It's dark to call this uplifting. The positive version of this is that we have access to amazing medical help if we choose not to dismiss it
this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2026
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Eh, I'm taking my rays of hope where I can find them.
Less conservative voters is a positive for the planet and every living thing on it.
Come on now, that's just wrong
It's fewer
Lifting up.. to heaven..?
Knowing the type, I'd say that's highly doubtful.
Good.
It isnt natural selection if they die after they have kids
Beat me to it, take my upvote :)
respondents who identified as liberals in wave 4 but ‘became conservative’ by wave 5 (Fig. 2, second plot) were slightly less healthy than other liberals in wave 4, but they became much less healthy than liberals (and indeed other conservatives) by wave 5. Meanwhile, people who became liberal between waves were healthier in wave 4 and became, if anything, more healthy by wave 5.
Yep. Being woke makes you healthier.
I'm off to do my morning routine of using the right pronouns of a stranger for 50 reps
Something something, early to wake, healthier, wealthier, blah blah
Uplifting… 😅
Uplifting for society.
Yay, DEATH 😊
I'm gonna go ahead and ignore my hippie pacifism and instead channel my viking ancestors' joy in the demise of my enemies 😁
Death itself isn't what's being celebrated here; but the cessation of evil that comes with it in this context.
I feel pretty safe with the assumption that every single one of us would prefer that these conservatives are rehabilitated and undergo a behavior change of their own volition... but we've had a lifetime to observe directly, and generations to study, the fact that such an outcome is pure fantasy.
We've sailed right past all the less extreme options, and are left with waiting for the deaths of our abusers. The end of their abuse absolutely is uplifting, despite the grim circumstances it requires.
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The article made me feel schadenfreude and a sense of retribution. I don't think it aligns with the spirit of this community. I'd be okay with seeing it elsewhere.
I also don't agree that political views are so entrenched in people and that such extreme options are all that's left. But I get the frustration this is stemming from.
Schadenfreude is joy derived from the misfortune of others - while you may be experiencing that with OP's article (hard not to when bad things happen to bad people), that isn't the part that makes it uplifting.
It signals the possibility of a shift away from the hatred and bigotry that drives their political values. It's not the optimal route of getting us there, but again, everything else has failed.
Everyone would find at least some deaths uplifting. Hitler is the obvious example. If you agree with that then we just have to gauge where you draw that line.
Shhhh, don't say anything, just let them.
Yeah problem is they get to vote a bunch of times before they die early.
!leopardsatemyface@lemmy.world
Can't say people dying makes me feel uplifted, even if they're doing harm.
I don't want retribution or to see them hurt for the hurt theyre causing, I want a reality that isn't so bleak. Where our idea of hope is the schadenfreude of people who drank the coolaid getting themselves killed.
I hope it helps the situation. But theres no joy for me in watching even more suffering come of the present dysfunction.
Especially since they have kids, and they vote for policy and affect people other than themselves with their ignorance.
Would be really nice if they would learn, and become a better version of themselves.
They will most likely conclude libs plot to kill them. Might include doctors.
This data may make them even worse.
I hope this survives replication
People dying is uplifting? This is disgusting
People who decide to deny medical science, condemn and harass doctors and nurses, and vote to deny care to others getting what they voted for? Less health? THAT'S uplifting.
No it is not. Wishing death to anybody except war criminals and killers is disgusting
Disagree. A fascist does not need to harm anyone for me to want him dead. Only good Nazi...
it's self inflicted natural selection weeding out the exceptionally stupid.
It sad that there is too peoole denying science and die for it. Even if tou feel nothing about them. Their families who has nothing to do with their fsmily members ideology do not deserve to suffer
i do feel them.
my life is objectively hell because of them.
it would have been much more convenient if they would have decided to ignore medicine and die before voting.
this isn't an innocent group.
there's a lot of blood and suffering in their hands.
I'm not sad when people who want me without rights die
They’re suffering because MAGA is in their family. In a way won’t this end a lot of suffering?
These are the people literally voting to kill my people and wanting to hurt harm and kill me, so yes it is extremely uplifting that the evil forces are diminishing.
If it were Batman doing this we’d be cheering for him too
You so dilusional that you think every cinservatives want your people dead?
Yeah, there's multiple groups conservatives want dead, or simply to not exist. As a voting bloc, they've been very consistent with that.
As a voting bloc you Americans voted for genociding Palestinians for decades. I still do not wish death to people supporting your war criminal presidents
I'm not wishing death on anyone either tbh. I'm just not crying over people who want me dead. I wouldn't blame you for feeling similarly over Americans, we're fucking awful.
You sound confused about what you actually vote for, Nazi
I know liberal nazis too
You sound even more confused now, Nazi clown
Fuck off. I am no nazi .
Only a Nazi would say “I know liberal Nazis too” u/mrdown, that’s how I know you’re telling on yourself. I can see the red armband from here
Yes there is liberal nazis thise libersls who support zionism. So fuck off with your bullshit
OK Nazi