AN OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF SCIENTIFIC STUDIES PROVE DEFINITIVELY THAT RIGHT WING BELIEFS ARE HEAVILY CORRELATED WITH LOW INTELLIGENCE:
Bright Minds and Dark Attitudes: Lower Cognitive Ability Predicts Greater Prejudice Through Right-Wing Ideology and Low Intergroup Contact
Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs Linked to Prejudice
Study links low intelligence with right-wing beliefs
Right-wing ideology and numeracy: A perception of greater ability, but poorer performance
Conservatism and cognitive ability
Intelligent people are more likely to be left-wing, says science
People with lower emotional intelligence are more likely to hold right-wing views, study finds
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Is she being ironic or really didn’t actually know? It’s hard to know if attention-economy people do gimmicky things for attention or really are that… uh… unaware of things?
Laura Loomer is a reactionary asshole with early winter ground level intelligence. She doesn’t know and would argue you’re lying to not look stupid.
Can you explain what you mean about winter ground level intelligence?
Edit: you don’t have to explain why Laura is a moron, to be clear. She’s doing a fine job of that herself. I’m just curious about that phrase, I’ve never heard it before.
my guess is it’s a step below calling someone “room temperature” in reference to their perceived IQ
Pretty much.
She really didn’t know. A few minutes after she made this comment she deleted it and posted another comment that made it look like she knew what was going on all along.
Oh, I hadn’t heard of her, when I first read this I read it as her being sane and Polymarket being the one misunderstanding what Arabic numerals are
So the “dear god” would be directed at Polymarket and not Mamdani
Idk if i’m explaining this well
Polymarket is a betting website, clearly someone made a bet that Zoran Mamdani would mandate teaching arabic numerals knowing that idiots would bet against it.
Best use of nickelback possible?
My only regret about his death is that he got to die doing what he loved: deflecting questions about gun violence with racist dog whistles so overused they’ve become bullhorns
Honestly it was so fuckin poetic I can’t even be upset about it. Charlie wouldn’t either, because white people shootings don’t even count to him.
Chirk would have been proud to be shot in the neck at a school by someone who disagreed with him. He literally gave his life arguing for that right
I made it myself!
I could not believe that I was the first
Please use it to piss off conservatives
You have not only my blessing, but an enthusiastic endorsement
Inspired work of art, FistingEnthusiast 👏 May you have many more.
I create a lot of art
My porn channel recently hit two million happy little perverts, and I have something in the vicinity of forty million views of my work
But this is still one of my favourite pieces
Well, it’s already on Facebook.
I’m torn…
But I hope that conservatives will be upset, and on that I will rest happily
I’m torn
/me looks at username…
They are.
I can’t believe you’d promote your porn channel but then wouldn’t add any links so I could make sure I’d avoid accidentally seeing that porn. What kind of a monster does that?
You can find my redgifs account on my profile easily enough
I don’t ever want someone to be exposed to something they might not want to see, so I don’t tend to put a link
One of my favourite conspiracies is that academic spaces are overwhelmingly left-leaning.
There’s a reason the right is constantly seeking to make schools worse and good education harder to access.
They don’t want competition, and they especially don’t want people that are immune to bullshit.
Even worse, they seem to be succeeding.
It’s actually something that has been done pretty much by anyone in power in the past who was trying to consolidate their position without actually giving the people what they want.
Hitler’s regime started by rounding up scientists and scholars purely to make sure nobody got any ideas that were detrimental to his power.
It’s just sad that the voters for (extremist) right people don’t see that the endgame is just for a select group, not for all, and they see themselves as part of that select group whilst they’re actually part of the other.
So MAGA folk think they’re part of that elite group that will benefit from right wing dismantling of social programs and not part of poor immigrants whilst they’re actually economically closer to those poor immigrants. Not just America, though, Germany is going in that direction as well right now and in Europe more and more of these voices are being heard.
Yup, a CERTAIN JACKASS in Cambodia did the exact same. Killed people just because they wore glasses which was a sign of dangerous intellectualism.
Yet tankies will still glaze pol pot for some reason…
Show your work.
That’s such a stupid response. As if I’m going to dig through old comments looking for the places where it happened? This isn’t a court of law, and it don’t have to present evidence to you. Especially if you’d just going to sealion about it even if I do.
And for the interactions that happened in person? How do you want me to prove those to you? Do you suggest I should carry around a device always on record and keep a record of every conversation I’ve ever had?
Everyone who’s interacted with a tankie knows glazing pol pot is exactly the kind of thing they do. Many have directly seen them do it. I don’t need to link specific examples for you.
Oh yeah, all that while he used glasses, had studies in both Cambodia and France, and overall was everything he hated.
Not uncommon. Imagine an idealized nazi arian, now look up a color photo of Adolf Hitler, ideally with him standing next to other people (who aren’t Mussolini, because that guy was even shorter).
Lmao, so true.
Theory: authoritarian ppl are like that because they have really big complexes.
