Your Brain Is Hard-Wired to Love Trump

Politico ^ | Dec 16, 2015 | Katelyn Fossett

[Virtuoso80]

(This conversation has been edited and condensed.)

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There have been some high-profile lies this election season. The most recent that comes to mind is the story about the thousands of Muslims that were supposedly having tailgate-style parties celebrating after 9/11. In the book, you say, essentially, we’re OK with lies. Can you walk me through why we’re built not only for being deceptive, but also tolerating deception?

Trump’s supporters don’t particularly care whether he’s lying or not. Our brain doesn’t really care—I know that’s appalling. Our default position is we simply want to be right.

This is why our brain rationalizes our actions even when they’re at variance with our principles—that’s what cognitive dissonance is all about. So Trump supporters—when they hear Donald Trump say thousands of Muslims celebrated 9/11, and that turns out to be a lie, that obviously creates a conflict. Our brain tries to get out of these types of conflict in any way it can. One of the standard ways is to discredit the messenger—we say the mainstream media is full of it, for example. That’s true for Hillary Clinton supporters and true for Donald Trump supporters. All of us, Republicans, Democrats, we are all afflicted with this inclination to believe what we believe, and it doesn’t matter what the facts say. It took 11 months before public opinion started going against Nixon during Watergate.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/12/donald-trump-2016-evolutionary-psychology-213444#ixzz3umcoxWpB

[Lazamataz]

Hitler cat has a dead mouse. :)

[TADSLOS]

Yearning for another kill...I’m pretty sure this is how WWII started.

[CatherineofAragon]

I be interest, and have saw Laz and Norm win over you agen and agen wif
mannlyness an smart.

[Norm Lenhart]

While you two fine upstanding citizens dine on catnip, “I” have accomplished something major.

I’m thinking of changing my name to “Indiana Lenhart” because I found the memory bandwidth limit on an R9 card. I got Skyrim to choke it with memory load stuttering galore and achieved a blazing 28FPS at it’s worst.

And my three twirly things were woo woo wooing a lot. Unplayable.

And STILL more enjoyable than arguing with a lobotomite.

[Lazamataz]

Nuh uh. Your killer card choked? You using the new mod you found? Is there a downside to it, like 28FPS? I thought I was gonna mod Skyrim ‘for the win’, and you’re telling me no?

My life is now incomplete.

And I blame you.

PS: Mod interactions? If I just use only RealVision, do I got a shot at mid 30’s with this GTX970?

[Lazamataz]

Maybe THAT’s been my problem. I’ve been writing in proper English. Perhaps if I wrote liek a braen damged babon, hed stunerand me.

[JoSixChip]

Says "Mr. I cant understand English"

I understand English just fine. The problem is you often struggle to put a coherent thought together. So you constantly post "blame the lessor evil voters" just to insert yourself into a conversation. All the while not getting that you very often contradict yourself in the same post by supporting a lessor evil candidate. I tried to help you understand this, thinking that may not be how you want to present yourself. But I do clearly see I was wrong about that now.

[Norm Lenhart]

You’ll be fine.

I literally loaded every 4K texture pack/hi rez texture pack, enough additional crap in houses, horses, boobs and buildings to choke said horse...AND THEN used the top lever of RealVision’s 3 choices for awesome.

It runs with problems. Barely. But a Titan or Fury would be hard pressed to do 60 at what I threw at it. Most of what I loaded I didn’t even plan on keeping. I just wanted to see what would happen.

With my old config in, it runs fine. Holds 55-60 unless you get into forest/tallgrass. then 40s. totally playable.

[Norm Lenhart]

And yet every other person on the thread understands me clearly.

[CatherineofAragon]

It’s important to be stunerstud, so it might work.

[JoSixChip]

And yet every other person on the thread understands me clearly.

Sure they do. I've grown tired of toying with you and your little friends. Maybe we can pick this up again the next time I see you post "lessor evil". But for now, I'm done.

[Norm Lenhart]

Why stop now? Because you’re gonna hear it a lot. Eventually people will get sick of your bullshit.

PS, Ted Cruz isn’t evil, so he cannot by definition, be lesser evil. Ya gotta be a thing before you can vary it’s intensity. Get a refund for your degree. They failed you.