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Why are "conservatives" so bad at logic?
It’s a feature, alongside hypocrisy. And, it’s unavoidable when your entire movement is centered around slavish obsequiousness to the most narcissistic and overtly ignorant person in the history of US federal politics. It then becomes a self perpetuating ecosystem of illogic and gaslighting. Not to mention, maga gives the excuse for these people to show their true colors, as opposed to spending energy suppressing their main character syndrome and bigotries.Why are "conservatives" so bad at logic?
TDSWhy are "conservatives" so bad at logic?
Thinking requires effort, and you sometimes don't get the result you want. Emotion is easy, and you always get the answer you want. In between, if you have a trusted authority (trump, fox news, etc) who supplies information, you don't have to waste time, energy, and effort with thinking and logic.Why are "conservatives" so bad at logic?
Many conservatives think concretely and lack the capacity for abstract thought...Why are "conservatives" so bad at logic?
Complete lack of empathy. They knew bad things would happen. They knew bad things would happen to people like them. They did not think it would impact them personally, and they only ever consider themselves.Why are "conservatives" so bad at logic?
I remember my very first poast on the old IC ZZLP claiming that Pubs and conservatives lacked the wherewithal to be empathic - they lacked the capacity to feel empathy - and Super jumped all over me saying he absolutely HATED claims like that... I was excoriated on the board in a manner that only Super can do. I was like: "who is THIS guy?"Complete lack of empathy. They knew bad things would happen. They knew bad things would happen to people like them. They did not think it would impact them personally, and they only ever consider themselves.
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Iowa hit with mass layoffs right after unemployment benefits cut
It's a move that has triggered political backlash and renewed scrutiny of recent changes to the state's unemployment benefits.www.newsweek.com
Whirlpool Corporation will lay off 651 workers at its manufacturing plant in Amana, Iowa, the company announced this week.
It's a move that has triggered political backlash and renewed scrutiny of recent changes to the state's unemployment benefits.
The layoffs, effective June 1, represent the largest in Iowa since Tyson Foods closed its Perry facility last year, affecting 1,276 workers.
Why It Matters
The job losses come just weeks after Iowa's Republican-led Legislature reduced the duration of unemployment benefits available to workers affected by plant layoffs and closings, a move that labor leaders and Democratic lawmakers argue leaves displaced workers with fewer options during economic uncertainty.
Wait, the tariffs and republican policies were supposed to create manufacturing...![]()
Iowa hit with mass layoffs right after unemployment benefits cut
It's a move that has triggered political backlash and renewed scrutiny of recent changes to the state's unemployment benefits.www.newsweek.com
Whirlpool Corporation will lay off 651 workers at its manufacturing plant in Amana, Iowa, the company announced this week.
It's a move that has triggered political backlash and renewed scrutiny of recent changes to the state's unemployment benefits.
The layoffs, effective June 1, represent the largest in Iowa since Tyson Foods closed its Perry facility last year, affecting 1,276 workers.
Why It Matters
The job losses come just weeks after Iowa's Republican-led Legislature reduced the duration of unemployment benefits available to workers affected by plant layoffs and closings, a move that labor leaders and Democratic lawmakers argue leaves displaced workers with fewer options during economic uncertainty.
Apparently, when people can't afford to buy food, they need less fancy refrigerators.Wait, the tariffs and republican policies were supposed to create manufacturing...
Why is Whirlpool laying off people, did they miss the message?
You mean like groceries? Groceries that wonderful little word that on one uses? That bag with stuff in it? That bag filled with grocery?Apparently, when people can't afford to buy food, they need less fancy refrigerators.
I know this has already been mentioned here many times, but the complacent, delusional "oh, it won't happen to me, they're talking about someone else, not "good" immigrants/citizens like me" attitude is truly something to behold. And to be fair it's not just Latino immigrants or citizens, it's a number of minority groups in which Trump made gains and people expressed sentiments like these.Leonardo Baez and Nora Avila-Guel’s bakery in the Texas community of Los Fresnos is a daily stop for many residents to share gossip over coffee and pick up cakes and pastries for birthdays, office parties or themselves.
When Homeland Security Investigations agents showed up at Abby’s Bakery in February and arrested the owners and eight employees, residents of Los Fresnos were shocked. Abby’s Bakery doesn’t employ violent criminals and Baez and Avila-Guel are not the people who border czar Tom Homan calls the “worst of the worst” and says are the priority for mass deportations.
“I was surprised because I know that they’re not taking advantage of the people,” Esteban Rodriguez, 43, said after pulling into the bakery’s parking lot to discover it was closed. “It was more like helping out people. They didn’t have nowhere to go, instead of them being on the streets.”
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The reaction in the town of 8,500 residents may show the limits of support for President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown in a majority Hispanic region dotted with fields of cotton, sugarcane and red grapefruit where Republicans made gains in last year’s elections. Cameron County voted for a GOP president for the first time since 2004. For neighboring Starr County, it was the first time since 1896.
Now, Baez and Avila-Guel, a Mexican couple who are legal U.S. permanent residents, could lose everything after being accused of concealing and harboring immigrants who were in the U.S. illegally. It’s a rare case in which business owners face criminal charges rather than just a fine.
Im shocked that this didn't happen to white business owners who do the same.Leonardo Baez and Nora Avila-Guel’s bakery in the Texas community of Los Fresnos is a daily stop for many residents to share gossip over coffee and pick up cakes and pastries for birthdays, office parties or themselves.
When Homeland Security Investigations agents showed up at Abby’s Bakery in February and arrested the owners and eight employees, residents of Los Fresnos were shocked. Abby’s Bakery doesn’t employ violent criminals and Baez and Avila-Guel are not the people who border czar Tom Homan calls the “worst of the worst” and says are the priority for mass deportations.
“I was surprised because I know that they’re not taking advantage of the people,” Esteban Rodriguez, 43, said after pulling into the bakery’s parking lot to discover it was closed. “It was more like helping out people. They didn’t have nowhere to go, instead of them being on the streets.”
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The reaction in the town of 8,500 residents may show the limits of support for President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown in a majority Hispanic region dotted with fields of cotton, sugarcane and red grapefruit where Republicans made gains in last year’s elections. Cameron County voted for a GOP president for the first time since 2004. For neighboring Starr County, it was the first time since 1896.
Now, Baez and Avila-Guel, a Mexican couple who are legal U.S. permanent residents, could lose everything after being accused of concealing and harboring immigrants who were in the U.S. illegally. It’s a rare case in which business owners face criminal charges rather than just a fine.