The similarities between Pol Pot and Trump keep me up at night.
One of mine is that the truth (in a news/reporting/journalism respect) tends to always lean left.
I thought she was talking about Polymarket posting this as a serious matter. Then I noticed who she is…
I bet he’s not even talking about the real classical symbols but the new woke version!
Woke, if not even DEI!
I was honestly surprised when I visited Egypt for the first time and discovered they have different symbols for numbers in Arabic. Also, they look kind of the same as the one used with Latin alphabet, but there are some tricks like ٥ is 5 and ٦ is 6, so yeah … you have to learned them, you can’t just guess.
well… it is real…
Everyday, Veep becomes more accurate.
Years ago a German satire show interviewed random people on the street. They asked them what they think about the fact that “children are now forced to learn arabic numbers in German Schools”. The interviewers flawlessly baited a bunch of idiots into exposing their mindless xenophobia on TV
So all elementary school students to learn basic math.
Maybe that’s not so bad for Americans, they’ll finally stop producing people who can’t follow simple economic rules.
Oh no. Instead of writing out the numbers like one, two, three they will have to write them out like 1, 2, 3. The horror! 😱
I need a hug. We live in such a depressing world sometimes.
🫂
Ive always wanted to share these on facebook as a way to call people stupid.
But then I realized they wouldn’t understand it at all.
I refuse arabic numbers. What the fuck is 2? 7? 9??? These are all made up concepts invented to corrupt the mind of people.
Look at how elegant these look instead: 10, 111, 1001.
they have played us for absolute fools
I dont care if i have to say it X times, roman numerals are superior
They are letters tho.
I is a finger. V is the line down your thumb and up the fingers (a whole hand). X is both your hands crossed… that’s one theory as to why they used “letters” for numbers.
IV/V Romans agree…
Perfect V/VII
Yes but how is it with rice?
Only if it’s garnished with silphium.
If I’ve said it once I’ve said it 𒁹𒌋𒌋𒌋𒌋 times, the babylonians got it right
I’ve said it at least ν times, the Greeks had the weirdest system.
We’ve said it
times, our family will use a proper Aztec numbers just like our forefathers
Base 12 ftw.
It’s base 60 actually. With up to 5 𒌋 meaning 10 followed by up to 9 𒁹 meaning one. I actually should have put a space between the 60s place and the 1s place and formatted it as: 𒁹 𒌋𒌋𒌋𒌋
It’s a lot easier to read in clay because you bunch the characters up within their place, and if it were used in modern day it would likely be autocorrected to make it easier
Base 60 does make dividing evenly into 3s, 4s, 5s, 6s, etc. really easy.
If I were raised in China or something and used to memorizing / recognizing dozens or hundreds of symbols, then having individual symbols for the numbers 0 to 59 might be nice. But, as someone who only learned a 26 letter alphabet and 10 digits I like base 10 because it’s quick to parse a number.
How did the Babylonians write 61? 6 𒁹 symbols, a space then a single 𒁹 ? Was it easy to tell the difference between say 21 and 3?
61 would be 𒁹 𒁹. Essentially the same way we write 11. It can be compared to 𒁹𒁹 meaning 2, which would appear bunched up as opposed to separated. Plenty of room for very large errors and I suspect if it’d stuck around you’d probably see something like a distinct 1, 9, 10, and 50 tallies to indicate “hey this is where this place begins” as well as a zero. For 21 it would be 𒌋𒌋𒁹, and for 3 it’s 𒁹𒁹𒁹.
Cuneiform is a writing system highly constrained by its medium. It’s just pressing triangular reeds into clay. Any shape you can’t get out of that isn’t in the writing system. Using conjoined tallies makes sense for it.
It seems to me that with a reed you could also underline something or draw a slash between items, so you could do 𒁹 / 𒁹 for 61 vs 𒁹 𒁹 for 2.
yeah, seeing the symbols spread out across multiple characters makes it hard to tell whether that’s 100 or something else (considering i learned counting in cuneiform just this moment)
Yeah, but you have to give it credit, it’s really easy to pick up as far as number systems go. Definitely less useful for math and science than modern European-Arabic numerals, but much better for logistics and administration than say roman numerals
Base-12 is absolutely gorgeous for geometry. A metric system on base-12? <chef’s kiss>
Why use many digits when few digits do trick?
This is the way. Embrace binary numbers. Reject everything that is nonbinary.
Nah, we’re keeping the NBs.
Excuse me… all the links above use Arabic numbers: they are unreliable.
Thank you for your attention to this matter
Damn “woke ass” numbers
AN OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF SCIENTIFIC STUDIES PROVE DEFINITIVELY THAT RIGHT WING BELIEFS ARE HEAVILY CORRELATED WITH LOW INTELLIGENCE:
AKA dumb and ignorant people believe more lies. Trump loves the uneducated.
The Republican strategy for decades was to target fifth-grade intelligence. Trump’s political innovation was to target third-grade intelligence.
