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[โ€“] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The older phrase used to be "You become more right wing when you get older", whereas it's quite likely it was missing the specific cause, which was "You become more right wing when you stop learning". [Edit] Typo

[โ€“] luke@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

That's an interesting thought actually. Makes sense