OMG they are so detached from reality that they are bragging about being terrified?
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.
I’m a leftist and I have an anxiety disorder! Checkmate, conservatives
Funny how conservatives aren’t afraid of disease. You probably need a decent frontal lobe for that.
Hi, I’m a coward bc I’m not a leftist isn’t the flex you think it is.
Lol inferior agenda. It probably means they think whatever they got going on is better, but it sounds like they’re bragging about bad time management
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.
Internet arguments about brain science always get wild fast. Most of the time the science is a lot more complicated than the memes make it look.
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.
Just like alligators. They’re so ornery because they have all them teeth and no toothbrush
Well looks like mama was wrong!
HA HA take that COMMIE you’re braver than me due to your genetic superiority! ^oh ^wait
Fear is, famously, an excellent impetus for rational decision-making. (/s just in case)
Ah, the typical nazi idea of correlating random body measurements with complex behavioral and emotional patterns.
You mean the Brit/American eugenics idea.
Hitler was a great fan of these racists so he sent a dr Mengele to study the superior Nordic race at Carnegie’s American Eugenics Society.
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Conservatives are more afraid of everything, and respond in anger. How the fuck is that “better”?
Those are “manly” emotions! But also don’t forget that we are better for running countries because we’re so calm and cool.
One could frame this as “Leftists are more naive and reckless, while Conservatives are cautious”. I wouldn’t, but I can see someone make that argument.
How the fuck is [being scared and angry] “better”?
Through the power of sarcasm.
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.
You ate brains for dessert?!
In Flemish/Dutch the toncills (Tonsillae palatinae) are called almonds
Amygdala’s wardrobe in “A Phantom Menace” was overactive
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