Harvard professor says the left are the most unhappiest people, especially the women

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  1. Natty Bumpo

    Natty Bumpo Well-Known Member

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    I would not presume to speculate about whom kids idolize, nor would I cast general aspersions but, certainly, anyone a jury finds liable for sexually abusing and defaming a woman should not be a role model, whether he is a reality-tv performer, a politician, an entrepreneur, a gangster, a drug dealer, or a recording artist. Fame and fortune are highly dubious attributes to promote anyone in that capacity.

    Fortunately, moral integrity does not require a high profile.
     
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    garyd Well-Known Member

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    Happiness has nothing to do with the state of the world, that is just virtue signalling by people wholly absent anything real in their life. There is now and always has been awful stuff going on in the world hardly a day goes by without some grotesquery or insanity being perpetrated somewhere by someone. If knowledge of that fact is going to ruin your day quit listening to the news.
     
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    Interesting bit of self deception coming from one of the boards more obvious and obdurately ideologically driven members.
     
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    Doofenshmirtz Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Truly an awful person. Did you ever think that Dems would produce results so awful that someone like him looked like a better choice to most voters? Of course, one can claim moral superiority while causing more harm than good.
     
  5. Natty Bumpo

    Natty Bumpo Well-Known Member

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    Your personal opinion is acknowledged for what it is worth.
     
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    Natty Bumpo Well-Known Member

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    I never presumed to speculate concerning the outcome of the 2024 election, and still trust in American democracy's self-corrective capacity.
     
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    Giftedone Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Naivety and woeful lack of understanding of the democratic process is common among the US public in general. Let us remember that without a free and fair press, freedom of information-speech, there is no such thing as a functional democratic process .. Full Stop.
     
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    Natty Bumpo Well-Known Member

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    Losers whining about the democratic process when no legislative or judicial process anywhere in the land can contrive any pretense to challenge the expressed will of the People, or baseless hysterical accusations in the media of a targeted segment of the populace eating the pets of others may reduce respect for America's institutions, but they will recover.
     
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    OH Spare me the cheese .. I am not talking about Trump .. nor about his complaints about the previous election .. We need not be fixated on Trump 24/7 ... and if not that some Russian behind every corner Ad Hom when prog Blue narrative du jour is conflicted.

    What part of -- with no Freedom of Speech, press, information --- no functional democratic process .. do you not understand ? While Plato explains this well . one need not go that far back in order to understand this one.. Orwell will do just fine .. Chomsky you should know...

    Never read "Manufacturing Consent" Bumper ? .. or are we just pretending ... disingenuous oblivion such a favorite tactic on both sides .. sad when coupled with TDS on the left. How about the Movie Manufacturing Consent - "Political Economy of the Mass media" - surely any Classical Liberal ... such as myself .. is ashamed to not know the man .. the myth .. the legend among any Blue of substance .. . Still living last time I checked but .. not much time left unfortunately.

    What do these "baseless hysterical accusations about Haitians eating peoples Pets" have to do with a functional democratic process .. and the attacks of the cancel culture on the functionality of this process .. the woke joke slashing away at essential liberty .. violations of speech, information, press .. that "reduce respect for America's institutions" --

    Followed by dismissal via prognostication of recovery .. with no mention of how .. or why. What you gonna do Nate ? .. shoot the goose that lays the golden eggs ? .. how is democratic process going to recover the slashing and trashing of the limitations to power .. and trampling on essential liberty .. by both Red and Blue.

    They are in complete agreement Bumper .. both Red and Blue .. the "uni - party" .. how is this situation going to be corrected ... as you so boldly predict ....
     
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    Nightmare515 Ragin' Cajun Staff Member Past Donor

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    And what about the multiple other surveys and polls that come to the same conclusion using the tried and true method of simply asking people?

    I'm not arguing some neurological difference between left vs right leaning people or anything. I'm saying it's a result of different lifestyle choices. Married couples with children, both men and women, are universally surveyed to have a higher level of happiness than unmarried people, with single women being the least happy. It doesn't take some massive scientific study to figure that out, simply asking people works just fine which is what most polls do...
     
