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Thanks for posting this link. I don't have time to watch all of it right now but hopefully I'll get back to it. I watched about 5 minutes. I think I've heard this before but I like how she presented it. I don't have any trouble believing what she's saying because it agrees with what I've observed during my life.
One thing I would add is that conservatives also tend to be religious and of course Christianity is a fear based religion (fear of death) so that would go along with having a fear based brain.
I wonder if the fear based brain is the cause of conservatives being to intensely tribalistic.
These are the same people who will never have a military big enough to make them feel safe. They're the same people who can't own enough firearms to make themselves feel safe. They're afraid of anybody who doesn't look like they do.
They're completely ruled by fear.
When you get right down to the truth of it, they're just a bunch of terrified cowards.
Christianity is not a fear based religion. The fear of death does not factor into my beliefs.
Maybe you lean too much on your own understanding. Who are you to lump such a large and diverse group of people together and call them terrified cowards? Do you not know that everything you are saying could just as easily be turned around on the accuser?
There is good reason to stand firm on the 2nd amendment, and it has very little to do with actually even putting it into practice. To give up our right to bear arms is to consent to slavery. That is the way the constitution is written. It is reasonable to be suspicious of those who want to do away with the right to bear arms. It is unreasonable to go on as if there is no good reason for standing firm on the 2nd amendment.
Believe me, the people you are making fun of for being cowardly are making fun of you for the same thing. Don't kid yourself.
There is no religion more fear based than Christianity. Well, maybe the Muslims are tied with the Christians in that department. Christianity promises 'life everlasting'. What a crock.
You really need those AR-15's with bump stocks don't you? You know, just in case you want to shoot a deer someday? And of course you'll need a hundred thousand rounds of amo cause you're not a very good shot.
The 2nd amendment was written by men who lived in the era of the musket. They could have never imagined that someday a single man could hold in his hands the destructive power of a thousand soldiers of their day. Since the 2nd amendment was written for the musket, you should be allowed to own all the muzzle loading muskets that you can carry, PROVIDED that you belong to a WELL REGULATED MILITIA, just as the 2nd amendment says.
I see your alt right avatar. I think of the alt right as morons living in an ALTernate reality.
A well regulated militia is not a well trained militia. A well regulated militia is one that is held accountable to the people.
You don't understand the intent of the 2nd amendment, you understand what the people who want to enslave the populace want you to understand about the 2nd amendment.
You are not talking to me, you are talking to some prejudice you have in your head.
What is Alt-Right? Some cointelpro type operation that I don't care about. No one else does either.
You know, if you are going to say that I am living in an alternate reality, I would like to point out that you are clearly also living in an alternate reality from my own. What does that have to do with anything?
So hey, if you want to lump groups of people together because it makes it easier to be a prejudice asshole, GO AHEAD. I'm telling you, it would be more conducive to diplomacy if you were to engage me as an individual who is on equal footing and worthy of respectful debate rather than some caricature of of some prejudice you have in your head.
Thank you for your contribution to sanity Rusticus, everything you have observed about conservatives aligns perfectly with my observations. Conservatism in and of itself is like unto an archaic primitive fear cult, afraid of the oogabooga sky dwelling moth-weasel-goat-osterich-monkey god of "globalism" that the orange toad sage shaman Trump warned them of. In order to save them from the wrath of the evil moth weasel goat monkey osterich cross breed in the sky we must isolate ourselves and emit as much carbon as possible. The carbon emissions are the food of the angry sky weasel god, that's how we present offerings by releasing CO2 into the sky.
For years, right wingers have been banging their heads against the wall over liberal politics. We now know that banging your head against the wall causes brain damage.
What I get from it is that conservatives can perceive threats, and liberals cannot. Well that pretty well tells us that without conservative brains, the species would have died out in prehistoric times. Libs would have thought the T-rex was multicultural, that they were in their safe space, and they would have gotten eaten. From prehistoric conservatives to you...You're welcome.
And from the liberal perspective, if I am conservative because of my biology, you can't condemn me for said biology any more than you can condemn a gay man for his biology. We simply, biologically cannot help what we self identify as.
What I get from it is that conservatives can perceive threats
What you mean is that Conservatives either invent, exaggerate or deliberately provoke threats in order to justify their aggressive foreign policies and perpetual need for war. Conservatives have sensationalised one threat after another without a break since the early 1960s.
Most U.S. Presidents in the modern era were liberals. Libs dropped atomic bombs. Libs bombed Libya. Libs bombed Syria. Libs created ISIS. Libs allowed Kim Jong Un and Iran to get or attempt to get nukes. Congratulations.
