SPYING 1 Posted March 29, 2022 Author Share Posted March 29, 2022 Housing market: Americans seek alternative living arrangements as home prices soar FINANCE.YAHOO.COM Yahoo Finance Contributor Vera Gibbons joins the Live show to discuss first-time homebuyers'... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPYING 1 Posted March 29, 2022 Author Share Posted March 29, 2022 Some doctors say a focus on profits is hurting health care in U.S. ERs WWW.NBCNEWS.COM A doctor fired after criticizing care at the ER he ran said execs are focused on the financial... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StnCld316 Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 5 minutes ago, SPYING 1 said: Some doctors say a focus on profits is hurting health care in U.S. ERs WWW.NBCNEWS.COM A doctor fired after criticizing care at the ER he ran said execs are focused on the financial... It's all about the money. They really don't give a fuck what happens to anyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgerunner Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 8 hours ago, letsdothis said: America's struggle for democracy and freedom against authoritarianism is taking place on a biological level as well. Social psychologists and other researchers have shown that the brain structures of conservative-authoritarians are different than those of more liberal and progressive thinkers. The former are more fear-centered, emphasizing threats and dangers (negativity bias), intolerant of ambiguity and inclined to simple, binary solutions. Conservative-authoritarians are also strongly attracted to moral hierarchy and social dominance behavior. Recent research by Darren Sherkat, a professor of sociology at Southern Illinois University, demonstrates that America's democracy crisis may be even more intractable than the above evidence suggests. In his recent article 'Cognitive Sophistication, Religion, and the Trump Vote,' which appeared in the January 2021 edition of Social Science Quarterly, Sherkat examined data from the 2018 General Social Survey and concluded that there are substantial negative differences between the thinking processes and cognition of white Trump voters, as shown in the 2016 presidential election, as compared to other voters who supported Hillary Clinton or another candidate, or who did not vote at all. Sherkat observes that Trump support has been linked to religion and level of education, but until now not to 'cognitive sophistication,' which was found 'to have a positive effect on voting, but a negative effect on choosing Trump.' He notes that 'philosophers and political elites have debated the potential effects of mass political participation' for generations, concerned 'about the unsophisticated masses coming under the sway of a demagogue.' In effect, this debate was always about the quality he calls cognitive sophistication, since citizens who lack it 'may not be able to understand and access reliable and valid information about political issues and may be vulnerable to political propaganda': Low levels of cognitive sophistication may lead people to embrace simple cognitive shortcuts, like stereotypes and prejudices that were amplified by the Trump campaign. Additionally, the simple linguistic style presented by Trump may have appealed to voters with limited education and cognitive sophistication. Beginning with [T.W.] Adorno's classic study of the authoritarian personality, empirical works have linked low levels of cognitive sophistication with right-wing orientations.... Trump's campaign may also have been more attractive to people with low cognitive sophistication and a preference for low-effort information processing because compared to other candidates, Trump's speeches were given at a much lower reading level…. While much of the Trump campaign's rhetoric and orientation may have resonated with the poorly educated and cognitively unsophisticated, those overlapping groups are less likely to register to vote or to turn out in an election. As part of his research, Sherkat evaluated the political decision-making and cognition of Trump's voters, using a 10-point vocabulary exam. In a guest essay at the website Down with Tyranny, he explains what this vocabulary test revealed about white Trump voters: Overall, the model predicts that almost 73% of respondents who missed all 10 questions would vote for Trump (remember, that is controlling for education and the other factors), while about 51% who were average on the exam are expected to vote for Trump. Only 35% of people who had a perfect score on the exam are predicted to be Trump supporters. Notably, this very strong, significant effect of verbal ability can be identified within educational groups. While non-college whites certainly turned out more heavily for Trump, the smart ones did not — only 38% of those with perfect scores are expected to go for Trump, and only 46% of non-college graduates who scored a standard deviation above the mean. The same is true for college graduates — low cognition college graduates were more likely to vote for Trump. ... What is really depressing isn't just the poles of the vocabulary exam, it's the average. The mean and median of the scale is 6 — so half of white Americans missed 4 of the easy vocabulary questions. This sounds like some more elitist liberal progressive intellectual bullshit from people who no longer even know the difference between a man and a woman. Depending upon what your bias is you can design a study to say whatever you want it to say. I notice you didn't list the questions from the study. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgerunner Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 7 hours ago, happyone said: So to sum this thesis up--only stupid people will support and vote for Trump . And brilliant people voted for Biden, right? How did that work out for the country? One thing I know for certain is that this country was in a hell of a lot better shape when Trump was president than it is right now. If not for covid, Trump would still be president and America would be in great shape. Also, it is the liberal elitist who run the news media and social media who are limiting free speech in the U.S., not Donald Trump supporters. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgerunner Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 7 hours ago, happyone said: So to sum this thesis up--only stupid people will support and vote for Trump . And that is what the researcher believed before he did the study, so he designed a study that he knew would support his belief just like the design of many climate change studies. 4 hours ago, SPYING 1 said: New report: 255,000 ‘excess votes’ for Biden in six key 2020 states WWW.WASHINGTONEXAMINER.COM A new deep dive into discrepancies in the ballot counts of six key battleground states in... Thank you for posting this. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