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    Nightmare515 Ragin' Cajun Staff Member Past Donor

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    Indeed it has, and not for the better either which is evident by the fact that we even admit so based on any number of varying polls, studies, and surveys. Americans in general are more unhappy today than ever before even though we have way more "stuff" available at our disposal to keep us entertained. I believe it's at least partially due to us trading long term life satisfaction with the dopamine hit of instant gratification. Traditional lifestyles and values are geared more toward long term overall satisfaction, settle down, start a family, etc. These are the most happy people in the current day, studies show it. Those trading that way of life for one of "YOLO have fun while you can!" tend to end up less happy in the long run. However, convincing a society of that who has long since become accustomed to instant gratification is proving difficult. Especially in the current social climate to where we've decided to treat traditional conservative values as evil and openly promote the complete opposite.

    That's why so many role models of today come from these toxic places, it's promoted. If you suggest to women that satisfaction can come from anything other than being a strong independent career oriented woman then you'll get ripped apart. Remember the Chiefs kicker from earlier this year? What did he say that was oh so ghastly horrific about women? He said some of you may go on to lead successful careers but I venture that most of you are most excited about your marriage and the children you'll bring into the world. NOOOO!!! You can't tell young women to be excited about being wives and mothers how DARE you!! Those women are statistically proven to be happier in life but who cares.
     
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    Well since everyone doesn't have the hive mind like the other side... You mean you're surprised that there would ever be any sort of disagreement within the party?

    I know you'll be here to needle and Peck throughout the entire administration but you can also sit here and watch as America prospers.
     
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    I respect America's institutions and documented truth.

    I have no respect for lies - untruths that cannot be supported by empirical data, nor those who traffic in them.
     
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    I bet the most unhappiest people are those who keep track of such things to the point they make threads about how happy people may or may not be.

    For a happy person isn't worried about all other people.
     
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    Then why are you a defender and supporter of Genocide Joe .. and the Blue Cancel Crew .. who hate the Truth .. hate the founding principle and constitutional republic .. anti science .. anti rule of Law .. anti "my body my choice" .. anti - Peace .. anti - civil liberty.. anti -classical liberalism.

    Almost Orwellian doublespeak to hold both positions .. Right !
     
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    And have been doing as you and I have both pointed out for decades.
     
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    Again read and reply to what I wrote rather than replying to some point you would like to answer instead. Most people who voted for him voted for what they THOUGHT he stood for, despite a lot of people trying to point out that he did not actually promise that. Even those he is picking for his cabinet have varying ideas about what the agenda to be actually is. Take the fight over immigration - we are seeing at least three factions all with differing ideas
     
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    Your unsupported perversion of reality is of no interest to me.
     
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    Some studies suggest that the differences start in childhood and are linked to personality.

    https://newsarchive.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2006/03/23_block.shtml
     
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    Why are you accusing me with unsupported claims of perversion ? I am not the one supporting the Gaza Holocaust ... not the one with the perverted moral compass .. why are you projecting this rubbish onto others .. rather than engage in a little self examination.

    Genocide Joe has that nick for a reason .. and the entire world (sans those complicit like Genocide Joe) has condemned Bibi for mass slaughter of children and crimes against humanity .. and this is no "perverted reality" . The one with the perverted reality is the holocaust denier .. that is the "perversion of reality"

    My version of reality is supported by every nation in the world Bumper .. The Irish delegation to the UN saying "The Hague is too good for Bibi" The perversion of this reality is on you not me Natty !
     
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    Oh Good grief the only perversion in the middle east is being done by Iran and it's various contract killers. No October seven no war to end Hamas no dead Gazans. People who think that some how the Jews are just supposed to eat atrocity after atrocity without at least trying to do something about it are the same sort of people want to blame Jews for the atrocities of the Nazis.
     
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    As is yours and we will of course disagree as to the relative value of both as we disagree as to the validity of the science on certain subjects.
     
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    Who said the Jews are supposed to eat atrocity .. other than you .. and why are you projecting this anti semitic nonsense onto me . I am not the one claiming all Jews are responsible for the Holocaust .. nor the one in Holocaust denial.

    The claim "no October 7 - no dead Gazans" is preposterous falsehood. Israel has been engaging in Ethnic Cleansing and terrorist atrocity against the Palestinian people for decades. Where the heck were you prior to Oct - 7.

    and what . are the Palestinians just supposed to eat atrocity after atrocity -- and have no right to self defense ? What a joke.
     
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    More BS. It is exactly the opposite. It is the Arabs who have been offering Palestinian Jews only death and destruction or subjugation since the days of Mohamed.
     

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