Liberalism/Barack Obama most certainly created the void that ISIS filled.
Egypt and Turkey accused him of conspiracy with terrorists, and now we know that he gave $3 billion in cash to Iran (a terrorist state), and we also now know that he actually blocked law enforcement from going after Hezbollah.
Liberals created ISIS by creating a power vacuum in the middle east and giving weapons to jihadists in the 1980s. That's how they created both Al Qaeda and ISIS.
What I get from it is that conservatives can percieve threats, and liberals cannot.
Wrong, it means liberals are capable of processing information and conservatives are afraid of changing their worldview.
Libs would have thought the T-rex was good and gotten eaten.
The brontoraptor only demonizes the T-rex so the humans will trust it, then it eats the humans. See? Liberals can be paranoid too. This is why you are conspiracy theorists, you fall for the same lies by different politicians, you fell for Trumped up trickle down as Hillary so sexily deemed it (I love her) and you just refuse to live in 2018, stuck in your "traditionalism" I mean just look at you, you are literally a dinosaur, that's how stuck in the past you are.
Your bigotry is the biological manifestation of choosing not to use your brain. This is similar to the physically observable changes in brain structure which usually surface behaviourally and ideologically in the form of "cognitive dissonance" when someone is a narrow minded simpleton. This can be either due to natural stupidity or from intellectual laziness. It can ALSO be because you are trying to psychologically justify your racism and homophobia.
Of course we both also know that if libs could process information better, they'd make more money than us and not be loaded with student debt that they can never repay.
There wouldn't be so much student debt if Bernie Sanders was president you jack ass! If we had a super liberal government it would be free. You are a pseudo intellectual bigot, it's you conservatives that keep everyone in debt with your inflationary economics!
And technically, for all you know, all conservatives are, are libs who used their ability to process information, be open minded, etc to switch to being conservatives
I watched the left stop being liberal. Suddenly religion was the problem, just not Islam.
You should be able to say anything turned into replacing "offensive" words with "less offensive words" and actually using violence to shut up anyone with opposing views. Feminism was real and to be taken seriously. Then hijabs and burkas were excused as "forms of liberation". There is no rhyme or reason to the left anymore. If you stand against conservatism but defend Islam, which is ultra conservatism, you actually cease to stand for anything. I didn't change. Liberalism did.
You can't condemn one group for its beliefs and acts and then ignore the same or more extreme beliefs and acts from another group and expect to be taken seriously. It's selective bigotry, which is the worst, and most vile form of bigotry there is. When liberals condemn conservatives for condemning Islam, they are condemning conservatives for condemning the far right, which is an oxymoron on steroids. By doing this, libs are condemning the right for condemning the exact same thing they, liberals, are codemning: a form of conservatism. Islam isn't liberal. It's all the things the right is attacked for only more so. Homophobic, anti feminism, and religious. Islam in reality should be viewed by the left as if it was an extreme, fundamentalist, ultra far right version of Christianity.
I also got into the world and realized the liberal version of how things "should be" wasn't real. It's a fairytale for children. I grew up and went out and made some money and a life for myself.
So just because liberals don't want people using derogatory words, fringe minorities of alt left people sometimes get violent (even though conservatives do it much more often) and liberals don't blame all muslims for the actions of ones that are actually terrorists, you decided the left wasn't liberal and became a Trump supporter? Many Muslims are liberal, it's the fundamentalists who are conservatives. When you point fingers at Islam and talk about pedophilia and terrorism and rape it's the conservative fundamentalists you are ironically pointing to, not the liberal moderate muslims. Christians are much the same way, many accept science and are liberal, the fundamentalist conservative ones are the ones you have to watch out for.
I also got into the world and realized the liberal version of how things "should be" wasn't real. It's a fairytale for children.
Maybe it would be real by now if people weren't stupid enough to keep voting for conservatives!
So just because liberals don't want people using derogatory words
So which version of "derogatory" do we go with? Calling 61,000,000 people "deplorable? If I can outlaw one word, I can outlaw you from saying anything.
That's just a monstrosious blanket statement. deplorable is not the same as words like nigger and faggot because those words are words of hate speech and discrimination.
deplorable is not the same as words like nigger and faggot
It's semantics and unpolice-able. Are you going to convict them when they call themselves and each other those very words, and how will you decide who is black enough or gay enough to use those words legally? And if someone just decides to claim to be gay or part black, how can you stop them from using the words without stopping all blacks and gays from using the words? It's insanity.
