Fascism bad.

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• cogman@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So, the amygdala doesn’t just impact fear response, it also does anger, anxiety, and stress. An overactive amygdala negatively impacts your ability to think clearly.

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  • fartographer@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Just like alligators. They’re so ornery because they have all them teeth and no toothbrush

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    • huquad@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Well looks like mama was wrong!

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    • rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I understood that reference

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  • BierSoggyBeard@feddit.online ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Which should mean that it would be implicated in conservative thought processes, being as they are so fear-and-anger-driven in everything they do.

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    • djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      it’s a bit of a “chicken and egg” problem, but yes studies show that conservatives typically have an overactive amygdala. now, is it overactive because they’re conservative, or are they conservative because it’s overactive? hard to say.

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  • reksas@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    we cant give in to the thinkers!

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  • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No worries, conservatives have no use for thinking anyways.

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• definitely_AI@feddit.online ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The better educated you are, the more left leaning you tend to be: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2016/04/26/a-wider-ideological-gap-between-more-and-less-educated-adults/

  Conservatives tend to be dismissive of science and empirical evidence: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/07/160713172717.htm

  Higher verbal IQ correlates with liberal attitudes: https://www.psypost.org/verbal-iq-predicts-political-participation-and-liberal-attitudes-twice-as-strongly-as-performance-iq/

  Whatever this dumb shit is, is a reaction to that. As usual, they project their own shortcomings on their enemies.

  In any case, what it comes down to is basic empathy and morality. If you care for others, you tend to vote left. If you care for only yourself and your self-interests, you vote right. There is no debating that, it’s stated right there in the fucking ideology.

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  • The_v@lemmy.world ⁨55⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    How can you not mention the awesome studies on bullshit.

    jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/jspp/…/6565.pdf/

    Conservatives fall for bullshit.

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  • ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I would also add that there is somewhere between 21% - 25% of the American population is functionally illiterate. This means that people can read short messages, texts and headlines if they focus, but are basically incapable of comprehending and internalizing written material more abstract or complicated than a meme or tweet.

    The far-right MAGA conservatives who are ride-or-die with Trump no matter what happens also seem to line up pretty close to this percentage. I don’t think anyone has done a direct study of a connection or even correlation, but I would put money on the bet that the Venn diagram is a perfect circle.

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    • tdawg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      I’m not saying that that number is wrong per se but it would be better to see a curve based on age brackets

      If for instance 25% of adults are over 90 then it wouldn’t be surprising if they couldn’t read properly. (Not saying that that’s true, just as an example)

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• ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  HA HA take that COMMIE you’re braver than me due to your genetic superiority! ^oh ^wait

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  • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I didn’t have fascists scientifically proving that they’re cowards on my 2026 bingo card.

    It’s still just as funny as the flat Earthers that keep accidentally proving that the Earth is round

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    • anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s still just as funny as the flat Earthers that keep accidentally proving that the Earth is round

      Which is itself extra funny because I believe they both knew this and measured its circumference in ancient Egypt using two faraway towers, if I’m remembering that episode of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos correctly.

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    • jaennaet@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s still just as funny as the flat Earthers that keep accidentally proving that the Earth is round

      And somehow they never go “oh shit, maybe I should reevaluate my beliefs based on the evidence” – instead it’s “well the evidence must be wrong”

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• mechakid37@retrolemmy.com ⁨58⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  “Be afraid.” We have people posting “Be afraid.” with 0% irony.
  What?

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• baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de [bot] ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m autistic and have an oversized amygdala but that doesn’t stop me from being leftist. I just feel compassion for everyone human. Still struggling with the compassion for animals that I eat.

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    ironically i fear the SHIT out of right wingers, because they seem to actively want me to suffer before i die, for the crime of not being able to have a job

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    • SoloPhoenyx@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      To be fair, they want everyone but themselves personally to suffer and die.

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    • belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Its a death cult

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    • vivalapivo@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The fear of dying of starvation should motivate you to contribute in society ::: spoiler spoiler /s :::

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  • deacon@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Veganism is my unattended moral compromise. I am positive that future generations will look at us and our factory farming and, aghast, see us as the monsters as we are - much like we look back at slaveowners, even those who were against the institution at the time.

