Poor emotional regulation. Poor long term planning. Disregarding facts for emotions.

Conservatives would hate it so it’s probably a good idea

It kind of makes sense if you consider right wing beliefs to be driven by fear. The world is scary, so drive a big “safe” car. Other people riding bikes challenges this world view, because if they’re brave enough to ride a bike and I’m not then I’m not the best, and that’s just not true. So bikes and bikers are bad. They’re bad because they make me feel bad.

Amazing, but it’s rude to call people you don’t like a “dummy”. Oh, it was like a mannequin? That’s far less good news.

Sometimes.

There’s also digressive victimhood. That’s where someone in a dominant group is accused of wrongdoing, and they claim victimhood on some other axis.

When dominant groups are accused of discrimination against non-dominant groups, they often seek to portray themselves as the victims of discrimination instead. Sometimes, however, members of dominant groups counter accusations of discrimination by invoking victimhood on a new dimension of harm, changing the topic being discussed. Across three studies (N = 3081), we examine two examples of this digressive victimhood – Christian Americans responding to accusations of homophobia by claiming threatened religious liberty, and White Americans responding to accusations of racism by claiming threatened free speech.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103121001360

Wait, what’s the difference between a Nazi and a conservative? That’s a change in degree not in kind.

This was a good post. I suspect “vibe coders” won’t want to read all of it, sadly.