Not every day you see someone flexing about being an irrational coward 😂
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?
Imagine telling on yourself like this
So we can call conservatives cowards now?
“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.
Conservatives maybe physically diffrent, but also being physically predisposed doesn’t mean you get to harm everyone in asking for accommodation.
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 liberals 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.
And in reality, it’s just the newest version of phrenology bullshit.
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.”
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.
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.
Oh, Amygdala. Oh, Amygdala. Have mercy on the poor bastards.
- Patches, 2015
I think this dude has taken one too many loads to the brain steam.
Brain steam is where you buy video games for your brain.
So, conservatives are just a bunch of cowards?
Yes, cowards with engorged amygdalas that make them fear everything and everyone unlike themselves.
Quite literally a fear boner.
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.
So, you could say that they’re snowflakes.
How can this be true? I thought my amygdala was big because I have chronic anxiety?