    Since I am not living in or near the wild and not hunting for my own food, it is clear to me that veganism is the only real moral choice, and yet I still participate.

    I am complicit in this delightful supreme pizza and complicit in this breaded chicken sandwich.

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    • AlexLost@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Factory farming is the problem, not animal husbandry. If the whole world went vegan, do you think the vegetables we eat would not be altered to better serve yield rather than quality? Do you think pesticides would not be used in staggering levels? Do you think vegetables aren’t alive so it’s okay to eat them? If it doesn’t have a face, it’s cool to eat? Life is sustained by consuming other life, the world over. I agree that industrial farming is disgusting and cruel, but not just to animals.

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    • yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I feel your shame friend. We have so little opportunity to do the right thing, and we still fail.

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  • Kuori@hexbear.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Still struggling with the compassion for animals that I eat

    not trying to preach but in my experience the only thing that soothes your conscience once you’re to this point is to go vegan

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  • bobo@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Still struggling with the compassion for animals that I eat.

    Drop acid and watch Samsara

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  • vivalapivo@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    that doesn’t stop me from being leftist

    It’s because you’re autistic!

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  • some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I feel bad for the forks and spoons in the drawer which didn’t get used that day… My amygdala must be an absolute fuckin’ HOG

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• kibiz0r@midwest.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Fear is, famously, an excellent impetus for rational decision-making.

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  • whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Fear and rage force you to use unreliable heuristics instead of critical thinking and analysis resulting in poorer choices, it’s why so much propaganda relies on triggering those emotional states.

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    • bizarroland@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’ve been saying this forever, but, like, these people really need to go back and reread Chicken Little. They’re getting Fox News, getting scared, and reacting based off of what Fox is telling them, and not what the Chicken Little’s are telling them.

      The sky is not falling.

      Take a deep breath, calm the fuck down, and chill. Everything’s okay. As long as we stop freaking out.

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• j4yc33@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Fun fact: Conservativism can be linked to Lead and/or Mercury exposure

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  • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Image

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  • ceenote@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Or brain damage

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    • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Without clicking I knew who you linked to.

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  • PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Anyone who is 50+ is lead brained.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No wonder Republicans are so phobic of everything. They got overinflated amygdalas.

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  • Derpenheim@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Excuse my, thats amygdala. Its very different from amygdala.

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ah-meeg-doll-uh vs Uh-mig-dull-uh.

      (seriously heard it pronounced the first way in so many BB videos)

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• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  POV:

  You just aggravated someone with an ‘undersized’ amygdala.

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  • DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’d say that amygdala is regular sized, since it’s activating a fight response

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• zd9@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Conservatives are more afraid of everything, and respond in anger. How the fuck is that “better”?

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  • Soup@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Those are “manly” emotions! But also don’t forget that we are better for running countries because we’re so calm and cool.

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  • katkit@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    One could frame this as “Leftists are more naive and reckless, while Conservatives are cautious”. I wouldn’t, but I can see someone make that argument.

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    How the fuck is [being scared and angry] “better”?

    Through the power of sarcasm.

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  • Chakravanti@monero.town ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Depends on who supplies their dope.

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• gray@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Amygdala’s outfits in “A Phantom Menace” were amazing

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  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Amidalin.

    Amygdalia.

    A McDonalds.

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    • kibiz0r@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      A man

      A plan

      Amygdala

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• sangeteria@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  who need they amygdalussy ate

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• SethTaylor@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Tiny amygdala

  Big dick

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• greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Got no idea about the size of my amygdala, but I’m really good at being anxious and depressed. Small but mighty I guess

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• El_guapazo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The average American reads at an elementary school level, and many are functionally illiterate. Here is a case in point.

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• micnd90@hexbear.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Leftist: No fear

  Right wing chud: ONE (1) fear

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• ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Kazakhstan has superior amygdala. All other countries have inferior amygdala

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• Wilco@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I am guilty of thinking about the same thing when it comes to “Conservatives”. I catch myself wondering if they are actually human or if they are all mentally retarded due to lead poisoning.

  Around 40,000 to 50,000 years ago we had other species of humans running around with us, like Neanderthals and over a dozen other species if you go back further. These would have seemed like aliens to our ancestors. What if Conservatives are a slightly different version of human.

