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 The right wing is spiritually masculine and the left wing is spiritually feminine. 

Although it’s not just spiritual, it’s physiological too. 

Did you know the average male leftist is hypogonadal? 

They did a testosterone test of all the men at NPR and not a single one had a score in the normal range. 

This means that if a male is hormonally healthy he’s much more likely to be right wing.  

I think it’s likely true of women as well. 

This means the toxicity of our environment is likely responsible for the growing population of communists in America. 

We can and will fix it. 

MAHA 
 You’re starting to go out on a limb… but I’m still with you 🤙 
 It's very fundamentally true. I've seen it first hand. The bigger question is how to properly address the problem in our personal lives and on a societal level. 
 Healthy food comes from a healthy agricultural industry. This needs to be safeguarded from big corporations intent on positioning us for profit. Land / ranchers / processors need to be looked after. Regenerative techniques promoted. Advertising campaigns to educate people, pricing affordable healthy options for everyone. 
 Bring on Thomas Massie for Sec. of agriculture. 
 Actually I’m right in the center. 
 Just meant that note, i think you’re very balanced in that way.  The leftist nonsense breeds mania and mental instability. We need to redress the balance to a healthier, happier USA 
 You should form a bitcoin treasury awareness platform for American small businesses. You’d be a great person for that 🤙 
 Androgyny is an artefact of urbanisation. It's mostly an urban/rural divide. 
 Cities are the more toxic environment so this tracks with my theory. 
 Big cities are where bloodlines go to die 
 I agree.  But now ask yourself why? 
 - what’s your source for the statement: “the average male leftist is hypogonadal”? Can not find that NPR research online
- what does “hormonally healthy” even mean? With the evidence you supply, one could argue that hypergonadism causes right wing voting. 
- Assuming this is the same for women is just stupid
- Automatically linking this to our environmental toxicity is not even logical are reasonable without further sources

Sorry, your post is utter non-sense without proper argumentation. 👋👋👋 
 Go look it up bud. It’s not my job to link you the papers. 
 Sure bud, have fun on your fantasy planet :) 
 Thank god for ChatGPT and I still stand by what I’ve said. This is not scientific research in any way

	•	Glass, I. (Host). (2002, February 15). Testosterone [Audio podcast episode]. In This American Life. WBEZ Chicago. Available at: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/220/testosterone
https://nostrcheck.me/media/ca447ffbd98356176bf1a1612676dbf744c2335bb70c1bc9b68b122b20d6eac6/1702e0d3064551a1dcebabe8c632e36898797f913b999020922fbf2cbd116c76.webp 
 Oh don't be that guy 
 Fine here you go. https://x.com/Austen/status/1832262492804018225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1832262492804018225%7Ctwgr%5Eb2ff59552e6ebaaab84ab25c032c97fb9bae411e%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftexags.com%2Fforums%2F16%2Ftopics%2F3487846 
 Thanks, appreciate it! Although on the surface it looks interesting, I still have so many questions and I would NOT go out on a limb and make the same conclusions as you did. 

First and foremost: how were the 136 democrats selected? How representative is this number for the entire population? When in what context where these individual asked about their party-affiliation? How does the “toxitity” of our environment influence our hormone levels? How evenly spread is this influence throughout the country?

Please, please, be more critical on what you find on the internet and especially this cesspool called xitter. 
 Not everything needs a study. 

Just go outside and interact with people in the real world. You don’t generally see jacked bearded dudes (high T) at leftist protests. What you see is a lot of skinny fat dudes that are vegan. It’s not rocket science or controversial. Or just see how women vote (much more to the left than men) 
 It depends if you want to overcome your own convictions. If not, then no proper research can be left behind. What I said, living in a fantasy world is fine, but you'll never grow as a person. 🤷‍♂️ 
 You would use tax payer dollars or fiat grants to run a study to verify that men are indeed stronger than women because only properly conducted research can answer that question. 
 I don't think these compare in that way. Besides that, based on proper study (referencing "the invisible gorilla" here), human beings are terrible at a lot of cognitive tasks which are fundamental to what you are proposing. So no I am inclined to disbelieve anything which has "common sense" as a basis, or at least I challenge my human reaction to believe it. 

