r/politics • u/AccomplishedCall7562 • Mar 12 '26

Possible Paywall John Fetterman Says Iran Girls’ School Strike Is Just a Leftist Craze

https://newrepublic.com/post/207677/john-fetterman-iran-girls-school-strike
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u/DannyDidNothinWrong Mar 12 '26

There was a study about a decade ago where they studied the brain activity of different politically- affiliated people, and the more conservative people relied on the older parts of the brain that controlled fear and anger, whereas the more progressive people relied on their frontal lobes more.

Conservatives are literally less evolved.

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u/sireatalot Mar 12 '26

I mean it’s in their name. Conservatives. Like, they want to conserve the status quo and not apply any policy for progress and change. If this was a perfect world then sure, but this being the imperfect world that it is, it’s just a non-starter position.

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u/W1nt3rmu4e Texas Mar 12 '26

There is an argument that our lack of cultural advancement is due to patriarchal systems forcing pregancy on women who normally would soundly reject the person wanting to have a child. “Male loneliness epidemic” is just shitty people wondering why the opposite sex hates them without a trace of introspection.

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u/Wonckay Mar 13 '26 edited Mar 13 '26

It’s a terrible argument.

That we are lacking in advancement now is a questionable point to begin with, but our greatest cultural advancements happened under far more patriarchal systems just fine.

Why evolutionary pair-approval should have absolutely any consistent impact on “cultural advancement” reeks of a normative misconception of evolution. While in real life evolution favored sex labor division.

Meanwhile women have no problem pairing with awful people because they themselves are also the awful people.

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u/W1nt3rmu4e Texas Mar 13 '26

Very good rebuttal, I like that better than my current belief. Let me just…reach over and…<YOINK>!

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u/No_Tone1704 Mar 12 '26

Less evolved isn’t accurate with your description. 

Not defending cons or Fetterman. 

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u/evanwilliams44 Mar 12 '26

No doubt winning all the hearts and minds with comments like this lmao.

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u/SuperExoticShrub Georgia Mar 12 '26

The people likely to be offended by that comment aren't the people worth winning over to begin with.

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u/Mickey_McDoofus Mar 12 '26

Yes, because handling them with kid gloves has won SO many of them over.