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18 Nov 2010, 12:50 pm

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=12556

http://libertypundits.net/article/liber ... -politics/

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(2) a relatively cerebral as opposed to emotional intellectual style,
and (3) lower interdependence and social relatedness.


very asperger if you ask me

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Some of the more intriguing results reported in this study involve the Empathizer-Systemizer scale. The scale measures the tendency to empathize, defined as “the drive to identify another person’s emotions and thoughts, and to respond to these with an appropriate emotion,” and to systemize, or “the drive to analyze the variables in a system, and to derive the underlying rules that govern the behavior of the system.” Libertarians are the only group that scored higher on systemizing than on empathizing—and they scored a lot higher. The authors go on to suggest that systemizing is “characteristic of the male brain, with very extreme scores indicating autism.” They then add, “We might say that liberals have the most ‘feminine’ cognitive style, and libertarians the most ‘masculine.’” They speculate that the “feminizing” of the Democratic Party in the 1970s may thus explain why libertarians moved into the Republican Party in the 1980s.


Ditto!!

Asperger is just a form of extreme male brain

and Libertarians have a extreme male brain



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18 Nov 2010, 1:57 pm

The more intelligent a human is, the farther left in political orientation they are.The stupider the human is, the farther to the right they are. Why, just look at Glenn Beck and sarah Palin!



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18 Nov 2010, 3:03 pm

Grognard wrote:
The more intelligent a human is, the farther left in political orientation they are.The stupider the human is, the farther to the right they are. Why, just look at Glenn Beck and sarah Palin!


I am to the right and I am smarter than you.

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18 Nov 2010, 4:13 pm

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I suggest you stop drinking the Kool-Aid.


you first. :roll:


Kinda hard to stop drinking something I never started drinking in the first place.



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18 Nov 2010, 4:36 pm

Grognard wrote:
The more intelligent a human is, the farther left in political orientation they are.The stupider the human is, the farther to the right they are. Why, just look at Glenn Beck and sarah Palin!


I'm smarter than most people here and i'm economically far-right



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19 Nov 2010, 12:32 am

@LibertarianAS: you have yet to demonstrate that.

@Inuyasha:
this link
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladni ... z15a5SM7AB
leads to a right-wing website that has the stated purpose of 'combatting the liberal media.' Furthermore, the fact that the 'New Party' endorsed Obama (or even that he is claimed as a member on some of its sites) does not necessarily mean that he was aware of the party's existence, much less that he was a member.
finally, even if it were true that Obama was a member of a socialist party at one point, the economic advisors he chose and the actions he has taken thus far prove that he is far from being a socialist since being elected president.



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19 Nov 2010, 12:37 am

I know newsbusters is right wing, however the article gave its sources which included an Archive site to retrieve the information.

Furthermore I saw the information on that Socialist Group's site before they scrubbed it and also saw an hour after I had seen it they had scrubbed it.



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19 Nov 2010, 12:38 am

None of which contradicts what I wrote above.



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19 Nov 2010, 12:48 am

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None of which contradicts what I wrote above.


Just because a site leans to the right, doesn't mean its information is wrong. Newsbusters does not have a bad reputation of making stuff up unlike the sources you have used repeatedly. In fact the sources you have used have been paid money to specifically smear conservatives.

As far as Economic Advisors do you mean people like:

Turbo Tax Cheat Tim Geitner.

Or how about some of his czars (Van Jones lost his position because Glenn Beck unearthed some information about Jones).
http://www.associatedcontent.com/articl ... tisan.html



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19 Nov 2010, 12:50 am

Inuyasha, despite not liking the source that you are defending over and over, I also contradicted the arguments in the article. You still have not addressed those arguments.



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19 Nov 2010, 12:52 am

LKL wrote:
finally, even if it were true that Obama was a member of a socialist party at one point, the economic advisors he chose and the actions he has taken thus far prove that he is far from being a socialist since being elected president.

I would say exactly the opposite is the case. It's exactly the details of Obama's actions - how the GM bailout was done, how the "stimulus" bill was set up, Obama's health care bill - that are as socialist as it was possible for him to be, given the constraints about what could make it through Congress.



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19 Nov 2010, 9:45 am

psychohist wrote:
LKL wrote:
finally, even if it were true that Obama was a member of a socialist party at one point, the economic advisors he chose and the actions he has taken thus far prove that he is far from being a socialist since being elected president.

I would say exactly the opposite is the case. It's exactly the details of Obama's actions - how the GM bailout was done, how the "stimulus" bill was set up, Obama's health care bill - that are as socialist as it was possible for him to be, given the constraints about what could make it through Congress.


Are you referring to the GM bailout that actually worked? Bush just handed out a bunch of cash to the auto industry without any repayment request, and it didn't even work. Yesterday GM earned raised over $20 billion at it's IPO, the biggest IPO of common stock ever. Our stake is now 33% and and it's still possible for us to receive a full refund in the future.



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19 Nov 2010, 10:12 am

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Are you referring to the GM bailout that actually worked? Bush just handed out a bunch of cash to the auto industry without any repayment request, and it didn't even work. Yesterday GM earned raised over $20 billion at it's IPO, the biggest IPO of common stock ever. Our stake is now 33% and and it's still possible for us to receive a full refund in the future.


In the mean time has GM (Government Motors) produced a decent automobile?

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19 Nov 2010, 10:58 am

ruveyn wrote:
number5 wrote:

Are you referring to the GM bailout that actually worked? Bush just handed out a bunch of cash to the auto industry without any repayment request, and it didn't even work. Yesterday GM earned raised over $20 billion at it's IPO, the biggest IPO of common stock ever. Our stake is now 33% and and it's still possible for us to receive a full refund in the future.


In the mean time has GM (Government Motors) produced a decent automobile?

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I think there has been marked improvement. But the point is that they wouldn't be making any cars at all without some sort of government intervention. Unemployment is easily our greatest problem and it would have been much worse if we lost GM.

The problem has been solved at little or no cost to the taxpayer.

Edited for brain fart (I included Ford in my original comment and Ford is not part of GM)



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19 Nov 2010, 1:05 pm

The smartest people are the dumbest in lots of areas, especially politics because their intellect is confined to a narrow range of human experience. That is they are blinded by their intelligence and what the society they grew up in values. They are unable to effectively self-criticize because of their narrow cognitive style and lack of being able to take others perspectives beside their own.



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19 Nov 2010, 2:00 pm

Intelligence has absolutely nothing to do with political orientation. There are idiots and geniuses at every point on the political spectrum.

For followers of one movement to suggest that followers of another are less intelligent is to demonstrate a complete failure to look around at their fellow travellers.


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