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      Fortunately for those of us who don’t have a background in psychology: the folks who are experts tend to publish their findings!

      https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3092984/

      Highlights:

      Political liberalism and conservatism were correlated with brain structure

      Liberalism was associated with the gray matter volume of anterior cingulate cortex

      Conservatism was associated with increased right amygdala size

      So what do those parts do…

      Anterior cingulate cortex: error detection, anticipation of tasks, attention, motivation, and modulation of emotional responses

      Amygdala: formation and storage of memories associated with emotional events / emotional learning; fear conditioning.

      …so, yeah conservatives are literally, physiologically hypersensitive to fear, and more prone to acting on emotion. WHO’DA THUNK?!?

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      It’s a good thing that I was able to read articles that professional psychologists wrote on the subject. But go ahead, be angry.

      • Then how about

        1. You link them when asked about your sources (or actually just link them when making such a Statement)
        2. You don’t present it as your own Opinion

        And yes, I am angry. Angry about all these self-proclaimed Experts these days who think they know everything and know more than Experts who studied this Subject for years.

        All those People who are Climatechange Experts but couldn’t even really tell you, what the Ozone-Layer exactly is.

        Or all those People who proclaim a Genocide in Gaza, but couldn’t even tell you where or how a Genocide is defined.

        If you’re not qualified, you’re allowed to just not say anything and not spew disinformation.

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          This is common knowledge. Your ignorance is not my responsibility. You could easily have looked it up yourself but decided to project your ignorance on us instead.

          Your anger is yours, it has nothing to do with reality. It is something you should deal with through therapy, not by going on tirades against random people on Lemmy simply because you don’t have the experience and education to understand the things that they are talking about. We do not deserve to suffer your insecurity.

          Every single example you gave has a great deal of evidence behind it. You do not like that, and this causes you pain. This is all about you.

          Also references to Mao are probably not going to help you here.

          • I don’t even know where to start

            You made an imaginary picture of me based off of two comments. Then you used that nonexistent, imaginary version of me to make up your opinon and write this Comment in which you call me “ignorant”, “insecure”, “inexperienced”, “uneducated”, and just all-round talk me down.

            So do you now understand why i didn’t believe you?

            Your Comment here is nothing more that baseless Slander and i have no Reason to assume you did any more “Research” for your previous Comment than you did for this one.

            As such i do not see the Point in continuing this Conversation with you and will stop here.

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              This is so tedious that I am going to go ahead and block you. Take your fake outrage and go somewhere else.

      • I’ve fucking had it with unqualified people talking about stuff they don’t know anything about. If you don’t know anything about a Topic, you’re allowed to not say anything without spewing misinformation.

        I mean, there’s a Reason i don’t give my Opinion on Climatechange. Because i know that i am not qualified to talk about it. I know from personal experience how much university teaches you and how much you miss if you didn’t study that Subject, so i’m not giving my Opinion on a topic i didn’t study. And i expect others to do the same.