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Feeling frustrated? Fatigued? Exhausted? Being more sarcastic, cynical, or negative? Is it impossible to achieve your goals? Well, then, bucko, you might could be burned out! How can you take care of yourself so you can #SaveOurDemocracy?
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United we stand; divided we fall, so why is the GQP deliberately dividing us with its divisive politics? They want us to fall. How do we beat them? We aren’t divided. To save our democracy, we must find ways to reach those in MAGA Nation and convince them to leave it.
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Tolerating ambiguity clusters with other personality traits: liberals are more tolerant, conservatives, less. In some senses, trans people are the ultimate in ambiguity because they give mixed gender identity signals.
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Here’s an amusing little anecdote about how I met a child a year ago and assumed she was a he and the shocking way her true gender and gender identity was revealed to me.
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Let’s say we actually do survive as a liberal democracy. What do you do with your favorite drunk uncle then? How do we continue existing as a nation with MAGA Nation after they’ve gone to such extremes? How do we help rescue people from the pit of conspiracy theories?
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If you don’t see color, what the fuck do you see?
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Science fact: MAGA Nation goes against human nature. They tell us to do our own research, but few of us know enough to evaluate the vaccine and public health research that has concluded that vaccines, masks, and social distancing will mitigate the #COVID19 pandemic. We need to rely on experts to help us understand and decide what to do.
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Do dogs really understand whether you meant to tease them with a treat or not? Do they understand when you accidentally drop something? Well, German scientists have evidence of one possible answer.
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The first week of school is always a killer. The first week back to work after 18 months of idleness is a killer. Put them together, and, well, you get a shortened Whaz Up column.
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If the GQP opposition to any rational response to a deadly pandemic that could produce an even worse variant makes no sense at all, it’s because you are not considering the ways that fear and waves of terror affect a population and how useful they are to would-be authoritarians like the GQP are.
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Authoritarians use a technique called waves of terror where they manufacture periods of fear interspersed with brief moments of calm to drive a population to desperation. Will the waves of climate disasters and #COVID19 do the same thing? Are we more susceptible to authoritarian takeover because of climate change and the #COVID19 pandemic?
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There is a film that explains the fascification of America that echo all of the analysis that Ye Olde Blogge has produced over the years. See how well it all matches up.
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All fascist and authoritarian movements need a scapegoat. It is clear that #COVID19, the Delta Variant has upended their plans to run on anti-immigrant fear mongering, so they are just making everything bad is because of immigrants and by extension the replacement theory. Here’s an example.
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How much money did Ye Olde Blogge find? Find out, the other happenings around the blog, and the things I’ve been reading.
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We’ve finally finished the series on conspiracy theories. This one takes a closer look at the role that antisocial personality traits plays in the destructive behaviors of the conspiracy theorists and their followers.
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Conspiracy theories seem to abound throughout the media. They seem to have the conservatives in a fever grip of nonsensical nonreality. What makes them so difficult to dispel?
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The brain is easy to fool! Illusions and gimmicks get us all the time. Well, here is one that gets me even though I know it is all fake. I thought I’d share it just because it is so well done.
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We seem to live in a world full of conspiracy theories, especially from the lunatics on the right, amirite? What psychological needs do conspiracy theories meet?
Howdy y’all! All you sharp- eyes readers out there are probably wondering two things: First, what happened to Monday’s “What Up!!!” post. and second,, why haven’t recent posts had featured images and links to previous posts. And third, why I haven’t been posting more. And fourth, what’s up […]
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Why the fuck do so people people believe the Big Lie? Why the fuck aren’t more people outraged — we’re looking at you Sen Manchin — that our democracy is being dismantled right before our very eyes? Well, we have the answer! Proportionality Bias!
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