letsdothis Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 10 hours ago, happyone said: So to sum this thesis up--only stupid people will support and vote for Trump . Apparently, that's what his research determined. Obviously, there will be exceptions. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicholas Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 8 hours ago, Ridgerunner said: This sounds like some more elitist liberal progressive intellectual bullshit from people who no longer even know the difference between a man and a woman. Depending upon what your bias is you can design a study to say whatever you want it to say. I notice you didn't list the questions from the study. Those kinds of articles are nothing more than just more b.s. from someone who is referred to as Darren Sherkat who is obviously biased and lacks common sense but attempts to seem intellectual just like many like minded wacko's of those affiliations do. The term 'level of education' being mentioned as well as the term 'cognitive sophistication' particularly being mentioned six times between the 2nd and 5th paragraph in addition to the terms 'poorly educated' and 'cognitively unsophisticaticated' being later mentioned, should let anyone know all they need to know in that regard. It is highly likely that whoever the individual actually is, that the individual likely voted for the corrupt and crooked worthless Hillary Clinton, and the corrupt, crooked, and seriously cognitively impaired worthless puppet known as Joe Biden which would reveal more than enough of that individual's so called 'levels of education' and 'cognitive sophistication'. It probably took whoever decided to come up with such b.s. ever since the crook HRC was unsuccessful to do so. The individual will probably be thinking of whatever b.s. can be conjured up next after the first day of reckoning arrives seven months from now, and again after the next days of reckoning arrive two years from then, if the individual can recover from the unsophisticated cognitive meltdown that will most likely be experienced once again by themself and any other like minded individuals. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPYING 1 Posted March 29, 2022 Author Share Posted March 29, 2022 Prosecutors gathering evidence about Hunter Biden's foreign income: THEHILL.COM A federal tax investigation into Hunter Biden is ramping up as prosecutors gather more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarLight28 Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 On 28.3.2022 at 06:16, Ridgerunner said: Scheiß auf das deutsche öffentlich-rechtliche Fernsehen. Diese unehrlichen liberalen progressiven Dummköpfe sind genauso uninformiert über die USA wie Sie. "Detaillierte Dokumentation?" Geben Sie mir den Namen einer schwarzen Person, die bei den Wahlen 2020 nicht wählen durfte. Wahrscheinlich Nachrichtenreporter, die genauso unehrlich sind wie der „Spiegel“-Reporter Claas Relotius, der in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, eine Negativ-Story über Trump-Wähler komplett fabrizierte. Informiere Dich selbst und glaube nicht länger der dummen Trump-Scheisse. Öffentlich rechtliches TV gibt es in Deutschland. Hier und in den USA gibt es privates Dummen-TV. Und DU glaubst nur an der dummen Privat-TV-Scheisse - Dein Hirn ist von Dummheit infiltriert. Du bist kein offener Gesprächspartner mit neutraler Information. Gehe zurück in Deine braune Trump-Höhle. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarLight28 Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 On 3/28/2022 at 6:27 AM, Ridgerunner said: The pompous failed German politician thinks he knows more about the U.S. than do American citizens who have lived their whole lives in the U.S. LMAO Genau richtig ! Du kennst Dein eigenes Land nicht richtig, und die blutige Geschichte schon gar nicht. Du bist Amerikaner, ok, aber Du bist auch ein Narr, der nur von dummen Privat-TV in den USA manipuliert wurde. Armer Bubi. Deiner "Pseudo-Biografie" mit Vietnam und so - ich glaube kein Wort davon. Du bist genau so "glaubwürdig" wie Dein Adlatus, das "Speiende Etwas" - zu deutsch zum kotzen ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarLight28 Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 On 3/28/2022 at 6:30 AM, Ridgerunner said: It is you who knows nothing about economics. All you know and repeat continually is socialist/Marxist propaganda and hatred of America. Nur zur Feststellung, ich habe neben Naturwissenschaft auch Betriebswirtschaftslehre und Volkswirtschaft studiert und das Studium mit Prädikat abgeschlossen. Und Du ?? Stammtischparolen und heisse Luft. Du bist eine wirtschaftspolitische Null. In Trumps Arsch ist es warm - beginne als kleiner Kacker selbst zu denken ! Fakt - ich "hasse" die USA nicht, und US-Menschen schon gar nicht. ich mag jedoch US-Überheblichkeit nicht. Ein Staat der glaubt in der Welt besonders wichtig oder wertvoll zu sein. Das Gegenteil ist der Fall, wie die Geschichte eindrücklich beweist. Gut Putin muss als Kriegsverbrecher angeklagt und verurteilt werden - aber die Lügen-Ratte von Republikaner George W. Bush auch !!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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