Liberals are smarter...
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- technikiller0
Republicans – thats what scares people these days.
Them, and um, Democrats....
– Todd Snider
- luckyorphan0
This belongs in the Politics thread.
- ...as fun as it is to read.luckyorphan
- this article isn't about politics, just the headlinewhatsup
- joeth0
- oh snapacedeuce
- lol "readitandweap.jpg"bigtrickagain
- Mississippi's IQ = Mild mental retardation. LOLutopian
- mormons=moronsacedeuce
- drgss0
"unconventional preferences appeal to people with higher intelligence"
sums everything up
- eating_tv0
Green party. ANYone?
- GeorgesII0
Can wait for cocky atheist vs fundamentalist christian shoutfest
* gets popcorn
- luckyorphan0
Religion, the current theory goes, did not help people survive or reproduce necessarily, but goes along the lines of helping people to be paranoid, Kanazawa said. Assuming that, for example, a noise in the distance is a signal of a threat helped early humans to prepare in case of danger.
"It helps life to be paranoid, and because humans are paranoid, they become more religious, and they see the hands of God everywhere," Kanazawa said.
- It's conclusions like that that make intellectuals sound like a-holes.luckyorphan
- Regardless of how correct they might be.luckyorphan
- lol - the truth hurts those who can't handle itsequoia
- I don't know why that would be offensiveukit
- GeorgesII0
seriously fuck existentialism. they are as fucked up as extremist.
you take a line and plot on either opposite point religious fanatics and at the other side existentialist, and you got both side of nuttiest folks.
- iCanHasQBN0
you know, i hate it when a liberal says something intelligent, or tries to explain a concept to a conservative, and then the conservative always accuses the liberal of being an elitist or arrogant. they're so insecure. like if we aren't as dumb as a rock (like them), then we're "elitists" or something (implying that it's a bad thing).
i WANT these "elitists" running the world. they have much higher standards and expectations.
- ...just commenting on the comments on cnn.iCanHasQBN
- You serioulsy think dumb people rule the world ahhahaha comon, bush may appear stupid but he did his jobGeorgesII
- job in such a good way that you can't arguee that he's smarter than all usGeorgesII
- bush didnt rule anything. cheney and his cronies were running shit. W was nothing but a puppet.iCanHasQBN
- mikotondria30
I think the baiting of intellectualism from the right is very strongly related to the religious mistrust of science, something that has been in tension since the reformation, the enlightenment, luther, galileo, right through to today's attempts to force Intelligent Design into schools, and the rallying around against the new atheist movement.
- 762mm0
Organized religion has always been about keeping the people in order. Telling people how to live their lives through fear and scary fairy tale bed time stories written by a group of people with their own agendas in mind. When this fuses with politics, you have a state of zombie like sheeple. This can be exemplified in what you call "Middle America / the South".
- xcarlx0
"faith is making a virtue out of not thinking"
- ukit0
- GeorgesII0
Die America, die.
- Drgss