This article is basically about right-wingers getting angry about The Odyssey while the film has done very well at the box office.
Maybe some right-wing people just like getting angry when there’s really not much reason to get angry.
Maybe some right-wing people just like getting angry when there’s really not much reason to get angry.
With like two minutes of training, anyone can identify political affiliation almost instantly from a brain scan, with over 70% accuracy…
This is because of three things.
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Someone with a larger prefrontal cortex has more empathy and critical thinking, they’re the progressive ones.
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Someone with a large amygdala has a larger fight/flight reaction, those are conservatives.
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Roughly 30% of Americans don’t vote, they’re the ones whose political affiliation can’t be determined from a brain scan.
What’s important is those brain differences aren’t innate, and one of my personal favorite studies on London Taxi drivers showed that these types of changes can happen even well into someone 60s.
So practically no one is a lost cause.
The (should be clear) downside, is we stopped teaches kids the shit that grows a pre-frontal cortex decades ago, so we’re going to keep getting fresh waves of conservatives until like a decade after we fix public education.
Tldr:
The more people get angry, the larger their amygdala grows.
The larger the amygdala grows, the guicker they are to anger.
They’re literally addicted to getting pissed off. Oligarchs have to keep giving them imaginary things to be mad about, or they might get mad at the oligarchs. And if they do, the oligarchs are fucked.
I have cptsd, autism and ADHD. Prefrontal cortex issues. I’ve also spent 2/3 of my life in fight or flight, larger amygdala. I have hyper empathy, compassion and decent critical thinking skills. If I can do it, everybody can. Somewhere along the way people choose to be selfish and continue to make that choice all their lives. Don’t give them a pass.
I’m not giving anyone a pass, nor would I be able to if I wanted…
It’s science, whether you agree with it or even understand it, it’s real.
If someone talks about something you don’t know about, they’re almost always going to be willing to answer questions if you ask.
Get upset at what they say and spout uninformed opinions and personal ancedotes at them…
They might block you before even replying so they don’t waste time trying to help you understand things later.
Don’t make other people write you off as a lost cause.
I have cptsd, autism and ADHD. Prefrontal cortex issues. I’ve also spent 2/3 of my life in fight or flight, larger amygdala
I literally have a degree and years of experience in explaining things to people with issues like you say you’re facing. There’s a very real chance no one else on the fediverse is more equipped to explain shit to you bro.
But just in general, with anyone, if they say something you w never heard that doesn’t make sense, give them the benefit of doubt for at least one reply, ask them what they’re talking about, even mention your own personal experience seems to conflict with it if you think that matters.
Just don’t do what you just did if you actually want to learn shit.
Yes, but what about the shape of their skull?
Some well-placed taps with a dead blow mallet will take those dents right out.
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The strange thing is that the dislikes far outnumbered the likes in the trailer. So much so, that the dislikes were disabled.
So, the targeted take-down didn’t work, then?
That’s the puzzle. Very high ratio of dislikes to likes, yet the movie presently is doing well.
where are you getting this from? dislikes where? because youtube doesn’t show dislikes. yes, there are extensions that restore that function. but those extensions are extremely imprecise, because they project the numbers based on the like to dislike ratio of their users. But even if I grant you that there where a lot of dislikes, why would you disable dislikes, if they where never displayed in the first place?
All of which brings me to believe that you are lying.
From https://www.buzzfeed.com/beccamonaghan/the-odyssey-backlash-explained
At the time of writing, the official countdown trailer has amassed more than 750,000 dislikes compared with around 80,000 likes on YouTube, alongside a wave of hostile comments.
Turns out just because a slogan rhymes it doesn’t mean it’s true
At this point, getting the standard high-profile screamer streamers whipped up into apoplexy is just part of the marketing strategy.
“Woke” is just the new Rage Bait that a marketing company can use to raise its profile. And conservative pundits are more than happy to play along, because “Listen to Tucker Carlson review Christopher Nolan” only ever benefits both Carlson and Nolan.
There are better movies than Odyssey in theaters right now that will be far more Woke/Based and get far less attention, simply because they don’t have the marketing budget to kick the Internet Ant Hill. Even if we’re stuck on remakes of Greek Tragedies, I had way more fun watching Hadestown.
Ok hot take here…
Starfleet Academy is woke propaganda.
Listen… I’m pretty left leaning. I AM trans. I do believe in socialism. I believe in reparations and defunding the police, etc etc.
Starfleet Academy is too much. It’s too neurotic and touchy feely and soft. It feels like if a Star Trek series were written by only the Disney nerds of the Euphoria writing team.
That said, The Odyssey was great. I liked it a lot. No complaints.
