The Psy of Life

Blogging at the intersection of psychology and politics explaining why the cray-cray exists and what we can do about it since 2016. Defend our democracy!

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The Psy of Life: CalicoJack Explains Life & Everything using Psychology & Snark (sarcasm & profanity, too). https://t.co/xVv4nTldvp

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Last question, I promise. Are y'all ever going to leave Twitter for some other social media platform like Mastodon?

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Jack

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@SistersInLawPo1
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What evidence is used to determine whether someone has a sincerely held religious belief or was in fear of their life in a stand your ground case?

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Jack

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@SistersInLawPo1
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Now that SCOTUS has decided that sincerely held religious beliefs are grounds to violate the rights of others, is there a legal test to determine whether something is actually a sincerely held religious belief?

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Jack

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Everything is backassward in MAGA land. Instead of MAGA blindly following their leaders over a cliff, Republican politicians are gleefully tossing the entire country over the cliff to appease MAGA and get re-elected. https://t.co/gnow60mdo2

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In the same amount of time for it to take the average date rape to end, you too can find out how AI is going to power a rape near you! https://t.co/GrcIQG7kk7

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There's a lot of cognitive Tom Fuckery going on in all our heads when it comes to race, racism, and racial animus. Here we go over some of what is helping maintain the inner racist of many white people, keeps them falling for racis https://t.co/3fGFIWUIzI

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Cognitive dissonance helps survive mental crises but it also helps us maintain erroneous beliefs like racial enmity that then respond to racist dog whistles and cause otherwise "decent" white people to vote Republican. https://t.co/W2JuiNNkug

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The difficulty that AI has in dealing with darker skinned folks and women is all the proof you need to know that our culture is inherently racist and sexist. We put the same shit into training our AI as we did to training ourselves https://t.co/LWkYr3wPsd

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It's simple: without truth and a commitment to honesty, we cannot have a functional society. By promoting dishonesty, MAGA and their cynical political and media manipulators are endeavoring to destroy our country. https://t.co/SdVHaju8Xv

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This Week in Sexual Assault https://t.co/CksLvfxeFD

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We are in a desperate race with the destructive forces of the dark tetrad personalities that dominate the GOP to save our democracy, country, and world before they sacrifice it on their altar of ego and greed. https://t.co/MBn4u1QYX2

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The research of Karen Stenner on the authoritarian dynamic suggests that non-authoritarians become more liberal when confronted by deteriorating conditions. This tendency has saved us from fascism in the past and will now. https://t.co/zCQ3xNCjib

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As cultural multilevel selection predicts, declining cooperation and increasing distrust and dissatisfaction precedes social collapse, but it also sets the stage for the inner authoritarian of all the snowflakes to meltdown and gra https://t.co/t5APn1UlT3

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With the betting windows open on McCarthy's time with the Speaker's gavel, it is hard to imagine that the mess Republicans are making in Congress and in legislators across the country can be good for us, but it is. #ScienceFact. But, there's math. https://t.co/V75ZARaIFL

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As much as I enjoy watching an asshole get his comeuppance, the problems that the Republicans are having in electing a Speaker of the House foreshadow much bigger problems to come. Cultural Evolution, Cultural Multilevel Selection, https://t.co/kRavXRVGlx

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driftglass: Irreconcilable Differences https://t.co/57LKq6gNV4

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@pollyapplequeen Thank you for tweeting the post. It really makes my day when I get support like this.

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The Authoritarian Dynamic: Accommodating the Authoritarians in our Midsts https://t.co/z4M4xAErva via @ThePsyOfLife

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Unfortunately, we're always going to be living among people given to authoritarian tendencies because they make up about a third of our population. To protect ourselves and them from their worst instincts, we have to accommodate th https://t.co/7LBRaRrjA6

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The Authoritarian Dynamic: MAGA Really Are Snowflakes❄️
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