No wonder chacha exhibits so much vaccine skepticism. r/PCM is gonna have a field day with this.
Phrenology was less a pseudoscience than this. These are the agreement prompts they used for their survey to track 'authoritarian tendencies':
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"Our country desperately needs a mighty leader who will do what has to be done to destroy the radical new ways and sinfulness that are ruining us”
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“The only way our country can get through the crisis ahead is to get back to our traditional values, put some tough leader in power, and silence the troublemakers spreading bad ideas.”
As someone who's spent a middling amount of time in the psychology faculty (the 'faculties' faculty lol), I can report that yes, most of them are this politically uninformed.
you just need to replace every user of the word “authoritarian” with “stupid”
FTFY
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"authoritarian tendencies" basically means right-wingers, lol. it's not a PCM thing.
I live in Japan rn and it's legitimately so insane seeing how Americans react to something just considered normal and being polite is. I totally understand being skeptical of power, I totally understand being furious with the failure of the response in the US and even am somewhat sympathetic to those who are skeptical of the vaccine. But even if you want to buy into the most out there conspiracy theories about covid, wearing a mask is just common courtesy. It wouldn't have anything to do with it. It's just revolting against living in a society where anyone should give a fuck about anyone else.
Even most Finns have learned to wear masks. Granted, it took like until October until I started seeing most people wearing them in public and you're still bound to see some maskless people (who I wish I could strangle) everywhere you go, but there's been a definite change from the start of the pandemic
In Sweden I think it's like 1/10 who wear masks if not less, idk what it is
Maybe your government downplaying and horribly fucking up everything during the whole pandemic has trickled down to the public.
Your deaths and infections are grim as fuck
Yeah it's inexcusable, they somehow thought our epidemiologists knew better than pretty much every other countries' or just wanted to be unique, it's not the time to be quirky y'know
Sweden has pretty much singlehandedly fucked up the Danish governmental efforts as well, since we compare ourselves to Sweden at litterally any opportunity. So no matter how badly we are fucking up COVID, we are still gonna say "at least we are not Sweden". Come to think of it, now I finally know how Canadians feel about America.
Fascists: "Decadence has made people too soft, they can't make sacrifices for the fatherland anymore!"
Also fascists: No don't take my free refills at McDonald's away i'm gonna burn down the State House bwaaaaaaaaahhh :le-pol-face:
tankies: * that confused lenin reading a newspaper photograph but he has a mask photoshopped on *
They want to do the controlling, not have other people tell them what to do lol
Isn't it beautiful when nature keeps the things in Balance...
