95% percent of the time when I'm trashing "conservatives" what I really mean is "hardcore traditional social conservatives" and don't want to type all that. I simply cannot stand them or see validity in their points at all. Alternate sexualities harm absolutely _nothing_, the various races were barely allowed to even diverge at all given that the human species itself has only even existed at all for 0.002% of the age of the universe, and something about sexism has always particularly bothered me not just for moral reasons but because of how blatantly unscientific it is, and unscientific shit just bothers me.
Significant cognitive differences between sexes is virtually non-existent in the _entire_ animal kingdom, arguably exclusive to the three-spined stickleback in which case it happened for a very specific reason. In fact, it's almost weird that there _aren't_ more differences as there are sometimes wildly different body plans across sexes like in spiders, but the fact is that the shit simply doesn't really go down. Yet so many social conservatives clearly believe something as ludicrous as that cognitive differences between what's essentially type A and B of the exact same species, the smartest on the planet at that, leave one half unfit for certain roles. That's so fucking infuriatingly crazy to me.
Sadly, amongst this specific group, they _usually_ actually _are_ pretty stupid. There's no getting around it. I don't feel it gives them an out though because these are things I feel their empathy should compensate for. Even if they're stupid enough to think gays are weird or that certain races and women are slightly inferior, their empathy should cause them to still want to treat them with respect, and plenty of stupid people manage to have respect.
Fiscal conservatives and those like your dad are a completely different matter. I don't assume they're probably stupid and usually don't assume they lack empathy. I just presume I disagree with them about how to best handle certain things. Many of them are self-made millionaires and certainly not stupid. Many of them don't lack empathy at all as well. That said, there are also many of them that do very much have a "fuck other people anyway" attitude. It's a mixed bag.
I come from a conservative family of many generations (although my mom eventually shunned conservatism) and both of my parents were highly intelligent. If I really believed _all_ conservatives were tards that wouldn't be exactly great news for my own intellect from a genetic standpoint given that I came from a long ass line of them.
All this said, note that where I grew up, yes, they are all tards. The crazy flag lady is representative of the typical citizen there. It's part of what fuels my frustrations with them.
But yeah, I can't hang with shit like homophobia; that's just gayyyy.
Guys. Important side observation. Well invested intelligent financial conservatives need the aggregation of all echo chambers for actionable investment decisions. Look to London. The dry data that BBC publishes is statistical gold. And yes, moderate democrats manage the economy better in the long run. They understand that education, health, living wages for the proletariat give strength to the productive muscle that drives progress.
Okay. Enough said. Back to the controversy; I'm enjoying it.
IIN I’m finding conservatives just as whiny as liberals?
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95% percent of the time when I'm trashing "conservatives" what I really mean is "hardcore traditional social conservatives" and don't want to type all that. I simply cannot stand them or see validity in their points at all. Alternate sexualities harm absolutely _nothing_, the various races were barely allowed to even diverge at all given that the human species itself has only even existed at all for 0.002% of the age of the universe, and something about sexism has always particularly bothered me not just for moral reasons but because of how blatantly unscientific it is, and unscientific shit just bothers me.
Significant cognitive differences between sexes is virtually non-existent in the _entire_ animal kingdom, arguably exclusive to the three-spined stickleback in which case it happened for a very specific reason. In fact, it's almost weird that there _aren't_ more differences as there are sometimes wildly different body plans across sexes like in spiders, but the fact is that the shit simply doesn't really go down. Yet so many social conservatives clearly believe something as ludicrous as that cognitive differences between what's essentially type A and B of the exact same species, the smartest on the planet at that, leave one half unfit for certain roles. That's so fucking infuriatingly crazy to me.
Sadly, amongst this specific group, they _usually_ actually _are_ pretty stupid. There's no getting around it. I don't feel it gives them an out though because these are things I feel their empathy should compensate for. Even if they're stupid enough to think gays are weird or that certain races and women are slightly inferior, their empathy should cause them to still want to treat them with respect, and plenty of stupid people manage to have respect.
Fiscal conservatives and those like your dad are a completely different matter. I don't assume they're probably stupid and usually don't assume they lack empathy. I just presume I disagree with them about how to best handle certain things. Many of them are self-made millionaires and certainly not stupid. Many of them don't lack empathy at all as well. That said, there are also many of them that do very much have a "fuck other people anyway" attitude. It's a mixed bag.
I come from a conservative family of many generations (although my mom eventually shunned conservatism) and both of my parents were highly intelligent. If I really believed _all_ conservatives were tards that wouldn't be exactly great news for my own intellect from a genetic standpoint given that I came from a long ass line of them.
All this said, note that where I grew up, yes, they are all tards. The crazy flag lady is representative of the typical citizen there. It's part of what fuels my frustrations with them.
But yeah, I can't hang with shit like homophobia; that's just gayyyy.
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Guys. Important side observation. Well invested intelligent financial conservatives need the aggregation of all echo chambers for actionable investment decisions. Look to London. The dry data that BBC publishes is statistical gold. And yes, moderate democrats manage the economy better in the long run. They understand that education, health, living wages for the proletariat give strength to the productive muscle that drives progress.
Okay. Enough said. Back to the controversy; I'm enjoying it.