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Daughter turning into something I don’t like? Buy out the thing she uses to try and regulate her. Very normal and healthy behavior
He also blames a ridiculously exclusive school in Cali for the kids of ridiculouslu wealthy parents for her forming her own opinions about stuff. It's the same as other conservatives claiming college brainwashes kids.
Also, we can take the "full blown communist" part as seriously as any other time a billionaire says it. She could have said something like "maybe rich people should pay more tax" and get that label from them.
Oh for sure. Extreme statements like that always ring as “They’re not how I want them to be so I’m going to call them radical”.
We want you to be well-educated, smart, and be a critical thinker that can think fo......wait....no, stop.....not like that. We want you to critically think....but also arrive at the same correct conclusions as us....wtf, are you doing?
They don't even pretend to want critical thinking...
That was the big push behind "no child left behind". A focus on rote memorization and following rules.
Because funding was tied to scores, teachers had to focus on what was being tested. And since critical thinking wasn't tested, it became the lowest priority.
The "boots on the ground" conservatives may not be smart, but the ones at the top of the movement 100% understand what's going on. And they've spent decades trying to increase their numbers.
The Texas Republican Party made being against critical thinking part of their platform, explicitly.
He doesnt seem to understand where he himself stands politically, making it a safe bet he falls to properly identify where others are.
he understands, it’s just not popular to say the quiet part out loud
https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-inc-technology-business-b0a0f7e64c4616780459f012d172b1c9
This is all bullshit. Self-aggrandizing lies to give the appearance that this massive failure was all in the plan. The guy was trying to play games with stocks and got caught. He's a dumbass with no idea how the business he didn't want to own but was forced to buy in the end works. It's not deeper than that.
I'm sure his daughter hating him is very upsetting but it's not why he set 40 billion dollars on fire.
His daughter transitioning and being liberal drove him to the far right on Twitter, because he couldn't accept it.
Those people kept telling him he should buy it to "save" it.
He started talking about it, and that's where your article picks up.
It wasn't just a whim, he had reason to start talking about buying Twitter, then was forced to actually go through with it.
He thinks he's "saving" it because conservatives believe everyone thinks like them and are just scared to admit it, but his intentional actions are killing it.
just need to preserve this line because its so spot on
There's actually science behind it.
A brain scan can reveal a person's political leaning with like 80% accuracy, and I can't stress enough how crazy that number is, the remaining 20% usually just aren't political or in the middle.
It's done by looking at the size/activity of the amygdala and the prefrontal cortex.
A conservative will have more amygdala activity, which is our flight or fight response.
A progressive will have a larger preferential cortex, the part that gives us logic and empathy.
It's always important to mention that this isn't permanent, our brains are like muscles, use certain parts and they get more active and even physically larger (but obviously on a small scale).
We know that because there's been studies on London taxi drivers. Before training their brains are normal. But since they have to memorize every street in London, by the time they're certified there's a noticable difference in the part of the brain that handles navigation.
So it's not like theyre a lost cause.
And why republican leaders are so hell vent on removing "liberal arts" from schools. The people leading aren't idiots, they're trying to make more conservatives
That's a really reductive oversimplification of the situation.
How does it account for PTSD sufferers at all?
That's nothing to do with it...
You could just as well ask how it accounts for penguins riding unicycles.
The only brain change with PTSD is the hippocampus, they've explicitly looked for changes to the amygdala and there isn't any.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3647246/
If you want to split hairs, there is a statistically insignificant change, but that makes it smaller.
No, there are many brain changes involved with PTSD including the prefrontal cortex and the study clearly didn't take it into account.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41386-021-01155-7
I didn't even say anything about the amygdala. I said PTSD. Don't put words in my mouth.
Maybe you should have explicitly stated your point?
And I don't see anything in your link about subsequent changes to size or activity of the prefrontal cortex due to PTSD.
Although I admittedly just skimmed it.
So if that links backs up your argument (whatever that was) please link the relevant part.
Or maybe you should try engaging others in good faith instead of getting defensive someone challenged a notion that makes you feel superior to conservatives.
Come back when you're willing to. Blocked.
Soooo....if you blocked him, how is he going to come back when he's willing to talk? Lol.
The blocking feature on Lemmy is as broken as Reddit and he can still reply to my messages whenever he wants, I just can't see it.
Which is beef #56484783 I have with Lemmy. What I said should be silly, but it's not, because the core software doesn't fix the issues Reddit had especially with blocking. Blocking should give one the last word, but it doesn't.
And that's ignoring the fact that block evading is trivially easy as he can just bounce back here with an account on another instance, and even if a mod bans him, he can keep coming back with VPNs.
Lemmy as a platform is so fucked.
Oh man, you could have actually tried to explain why you think that article was relevant in the time it took you to type all that...
You don't even know how blocking works.
It just blocks you from seeing my comments in the wild. Because that's what blocking means.
It doesn't stop me from seeing and replying to your comments, because I haven't blocked you.
What is a glitch, is you still get this notification
Oh ok, so that was just a random article you didn't read first, and it had nothing to do with what was being talked about...
It does help that everytime I mention this stuff, there's someone champing at the bit to give the class an example.
You've unironically helped me out a lot, thanks!
That last point is really interesting. Conservatives and right-wingers can't grasp that other people don't think like they do. I remember during the January 6th insurrection how all the people doing it really seemed to believe they would be seen as heroes. It's like they had no idea over half of the US didn't agree with them.
“Why can’t I name them binary numbers or ‘techno’ and have them shut up?”
“People are too woke”
it's got big this energy
Why not both? Because you’re absolutely right that he got fucked on a bad gamble and then tried to save face, but I can also easily see him trying to buy stuff just to stick it to the left. (But in all reality again you’re probably pretty solely right lol)
I question if he actually got fucked on a gamble or if he was just inept and all of his decisions were largely a whim rather than based on some true data and research.
Maybe a bit of an extreme comparison, but it reminds me of when Donald Trump, also in the US, actually got elected president there. I remember thinking he looked quite wan in those early news clips. Like he was shocked to have actually won, and was rapidly having to adjust his expectations of the future.