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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Unfortunately, trying to set up this particular “rage bait” is also ignorant and uneducated. The numbers we use are derived from Arabic numerals. But modern Arabic numerals does not look like the ones we use in the Latin Alphabet. They can also change a bit depending on which arabic country you’re in.
If you’re an average “westerner” you probably don’t know what modern arabic numerals look like. And learning them would be required to know which symbol means what.
That being said. Teaching children that different children across the world have different symbols for things is still a good thing to teach them. While also teaching them there are other systems than our base 10 system. Such as the Duodecimal system.
My only gripe is that we can’t determine whether it’s Arabic numerals or Hindu numerals. It’s more correct to say Arabic-Hindu numerals.
ERIKA has been celebrating everyday how rich she is becoming. she went through several personas, looking like kennith copeland, a demon, her eyes souless like a dolls eyes, going a WWE celebratory style funeral, and her sonya blade skin.
One could say her personas are… legion.
I’m not religious, but these weird nazi demon people do give me pause.
I know right wingers in general are thick, but Americans really do seem to take it to a new level the dull witted.
I’m sure that IC% of them wouldn’t even recognise the joke.
I have to spend a lot of time in 'Murica, unfortunately
It’s amazing how stupidity isn’t just accepted, it’s celebrated
I know so many extremely intelligent yanks, but the average punter on the street is as thick as pigshit
The worst thing is that this isn’t their fault
It began in the eighties, and has been done deliberately
It began a lot further back than that. Mel Brooks was making fun of this stuff in the 60s.
Trust me, the german right wingers are just as dumb and they are not even creativ. They just carbon copy the republicans.
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?
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.
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.
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
After 2016 I spent a lot of time on reddit talking to Trump voters to understand why.
Overwhelmingly they believe things that aren’t true. Basic misconceptions of the world cascading in on one another culminating into the stupidest vote of their life.
One guy thought Obama was a vain man because he named his healthcare plan Obamacare. When I told him the healthcare plan was called the Affordable Care Act, and that Republicans and the media called it Obamacare as a way to hurt it, his brain couldn’t process it because why would the media parrot Republican talking points if they were all biased towards Democrats?
You can understand how this individual would make this mistake. He pays just enough attention to be misinformed. Three generations of right-wing propaganda, the world’s most disciplined messaging machine repeating the same lies and half-truths have absolutely run roughshod over this type of person.
meanwhile they voted for a man who puts his name on everything
Yeah, because he tells them that they are righteous in their hatred of everything they fear
They’ll forgive him anything, so long as they can hate freely and feel good about it
This is all according to plan. The owner class needs to keep the plebs stupid.
see: charter schools strangling the public school budgets, so the chuds can turn around and say “look at how bad our schools are doing!”, rinse & repeat
*badly. … but I guess bad grammar is the point.
Which is why the first thing they cut is public school funding
There’s a lot of “Heal the political divide” being said to mean “meet them halfway” when what it should mean is the ignorant and prejudiced learn and the media machine dismantled, like how “Heal the healthcare class divide” means “Help poor people see doctors affordably”.
I ask them “why is trump calling for the deaths of politicians if you agree there’s too much political violence and dissonance?” Well they didn’t hear it on fox news that he called for their deaths so it’s probably the woke media lying. They will ask for everything and give nothing.
And also they don’t care that much so they won’t look into it (look into it, i.e. click 1 link to his post calling for politicians to be killed). And even if he did do it he was probably joking. And even if he wasn’t they found 1 insane person on YouTube who is calling for people’s deaths too, which is the same as the president that they elected saying it to hundreds of millions of people I guess.
Why would they call themselves DemonRats if they weren’t actually demonic rats? Checkmate.
Reddit post of a MAGA explaining they’re all in on Trump, don’t care, never will, stop trying to argue with them in their own words.
Mamdami is forcing children to participate in a heinous Islamic ritual called Al-gebra. It’s like, demonic spells or something.
Don’t forget the practice of “Kâbit Al-isim.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism_and_Islam#Historical_examples
They’re solving for X, which is slang for MDMA and also what porn is rated. Obviously they’re indoctrinating kids into child rape cults.
Wait, no, the child rape cult was Trump.
NO HE WAS UNDERCOVER TO EXPOSE THEM
I do not want the mental imagery of trump under the covers
Just doing shifts undercover in between breaks for fucking his daughter
And teaching them how to do Islamic ablutions, like using mouthwash and washing their hands. And showering! Heinous!
He probably uses Islamic inventions like H’ard So’ap and Bi-nominal functions!! SINCE WHEN DO NUMBERS NEED TO HAVE SEXUAL PREFERENCES?!
They even drink the Muslim Beverage C’off We!
nah, do the french ablutions
BIDETS FOR NEW YORK
BIDET
BIDEN
YOU THINK THAT’S A COINCIDENCE???
well now i don’t
That’s literal shariah you are preaching, you Afghan spy!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritual_purity_in_Islam#Hygienical_jurisprudence
Ritual cleanliness? A properly bathed tush is a thing of I don’t know, have you tried going back to scraping it off with paper?
Now I feel like I gotta make a butt bath ritual
Ah, they’d just pronounce it wrong. Buh-DAY, they’d say. No, it’s a nice idea but I don’t think it’ll flush.
ALL THESE DRINKIN FOUNTAINS TOO LOW
Don’t laugh! As the Islamic Golden Age was pivoting towards religious extremism, algebra was labeled as sorcery and turned into a capital crime.
Someone dumb enough to be concerned would definitely also think a basic equation looked like stygian summoners runes
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.
I dont care if i have to say it X times, roman numerals are superior
If I’ve said it once I’ve said it 𒁹𒌋𒌋𒌋𒌋 times, the babylonians got it right
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>
Duodecimal is my favorite.
Dodecic system
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
IV/V Romans agree…
Perfect V/VII
Yes but how is it with rice?
Only if it’s garnished with silphium.
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.
Why use many digits when few digits do trick?
they have played us for absolute fools
This is the way. Embrace binary numbers. Reject everything that is nonbinary.
Nah, we’re keeping the NBs.
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
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
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.
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
Best use of nickelback possible?
Excuse me… all the links above use Arabic numbers: they are unreliable.
Thank you for your attention to this matter
Damn “woke ass” numbers
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
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.
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.
The similarities between Pol Pot and Trump keep me up at night.
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.
I don’t know why I’m surprised
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.
Even worse, they seem to be succeeding.
They don’t want competition, and they especially don’t want people that are immune to bullshit.
One of mine is that the truth (in a news/reporting/journalism respect) tends to always lean left.
I saw this joke at least XV times already…
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.
In all seriousness thank God for the Arabic number system. It would be a nightmare to use Roman numerals for math
And a second shoutout to the Hindu invention of the concept of 0.
Base-10 is objectively terrible, though. Too many fundamental principles of geometry rely on 1:3 and 1:6 ratios that can’t be properly depicted in Base-10.
If there were a god, they would have given us 6 digits on each hand, inspiring us to develop a base-12 number system.
All number systems are base 10. It’s just that we define the 1 in 10 as meaning x x x x x x x x x x quantity. Binary is base 10 with 10 equating to 2 in the decimal base.
