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America Is Backsliding Toward Its Most Polluted Era

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150 points pmags | 2 comments | 10 Apr 25 12:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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RajT88 ◴[10 Apr 25 13:12 UTC] No.43643433[source]▶
I've observed this weird cognitive dissonance with outdoorsmen, since I am quite fond of fishing.

They tend to be a pretty hardcore MAGA bunch, but also don't like pollution because it messes up their sport. When you ask them about stuff like this (how can you support someone who pretty openly wants to mess up your pastime?), they get mad or change the subject.

I get it - people are complicated and can care about many things at once. Nobody likes it when someone is seemingly poking at their belief systems. Still - you'd think it'd give them some kind of pause.

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ilrwbwrkhv ◴[10 Apr 25 13:14 UTC] No.43643451[source]▶
It's almost like people are complicated and when you are forced to choose between two parties you almost always go for the stronger male person
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AnimalMuppet ◴[10 Apr 25 13:19 UTC] No.43643496[source]▶
People are complicated and their behavior can be predicted by a single variable?
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1. fifilura ◴[10 Apr 25 13:24 UTC] No.43643542[source]▶
I thought the GP comment was interesting. The hypothesis that if the decision becomes too complicated you just give up and fallback to the strong male.

Like the reptile brain gets enabled if you loose the overview.

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2. ilrwbwrkhv ◴[10 Apr 25 16:37 UTC] No.43645622[source]▶
This is what I meant. Thanks for clarifying.