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Quote:6ixStringJack, Republicans are hardwired to act this way (or if you want the flip side, liberals are not, because they recognize it's just a goddamn photo, not the real thing):
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Pffft...
Who needs a lab coat. The last two years in the RWED have been a prime example of liberal overreaction.
And no, I'm not at all "flabbergasted" by the predictable posts in here either.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Why in the world would your reaction to photos, not the real thing, of mutilated animals, vomit, and other unwelcome things somehow be associated with your views on transgender rights, immigration, or anything else stirring debate in the news? Researchers have theories rather than answers. At a deep, symbolic level, some speculate, disgust may be bound up with ideas about “them” versus “us,” about whom we instinctively trust and don’t trust. In short, this research may help illuminate one factor — among many — that underlies why those on the left and the right can so vehemently disagree.
There is nothing inherently political about disgust. It evolved not to guide us at the ballot box but rather, it is widely theorized, to protect us from infection. As we move about in the world, a sizable volume of research shows, our minds are constantly searching our surroundings for contaminants — moldy leftovers, garbage spilling out of trash cans, a leaky sewage pipe — and when the brain detects them, it triggers sudden feelings of revulsion. Confronted, we withdraw from the threat. The mechanism is part of what’s known as the “behavioral immune system,” and it is as vital for survival as the fight-or-flight response. Our pathogen-tracking system does its job largely beneath our conscious awareness — and pays close attention to those walking germ bags we call human beings.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/03/the-yuck-factor/580465/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Could a predilection toward revulsion indicate how we vote?
A team led by Cornell’s David Pizarro and Yoel Inbar, at the University of Toronto, set out to answer that question by conducting an online study during the 2008 U.S. presidential contest between Barack Obama and John McCain.
In the run-up to the election, the researchers assessed the contagion anxiety of 25,000 “demographically and geographically diverse” Americans and then surveyed the attitudes toward the candidates held by a random subset of the larger group. Those with the highest germ fear reported that they were more likely to vote for McCain, the Republican nominee and the more conservative candidate.
Further, the actual proportion of votes that went to John McCain in each state directly scaled with that state’s level of contagion anxiety. The researchers eventually extended studies of this kind to 121 countries and found that disgust sensitivity correlated with a conservative ethos basically everywhere there were sufficient data for analysis.
As Pizarro, Inbar, and the other authors of the study write in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science, this result suggests that disgust sensitivity “is related to conservatism across a wide variety of cultures, geographic regions and political systems.”
More at www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/03/the-yuck-factor/580465/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Some blame Trump on Russia. Second's going to take a over engineered scientific approach.
Still can't come to terms that Hillary was just that horrible.
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Quote:I'm taking the approach that makes money. The smartest people I know voted for Trump, but they did it only for a tax cut. (The dumbest people I know also voted for Trump, but they did not get the money, which went to the smart ones.)
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Some blame Trump on Russia. Second's going to take a over engineered scientific approach.
Still can't come to terms that Hillary was just that horrible.
Hillary wouldn't have been any good at the job, which takes creative thinking to get things done when a President is opposed by Republican majorities in both houses of Congress. Hillary thinks like a small town lawyer. She is not mean enough. She is not tough enough. She should have kicked Trump in the balls during one of those debates, and I do mean kick, to humiliate that loud-mouth coward.
Hillary would not have amounted to anything if she had won. She wouldn't have got any of her Federal Judges or Supreme Court nominations approved unless she picked Republicans. What kind of plans would she come up with when she needs help from people who aren't completely on her side? She is worse at that than Trump.
It would have been sad watching Hillary be a failure in the White House. Sad for me to not get my tax cut, either, but Trump was looking after my interests.
In 2027, 82.8 percent of Trump tax cuts will flow to the top 1 percent. The top quintile actually receives 107.3 percent of the tax changes — because taxes actually increase for the folks in the lowest, second-lowest and middle quintiles. It’s right there on Page 5 of the report.
www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/distributional-analysis-conferenc
e-agreement-tax-cuts-and-jobs-act/full
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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My taxes went down.
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Quote:So did my taxes, by about million times more. Do you see how Trump is my best friend? None of my other friends have ever given me a birthday gift that big. (My birthday is close to tax-filing day.)
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
My taxes went down.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=tax+filing+day
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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China is creating its own version of the Trans-Pacific Partnership without US participation, as well as expanding into sub-Saharan Africa and cutting a deal with Nicaragua for another isthmian canal.
The drift of global events may eventually require the United States to acknowledge the reality of a multipolar world. Yet Trump and his opponents in the Washington consensus still envision a unipolar world, where the United States can ignore the legitimate claims of rival nations and do pretty much whatever it wants, whether because of its sheer greatness (Trump) or its exceptional goodness (Clinton et al.). Obama was cautious about intervening in Syria and eager to negotiate with Iran, but his administration maintained or intensified commitments to global military supremacy, blanket surveillance, targeted drone assassinations, and modernization of nuclear weapons, as well as engagement in the Middle East and East Asia. Fundamental policies persisted despite Obama’s misgivings.
These policies cannot continue without potential catastrophe. And it is not be in the US’s interests for them to continue. As Bulmer-Thomas reminds us, “Imperial retreat is not the same as national decline, as many other countries can attest. Indeed, imperial retreat can strengthen the nation-state just as imperial expansion can weaken it.”
More at www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/02/07/imperial-exceptionalism/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:So did my taxes, by about million times more. Do you see how Trump is my best friend? None of my other friends have ever given me a birthday gift that big. (My birthday is close to tax-filing day.)
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
My taxes went down.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=tax+filing+day
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
So what? I'm not a whore for money.
The only reason these days I even really hope there is a god is so that your type of people get that bad Karma that you've spent a lifetime building up taking a huge chunk out of your ass on the other side.
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Every now and again I check in to see if SECOND is making more sense, or at least being more honest. I see today is not that day.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 .
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Quote:The only chunk I take out of anybody's ass is out of cows. Did you not pay attention to what business I am in? It is natural gas and cattle and only the cattle complain. I pay every human who works for me at least 50% more than they could make doing the same work anywhere else. (Come to think of it, I might be accumulated weriously bad karma with Hindoos holy cows.)
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
So what? I'm not a whore for money.
The only reason these days I even really hope there is a god is so that your type of people get that bad Karma that you've spent a lifetime building up taking a huge chunk out of your ass on the other side.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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