Anyway, we know _from research_ that men have, on average, more muscle power. So on average men are stronger, but a lot of women are stronger than a lot of men. And wether that's beneficial depends entirly on the goal you're trying to achieve.  How much they work together etc etc. So the statement is arbitrary at its best. Wether or not you vote democrat or republican based on your hormonelevels are, is of quite a different order of impact on society if you ask me.

Wether or not tax dollars should be spent is a political choice. 
 I was curious, so I downloaded the data from that study and the data doesn't back up the claim you're making.

https://www.openicpsr.org/openicpsr/project/155441/version/V1/view

Here is the data from that study. The average pre-T levels for those associating as democrats were 496 and the average pre-T levels for those that associating as republican were 459. So pretty typical male T levels across the board. 
 I guess you have not heard that doing your own research is a Right leaning activity. 
 It isn’t likely. It is 100% sure:

We receive estrogens constantly from multiple ways. Every day. https://image.nostr.build/af6953a78231bab14c297bcf8c7f81afe6fe632c16e590c53ffd7cc25efe2a83.jpg  
 So they’re turning the frogs gay? 
 I seen that as well, it explains a lot, like why the left needs their safe spaces and why they believe everything their cult feeds them without question. 
 When America is healthy again they might finally be as based as Saifedean. 
 You may not have the receipts handy to back it up, but anecdotally this seems to ring true.  Most lefty males are soyboys or subservient to their wives. 
 Yup. 
 I'm impressed by the confidence in which you say some silly shit.  
 And this reflective surface is called a mirror. 
 I find it to be highly accurate. 
 The more i think about an actual solution to this for my family.
The more i think the toxicity is screens and algos.  Not seed oils and tap water.

Mainly being addicted looking at screens late at night - which fucks with our brains and sleep much more than we admit. (think npr dudes doom scrolling nyt and texting each other about ukraine at 2 in the morning.)

The main advice to for hormone regulation is better sleep.
- sunlight in the am
- breath thru your nose whenever you can
- no screens before bedtime - and def not if you wake up in the middle of the night.

You could be a right wing nut job if you follow these simple steps. 
This episode is awesome - i listened on a walk yesterday. 

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0KeCWwDkdbEGFBXW0SFtK1?si=zxOcok_FSG6EUIQYOJSV9A 
 They also administered testosterone to hypogonadal men and it mad them lean to the right 
 FUCK I HATE COMMUNISTS!!!! 
 Yup. The human environment in industrialized America has gotten so far beyond fucked up. 

Our biology has been perverted to the point where a certain group of people actually believe there is more than two genders and men can actually be women.

The perversion starts with two humans (of opposite genders) having fucked up biology conceiving a child. 

In most cases, that child’s biology, already likely perverted from two unhealthy humans conceiving it, gets even more fucked up with “immunizations” (lol - what a scam).

Now that child is already standing on shaky foundations in their first year of life. 

Let’s follow the CDCs recommendation of giving that child some processed grains as they get beyond one year of age, and set the stage for further perversion and deteriorating of their gut and brain… it goes on and on and on.

WE NEED TO STOP PERVERTING  OUR KIDS BIOLOGY!

MAHA! 
 Fix the food, fix the problems. 
 is this phenomenon a  US only thing? Do you have the global stats  😂 
 https://m.primal.net/KquS.jpg 
 show me narcissism 🤣 
 This is so obvious in real life…receipts or not, the mental gymnastics required to try and refute @HODL  on this is mind blowing.  They just aren’t ready to be unplugged. 
 There is a really, really, really big conversation and interesting conversation to be had about this dynamic, and it runs super deep (maybe the deepest that there is), and yet it is so sensitive and cancelable because pretty much everyone has their own traumas involved in this that very few can see the forest amongst the trees.

IMHO at the deepest level this is really a spiritual war that’s been carried out at the deepest levels for at least a century that’s been about destroying spirituality-religious identity to create a population that is highly controllable and at war with itself to perpetuate its own oppression through material and biological means. 

It’s crazy fucked up. 
 really? 
 I am not quite sure I understand your point.  What are you wishing for?  A more uniform society? 
 A healthy society