Yet another groundbreaking story from the pages of the medical journal "DUH".
this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2025
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Did everyone hear that water is wet btw? Wild, I know.
WILL THERE BE MORE AT 11? I HAVE TO KNOW
Lead poisoning is a hell of a thing. No wonder the Republicans want to abolish lead abatement programs.
/s because yes it's more complicated than that
Say as they do. Do as they say.
The weirdest thing about MAGA psychopathy is that Trump is in the Epstein files.
I feel like at least one of those traits are a necessary prerequisite to getting indoctrinated into the Trump cult.
Most of them can be identified from a distance thankfully
You can just say nazis.
The same post under reddit:
Iirc, top level posts are supposed to pertain to the study itself. That isn't really something negative in a science community, imo. Look at practically every top level comment here to see the reason.
MAGAs are shitty people. Gee, what a surprise.
even if they had lower levels of psychopathy, manipulativeness, callousness, and narcissism I would still hate them.
What I wonder is how much of that is innate versus learned.
Because it has been an increasing talking point among the right wing and evangelical churches that empathy is bad. And... a lot of that boils down to not having any.
Look at John Fetterman. He had a stroke, now he's conservative, callous, etc. so, I'd bet it's both nature and nurture, but the uneducated and religious are more likely to be conservative than liberal.
It's like the golden rule simply means as long as we each treat each other shitty we're good. There needs to be another qualifier, and empathy, or kindness, or something else also needs to be attached. But, look who's their leader! Clean. Your. House.
There is the Platinum Rule, which is to treat others how they would want to be treated. I've heard more references to it in the past few years than I have to the Golden Rule, so I take that as a good sign.
The silver rule is good too. “What you don’t want done to you, don’t do to others.”
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Science confirming what we already know lol
As it should. Just because we think we know something doesn’t mean we shouldn’t measure it.
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No shit, Sherlock.
Who'd have imagined that a state founded on genocide and slavery would be run by sociopaths? Always has been.
You needed to conduct official research to figure that one out?
I'm up in Canada in northern Ontario and I have a few friends (on very thin ground mind you), relatives and associates who support or agree with Trump or MAGA ..... and all of them are racist, show signs of psychopathy, are manipulative, are callous and are narcissists.
9/10 if I meet a total ignorant jerk, they'll be a MAGA idiot
it just baffled me how many of them there are. It kind of feels like at this point it’s human nature honestly.
It's not "human nature" or any other psuedo-science. It's the unsurprisingly result of an extremely fascist society. Literally founded on genocide and slavery. Both "parties" openly support genocide right now. This is what USA has always been.
It's just been made acceptable and even praised.
So everyone inclined is following suit.
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The sky is also blue.
I bet there’s a higher prevalence of coprophagia as well.
Don't forget pedophilia!
Such common knowledge I wasn’t sure it bore mentioning but a solid bet if you can find someone to take it!
In other news, astronauts have a higher chance of dying in space compared to someone who has never left their hometown
The Earth is ... in space.
Yes, and astronauts have a much riskier job, so they have a higher chance of dying in general.
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I would imagine it's an even wider scope than that... People who vote for bigoted, ignorant candidates are themselves bigoted and ignorant.
"LOOK AT THEM! THEY'RE JUST LIKE ME!"
(Votes)
Explains Michelle Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Josh Hawley, Jim Jordan, John Kennedy, etc. etc.
I find this hard to believe.
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