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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

There has been lots of studies on this, and part of the issue is how do you get an honest rating of someone's happiness?

Here is an (10 year old) article from Time about and how studies show it's not an easy thing to judge.

Summary:

  • Self-Reported Happiness: Conservatives often report higher levels of happiness compared to liberals.
  • Research Studies: New studies indicate that conservatives may judge their lives and circumstances more positively than liberals.
  • Emotional Language: Analysis of transcripts from Congress shows that liberals use more positive words than conservatives.
  • Genuine Happiness: Studies on smiling intensity suggest liberals display more genuine happiness.
  • Impact on Behavior: Conservatives have a more confident style of self-assessment, which might contribute to their reported happiness.

The research suggests that the way conservatives and liberals perceive and report their happiness might be influenced by their self-assessment styles.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Stupid people tend to be happier, yes it's true.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Are they happier? Because they sure do complain a lot and get enraged over the simplest of issues.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

get enraged over the simplest of issues.

Those issues are not even real most of the time and they're still raging mad. 😂

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Love Steve. Been following him for years.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

"Fuck you, got mine " exemplified .

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If conservatives were happy they wouldn't act the way they do.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I have a conservative friend who will start screaming like a little girl when a cyclist is doing nothing other than just using the bikelane that happens to come into an intersection with the road he's on.

Such happy people, amazing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Tell him we hate him too

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Why are you friends with douchebags? I'm not trying to be snarky, I am genuinely interested

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

He's a good guy to me, actually a decent friend.

Willing to help whenever etc, never met someone like him. We just have very different opinions and a different response to what bothers us haha

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I have a douchebag friend. We have a lot in common. We're both like playing pinball. We both get migraines, and we both have chronic pain. Both have families that we love a lot. We're both older and retired. I genuinely like him.

He posts a lot of shit on Facebook "owning" liberals. I don't think it suits him, but I think he's caught up in the moment, and I think his pain and migraines get to him a bit.

I believe he's too good a man to stay on this track, and I'm going to be there when he realizes it. And I'll give him a hug and tell him I understand.

My sister has a childhood best friend that she had been through everything with, including him coming out as gay, and in her 50s her friend started supporting Trump. Again, I don't think it suits him, he's a sweet guy, but she just quit a relationship of 40 years because of that.

We gotta look inside people. They have s lot of reasons for what they do.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

More like blissfully ignorant. My experience with conservatives is that they like to sweep problems under the rug and pretend everything to be fine.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I realized it's very much this when I asked my mother (born in 1961) if she had never taken a civics class, and she answered no. She actually believed(s?) the president creates laws. I don't know what she thought congress was.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Ignorance is bliss, and to persist with conservatism requires embracing an ever expanding level of wilful ignorance.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Conservatives are racist nazis that have the IQ of an inbred redneck

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I'm a redneck. Not inbred more than normal, as far as I know. I think I'm purty smart sometimes. Since you and I are 50th cousins, at worst, you've got some redneck in you.

Don't be like the fascists. Don't get lazy in your thinking. Our antagonists are human, some are very intelligent.

To defeat their ideology, we must view them accurately. Otherwise, how will we anticipate what they will do?

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

ahh yes family values like bailing Andrew Tate out.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not to mention worshipping a thrice-married sexual predator

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

What, you're going to attack him just because a judge had to clarify in court that he's a rapist? Or because he was impeached for illegally using campaign finances to pay off a porn star he had sex with while his wife was at home with his newborn? Sheesh, I guess no one measures up to your impossible standards!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Andrew Tate and his brother have probably, uh, you know...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Raped, incest, murder? At this point I wouldn't be surprised at any of it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Sorry, they've probably fooled around with each other.

Family values.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

Privilege. Especially white privilege. It's easier to be happy when you're benefiting from the invisible suffering of others.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He does stand up. He's pretty funny. I like when he heckles back at hecklers.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

The funny part is that he’s known as a heckle comedian but has publicly stated that he hates hecklers. He’s only known as a heckle comedian because he has zero qualms about tearing them down as soon as they try. His comebacks are usually pretty brutal because he just wants to end the heckling and keep his set moving.

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