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[Cherry @Cherry25685]

You are capable of more than you realize.

[Cherry @Cherry25685]

Let's play Brain Test!

[Cherry @Cherry25685]

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[Willyston Riellander @nylanderthews]

Arguably the first sign this Leafs season was headed off the rails was when MLSE fired Brendan Shanahan, didn't replace him, making Keith Pelley the de facto team President

With no hockey mind above Brad Treliving, the rest unfolded

That needs to change

https://t.co/CGUQFQPHwQ

[Cherry @Cherry25685]

@Dustiguminsky You are schizophrenic and need professional help

[Cherry @Cherry25685]

@MarkReid42 Why would I listen to anything Stephen Fucking Harper said?

[Cherry @Cherry25685]

@TristinHopper Holy shit you're stupid

[Cherry @Cherry25685]

@MichelleRempel You don't understand that temporary can sometimes lead to permanent?

[Cherry @Cherry25685]

Sean cannot understand a scientific study so he massively editorializes. You can read the actual study for yourself here https://t.co/13pnTMWkaa

[Sean Speer @Sean_Speer]

Who’s to blame for political polarization? 

A new scholarly paper offers a corrective to one of the most common assumptions about modern politics.

For years, we’ve been told that rising polarization in advanced democracies is primarily the product of conservative radicalization. Conservatives have abandoned the centre for the far Right and, in so doing, pulled the political system with them. Yet this fresh empirical research tells a different story.

Using a novel method based on k-means clustering—a statistical technique that groups people according to their actual policy positions rather than their partisan self-identification—researchers have measured issue polarization in a way that avoids the usual assumptions about ideological labels. Instead of asking whether people call themselves liberal or conservative, it looks at where they actually stand on a wide range of issues.

The findings are striking. In the United States, since 1988, the widening gap between Left and Right has been overwhelmingly driven by movement on the Left. Progressive clusters have shifted markedly leftward, while the Right has remained comparatively stable. The polarization we observe today, in other words, is less the story of conservatives sprinting outward and more one of progressives steadily shifting the goalposts.

For many conservatives, this will feel intuitive. Over the past decade in particular, parts of the Left have embraced increasingly maximalist positions on culture, identity, and social norms. Concepts once confined to academic seminars migrated into corporate HR departments, school curricula, and public institutions. Language, standards, and expectations shifted quickly.

Still, the findings will surprise those who’ve absorbed the conventional narrative that polarization is chiefly a conservative phenomenon. That it’s the Right which wages cultural war while the Left merely reacts. The data complicate that story.

None of this absolves conservatives of excesses or rhetorical overreach. Politics is rarely a one-sided affair. But it does challenge the reflexive assumption that instability and division originate primarily on one side of the ideological divide.

The more interesting question is what comes next. There’s a growing debate about whether we’ve reached “peak woke”—that is to say, whether progressives are quietly stepping back from some of the sharper edges of identity politics that defined the past half decade. In Canada, Prime Minister Mark Carney appears far less preoccupied with these themes than his predecessor, Justin Trudeau.

It’s too early to know whether this represents a durable shift or merely a pause. But if the Left moderates even modestly, the net effect could be a gradual easing of polarization and perhaps, over time, a return to something closer to political normalcy.

[Cherry @Cherry25685]

@DarrylWavepoint @Sean_Speer I suspect he's referring to this https://t.co/13pnTMWkaa. But he is badly misreading the study. Nothing he says is suggested by the results.

[Cherry @Cherry25685]

@Sean_Speer You are either editorializing in a dishonest way, or you are unable to understand scientific research. I suspect both are true

[Cherry @Cherry25685]

@Sean_Speer "Still, the findings will surprise those who’ve absorbed the conventional narrative that polarization is chiefly a conservative phenomenon. That it’s the Right which wages cultural war while the Left merely reacts. The data complicate that story." The study does not suggest this

[Cherry @Cherry25685]

Watching all these conservating dipshits losing their minds over the half time show being in Spanish is so delicious. Cry more, dumbfucks

[Cherry @Cherry25685]

@adamzivo Which lesbians are facing pressure to "suck girl dick" Adam? What moral panic have you cooked up in that empty head of yours?

[Cherry @Cherry25685]

@adamzivo Based on what? You really are fucking dense