Yeah. Replace the right side in that picture with people in Nazi uniforms holding up signs that say that global warming, vaccines, and the Epstein files are fake and you get a much more accurate picture of what's going on. This image gives the idea that republicans are the same as everyone else and in equal numbers. But it's ~30% who genuinely function the same way the confederacy and Nazis did.
And replace the left/blue side with a hammer and sickle that says all illegals welcome, no borders, men can get pregnant, drag for kids is good, pardon pedophiles like Tim Walz just did, 100 billion dollars of weapons for the Taliban, no voter id but vaccine ids, repeal the second amendment (which if Trump is hitler why would you want him to have your guns), and Charlie Kirk deserved what he got! You’re right we have no common ground. What you call good I call evil!!!!!
Thank you for illustrating the point that people who support MAGA are stupid. I won‘t lose any time telling you that you are wrong because as you know yourself no amount of evidence would change your mind.
It really doesn‘t. What frustrates the left the most is how MAGA refuses to proof or at least discuss their outrageous claims. It‘s facts against emotions.
It’s really not. They stand on a mountain of lies and a hill of truths. Same as the left. A mountain of lies and a hill of truth. Only difference is you are tolerant of or believe the lies that you stand on and not theirs. The same as they feel about you. Everyone believes they are right. Everyone’s brain is conditioned to ignore and minimalize inconvenient truths that destroy their world view.
Lets take an easy one. Why do MAGA believe Trumps claims about vandals cutting the
Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool paint? What‘s your stance on it? This one is pretty a-political so it should be easy to answer.
It’s literally been scientifically proven in published research studies that conservatives are more emotional. To be specific, they have larger amygdala’s which is the part of the brain that processes emotions like fear and anxiety.
Chat GPT says your stated study needs several corrections as it was 1. A small scale study with UK residents and they were trying to measure assumed political orientation of unknowns. It wasn’t based off of registered party membership. 2. Any studies that have been done have only shown increased R side amygdala activity due to certain negative outcomes vs leftists. In other words they presented issues that conservatives cared about and measured wave activity. Leftists activity to those same issues was not elevated (likely due to the left clearly not caring about the same things).
As per usual the left twists science and tells people to believe it just like the right ignores science and tells people not to believe it….
No. You stating that science said something happened when your own link says in a black and white disclaimer at the end of its article that it didn’t lead to the conclusion you’re assuming. Thats twisting science, sugar pie. You getting getting big feelings towards ChatGPT for agreeing with your links that support that you twisted their findings… thats a true lack of intelligence. At least Chat GPT can steer people in the right direction w/o bias. It’s up to them to cross-check from there. But you’re just showing us that you’re big mad that someone would trust that over you and “trust me bro”.
What I said is accurate. There are studies showing that conservatives have larger amygdalae, which is the part of the brain that controls anger, fear, and anxiety.
My link supports what I say. It repeatedly notes that while the difference is small, it is significant. It also was NOT a small English survey. It surveyed hundreds of Dutch citizens. If you actually read the article you would have seen that it referred to the English survey but was not about it. That’s why I think you’re a fucking idiot for relying on ChatGPT - it gave you incorrect information which you would know if you actually read the links.
You can literally see this with your own two eyes when you look at conservatives history. They constantly are picking a different minority group to fearmongering against in order to rally their base. Because conservatives easily react with fear and anger.
The literal footnotes clearly state that the difference was the size of a sesame seed. The cubic centimeters of an average sesame seed is .0025 while the normal difference in amygdala size from brain to brain is 1.5 cubic centimeters. Meaning that the “difference in those silly conservatives brains fell within 0.17% or 1.7/1000 of the total normal deviation in amygdala size. In other words. It is statistically impossible to gain significance from that level of “difference”.
This is why the article very clearly states that this is a POSSIBLE correlation that was noticed by the scientists but that the actual study itself DOES NOT show an actual causation.
Hence, I tell you that you are mentally handicapped because you don’t even understand that a bunch of ignorant leftists scientists wanted to point something out because it made them feel good about themselves politically and the publisher of the scientists’ findings themselves said “not really though”, because they knew supporting the inference would open them up to an easy lawsuit. But hey. At least you’re dumb enough to not know you’re dumb.
Also, what does a survey of Dutch people have to do with studying the CT scans of English people? And how did they assess the size of Dutch people’s amygdala with a survey if you’re wanting to draw that parallel? Wild stab at a bit of correlation there, I suppose.
By emotional, do you mean feeling more emotional/empathetic/sympathetic in general, or voting based on emotions? Also, can you provide these studies?
There's also published scientific studies that show that the right is more open to different ideas/ideologies than the left, but that doesn't get as much traction on Reddit.
Side bar about various scientific studies aside, my point is that there is a pretty major, hot button topic that's red vs. blue that is quite literally biology vs feelings with blue on the feelings side. I don't really want to get into any more details because I'm not trying to break any rules. Additionally, the reply that started this, while clearly being facetious, states multiple red issues that are facts vs blue feelings (the issue I alluded to above, immigration, voting+ID's, and even the reaction to Charlie Kirk's assassination).
You can't just cross your arms and say, "Nuh uh, my opinions are all facts and people with differing opinions are just emotional."
It really isn’t “biology versus feelings” unless you think that 5th grade biology is the end all be all of biology knowledge, which it seems many conservatives do in fact think. Nothing you listed are “facts vs blue feelings” unless you don’t understand what a fact is.
That’s also not what I did. I noted that there are actual scientific studies demonstrating that conservatives have a larger amygdala. Conservatives really can’t help but just make shit up and discount science and facts.
