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[-] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 330 points 2 months ago
[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 111 points 2 months ago

Is this.. tilted slightly?

Am I leaning?

[-] lseif@sopuli.xyz 86 points 2 months ago
[-] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 24 points 2 months ago

Mine curves to the left

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[-] puntyyoke@lemmy.world 134 points 2 months ago

A few folks have mentioned that these charts

  1. conflate liberal/conservative with the dominant left/right parties in these nations
  2. does not include people who do not identify with one of those dominant parties
  3. have some somewhat unreliable stats magic behind them

A lot of young men in the US are reporting themselves as "not a Democrat or Republican", and that's causing a lot of this proportional shift. I would bet that characterizes a lot of folks on this site who are not conservative.

https://www.vox.com/politics/2024/3/13/24098780/politics-gender-divide-generation-z-youth-men-women

https://www.allendowney.com/blog/2024/01/28/is-the-ideology-gap-growing/

[-] krashmo@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago

Exactly. I would be almost as upset with being classified as a liberal or a Democrat as I would be a conservative.

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

At the same time I know many people (my brother included) that claim to be "independent" because they think that the trump camp is somehow outside the conservative camp, and therefore respond "independent" on polls. Because they think "I'm not democrat or conservative, I just want to drain the swamp" and then support trump, who is literally a swamp.

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[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 2 months ago

On the flip side, in Europe extreme right parties are mostly being propped up by young men, while in other age groups men and women vote relatively similarly, which supports this finding.

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[-] sebsch@discuss.tchncs.de 125 points 2 months ago

The opposite to conservative is progressive, not liberal

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 49 points 2 months ago

Especially in Europe where liberal is more typically used for economically liberal.

[-] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

Which tend to be conservative socially.

[-] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

Yes. Liberal is the opposite of "moralist" and sometimes "oppressive".

The US use of the word "liberal" is a bit shifted in the direction of "libertine" (same as libertarian, but strongly focused on personal freedoms of substance abuse and sexual promiscuity at the expense of economical\political freedoms to own catgirl slaves and shoot up crowds).

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[-] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 78 points 2 months ago

When I think of all the women & girls in my life that I care about, I remember that I could never be a conservative. It would be a betrayal.

Assuming this is accurate, I'm pleased to see men in the UK bucking the trend.

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[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 71 points 2 months ago

As women gain independence, frightened men turn to patriarchal solutions. Hence a turd like JD Vance spouting hateful and controlling rhetoric on podcasts and Ahole Tate brainwashing adolescent boys. Fuck these people.

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[-] davel@lemmy.ml 48 points 2 months ago

🌳 Die? No. We lost them, and now we cannot find them.

[-] Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world 34 points 2 months ago

Now I hear Treebeard whining about modern females and how none of them want to be Entwives for alpha Ents

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[-] Surp@lemmy.world 40 points 2 months ago

Another Lemmy post with no source in the main post.

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[-] menemen@lemmy.ml 37 points 2 months ago

Difficult to assess this info without knowing how the data was created.

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[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 36 points 2 months ago

What the fuck South Korea? Also you just know that sudden rise in liberal men in the UK is the Tories' doing.

[-] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 52 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

SK is wild right now. Women are taking part in the 4B movement (no dating, sex, childbirth, or marriage. The Korean words start with "B"). There was a online feminist group that got people so heated they thought they were sneaking hand signals into "male" media and they were getting people fired. If certain characters didn't come out with risqué enough clothing, male netizens would blame some secret feminist in the company. Women are assaulted if they're confused for a feminist due to just their hairstyle. A book ("Kim Jiyoung 1989" I think) that is, like, baby's first feminist literature, can have your spouse leave you. Men say you can't date a woman whose read it. All the book is about is the subtle sexism women face. They have an epidemic of "molka," which are secret cameras in women's bathrooms among other places. Women tell each other to bring nail polish to paint over the screws to protect themselves. Their new president is looking to abolish the gender equality ministry and blames feminism for the low birth rate.

TL;DR: Yeah, it's pretty bad over there right now.

Edit: Here's a two part video that goes over this surprisingly well for being about gacha games. Part 1 and Part 2.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 24 points 2 months ago

Holy fuck. There are legitimately third world countries better than this what the fuck.

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[-] Fidel_Cashflow@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 months ago

oh yeah, South Korea has gone off the rails recently. lots of news stories about men assaulting women for the assumption that they're feminists, anti-woman politicians being elected, women losing their jobs for being (or assumed to be) feminists, it's all Very Not Good.

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[-] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 33 points 2 months ago

Conservative being down is a good presentation choice.

[-] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

From a personal point of view, I agree, but playing devil's advocate, really the chart should be flipped so that the left/rightness is shown that way and the dates are on the vertical axis.

It'd also be good if the time periods matched, and if there was a source for the data.

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[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's weird that the axes of where "centre" is remain stable over time. Can you imagine comparing "left vs right" between the 1890s and the 1920s? Like a bunch of stuff happened in between, history happened, and that tends to redefine left, right and centre.

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[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago

So probably -

When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression

Men want the days back when they were more in charge and didn’t have to worry about consequences so much.

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[-] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The important thing here is to know how did they measure young people's political ideologies. I wouldn't expect it was self-perceived as currently, people have a hard time admitting they are conservative compared to admitting they sympathize with a conservative party.

If it was determined by a questionnaire, it would be interesting to see what questions were included. Maybe the questions weren't well planned and that's it. Maybe they equalled feminist takes to ~~progressive~~ liberal ones, which is something that can be discussed. In this case, I would be picky about the origin of the graphics.

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[-] Don_alForno@feddit.org 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The gap sounds plausible, but I highly doubt the overall positions relative to 0.

E.g., the Federal Republic of Germany has had conservative chancellors for 51 years out of the 75 since it was founded. We did not have a constant left majority (I assume that is what they mean by liberal, since the actual sense of the term doesn't make sense as an opposite to "conservative").

Edit: I fucked up, this is only about people below 30.

[-] 5C5C5C@programming.dev 21 points 2 months ago

These graphs only cover the demographic of 18-29 year olds, which historically do lean heavily towards progressive.

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[-] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

I genuinely fear for future for women across the world

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[-] Wahots@pawb.social 20 points 2 months ago

What's the source? I wanna learn about the weird unexpected drops in some countries.

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[-] earlgrey0@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 months ago

Huh, that explains the 4B movement in S. Korea.

[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 19 points 2 months ago

In my city, there's a Korean community and from my friend who is a teacher, those girls who left Korea hate Korean dudes and want to hook up with Americans.

I don't understand anything about Korean culture or k-pop.

But after reading about 4B, this is starting to make sense.

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[-] LowleeKun@feddit.org 19 points 2 months ago

Ohh wait, this is actually good for my dating chances. Gotta find the good in the bad...

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