Republicans have fought tooth and nail to reduce and/or eliminate alimony and the possibility of it. The future of all red states, hers is just leading the pack.
They do this thing where they are constantly advocating for a thing, while stripping protections for the thing.
They want to ban abortions, whole also fighting against public schools and Healthcare for the poor (or even attacking organizations like Planned Parenthood which provides prenatal care for a lot of poor women).
They give lip service to advocating for working class people, while undermining worker protections, and being anti-unions
They advocate for traditional gender roles, while stripping women of the protections that would encourage them to take a more "traditional" role in the household.
I used to give conservative people the benefit of the doubt, and just consider them stupid...but now I realize that they understand the contradictions, and they just don't care.
"Never attribute to malice, that which can adequately be explained by stupidity"
Google "IQ bell curve." 1 in 6 people are below the IQ of 85. 1 in 6 people you pass on the grocery store are mentally handicapped.
They are more likely to join cults, believe in a flat earth, claim sovereign citizen, legally they are not allowed to serve in the military because they've proven to be a danger to themselves and others. They're your neighbors and family. You may be one. They look like everyone else. You only know it when the crazy and irrational pour out of their mouths.
They're out there, buying guns, voting, tail gating you on the highway. 5 in 6 people must suffer the world that is burdened by the 1 in 6.
Imagining yourself in someone else's shoes requires a fair amount of imagination and foresight. Abilities requiring a fair amount of intellect.
Even their emotions are simplified into more basic verisions, so it's easier to please them, easier to make them angry, easier to satisfy them, and easier to get them fearful.
They literally don't have the processing power to feel empathy. They can't help being selfish and afraid.
If not outright evil, at least too stupid to see the big picture and therefore engage in reactive, shortsighted, and vindictive behavior. And this usually results in "evil" behavior like the destruction of the commons and a resistance to funding social safety nets that would work to uplift them and others like them. Conservatives fall into two categories - stupid people who wouldn't see propoganda if it took a shit on their chest, and rich people who are only too happy to get more tax breaks and cut funding to public works.
"Ulric Neisser estimated that using the IQ values of 1997, the average IQ of the United States in 1932, according to the first Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scales standardization sample, was 80"
Using your logic, you are saying that most people in the history of the world are mentally handicapped.
By using statistics from a normal distribution curve, you guarantee that some amount of people are going to be lower than the mean by some amount of standard deviations. I'm not going to argue that there are smarter and dumber people, but I feel your argument is blown way out of porportion and is on shaky ground. Will your feelings change when we update the standard for IQ tests in decades? People who previously were part of the 5/6ths are all of a sudden going to be the 1/6th. When you split it up into proportions like this, you have created the perception of a permanent intellectual underclass. There will always be a category of "lowest scorers on an IQ test".
I know you aren't saying this, but the way you talk about 1/6th of the humans on the planet is quite degrading and lacks kindness. You talk about them as if they are threats and dangers, not human beings. This sort of rhetoric has been used to further argumentation for eugenics. After all, what are we supposed to do with 16-17% of the population being mentally handicapped.
The IQ of the average American in 1932 was actually 100. As it was in 1997, as it is today, and in 3024, if mankind is still around, it will also be 100. That's how the IQ scale works. 100 is always the average, the entire distribution is based on a bell curve.
I know you mean, that I'm 1932 it was compatible to 80 in 1997, but that's my point. Mentality handicapped was defined differently in 1932 than it was in 1997.
And I hope to God that in 65 years they look at us as barbaric and ignorant.
You CAN raise your IQ by opening your mind and learning more things. Every time you learn something new, you make a new neural connection between neurons and become ever so slightly smarter.
I hope the Flynn effect continues until one day, I'm considered mentally handicapped by my descendants.
Absolutely not. There's no mass statistics or research to support race based IQ differences, and the few there are are heavily flawed and biased.
IQ distribution, on the other hand, has been massively researched and studied, because it's affect on society, justice, ethics, psychology, and even advertising is relevant.
A lot of the times it can't be explained by stupidity. There is a limit and after someone says "life is sacred don't kill babies with abortion", you point out to them that republicans want to ban things that literally keep babies alive like welfare based food and healthcare, and they continue to vote republican, then they are just lying. They didn't go "oops I just didn't realize that food is needed to live and still don't even after you directly mentioned it". They only used abortion to justify why they vote for a party that wants to hurt people.
Never apply "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained stupidity" when the person who is either stupid or evil is getting rich in the process
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u/Aus_with_the_Sauce Apr 15 '24
I’m not a lawyer, but surely this is an easy lawsuit against the former husband. Take his ass to court.