Thread: Time to get on the TRUMP train

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    One reason Trump supporters believe his lies comes from a basic fact about the brain: it takes more mental effort to reject an idea as false than to accept it as true. In other words, it’s easier to believe than to not.

    This fact is based on a landmark study published in the journal PLOS ONE in 2009, which asked the simple question, how is the brain activated differently during a state of belief compared to a state of disbelief? To test this, participants were asked whether or not they believed in a series of statements while their brain activity was being imaged by an fMRI scanner. Some sentences were simple and fact-based (California is larger than Rhode Island), while others were more abstract and subjective (God probably does not exist). The results showed the activation of distinct but often overlapping brain areas in the belief and disbelief conditions. While these imaging results are complicated to interpret, the electrical patterns also showed something that was fairly straightforward. Overall, there was greater brain activation that persisted for longer during states of disbelief. Greater brain activation requires more cognitive resources, of which there is a limited supply. What these findings show is that the mental process of believing is simply less work for the brain, and therefore often favored. The default state of the human brain is to accept what we are told, because doubt takes effort. Belief, on the other hand, comes easily.

    This troubling finding makes sense from an evolutionary standpoint. If children questioned every single fact they were being taught, learning would occur at a rate so slow that it would be a hindrance. But this fact could be just as easily applied to both the political left and right. So how does it explain why conservatives, specifically evangelicals, are so easily duped by Donald Trump?

    For Christian fundamentalists, being taught to suppress critical thinking begins at a very early age. It is the combination of the brain’s vulnerability to believing unsupported facts and aggressive indoctrination that create the perfect storm for gullibility. Due to the brain’s neuroplasticity, or ability to be sculpted by lived experiences, evangelicals literally become hardwired to believe far-fetched statements.

    This wiring begins when they are first taught to accept Biblical stories not as metaphors for living life practically and purposefully, but as objective truth. Mystical explanations for natural events train young minds to not demand evidence for beliefs. As a result, the neural pathways that promote healthy skepticism and rational thought are not properly developed. This inevitably leads to a greater susceptibility to lying and gaslighting by manipulative politicians, and greater suggestibility in general.

    If we want to combat the brain’s habit of taking the path of least resistance, which has destructive downstream consequences for critical thinking, as a society we must place more value on empirical evidence, and this must be reflected in how we educate our youth. Additionally, we must create an awareness of the fact that for the human mind, believing is more of a reflex than a careful and methodical action.


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    Quote Originally Posted by sonatine View Post
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    if anyones wondering why dish is drinkposting tonight...



    interesting piece of data science OSINT to mull over... the large portion of the accounts hes been retweeting are a month/a few months old.

    how is he even seeing them in his timeline...?

    occams razor; a list of the new bot accounts was provided to him (or whoever is running the account at that time).

    YEAH THAT MUST BE IT. FUCKIN RETARD. LETS SEE SOME OF THE TWEETS.

     
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    Quote Originally Posted by thesidedish View Post
    politics is pro wrestling obv. vote trump, we are on year 3 of 20 of attempting to DRAIN THE SWAMP


    Doubt it scrub. Was discussing this with my father and we came to the conclusion that the swamp will not be drained. Hopefully some of those scum bags will change though, but I doubt it. In 20 years I bet you will still be arguing about draining the swamp with the same ole AI bots. LOL!

     
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    tweeted literally while iranian proxy agitators stormed the us embassy in iraq:

    "Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky

    "America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs

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    See how successful the war in Iraq has been.

    Let’s do Iran!

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    "Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky

    "America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs

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    "Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky

    "America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs

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    Here is where the GOP hypocrisy rubber will hit the road.
    Even though Hillary had shit to do w/Benghazi, the GOP had her every move that day scrutinized, & Trump is out there golfing.


    Its not like Trump was out there golfing, the Bagdad embassy was attacked, so he decided to finish up his last holes and go to work.
    This thing happened, THEN Trump went golfing (after rage tweeting at Nancy Pelosi).


    Fox "news" ripped Obama for golfing too much, (even said he texted too much???? LOL). Trump out golfs & outspends him golfing AND does it at his own golf courses.



    This was reported at 3:50 AM est.
    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/31/w...s-embassy.html

    Quote Originally Posted by sonatine View Post
    tweeted literally while iranian proxy agitators stormed the us embassy in iraq:


     
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    jimmyG will u STFU, your opinion doesn't matter because u don't know colin Kaepernick is bad at football. but yet every post is about exposing GOP hypocrisy. for example, if I was stoned enough, i could sit here for 15 minutes in amazement thinking about how someone like you exists, your personality is mind boggling, kill yourself. mumblesbadly gets more ppl reading his posts than you, you are FPS Russia tier

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    the fact that you don't know colin Kaepernick is not in the NFL cuz he's bad at football makes u a propaganda drone of the highest order but yet all of your posts are "how can the GOP be so tone deaf"


    KILL YOURSELF

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    if hillary played golf while a us embassy was under attack, the GOP would hold hearings for the next 100 years.

     
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    "Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky

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    What we really need in Iraq is a strong man who can control the population and hates Iran.

     
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    This embassy attack is exactly like the one in Benghazi. Except the US sent in air support and 100 Marines and no Americans died.

    But other than those minor things, exactly the same you guys.

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    Quote Originally Posted by thesidedish View Post
    jimmyG will u STFU, your opinion doesn't matter because u don't know colin Kaepernick is bad at football. but yet every post is about exposing GOP hypocrisy. for example, if I was stoned enough, i could sit here for 15 minutes in amazement thinking about how someone like you exists, your personality is mind boggling, kill yourself. mumblesbadly gets more ppl reading his posts than you, you are FPS Russia tier
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    Johnny Manziel will be the 1st pick in the draft. I truly believe not only will Johnny Manziel be rookie of the year, quite possibly he will be MVP as his style will shock defensive coordinators. Manziel may only be 6 feet tall, but he has size 15 feet. And he has HUGE hands. I know some NFL scouts so I know what I am talking about.



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    "Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky

    "America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs

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    i mean honestly, why would anyone work at the US embassy in iraq

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    Quote Originally Posted by blake View Post
    i mean honestly, why would anyone work at the US embassy in iraq

    its our largest intelligence outpost in the region short of tel aviv and was intended to make our reliance on israel less critical; we are starting to hedge our bets with them.

     
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    "Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky

    "America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs

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    The US has 55,000 troops in the Middle East. This includes 12 different countries with US military bases in 7.

    But Baghdad, you guys.

    Oh, and all of that is so we don’t have anything to do with Israel (our greatest ally).

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