I never said I wanted to ban those words, stop misrepresenting my position. I'm only saying it's a lot more reasonable than banning a word like deplorable. I believe individuals should have free speech, but institutions and corporations should not be able to misrepresent science to sell a product or push an agenda, institutions should not have free speech but individuals should. Don't twist my words and play conservative mental games, what I mean here is that when individuals are representing an institution, agenda or a product they should not be able to deliberately produce false evidence for their claims.
Maybe it would be real by now if people weren't stupid enough to keep voting for conservatives!
It isn't real. It would take trillions to school 350,000,000 Americans for "free". That's more than our entire GDP. And taxes would go through the roof.
Libs want utopia, but the thing neccessary for anything even resembling this "utopia" can only come about per an omnipotent government. I don't trust the elites with that kind of power. Nor should you. They keep hoarding now. They won't change because you politely expect them to give you a fair ration. When globalist elites say "equality" they mean you. Not them. They don't plan on participating in this "equality". They don't plan on sharing in the "equal sharing of misery". They plan on ruling it.
We are only in so much debt because of conservative policies, Trumps tax cuts are unsustainable, we won't be able to pay for shit. We will go further into debt. The more conservatism we have, the further away a "utopia" will be.
To create this "utopia" we need the opposite of an omnipotent government, we need to end the type of hoarding that you refer to using democratic policies you have rejected. It is the very ass hats of shite like Trump and George Bush that you conservatives vote for that allow the bankers and the wall street big wigs and the corporations to keep hoarding.
There wouldn't be so much student debt if Bernie Sanders was president you jack ass!
Bernie Sanders isn't President, so knowingly racking up student debt to get a useless degree in liberal arts isn't very smart.
If we had a super liberal government it would be free.
Nothing is free. With our national debt there is zero way to cover that kind of cost. Taking money out of your pocket and handing it to someone else isn't "free".
You are a pseudo intellectual bigot
Libs on this site hate Christians. You hate conservatives for their ideas. And you don't condemn Muslims for ultra conservative views, which is bigotry by definition.
it's you conservatives that keep everyone in debt with your inflationary economics
I'm not in debt because I make smart choices. Obama put us $20 trillion in debt. I had nothing to do with it.
Bernie Sanders isn't President, so knowingly racking up student debt isn't very smart.
Going to college is smart, voting for student debt is not smart.
Nothing is free.
Everything is free until humans put a price on it.
With our national debt there is zero way to cover that kind of cost.
It's the banksters debt, not "ours" we should make them pay it off instead of letting them put it on us!
Taking money out of your pocket and handing it to someone else isn't "free".
It's free for the person who doesn't have to pay and who wouldn't be able to afford a good education if we didn't raise the taxes on fat greedy rich people.
Libs on this site hate Christians. You hate conservatives for their ideas. And you don't condemn Muslims for ultra conservative views, which is bigotry by definition.
OMG you conservatives bash muslimns all the time as if they are all in ISIS. Christianity and Islam are both just stupid religions to me, but I don't think anyone should be told they are evil because of their beliefs unless they actually are evil like conservatism. Islam is not inherently evil, I was a muslim before I became an atheist.
I make smart choices.
You didn't make a smart choices when you voted for a KKK member.
Arno, I like you. You are full of common sense and get right to the point. This site is so full of trolls, liars, narcissists and Nazis that it's refreshing to read your posts.
Thanks Nom, I looked at your waterfall and some of the debates you engaged in. I can really see what you mean, you have had to deal with some major doozies, especially with that "DarthSidious" character. That guy belongs in a mental asylum.
Fell for it? We watched it work in practice during the 80s. We allready know it works and are watching it work now.
as Hillary so sexily deemed it (I love her)
The Haitian people don't. Wonder why?
and you just refuse to live in 2018, stuck in your "traditionalism" I mean just look at you, you are literally a dinosaur
Traditionalism that created the richest nation in the history of the planet. To change it to something that is a proven failure is insane.
that's how stuck in the past you are.
Better he is stuck in the past than stuck in Never Never Land. If you looked to the past, you'd see multiculturism has destroyed every empire in human history, including the Roman empire.
I'm not a lib con. I'm free to admit reality. And reality is, I can count the Nazis in this country on my hands and feet, but would sure stay the hell away from them if I met them. The reality is, blacks statistically commit way more crime, yet not most black people commit crime. I know it's hard for libs to grasp that you can untribalize for a minute and analyze facts that may make you uncomfortable or go against the media's propaganda.
