[–] 8 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I was just taking a look at that. Well, not the article but the actual study it links...

Don't get so sassy, I think asking someone not only to read a scientific article to answer to your comment but also to go to the other comments to read another is a bit too much to ask. But I've done it anyway... and now I'm doubting that you did read them. From this second article:

No differences in Anterior Cingulate Cortex volume replicated between levels of conservatism - in contrast to the original study

self-reported ideology (single item) was not a significant predictor of amygdalar volume.

So you take a deep breath and read more carefully what you post before making bullshit assertions like 'With like two minutes of training, anyone can identify political affiliation almost instantly from a brain scan, with over 70% accuracy...'.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 day ago (13 children)

    But the right-wing hate campaign has affected the box office, giving the movie some massive publicity. I wouldn't have even heard about the movie if it weren't for this controversy (I'm a bit saturated lately so I don't keep up with barely any new media).

    Maybe some right-wing people just like getting angry when there's really not much reason to get angry.

    This phenomenon doesn't only happen in that direction, lots of people cried out racism because of a white Cleopatra. So when is it acceptable to race-bend a character or historical figure and when is it not?

    PS: the real Cleopatra (of the Ptolemaic dynasty) was actually white.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (8 children)

    Ok, so first, I've read it but not any of the citations or any other follow up work.. but that study is about people with lesions in their brain, what about people with healthy brains? Can you identify conservatives with just a scan if they don't have a brain injury? I still doubt it, much less 'anyone with two minutes of training'. Or maybe you mean that half (if not more) of the world population suffers some kind of brain lesion or disorder? And that sample size seems also quite small and, without really being able to actually tell, not very random (the groups with lesions are overwhelmingly white, while the control group isn't...).

    Don't get me wrong, I do think that conservatism is a disease/disorder. But a social, memetic one. That can't be diagnosed or cured like physical or mental problems.

    Anyway, it doesn't convinced me, but it doesn't matter cause I don't really have any use for that information since I can't scan people's brains, modify them, or cure injuries. But I'm sure the fascists taking ahold of the world will be (are?) very interested on this bullshit, and I won't be surprised if they end up putting anyone with a functional prefrontal cortex down.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    But that's the thing, there's no 'continuity' in Doctor Who. In-universe time is not linear, not even a branching multiverse or anything like that. It is, quote, 'A big ball of wibbly wobbly, timey wimey stuff'. So, for example, you can massacre the daleks till there're only three of them and two episodes later they come back in the trillions, no biggie.

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  • [+] -8 points 4 days ago

    That's not true anymore in my experience. As a mostly non-voting European, I think my cynical, nihilistic ideas of direct action have made more right leaning people not vote for right wing parties than left leaning people not vote for left-wing ones. The political 'left' has long lost a big chunk of the working class. Hand labourers, once the base of the left movement, have been victimised, disenfranchised, and then antagonised by it. So these ideas of 'if more people were voting the right would never win' are obsolete.

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