage is generally an unpopular opinion for even the right-wing political leaders.


  • Depending on the age, they do it on purpose. Sometimes it’s because they are just figuring out social situations – doing X to person Y results in action Z.

    You can find videos of babies pretending to be stuck and crying to get attention. When “unstuck” and not given attention, they stop crying, get themselves fake-stuck again and start crying again. They want the attention and coddling that they got the last time they were legitimately stuck.

    I’m sure some babies know they’re faking it.