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A new study showed a link between strong right-wing views and fear of disease and increased concern about hygiene.
The study showed that people who are more offended by bad odors are more likely to support authoritarian leaders, such as Donald Trump.
In the past, disgust at bad odors was important for survival. The scientists suggested that the disgust at unfamiliar odors may be linked to a desire to keep apart from "culturally unfamiliar" groups.
[...] In the new study, 160 people were rated on their aversion to bodily odours on a scale to one five and their responses compared to their political views. It found that each point higher on the disgust scale was associated with feeling 7.5 points more positive towards authoritarian leaders.
[...] It showed that people who were more disgusted by smells were also more likely to vote for Donald Trump than those who were less sensitive.
(Score: 1) by i286NiNJA on Friday March 02 2018, @06:13PM (1 child)
No, I'm afraid I only skim-read your message. I wanted to point out to the rest of soylent that your English appears to be a 2nd or 3rd language though you speak of American events and politics as though you're here.
I hope that you get fired from your internet-shitposting job and find enjoyable, productive, profitable work doing something with at least a reasonably neutral social impact in the future. Your work is bad for society, you're not good at it, and from one troll to another, too much trolling is bad for the psyche. I enjoy trolling and shitposting but I'm sure it's tiring as a full time job.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Friday March 02 2018, @09:34PM
Well ya know the old joke about what do you call the dude who knows two languages? Bilingual. What do you call the dude who know knows one language? American (LOL Ha ha) but some of us ARE well educated and I read a lot, sometimes old stuff or English, so I probably do read weird sometimes.
Ah the Kremlin pay checks are too good, not to mention the job satisfaction from shafting Hillary out of winning the election, but ya know. Back in the old days right after the election, I could trigger people into screaming by writing stuff like that.
Also I shitpost pretty quickly so at least half of my weird style is changing my mind in mid paragraph at 100+ WPM. Usually I catch that, sometimes not. IBM model M master race checking in, can't squirt stuff like this out on a cellphone touchpad, thats for sure. In the old IRC days, WPM mattered. Interesting thought of the day, not even trolling, I wonder if "kids these days" ever learn to type quickly... Back in the truly ancient days of the early 80s, text adventures and early BBS systems also taught us to read extremely fast, another talent that might be disappearing from the tablet and smartphone generation. A century from now, will humans be able to shitpost at a hundred WPM or would that kind of bandwidth be seen as proof of bot-hood or AI trolling?