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@SocDoneLeft

Sep 13, 2021 • 11 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X

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A thread of some interesting studies about the effects of religiosity on political & personal behavior:

Many studies have correlated religiosity and social conservatism. Here are a few:

A simple one: Just 4% of atheists voted for Donald Trump in 2016: baylor.edu/baylorreligion…

This correlation between religiosity and economical & social rightism holds across nearly the entire world:

Gaskins 2013: religiosity correlates with conservatism (on left-right self-placement, divorce, euthanasia, abortion, suicide, and homosexuality): sci-hub.st/10.1017/S00223…

Cingranelli 2019: in 1981-2015, higher religiosity (how often attend religious services) correlates with worse women's rights (right to vote, run for office, proportion offices held by women) and worse protections for female domestic violence victims: muse.jhu.edu/article/730069/

Cingranelli 2019 also find that religiosity correlates with authoritarianism -- lower respect for human rights (free assembly & association, free & fair elections, free speech): sci-hub.st/10.1353/hrq.20…

Why is this? Religiosity appears to correlate with more-conservative mentalities:

Hannover 2018: among German adolescents, religiosity correlates with sexism, fundamentalism, right-wing authoritarianism, and social dominance orientation: sci-hub.st/10.3389/fpsyg.…

Religion also seems to justify the status quo -- "divine right" or "opiate of the masses"

Shepherd 2016: among the religious who believe the USA is in decline, belief that God has a plan for the USA increases support for existing political systems: sci-hub.st/10.1111/pops.1…

The common cause for these traits may be that religious people think more "intuitively" (fast, unsystematic) while less religious people think more "analytically" (slow, systematic): Zuckerman 2013: sci-hub.st/10.1177/108886…>

This greater reliance on analytic thinking may explain atheists overrepresentation in higher ed.

In 2009:
~4% of US residents are atheists
~40% of US scientists are atheists (~10x higher)
~70% of US philosophers are atheists (~20x)
pewforum.org/2009/11/05/sci…
psychologytoday.com/blog/logical-t…

This fact may have large effects on religion and scientific performance: Stoet 2017 found that more-religious countries have significantly worse scientific education performance; this effect is partially explained by HDI levels: sci-hub.st/10.1016/j.inte…

Religion certainly provides comfort and wholeness to many people. However, I believe the evidence shows that higher religiosity also brings social & economic conservatism, worse scientific performance, and weaker models of thought.

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May 17

This shit drives me up the wall:

Both anti-electoral leftists AND anti-leftist contrarians like Wu ignore that progressives in blue states have created public health insurance options!

2 already have them (WA CO) and 4 passed laws authorizing them (NV ME MN NM).

https://x.com/SocDoneLeft/status/1709988963933372774

Progressives and leftists didn't "stop thinking about universal healthcare" -- in half a dozen states, we took the first step toward UHC in half a century!

Come on, man!

https://x.com/SocDoneLeft/status/1709988963933372774

The 3 earlier plans are neoliberal: Public-funded but private-run.

They are mild successes. They reduced the real cost of health insurance. They haven't come CLOSE to universal healthcare.

The 3 new plans are slated to be bigger, public-run, and integrated with Medicaid:

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@SocDoneLeft

May 2

New article: 🧵

I am pleased to release a working version of my "Members of Leftist Organizations, 1848-2024" dataset.

It tells a story of the multiple rises & falls of the organized American left, spanning from social democrats to anarchists:

This is the first time such data has ever been compiled.

That's because the topic is messy and enormous. The data spans 176 years and ~250 notable organizations, using 2600 estimates from 1100 sources.

How messy? Here's what the data looks like without the 170 smallest orgs:

If you'd like to play with the data yourself, you're in luck.

You can use this interactive graph to plot just about anything you'd like.

Example: Want to focus on one or two groups? Easy as pie: socdoneleft.shinyapps.io/MemLeftOrg/

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@SocDoneLeft

Apr 3

it's actually absurd that "Democrats don't pursue power, don't want to win, and don't have political beliefs" has somehow become Mainstream Leftist Thought

like, this idea just dissolves on contact with reality 🧵

This idea often comes up around abortion

"It's all political theater, Democrats just use abortion to win, so they will never protect it"

If true, why have literally all Dem-run states actively expanded reproductive rights?

Are people just unaware of this fact? 🧵

This idea often comes up around trans rights

"Democrats just scaremonger about trans rights to win, they don't actually care"

If true, why have 2/3 of Dem states legally enshrined gender-affirming healthcare (and a dozen other rights)?

Are people just unaware of this fact? 🧵

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@SocDoneLeft

Dec 7, 2023

tankies are *already* calling Guyana a US puppet state that is "provoking" Venezuelan invasion

the "98%" figure is completely false -- currently, Guyana gets 50% of the profits and 2% of the revenue from the offshore drilling firms

Guyana is an extremely poor country with little leverage against megacorporations -- but it should fight for a better deal, as Brazil did!

last fun note here: the China National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC), which is a state-owned enterprise, has a 25% stake in the productive oil field (Stabroek).

I'm glad that Exxon, Hess, and Xi Jinping can all work together to puppeteer Guyana! 🥰

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@SocDoneLeft

Dec 3, 2023

James Somerton has outright deleted his Patreon

prior to deletion, James earned about $170,000 per year from 4,050 fans

Less than an hour after the Hbomberguy video dropped, Somerton took a defensive tone:

Somerton posted that he was "shocked" to "come under target from a significantly larger creator".

Somerton also claimed that "nothing new" was "brought up in the video".

Presumably after actually watching the video, Somerton posted a short apology with no details.

Somerton said he would prepare an "extensive response", but needed time to prepare.

This is fair. Even James would need several hours to change the words to "Toxic Gossip Train".

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@SocDoneLeft

Nov 9, 2023

very cool that people on here will push blatant lies to 2.4 million people, get corrected, and completely ignore that pushback

This is frustrating for 2 reasons:

1st, the truth is very easy to find.

Haaretz maintains a list of the Israeli dead, 1149 long.
- 775 were civilians (67%)
- 374 were soldiers or cops (33%)

Indiscriminate killings of civilians, as in Re'im, is always a war crime.

2nd, pro-Palestinian pundits have no need to lie.

The truth is horrible.

Israel killed 10,500 & injured 26,000 Palestinians.

1.5 million displaced. 45% of housing units damaged.

No electricity. Nearly no water. Gazans drink 1/2 a liter per day. A dozen days of food left.

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