HA HA take that COMMIE you’re braver than me due to your genetic superiority! ^oh ^wait
Fascism bad.
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ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 month 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
anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml 1 month 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.
jaennaet@sopuli.xyz 1 month 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”
kibiz0r@midwest.social 1 month ago
Fear is, famously, an excellent impetus for rational decision-making.
whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month 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.
bizarroland@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
j4yc33@piefed.social 1 month ago
Fun fact: Conservativism can be linked to Lead and/or Mercury exposure
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
ceenote@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Without clicking I knew who you linked to.
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Anyone who is 50+ is lead brained.
baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de [bot] 1 month 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.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month 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
SoloPhoenyx@lemmy.world 1 month ago
To be fair, they want everyone but themselves personally to suffer and die.
belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 1 month ago
Its a death cult
vivalapivo@lemmy.today 1 month ago
The fear of dying of starvation should motivate you to contribute in society ::: spoiler spoiler /s :::
deacon@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
AlexLost@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I feel your shame friend. We have so little opportunity to do the right thing, and we still fail.
Kuori@hexbear.net 1 month 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
bobo@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Still struggling with the compassion for animals that I eat.
Drop acid and watch Samsara
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 1 month ago
The best solution to that struggle is to not eat animals
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 1 month 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
vivalapivo@lemmy.today 1 month ago
that doesn’t stop me from being leftist
It’s because you’re autistic!
definitely_AI@feddit.online 1 month 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.
ameancow@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 1 month ago
About a third of the illiterates in the US just don’t speak English. They may be literate just fine in their native tongue, but that rate captures English literacy.
tdawg@lemmy.world 1 month 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)
The_v@lemmy.world 1 month ago
How can you not mention the awesome studies on bullshit.
jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/jspp/…/6565.pdf/
Conservatives fall for bullshit.
sveltecider@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I appreciate the effort but conservatives are not reading any studies.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Kinda like they refuse to admit we all came from Africa and and thus our ancestors are black.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I’d say that amygdala is regular sized, since it’s activating a fight response
zip@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
I sure hope that kid’s doing well.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 month ago
No wonder Republicans are so phobic of everything. They got overinflated amygdalas.
Derpenheim@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Excuse my, thats amygdala. Its very different from amygdala.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 month ago
Ah-meeg-doll-uh vs Uh-mig-dull-uh.
(seriously heard it pronounced the first way in so many BB videos)
drath@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Ah, the typical nazi idea of correlating random body measurements with complex behavioral and emotional patterns.
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You mean the Brit/American eugenics idea.
Hitler was a great fan of these racists he sent a dr Mengele to study the superior Nordic race at Carnegie’s American Eugenics Society.
zd9@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Conservatives are more afraid of everything, and respond in anger. How the fuck is that “better”?
Soup@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Those are “manly” emotions! But also don’t forget that we are better for running countries because we’re so calm and cool.
katkit@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
grue@lemmy.world 1 month ago
How the fuck is [being scared and angry] “better”?
Through the power of sarcasm.
Chakravanti@monero.town 1 month ago
Depends on who supplies their dope.
gray@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Amygdala’s outfits in “A Phantom Menace” were amazing
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Amidalin.
Amygdalia.
A McDonalds.
kibiz0r@midwest.social 1 month ago
A man
A plan
Amygdala
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
chaotic_ugly@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
For the curious ones, from Psychology Today:
“A larger amygdala is primarily associated with increased anxiety, heightened emotional reactivity, and stress-related disorders, often acting as a hyper-active “threat detector” Symptoms frequently include persistent fearfulness, depression, irritability, and hypervigilance, as the brain over-processes neutral stimuli as threats.”
Whoever made the original meme is an absolute moron.
DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world 1 month ago
FWIW, wp:Amygdala.
ArseAssassin@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
I’M AFRAID OF EVERYTHING LIKE A REAL MAN!
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Went to a Mediterranean restaurant for dinner with my wife. We celebrated her birthday, and so decided to check the dessert menu. We generally don’t get dessert, just never really lie thing, but this menu has a dessert called amygdalopita, which piques my interest. Why would they name it after part of the brain?
And so upon further research, we discovered that the Greek word αμύγδαλο (amýgdalo) means almond. And this really got my wheels turning, because it brought back memory of EMT classes, way back in like 2003, where they talked about the amygdala being named such due tonit being almond shaped.
So I like a dessert that not only tasted great, but also helped me make connections, maybe fire off some neurons I hadn’t in a while.
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 1 month ago
In Flemish/Dutch the toncills (Tonsillae palatinae) are called almonds
GaMEChld@lemmy.world 1 month ago
OMG they are so detached from reality that they are bragging about being terrified?
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Conservatives don’t know anything about the person they voted for. They don’t know anything about how their government functions. They don’t know anything about their Constitution.
I promise they don’t know what an amygdala is or what it does.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 month ago
conservatives have a hyerptrophied amygdala due to always constantly feeling fear.
mechakid37@retrolemmy.com 1 month ago
“Be afraid.” We have people posting “Be afraid.” with 0% irony.
What?SethTaylor@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Tiny amygdala
Big dick
culpritus@hexbear.net 1 month 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.
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 1 month 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.
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
“I’m afraid more often and that’s why I’m a terrible person!”
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 month ago
“I’m more scared than you!” Is a weird flex.
sangeteria@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
who need they amygdalussy ate
taiyang@lemmy.world 1 month 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!
copandballtorture@hexbear.net 1 month ago
Nice to see conservatives were able to rebrand the “conservatives have over-active amygdala and are scared of everything for no reason” articles
El_guapazo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The average American reads at an elementary school level, and many are functionally illiterate. Here is a case in point.
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 1 month 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.
Carl@hexbear.net 1 month 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
ComRed@hexbear.net 1 month ago
When you claim to have a strong ability to sense danger, so you join the demonic pedophile death-cult.
cogman@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
fartographer@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Just like alligators. They’re so ornery because they have all them teeth and no toothbrush
huquad@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Well looks like mama was wrong!
rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social 1 month ago
I understood that reference
BierSoggyBeard@feddit.online 1 month 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.
djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month 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.
reksas@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
we cant give in to the thinkers!
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 1 month ago
No worries, conservatives have no use for thinking anyways.