Alternative take, conservatives are stupid, panicky, irrational animals lashing out in fear at anything unfamiliar or that they don’t understand
Often, but remember to punch up, not down.
They can also often be some of the kindest people as well, at least individually even if not from a societal standpoint. It’s strange to think about, I know!
They just think different - accepting argument by authority more readily than using skeptical thought to personally analyze all input. And in that sense, they share a lot more in common with liberals than the latter group is comfortable admitting… Most thinkers are liberals but the converse is not true.
Also, everything changes - this Alt Right (or whatever term has replaced it now) is nothing like the Tea Party brand of fiscal and social conservatism that it replaced, which itself was very different than the old-school conservatism, like George W. Bush was a freaking progressive, who wanted to fund education and feed the homeless (and despite the ineptness of their implementation, he did end up doing both!) (And on and on it goes, further back, e.g. Lincoln freed the slaves - what will Republicans be ten years from now, I wonder? At some point, the two sides will switch again, it’s the nature of the game.)
It’s so easy to simply blame the other side for being inept, but even if true, it does not absolve us from not accomplishing anything ourselves. e.g. abortion is now up to each state to decide, so an excellent time to pass laws protecting it in each state… before conservatives find a way to do the opposite?
Not every day you see someone flexing about being an irrational coward 😂
Watch Trump’s Iowa rally from Dec. 19 to see more.
No, I mean, they idealise their irrational fear all the time. What’s novel is going to great lengths to spell out that being afraid makes them better.
He’s fooling nobody with his half-hearted “stress” response dodge 😂
He’s fooling nobody with his half-hearted “stress” response dodge 😂
Other conservatives are eating that shit up, so at least some people are fooled…
I meant nobody who isn’t already a member of the cult, but good point.
Btw, this is very old knowledge. I posted a study about this to a political shitposting Facebook group over a decade ago to make fun of how conservatism is an irrational fear response and they basically said that the study must be wrong because everyone ELSE is the one who’s scared, not them!
Fast forward several years and they’re using the same study that was old even back then to promote themselves like some weird distortion of the “greed is good” Gordon Gekko bullshit 😂
I read the abstract of the referenced article, this entire image is Conservative nonsense. The study did not find that liberals had an “atrophied” amygdala. It showed that conservatives have an enlarged right amygdala, due to their overpreparedness for a fear response.Meanwhile, the study found that liberal had a larger anterior cingulate cortex, which is an area of the brain commonly associated with empathy and other higher-order processes like decision-making.
The study provides support for conservatives being scared piss babies who are overly terrified of the world, whereas liberals are empathetic and make better decisions. The fact that this idiot made the entirely wrong conclusion is almost as incredible as it is sad.
That may be because OP had an agenda to push whatever the means, or simply is conservative.
BTW, anybody remembers some other studies similar to this, used to show how certain demographics were basically worse in a biological/genetic sense? Something around 1920-'30…Look, psychology in the early 20th century was an absolute mess. There’s a reason we now have stuff like ethics boards, and strict constraints on the kind of studies that can be run.
Before that psychology was pure mad science.
Thanks for going the extra mile.
It’s like reading the Muller report, or for that matter, the constitution. Pro-Tip: it helps if you don’t bother to read it at all. That way you can pretend it says whatever you want it to say! Oh yeah, the Bible too - “the worker deserves their wages; don’t be a Karen; nor a pedophile either; be not afraid and instead be kind to everyone you meet, etc.”
And in reality, it’s just the newest version of phrenology bullshit.
It seems that they only conducted the study on students?
yeah, that’s very standard. lotta universities have requirements on undergrads participating in studies. that’s why you often see them as the subjects.
It’s certainly fair to criticize, and it would be interesting to see if the study’s findings hold true for a broader population, but finding test subjects is tough. you take what you can get.
“Lefties aren’t scared enough about real world issues like what happens when boys kiss. It’s due to their diminished amygdala.”
Lefties gesture to entire planet on fire.
“Typical leftist fear mongering!”
Remember folks, it’s not conservatives’ fault they deny climate change, they’re biologically predisposed to be too afraid to handle it.
Great observation
Conservatives maybe physically diffrent, but also being physically predisposed doesn’t mean you get to harm everyone in asking for accommodation.
Imagine telling on yourself like this
Like 15 minutes in any Wal-Mart
So, conservatives are just a bunch of cowards?
Yes. That’s the whole reason for the tribalism. It’s a survival mechanism that helped our ancestors. But it’s wildly out of place in our modern world. And sadly many people’s brains are on the legacy firmware.
People’s brains are on the legacy firmware
This is going to be immediately filed into my favorite phrases corner of my brain
Yes, cowards with engorged amygdalas that make them fear everything and everyone unlike themselves.
Quite literally a fear boner.
This clown is straight up like “I’m conservative because the wowld is scawwy :-(”
So we can call conservatives cowards now?
We weren’t?
Don’t trigger them, you’ll make those snowflakes go out and buy even more guns to protect their safe space.
How can this be true? I thought my amygdala was big because I have chronic anxiety?
Reminds me of that scene in Django
The phrenology scene? Yea. This has the same energy.
I think this dude has taken one too many loads to the brain steam.
Oh, Amygdala. Oh, Amygdala. Have mercy on the poor bastards.
- Patches, 2015
So, you could say that they’re snowflakes.