Funny you should mention that; guess where I don't work anymore?
But yes, absolutely right. While I honestly believed (and still do) in what the company is doing and really wanted to do my part in making it work, I'm not going to bother pouring so much of myself into work if I don't get treated as an equal. Honestly there were so many red flags before that too, thinking back, but that was definitely the last straw. Took me a while to get the message, heh
Being human. I'd like to point out that a lot of frankly incredibly fucked up things happened before '00 too – in general, modern times are actually much less what the fuck than any point in human history, but human nature is still human nature.
Not saying that everything is fine, just that the root cause of all this bullshit is us. We're the what the fuck.
Unfortunately, for some "leaders" it won't make any difference what the numbers say about 4 day work weeks.
I tried to get it implemented at a company that I co-founded, and despite presenting multiple studies showing that we would very likely save money and be more efficient, our CEO simply ignored them and kept repeating that a 4 day week wouldn't be efficient. They had zero interest in what statistics and studies say; they're the CEO and if their gut feeling says 4 days bad, then 4 days bad (and no their decision wasn't due to them having information I didn't have). I've heard similar stories from others.
Hopefully the results of this trial won't just get ignored and forgotten.
Frankly I'd tend to agree, it doesn't seem likely there'd be a lot of them exactly because… well, gestures around broadly
But now that I think about this, even though the effect on swing voters could well be pretty inconsequential, the shooting might well "reactivate" some Republicans who weren't necessarily going to vote – although I've understood that their turnout is often a higher than the Dems', it's still not 100%. Now whether that is likely or what the size of the effect could be isn't something I'm really qualified to speculate on, I'm just a random Yuropean who woke up this morning to find that while I was sleeping somebody apparently tried to murk Trump.
I don't think people mean that D voters will suddenly vote from Trump because somebody tried to murk him, but that it might get sympathy from swing voters. If that'd have any real effect on the outcome is anybody's guess, but I'd wager it probably won't matter all that much.
But yeah, in any case I figure that – like you said – the most "visible" outcome of this will be more political violence from the right.
[T]here exists a solid empirical paper trail demonstrating that lower cognitive abilities (e.g., abstract-reasoning skills and verbal, nonverbal, and general intelligence) predict greater prejudice. We discuss how the effects of lower cognitive ability on prejudice are explained (i.e., mediated) by greater endorsement of right-wing socially conservative attitude. […]
Right-wing ideologies offer well-structured and ordered views about society that preserve traditional societal conventions and norms (e.g., Jost, Glaser, Kruglanski, & Sulloway, 2003). Such ideological belief systems are particularly attractive to individuals who are strongly motivated to avoid uncertainty and ambiguity in preference for simplicity and predictability (Jost et al., 2003; Roets & Van Hiel, 2011). Theoretically, individuals with lower mental abilities should be attracted by right-wing social-cultural ideologies because they minimize complexity and increase perceived control (Heaven, Ciarrochi, & Leeson, 2011; Stankov, 2009). Conversely, individuals with greater cognitive skills are better positioned to understand changing and dynamic societal contexts, which should facilitate open-minded, relatively left-leaning attitudes (Deary et al., 2008a; Heaven et al., 2011; McCourt, Bouchard, Lykken, Tellegen, & Keyes, 1999). Lower cognitive abilities therefore draw people to strategies and ideologies that emphasize what is presently known and considered acceptable to make sense and impose order over their environment. Resistance to social change and the preservation of the status quo regarding societal traditions—key principles underpinning right-wing social-cultural ideologies—should be particularly appealing to those wishing to avoid uncertainty and threat.
Indeed, the empirical literature reveals negative relations between cognitive abilities and right-wing social-cultural attitudes, including right-wing authoritarian (e.g., Keiller, 2010; McCourt et al., 1999), socially conservative (e.g., Stankov, 2009; Van Hiel et al., 2010), and religious attitudes (e.g., Zuckerman, Silberman, & Hall, 2013).
I love it when people think that the only reason someone wouldn't agree with them is because they're uninformed or stupid. It couldn't possibly be that people could disagree with your premises, it's definitely just that they aren't informed enough to agree with your galaxy brain take
Oh yeah it wasn't an absolute win, but they did gain a lot more seats and in general even extremist right wing parties are now much more mainstream – look at how eg. "moderate" conservatives are lining up to kiss Meloni's ring and/or ass, and she's a literal fucking neofascist from a party that's descended from the original Fascist Party. And then there's the clusterfuck we have here in Finland…
All's not lost, but it ain't going that great either.
dactylotheca @ dactylotheca @suppo.fi Posts 49Comments 647Joined 1 yr. ago
Imagine how old I fucking feel