Conservatives don't know anything about the person they voted for. They don't know anything about how their government functions. They don't know anything about their Constitution.

I promise they don't know what an amygdala is or what it does.

For the curious ones, from Psychology Today:

"A larger amygdala is primarily associated with increased anxiety, heightened emotional reactivity, and stress-related disorders, often acting as a hyper-active "threat detector" Symptoms frequently include persistent fearfulness, depression, irritability, and hypervigilance, as the brain over-processes neutral stimuli as threats."

Whoever made the original meme is an absolute moron.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-athletes-way/201311/the-size-and-connectivity-the-amygdala-predicts-anxiety

So, the amygdala doesn't just impact fear response, it also does anger, anxiety, and stress. An overactive amygdala negatively impacts your ability to think clearly.

OMG they are so detached from reality that they are bragging about being terrified?

Ah, the typical nazi idea of correlating random body measurements with complex behavioral and emotional patterns.

The better educated you are, the more left leaning you tend to be:
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2016/04/26/a-wider-ideological-gap-between-more-and-less-educated-adults/

Conservatives tend to be dismissive of science and empirical evidence:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/07/160713172717.htm

Higher verbal IQ correlates with liberal attitudes:
https://www.psypost.org/verbal-iq-predicts-political-participation-and-liberal-attitudes-twice-as-strongly-as-performance-iq/

Whatever this dumb shit is, is a reaction to that. As usual, they project their own shortcomings on their enemies.

In any case, what it comes down to is basic empathy and morality. If you care for others, you tend to vote left. If you care for only yourself and your self-interests, you vote right. There is no debating that, it's stated right there in the fucking ideology.

Fun fact: Conservativism can be linked to Lead and/or Mercury exposure

I'M AFRAID OF EVERYTHING LIKE A REAL MAN!

I'm autistic and have an oversized amygdala but that doesn't stop me from being leftist. I just feel compassion for everyone human. Still struggling with the compassion for animals that I eat.

I'm a leftist and I have an anxiety disorder! Checkmate, conservatives

"I'm afraid more often and that's why I'm a terrible person!"

"I'm more scared than you!" Is a weird flex.

POV:

You just aggravated someone with an 'undersized' amygdala.

Went to a Mediterranean restaurant for dinner with my wife. We celebrated her birthday, and so decided to check the dessert menu. We generally don't get dessert, just never really lie thing, but this menu has a dessert called amygdalopita, which piques my interest. Why would they name it after part of the brain?

And so upon further research, we discovered that the Greek word αμύγδαλο (amýgdalo) means almond. And this really got my wheels turning, because it brought back memory of EMT classes, way back in like 2003, where they talked about the amygdala being named such due tonit being almond shaped.

So I like a dessert that not only tasted great, but also helped me make connections, maybe fire off some neurons I hadn't in a while.

No wonder Republicans are so phobic of everything. They got overinflated amygdalas. Amygdalas so big they look like this:

conservatives have a hyerptrophied amygdala due to always constantly feeling fear.

That would actually make a lot of sense.
And it's wild to brag about it.

Conservatives are more afraid of everything, and respond in anger. How the fuck is that "better"?

Crazy that they boast about having an overactive amygdala but deny it when people say they are acting crazy and paranoid.

Also, side note: conflation of liberal and leftist as if they're the same is kind of a pet peeve of mine. They are very much not the same thing. Those who know know.

"Be afraid." We have people posting "Be afraid." with 0% irony.
What?

Hi, I'm a coward bc I'm not a leftist isn't the flex you think it is.

Funny how conservatives aren't afraid of disease. You probably need a decent frontal lobe for that.

I got mine removed and now I'm seizing the means of production.

Tiny amygdala

Big dick

Hat3rs will h8

Sanders 2028

Ironic that right-wingers seem to be particularly enamoured of the “It’s afraid” meme then (doubly ironic that it’s from an anti-fascist parody).

The average American reads at an elementary school level, and many are functionally illiterate. Here is a case in point.

I've seen some interesting discussion of this linked to the idea of survive/thrive strategies. Is the world a dangerous place that calls for avoiding risks and protecting what you have, or is it full of opportunities and calls for exploring and being open to novelty? Neither inclination is fundamentally wrong. But I'm not sure how to reconcile that with modern "rightists" who want to burn down the system and aren't conservative in the lowercase-C sense.

Since we're sharing fun facts, conservatism and authoritarianism is unsurprisingly correlated with high levels of obedience in things like the Milgrim shock experiment replications. Something akin to 90% compared to the original 60% (which was already quite high since they only had white men at the time).

They're also more likely to choose selfish options in things like the prisoners dilemma, too!

(Edit, if you wanna read more there's an open source textbook I use: https://opentextbc.ca/socialpsychology/ )

Kazakhstan has superior amygdala. All other countries have inferior amygdala

Stay close to the tree line. Learn to identify plants with poisonous oils. Stockpile the leaves that are like paper. If you must run a fire, use clean burning fuels, to avoid disclosing location. Dig a deep hole and build a privacy wall out of poisonous vines.

Edit that was for something else lol