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Brain Differences In Liberals and Conservatives
i_like_spam writes "Scientists from NYU and UCLA report in Nature Neuroscience that the brains of Democrats and Republicans process information differently. This new study finds that the differences are apparent even when the brain processes common information, not just political topics. From the study, liberals were more likely to be accurate and showed more brain activity in the region associated with analyzing conflicts. A researcher not affiliated with the study stated, liberals 'could be expected to more readily accept new social, scientific or religious ideas.' Moreover, 'the results could explain why President Bush demonstrated a single-minded commitment to the Iraq war and why some people perceived Sen. John F. Kerry... as a flip-flopper.'"
You know, its funny, but liberals are only open minded to their own ideas, just as much as conservatives are, and there's not a damn bit of difference between the two on that score.
It's just that liberals are more likely to be religious fruitcakes when it comes to their own "religion" of PC whereas conservatives are more likely to be cheating on theirs. Whose more screwed up in the head, the enviro-liberal who really does recycle the potato skins into blankets for baby, or a conservative that says fags suck and then, ya find out that he's a fag that does.
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So, this study explains why Bush did not understand why this argument is wrong.
All terrorist are Muslim.
All Iraqi's are Muslim
Therefore, all Iraqis are terrorists
Now, I chose to leave out little bits like Sunni or Shia, some Iraqis are Christian, yadda yadda yadda. I didn't want to overload the brains of conservatives that read Slashdot.
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The central thrust of the test is that if you flash a bunch of M's and the occasional W, the conservatives blow off the W and the liberals don't. But, in the real world, ignoring the occasional W is the right thing to do most of the time, as it was for the test. There was no consequence for ignoring the W. While most liberals just parrotted the M or W, and called themselves smart, conservatives thought it through and realized that the M was the signficant part of the test, it was most efficient to ignore the W, and got through it.
Honestly, the test proves what we conservatives know all along: liberals are good at getting tripped up and make themselves feel smart by parroting useless things, but conservatives can assess the value of knowledge and "get er done!"
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If liberals are able to process "new religious ideas" so much easier, how come they hate Christians so much?
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* having sexual relations, and just mislaying a cigar.
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"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
...asking Philip Morris to do a study on the health effects of smoking.
Seriously, there is a major academic freedom crisis on campuses across the country. If you aren't a 100% Marxist, they laugh at you, ruin you, humiliate you, and censor your work. I've been there. I know.
Yes, there are plenty of sheepish conservatives. There are plenty of sheepish liberals, too. Remember the MTV sheep and "B.J." Clinton in the 1990s? I'm sure there are plenty of conservatives who feel that wars for spreading democracy are justified. Despite the fact the Bush and his cronies are the furthest thing from "conservative" since FDR.
Personally, I'm an anarcho-capitalist, meaning that I want to hold the government accountable by allowing multiple competing governments. I'm conservative in that I favor smaller government and traditional Judeo-Christian values, yet I am liberal in that I favor radical political change and allowing people to make their own decisions about their lives and their values. Am I a sheep, or am I open to new ideas? Or am I just my own person?
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...aaaand then he made a mockery of the office, slept around on his wife, made an international joke of the word "cigar," and completely ignored the growing threat of terrorism leading up to 9/11.
And that's not even getting into the stuff he's suspected of doing.
Keep in mind I voted for him twice, because for a little while I was willing to overlook his obvious lack of morals because he was "doing a good job." 'course, I was young and stupid (as proven mathematically by Church's Law of 'Yer a God-damned Idiot') and did things I now regret.
Now, do us all a favor, stop drinkin' the Kool-aid, try actually looking at the issues instead of swallowing the party-line whole, and DON'T talk about issues you haven't got the faintest clue about, or you're just acting like the Lefty-mirror of all the Right-wing morons that embarras the hell out of our nation.
Also, do try actually LIVING IN A DICTATORIAL MONARCHY before you call Pres. Bush "King George" again. You might figure out that you haven't got a god-damned clue what you're talking about. (see preceding paragraph for what not to do about things you haven't got a god-damned clue about)
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