James Edwin Yokeley Jr. — the 66-year-old Republican chairman of the Surry County, North Carolina, Board of Elections — faces serious criminal charges after authorities in Wilmington, North Carolina, revealed he allegedly slipped illegal drugs into his granddaughters' ice cream.According to Raleigh,...
I swear to god Republicans are wasting their talents on politics. They have such amazing imaginations. they should be writers or artists or something. like I highly doubt any of us would think “fuck Dairy Queen, I hate Dairy Queen. I know! i’ll go buy some MDMA and Cocaine and then plant it in their Ice Cream…that’ll show them!”
or Jewish Space Lasers. or Flat Earths. or any of that. Sure DiscWorld exists but wouldn’t you want to watch a movie about Jewish Space Lasers? …oh right Spaceballs.
Ok maybe Republicans aren’t talented they just rip off other peoples ideas.
You’re kinda on to something.
In my late-stage activism, I have been studying neurology, and i’m convinced that conservatives are people who don’t have abstraction/language skills to be able to think critically… however, what the brain does best is invent stories. It’s all it does actually, it writes stories to explain your feelings and experiences, and those stories don’t have to be logical or make sense, it just tries to string together any old wild narrative to make things connect… this is where depressive rumination comes from, which CBT tries to treat and stop, and this is also where conspiracy theories come from.
Conservatives are highly emotional, so their stories are WILD and unpredictable, and this is why they seem to be able to hold so many conflicting ideas at once. It would be genuinely fascinating if they didn’t want to kill us all 😶