  The lead poisoning thing actually makes sense for the Baby Boomer generationand Generation X. We used leaded gasoline during their lifetimes. These people could all be mentally deficient … and we are letting them run the world when they should be in a mental hospital somewhere.**

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  • thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Honestly is more surprising any human is relatively rational. We are animals after all. I’m starting to realize thinking deeply about anything might be the exception not the rule. Most people are idiots

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    • ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s really hard to like people the more you see of their behavior and “intelligence”

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  • Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We have social media instead of lead poisoning now. Youtube tries to pull me into the alt-right pipeline bimonthly now.

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    • ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      for a second I read that as “bismuthly”

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  • vivalapivo@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Same human species, different traumas. Conservatives have daddy issues, while we have mommy issues

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    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      what if I don’t have either?

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• infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I credit an intense compassion for animals and resulting veganism to my autism.

  Just wanted to put that in the thread without making it a direct response to anyone. Sometimes it can be incredibly alienating and disconcerting to encounter people online who say they can’t be vegan because they’re autistic. It’s a very diverse spectrum with a multitude of manifestations, and I’d like to go on record as proof that it swings toward the positive and not just the negative.

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  • Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Same :)

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• culpritus@hexbear.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m afraid of urban density, diversity, genders and social progress. That makes me superior.

  Fear is the mind killer. Long live the fighters.

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• ComRed@hexbear.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  When you claim to have a strong ability to sense danger, so you join the demonic pedophile death-cult.

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• copandballtorture@hexbear.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Nice to see conservatives were able to rebrand the “conservatives have over-active amygdala and are scared of everything for no reason” articles

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• unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Stay close to the tree line. Learn to identify plants with poisonous oils. Stockpile the leaves that are like paper. If you must run a fire, use clean burning fuels, to avoid disclosing location. Dig a deep hole and build a privacy wall out of poisonous vines.

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  • SparroHawc@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It may have been for something else, but it’s weirdly applicable here…

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• Carl@hexbear.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  the brain is plastic, so it seems far more likely to me that being in conservative circles causes the amygdala to enlarge than the opposite

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• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Isn’t right-wing views correlate with cognitive decline?

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  • 4am@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There were actually some studies that showed either an over-active amygdala causing anxiety or and under-developed rest of the brain couldn’t cope with the output of the amygdala or something to that effect; and that made people experiencing it more susceptible to conservatism.

    So it’s like another dimension of the autism spectrum, except you’re just scared as shit of everything everyone tells you. Better believe in the same God as everyone around you, just in case.

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    • definitely_AI@feddit.online ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The level of dumb necessary to state what’s said in OP’s meme is just staggering and emblematic of the right- misunderstand everything and boil it down to the most basic YES vs NO proposition possible, then blame everyone else.

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• taiyang@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Since we’re sharing fun facts, conservatism and authoritarianism is unsurprisingly correlated with high levels of obedience in things like the Milgrim shock experiment replications. Something akin to 90% compared to the original 60% (which was already quite high since they only had white men at the time).

  They’re also more likely to choose selfish options in things like the prisoners dilemma, too!

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    (Edit, if you wanna read more there’s an open source textbook I use: opentextbc.ca/socialpsychology/ )

    Let me guess: illegal in Florida?

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    • taiyang@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Good question, but it’s technically not sociology so… maybe not? Oh wait no, psychologists also acknowledge racism as existing so probably illegal.

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• ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve seen some interesting discussion of this linked to the idea of survive/thrive strategies. Is the world a dangerous place that calls for avoiding risks and protecting what you have, or is it full of opportunities and calls for exploring and being open to novelty? Neither inclination is fundamentally wrong. But I’m not sure how to reconcile that with modern “rightists” who want to burn down the system and aren’t conservative in the lowercase-C sense.

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• SoloPhoenyx@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m suspicious of damn near everyone and am still somehow liberal.

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• Manjushri@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Having enlarged and/or over active amygdalas would go a long way to explaining a lot of traits expressed by conservatives. That includes their fear of going to going to the grocery store without a gun on their hip.

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• ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Let’s just say I get scared real easy.

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