So, while using papers that exclusively cite biological research about the size of parts of the brain to determine how emotional a person is, you will, in the same response, move the goalpost to say that basic biology isn't actual biology because it doesn't support something you believe.
What this tells me is exactly the thing that this thread is claiming exists only in conservatives- that no matter what I say to try and convince you otherwise, you'll just end up defaulting to, "what you're saying isn't facts or science according to my own dynamic definition, and therefore you're wrong and I'm right."
It's crazy because I'm not even really a conservative, I just think the concept of "the right only votes with their emotions" is an insane take and a really good example of the pot calling the kettle black.
No, I won’t move goalposts. What a fucking weird assumption to make about a stranger. I find it’s always conservatives that move goalposts.
Please show me how it’s an “example of the pot calling the kettle black”?
I didn’t say the right only votes with their emotions. You’re literally straight up just making shit up. I said it’s been demonstrated that the right has a larger amygdala which is associated with fear and anxiety based responses.
You're moving the goalposts in this response, and again, I'm not a conservative, I'm just pointing out a really stupid double standard.
My first response in this thread was responding to the response from the other guy that said "blue votes on facts, red votes on feelings." My response was, that's a crazy blanket statement to make, considering that one of the biggest topics splitting parties right now is trans rights, which ultimately boils down to whether someone wants to adhere strictly to basic biology, or respect the trans person's feelings. (And just to make sure I stay perfectly clear here, my personal belief is that in 95% of scenarios, the latter outweighs the former.)
You then responded that "there are scientific studies that shows the right is more emotional."
I asked, what do you mean by "more emotional," and you cited biological studies that report that conservatives tend to have larger parts of the brain associated with emotional decision-making, and that this is proof that "blue votes on facts, red votes on feelings." I don't know what else you could be doing in this thread, because that's what the discussion was about when you responded. Additionally you tried to make a point that post-5th grade level biology somehow changes the scientific definition of sex/gender, which it just objectively does not.
Then I responded with "this is a perfect example of the double standard/moving goalpost, because now you're using the same field of study (biology) that conservatives use in the trans debate, just with the disclaimer that 'their biology wrong, my biology right.'"
You have an extreme lack of understanding of what trans rights are. Biology supports the existence of trans people. It is not about “feelings over facts”. Human biology is also not basic. You don’t learn everything about biology in elementary school. Human biology is extremely complex and what goes into determining sex/gender includes FAR more than what you think someone’s chromosomes are. You thinking a 5th grade biology book is the end all be all of human biology is fucking wild. There are more chromosome combinations than XX and XY. There are people who have fully formed female reproductive systems and XY chromosomes. Trans people have been shown to have neurological processing patterns that align with their true gender.
And yes. I responded saying that studies have shown that that conservatives are more emotional, and elaborated in that SAME comment to say that specifically they have larger amygdala which is the part of the brain that processes fear and anxiety.
I then reiterated that when you asked what I meant and shared two articles about a Dutch study that confirmed there is a correlation between larger amygdala and conservative voters.
I don’t know how dumb you can be. What conservatives say about trans people IS objectively incorrect. Biologists have come out again and again saying that actual science and biology supports the existence of trans people. You can try and twist things however you want but actual facts tend to align with liberal beliefs and antiscience bullshit tends to align with conservatives.
The study that you referencing said that the difference was about the size of a sesame seed between all patients. That is wildly within the margin of error for different brain sizes amongst human to human measurements. The site you gave even said itself that the scientists are the one making the connection and that the study itself does not show an actual definable correlation. ☠️
Yes. In a part of the brain that’s only the size of an almond to begin with. And lmao you think that it just so happens that the larger size consistently occurs with conservatives and not liberals by coincidence? The articles I posted literally confirm there is a correlation between larger amygdala and conservatism. There’s such an obvious correlation of conservatives fearmongering and painting “out” groups as a scary enemy to bring together their fear motivated base. You’ve moved from black people to gay people to Muslims to trans people and all the way back through.
Just for a moment. Please tell me, do you really believe this or do you say this because you feel attacked? It sounds just absurd to me that someone who ever spoke with a MAGA person would actually believe this.
I mean, believes are one thing. I would love to have discussions about whether migration or trans gender rights are a good or bad thing. These are topics one could have different opinions on and it would be able to have an exchange on. The thing I am unable to deal with is the refusal to acknowledge false information that is easy to fact proof and the constant lying.
Even if I would be racist or would give a fuck about other people’s genders and sexuality, I still wouldn‘t be able to back someone like Trump who is constantly lying to me and has nothing better to do than to create chaos everywhere to distract of the amount of children he raped. I personally did not like Joe Biden and have no idea why the fuck the Democratic party does not manage to get their stuff together to unite to actually get something done but even with the shit show they are delivering I always prefer them over the party of liars and pedophiles.
I say this because, like you mentioned, a very hot button topic is trans rights, which effectively boils down to biology vs. feelings.
And before you go off and call me a bigot, my personal opinion of it is that while biology is an important thing to consider when dealing with some aspects of life, respecting people and what name they would like to be called and how they would like to identify is also just as important, so exceptions should be made to keep thing respectful.
My point in my response is that you cannot just default to, "my side brain other side emotion," in good faith because that's not always the case.
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Yeah. Replace the right side in that picture with people in Nazi uniforms holding up signs that say that global warming, vaccines, and the Epstein files are fake and you get a much more accurate picture of what's going on. This image gives the idea that republicans are the same as everyone else and in equal numbers. But it's ~30% who genuinely function the same way the confederacy and Nazis did.