Lefties proven (again) to tend smarter than right-wingers

[Maxmars]

The topic.... the presumable left being populated by measurably higher-IQs...

seems to gravitate towards some very intelligent things crafted and executed by very intelligent people...
which turned out to be disastrous for pretty much all things living... 
it seems to compliment the fact that idiots who buy power...
could really stand to hear less from those who agree with them...
(because they always "miss" something important, as it always turns out)...
and more from people who will explain why they disagree.

To me it stands clear... no need to say who is whom, or how nazi-like or righteous their opinions are...

People are the executors of ideology.
The always have been.
Even governments KNOW the dangers of the 'actual' triggers...

Ideologies are an "algorithm" of control... nothing more.
The most favorable "human algorithm" has yet to be compiled...
And we are gifted with partisans that will not evolve in any way.
(Now, they are only tools for entertainment, partisan cheer leading, and 'excuses.')

They chose a platform to abuse and exploit...
and as usual...
they destroyed their own selves.

... but it was entertaining, wasn't it?
Success for the circus.

But I can assure, neither US party gives a shit about anything other than "how they look."
They really are celebrity talking heads... that's all.

...and I doubt other than virtue words, it's very much the same in any other country.

The "politician soul" is squarely up all their asses... and the old tricks no longer works like they used to.
Each nation may posture and peacock all they like, why not? We do.

But success, on the part of the people you rely on to declare it, most often is a flat-out lie.
Regardless of whatever ideology is in place anywhere at any point in history...
None were solutions to address the human condition... (in a secular sense.)

Even every single one of our cherished ideologies is predicated upon forging humans into a behavior that only speaks to the moment, a circumstance... and therefore needs something desperately lacking in the 'political models' we experience today (at least.)

Intelligence offers something that both is, and rejects, wisdom at the same time.

Human beings are not "widgets," nor are we "programmable" (as those so inclined to do may wish.)
My supposition for reticence to accept IQ as a 'measure' of a human being is based upon the certainty that defining 'metered standards' to measure humans 'feels' likely the wrong approach to study the manifestation of individual intellects in society.

[Astyanax]

When do you plan on dictating to people what they can and cannot do?

You’re hallucinating again, old-timer. Take your meds.
 

You must develop the ability to be disliked in order to free yourself from the prison of other people's opinions.

This deserves comment.

The ‘ability to be disliked’ is nothing but the ability to do and say nasty things to other people. We all have that; no big deal. The great thing is not to be upset and angered by other people’s opinions, and your posts on this website and its predecessor amply and repeatedly demonstrate that you are incapable of achieving this. Your sarcasm is merely a transparent veil for your fury at what you call 'the left' or 'Communists' – that is, anyone who disagrees with you.

Time to go home, old fellow. Your day here is done.

[Byrd]

And since you brought up epidemiology, shouldn't you have cringed at the thought of concentrating vectors to expose the most people?

I did. 

Every time a big church opened its doors in spite of an epidemic, every sports event during the epidemic, every time I saw shopper crowds at Walmart (I quit shopping there), every big party or family gathering, every announcement of a teacher's death (here in Texas, schools opened early in the pandemic) -- I grieved for the ones lost. 

Every time a friend who couldn't get the vaccine died, I grieved.

[Byrd]

You are confusing the point of the thread with the official boilerplate of the US Democratic party.

I was responding to a statement that aligned one party with the Nazis, pointing out that it's not correct to align any party with the Nazis -- other than the US NeoNazis. 

You can find the occasional blowhard who espouses some of that stuff, but characterizing a single party on an imaginary correlation to Nazis is neither accurate nor a good tactic for good discussion.

As to "why they would think higher IQ for lefties" -- I would point out that the left has a higher proportion of college educated people.   So there's an inherent bias in the selection.   If you sampled college educated right wingers, the difference would disappear.

[DBCowboy]

You’re hallucinating again, old-timer. Take your meds.
 

This deserves comment.

The ‘ability to be disliked’ is nothing but the ability to do and say nasty things to other people. We all have that; no big deal. The great thing is not to be upset and angered by other people’s opinions, and your posts on this website and its predecessor amply and repeatedly demonstrate that you are incapable of achieving this. Your sarcasm is merely a transparent veil for your fury at what you call 'the left' or 'Communists' – that is, anyone who disagrees with you.

Time to go home, old fellow. Your day here is done.

Ummmmmmm, no.  Just tired of being polite.  The evil communist left is, evil.  Communist.

Just look at open borders, letting criminals free, backing illegal aliens instead of US citizens.

The evil communist left has no monopoly on intelligence.

Just the opposite.

They parrot what they are told to parrot.

[DBCowboy]

I did. 

Every time a big church opened its doors in spite of an epidemic, every sports event during the epidemic, every time I saw shopper crowds at Walmart (I quit shopping there), every big party or family gathering, every announcement of a teacher's death (here in Texas, schools opened early in the pandemic) -- I grieved for the ones lost. 

Every time a friend who couldn't get the vaccine died, I grieved.

Yet you supported shutdowns and keeping big-box stores open, focusing people into assured vectors.

People died because of a manufactured virus deliberately spread by China.

How we reacted to it, embarrassed me to the core.

[chr0naut]

Yet you supported shutdowns and keeping big-box stores open, focusing people into assured vectors.

People died because of a manufactured virus deliberately spread by China.

How we reacted to it, embarrassed me to the core.

No-one in the early stages knew how to to make an immunization against the SARS-CoV-2 virus, so it's unlikely at that stage that anyone could have manufactured it.

To have manufactured the virus via 'gain of function' would require technology that we didn't really have and would also probably require millions of generations of millions of individual live cultures to achieve (that's a fairly massive operation and would leave a lot of physical evidence, equipment, lots of staff/operators and documents that it had been done - none of which were actually seen by the multiple international groups that looked for it).

If China deliberately spread it, then the USA deliberately spread it too, because both countries didn't stop people from flying OUT to other countries from their 'hot zones'.

[DBCowboy]

No-one in the early stages knew how to to make an immunization against the SARS-CoV-2 virus, so it's unlikely at that stage that anyone could have manufactured it.

To have manufactured the virus via 'gain of function' would require technology that we didn't really have and would also probably require millions of generations of millions of individual live cultures to achieve (that's a fairly massive operation and would leave a lot of physical evidence, equipment, lots of staff/operators and documents that it had been done - none of which were actually seen by the multiple international groups that looked for it).

If China deliberately spread it, then the USA deliberately spread it too, because both countries didn't stop people from flying OUT to other countries from their 'hot zones'.

If we had stopped people flying in, you'd have called us a dictator.

[Solvedit]

This deserves comment.

The ‘ability to be disliked’ is nothing but the ability to do and say nasty things to other people. We all have that; no big deal. The great thing is not to be upset and angered by other people’s opinions...

Charlie Kirk wasn't even that nasty but he was shot for his ideas.  The left cheered.

[DBCowboy]

Charlie Kirk wasn't even that nasty but he was shot for his ideas.  The left cheered.

That just shows how low their IQ actually is.