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.
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
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.
Still struggling with the compassion for animals that I eat.
Drop acid and watch Samsara
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)
Conservatives are more afraid of everything, and respond in anger. How the fuck is that “better”?
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.
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.
Edit that was for something else lol
POV:
You just aggravated someone with an ‘undersized’ amygdala.
Weird flex but ok
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.
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.
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.
reread Chicken Little
If those people could read, they’d be … less upset, I guess.
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
So conservatives are lizard people ?
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.
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
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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?
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.
