Oh man, I wish you had actually read the article and seen how they already factored that in, because nothing you wrote is relevant to the actual study referenced here.

But this is the internet, where you don’t have to read a thing in order to mansplain that thing back to everyone else.

The salient point you missed: This is a study of ONE GROUP OF PEOPLE OVER TIME.

"We find that conservative Americans in this cohort, who were about as healthy as liberals in the early 2010s, experienced worsening health through the 2010s and higher mortality in the early 2020s. Roughly half of this new health gap is due to people changing their ideology over time, with new entrants to the conservative coalition being less healthy than new liberals. But another sizeable share is due to people who were already liberal or conservative diverging more in health over time. Changes in the socio-economics of the liberal and conservative coalitions—including education, income and insurance status—contribute to both processes.

"By the 2020s, conservatives were dying at significantly higher rates than liberals, with the gap concentrated in internal causes (for example, heart disease, cancer and stroke). The divide since 2020 is substantial: while only 0.2% of ‘very liberal’ respondents died of internal causes between 2020 and 2022, the probability for people who identified as ‘very conservative’ was 1.14 percentage points higher (P = 0.021; 95% confidence interval (CI), (0.18, 2.11)).

“This gap is not limited to deaths from COVID-19 and is not reducible to demographic or geographic differences between the groups, nor is it a pure function of ageing: previous cohorts’ death patterns in older data did not show a similar correlation between health and ideology before 2010.”

Next time, read the fucking article first.

I know a lot of people shit on it, but I loved Season 2 as well. They should have cut out the motorcycle cop’s character and that would have left more time to really dig into the conspiracy, but it was pretty good story and really, really well cast.

Just like in real life: No one is or was talking to you.

Yes. Bunch of snarky idiots that don’t know what the fuck they’re talking about because all they know how to do is snark at each other.

No concept of listening. No concept of nuance or context. Just pure sophomoric rage toward anyone or anything that challenges anything you think.

I POST: “Maybe try electing a socialist in NYC and a more centrist candidate in Iowa, where there aren’t as many lefties to support you”

RESPONSES I GET: “You want to see homeless people burn to death in televised bum fights because you hate fucking progress”

It’s exhausting. You people are worse than Republicans because at least they’re propagandized. They’re in a cult. You have the information available to you; you’re just ignorant.

Didn’t people do the same thing when cars turned from awesome (60s/70s muscle cars) to shitty 80s cars?

Enshittification isn’t new. It’s just new to us because we weren’t there last time this song played.

Can we not?