Fascism bad.
(midwest.social)
fossilesque
Science MemesI'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.
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
To be fair, they want everyone but themselves personally to suffer and die.
Which is itself a form of suffering, imagine the humanity they miss out on and what you'd be without it. Liberalism and fascism are ideologies that subsist on the concept that there is an imaginary amount of violence that can be inflicted outward to relieve internal suffering.
Its a death cult
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.
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.
Trust me, the more explorations I do on the nature of consciousness, the more I wrestle with all of that.
I don’t believe that it is inherently wrong to kill in order to eat. But as a species we don’t. Which isn’t to say there aren’t members of our species who very much do still need to kill to eat.
But I don’t need to kill to eat, and I’ve outsourced that killing so it feels like more of an abstraction than it is. I can at the very least acknowledge this.
I feel your shame friend. We have so little opportunity to do the right thing, and we still fail.
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
Still struggling with the compassion for animals that I eat.
Drop acid and watch Samsara
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
fascism meanwhile has been linked to a lack of brain activity related to being a dumbass
When you claim to have a strong ability to sense danger, so you join the demonic pedophile death-cult.
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
No wonder Republicans are so phobic of everything. They got overinflated amygdalas. Amygdalas so big they look like this:
Excuse me, thats amygdala. Its very different from amygdala.
Ah-meeg-doll-uh vs Uh-mig-dull-uh.
(seriously heard it pronounced the first way in so many BB videos; like it was a person's first and last name)
I hadn't played the games myself, was just watching challenge runs and heard it the first way only until I read the name and wondered if the guy I was watching had a stroke
I'm suspicious of damn near everyone and am still somehow liberal.
Conservatives are more afraid of everything, and respond in anger. How the fuck is that "better"?
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.
Those are “manly” emotions! But also don’t forget that we are better for running countries because we’re so calm and cool.
How the fuck is [being scared and angry] "better"?
Through the power of sarcasm.
Depends on who supplies their dope.
Weird flex but ok
POV:
You just aggravated someone with an 'undersized' amygdala.
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.
Just like alligators. They're so ornery because they have all them teeth and no toothbrush
I understood that reference
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.
Nice to see conservatives were able to rebrand the "conservatives have over-active amygdala and are scared of everything for no reason" articles
Amygdala's wardrobe in "A Phantom Menace" was overactive
Amidalin.
Amygdalia.
A McDonalds.
A man
A plan
Amygdala
Fear is, famously, an excellent impetus for rational decision-making. (/s just in case)
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 to get you to stop thinking and accept the message. Less fear in decision making is a beneficial mutation.
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.
"I ain't no chicken, 'n' I gots the truck nuts t' prove it!"
Ha ha ha, Chicken Little is way above the reading level of most Conservatives.
But I saw that TV show too. They got Meth
Except everything isn't okay.... Everything is actually really, really bad. Not for me personally, as a white cis man everything is fine. But for so many people the world is a bad and dangerous place right now, and that terrifies and stresses me the fuck out.
But, and hear me out, if the people that were constantly freaking out and terrified all of the time were to chill a little bit, the world would improve dramatically, almost instantaneously.
We are in a period of time where calmness is the most vital thing for our leaders and for the people.
And if you can't make it yourself, store bought is fine.
reread Chicken Little
If those people could read, they’d be … less upset, I guess.
HA HA take that COMMIE you're braver than me due to your genetic superiority! ^oh ^wait
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
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.
Fun fact: Conservativism can be linked to Lead and/or Mercury exposure
Anyone who is 50+ is lead brained.
Or brain damage
Without clicking I knew who you linked to.
There's no better man than Fetterman~as~ ~an~ ~example~ ~of~ ~brain~ ~damage~
I'm afraid of urban density, diversity, genders and social progress. That makes me superior.
Fear is the mind killer. Long live the fighters.
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!
(Edit, if you wanna read more there's an open source textbook I use: https://opentextbc.ca/socialpsychology/ )
(Edit, if you wanna read more there's an open source textbook I use: https://opentextbc.ca/socialpsychology/ )
Let me guess: illegal in Florida?
Since as humans we essentially rule the earth, it makes a lot of sense for us to adapt to a new reality that shouldn’t need fear.
But that’s assuming we wouldn’t just spend all our time competing with each other in a negative sum game.
Isn't competition in the US just another way of fearing being a less than person? I've known healthy competitors that just compete with themselves, but it's rare.
Not sure what you mean, but yes hyper competitiveness leads to less value for human life.
My point was that it’s a negative sum game, we are all competing with each other in an unhealthy manner, in which we are all poorer collectively as a result.
And it’s not even helping evolution since merit isn’t correlated to financial success.
I'm saying that competitiveness usually also comes from fear.
My point was that it’s a negative sum game, we are all competing with each other in an unhealthy manner, in which we are all poorer collectively as a result.
100% agree
What's this "mutational load in the DNA" nonsense supposed to mean?
You know the super mutants in fallout? It’s like that
They probably intend to convey physical degeneration due to too many mutations
So conservatives are lizard people ?
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.
Let's just say I get scared real easy.
Psyop to devalue human genetic diversity in the eyes of the general public!!!
Can anyone tell me what a mutational load is though? Never heard of this before in my life
EDIT: I googled but feel free to explain for others
I gave your mom a mutational load last night
That's actually interesting, and I'd love to see the studies behind that (and then see if I can find out how my own brain is structured).
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/conservative-and-liberal-brains-might-have-some-real-differences/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11519434/
Doesn't the amygdala handle processing strong emotions rather than causing them, meaning that an underactive one would be less able to handle said strong emotions?
I have never had my amygdala scanned so I don't know where I sit.
I know I am very liberal/leftist as far as politics go, and I don't really care about the differentials of definitions of those terms. It just means that I am anti-conservative and pro freedom, and I don't care what the correct word for that is.
But, that being said, like, most of the time I'm pretty calm, but when I am not calm, it is very, very difficult for me to regulate my emotions, even as a full-grown adult.
I typically have to lock my body and everything to keep from reacting yelling and screaming and everything when I have powerful emotions.
I've gotten very good at that, but it is always painful and a struggle to not react based off of the emotions of the moment for me.
