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Both Parties Ignore the Facts
An anonymous reader writes "Any democrat will tell you the republicans ignore the facts. Any republican will tell you the democrats ignore the facts. Turns out they're right. A new study monitored brain activity of partisans; they shun logic and use emotional processing centers to justify their candidate's contradictory statements. 'With their minds made up, brain activity ceased in the areas that deal with negative emotions such as disgust. But activity spiked in the circuits involved in reward, a response similar to what addicts experience when they get a fix.'"
But yeah, you can prove anything with facts...
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But activity spiked in the circuits involved in reward, a response similar to what addicts experience when they get a fix.
Instead of a War on Drugs, we have a War, on drugs.
> Any other Slashdotters feel that politics today is just for the highest bidders and the most convincing liars
Yes, though I don't know why you specify 'today'.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
What a fool believes, he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away.
Another study was done by a group of Republicans, and it seems that this particular study had been mistaken. Their findings were that only Democrats ignore facts, while Republicans do actually use the logic parts of their brains.
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Both parties have perverted what they had claimed to stand for.
But this maxim still does apply: The Democratic Party is the stupid party, the Republican Party is the selfish party. So if anything is bipartisan it must be both stupid and selfish.
Acknowledging when someone else is correct is good for you and good for relations.
Bullshit. You couldn't be more wrong.
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Oh, but libertarians are perfectly open-minded and don't simply hold to an ideological mantra at all. ;-)
Any program relying on (nontrivial) preemptive multithreading will be buggy.
I accept that all this is true. First I've heard of it.
Criminal's also like to avoid houses with dogs. Let's give the dogs guns!
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