Conservatives are scared all the time and that's good, actually.
this post was submitted on 21 Dec 2023
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Imagine admitting that you're just biologically predisposed towards fear as if that's a positive quality. "Yes I am actually a primal beast who jumps at my own shadow, like all great predators do. This means I'm the pinnacle of biology!"
Someone mentions pronouns and their threat ganglia start wriggling
NOOO SOMEONE I DON'T UNDERSTAND AHHHHH 
wow I'm so biologically superior
wasn't their whole response to COVID "I refuse to live in fear"?
And yet their response to a vaccine was "OMG SO SCARY SCARY VACCINE MIGHT GIVE ME VACCINE MIND CONTROL ZOMBIEITIS 
"
If you believe you're an 'alpha male' (or whatever Greek letter they're on now), I guess it makes sense to believe you are the pinnacle and every deviation from you is not indicative of anything negative in you, but is instead indicative of problems the 'betas' are facing
Also that tweet lmao
- Conflating leftists and liberals
- 'My brain more fearful of brown people and that's good'
- Phobic is a slur
- Misunderstanding that 'smaller' is not 'atrophied' lmao, as one indicates a comparison between two masses without bias, and the other indicates one is undersized relative to another
'most things - such as gays existing and mexicans in texas - trigger a fear or flight response in me, and that's normal actually'
i love being able to get all of the disco elysium references now. what a great game
Fellow craniometry enjoyer I see
<-- Me, giving my amygdala a workout
No space for fear when your brain is full of theory 
just a bunch of 
in those comments
Without an average size reference, it’s wrong to say whether one is too large or the other is “atrophied”. Using science as a pretext for whatever story they wanted to tell.
The answer is simply that the liberal brainworm tends to move around after it consumes neurons while the conservative brainworm likes to stay in one spot.
Without an average size reference, it’s wrong to say whether one is too large or the other is “atrophied”.
There's an old story I remember but can't find a good citation to, that discussed a medical investigation into SIDS during the early 20th century. In an effort to determine the cause of these dead infants, a series of autopsies was performed and compared against adults. One finding in the autopsy was the size of the pituitary gland, which was quite small in the adults but comparatively large in the infants. The investigators concluded that an over-large pituitary was contributing to the infant death and therefore recommended irradiating the necks of babies as a precautionary measure.
Of course, this did not decrease the rate of SIDS in the targeted population. Just the reverse.
The problem in the methodology was that the town in question had a number of large coal stacks that rained toxic soot on the population. Long exposure to this fallout was functionally irradiating the population. Furthermore, the adult corpses being studied were all industrial workers with unusually high exposure. The infants being studied had healthy glands, and the adults were the ones with a chronic condition.
The answer is simply that the liberal brainworm tends to move around after it consumes neurons while the conservative brainworm likes to stay in one spot.
I contend that its lead poisoning all the way down.
Latest conservative own of leftists: they are chads who know no fear
"And they shall know no fear"
-Famous line from that thing chuds hate
Your brain scan shows you are highly susceptible to
, so you are being sent to a special education camp for everyone's benefit.
Doing skull measurements, but inside the skull 
Pictured: The Amygdala of the common chud
A smaller amygdala means you feel your feelings more intensely, not less.
yep this is why certain substances can both simultaneously reduce anxiety but also intensify feelings (alcohol, GHB, phenibut and other GABA-B agonists)
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Mama says that leftists are ornery cause they got all them teeth and no tooth brush
Cut to the professor and it's Trotsky. "You're wrong Colonel Sanders"
A smaller amygdala genuinely sounds like something a right winger would see as an advantage.
Makes sense why cops and soldiers use the "I felt threatened" excuse, it's actually true. Those escaped captives actually did terrify the IDF guys into shitting their pampers
Believes leftism is a genetic mutation
holds views that are supportive of eugenics
Hmm...
Every right wing argument always goes back to phrenology. "The brainpan of the ham sandwich race etc."
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Oh look, race science.
You're lower than me because your skull is too smal- actually it weighs les- actually it's because your skull is longe- actually...
so their point is just that conservatives are massive pussies who get scared by their own shadows?
Trans people have different gendered brains? We must rectify this by deleting them
My brain is full of fear. The world must bend to my child brain politics
I'm gonna trans my gender to make my brain enzymes more communist, wish me luck
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This isn't the dunk on the left you think it is my dude.
Yeah no shit, "brave" is definitely a term I would use to describe the partisans facing certain death to resist fascism all the way to the gallows. Or the Red Army clinging on to Leningrad until the siege was broken. Or taking up arms against Americans with little to no formal military training in the jungles of Vietnam.
Or standing alone against 40,000 Japanese troops sniping them with iron sights and no food in the Manchurian winter
I saw this very same thing used to say the inverse a long while back.
you scared buddy boy? you terrified like a child in the dark?
“Brain science is good when it reinforces my worldview. But when it’s used for the Gay Agenda I’m obligated to harass Target workers.”
Being pants-shittingly terrified of trivial non-threats
AND SIMULTANEOUSLY
Being hyper-committed to fAcTs and LoGiC
IS NOT ALLOWED
CHOOSE, WESTERN MALE!
Stupid fearless sexy leftists
Uh... Doesn't that article spell "liberal"?
The wording implies that a small amygdala is a 'mutation' and 'atrophied', but a larger amygdala could equally as legitimately be described a 'mutation' and 'hypertrophied'.
Plus calling it the 'fear' organ is just silly, it's responsible for a million things.
Republicans: "Don't be such a pussy! Man up!"
Other republicans:
Fuck you, my fear gland is way bigger than yours. And you can't even respond to that without courageously standing up to me, thus proving my point.
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