Gerard Saucier

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Scientific voyageur, professor (UOregon). Cultural and moral (and political/ideological) personology. Personality in high dimensionality & cross-cultural perspective. Big-picture seeker.

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Better late than never.

The best time to stop sending arms was months ago, the second best time is now. Statement from CIP EVP Matt Duss on Biden’s decision to withhold aid for Israel’s Rafah invasion.

"Kill the best and buy the rest It's just spend a buck to make a buck..."

"I have a spoiler alert: There’s nothing wrong with trying to influence an election. It’s called democracy," - Trump lawyer Todd Blanche in opening statement Listen carefully, jury. Defense uses "influence", but that is not what is being charged. The charge is "interference". #TrumpTrial

The jury is finally set in Trump's criminal trial. It wasn't easy to get here.

Trump Trial Finally Has a Jury—After a Week of Hiccupswww.thedailybeast.com The jury is finally set in Trump's criminal trial. It wasn't easy to get here.

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🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug comic - D.E.I. is weakening America, and it's got to go! - Brought to you by the diverse, equitable, and inclusive Inner Hive, including longtime member GMarkC and new member Reluctant Botanist. ( bit.ly/JoiningtheIn... ) - Read it right here👇

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put another way: in question-wording experiments where definitions of ‘liberal’ + ‘conservative’ are provided, Democrats become more conservative and Republicans more liberal (compared to standard wording w/ no definitions provided)

As symbolic ideology is operationalized, partisans become more moderate: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Self-reported political ideology | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge Corewww.cambridge.org Self-reported political ideology

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Just created a brand new twitter account to test some stuff, follow a bunch of science and gaming accounts, and before doing anything else on the platform this is who it's recommending I follow

The Gospel of Unmitigated Self-Interest x.com/Tim_Tweeted/...

We have words for those who create problems for personal gain, or to make others look bad Saboteur Underminer Agitator Profiteer Exploiter Are there political cults where these are cast as heroes? Stone, Bannon, ....., ....

"When Republicans hold Congress but not the Presidency, they do things to intentionally create problems knowing that the problems will be blamed on the Dem President" is now one of the central facts of American politics and totally asymetrical.

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#socialpsyc #PsychSciSky #polisky #Sociology Worrying, with 2024 holding so many elections. 👇 Psychopathy a consistent predictor of supporting populism in 6 European nations. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

As David French observed, "The salient characteristic of the Republican party was not ideology or integrity, let alone both. Rather, it was animosity. And nobody models animosity better than Donald Trump." More accurate to label but (R) party as "illiberal" or "antidemocratic" than conservative.

Trump threatens Nikki Haley's donors with excommunication

Jan 6: The Sequels

The year is 2044. 98-year-old Donald Trump is the Republican nominee for the 8th straight election, each of which ends with enraged supporters murdering more people in the streets. Ah, but the only solution, liberal law professor warn, is to let him do it again. slate.com/news-and-pol...

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States’ Rights is an American political philosophy that means states are allowed to be more authoritarian than the federal government, but cannot be more liberal than the federal government

The response would likely reveal sheer self-serving bias: Immunity for Me, and not for thee (and he).

I would like to see Trump asked "if presidents have immunity, how will you prosecute Biden if you win?"

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🧵How *moral* are the moral foundations? We asked this question in my (now published!) first, first-author paper: "Values in Context: The (Dis)connections Between Moral Foundations and Moral Conviction" in PSPB! (1/11)

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