• Maiq@lemy.lol
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    I’ve noticed that conservatives cant feel empathy. They only feel sympathy. This is why they don’t understand any injustice until if effects them personally. This is the root psychological reasoning behind the leopards eating faces memes.

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      The richest man in the world, who has only ONCE paid anything approaching a 20% tax rate and crowed like he was a PHILANTHROPIST when he did, is removing all social programs that are a safety net for the poorest and most desperate among us.

      Empathy? Sympathy? They are vampires.

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          Completely unrelated, I had a character for Age of Sigmar’s Soulbound (TTRPG). I played a ghoul named Jeff Bezos and I doubled down on the ghoul madness.

          I’m just waiting to bring back Jeff with his now 2 imaginary friends, Musky and Zucky.

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        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!

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    11 months ago

    Well, they do say ignorance is bliss.

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    Lack of empathy and utterly selfish. It enables these trash humans to take others rights and believe the lie that doing it is a good thing.

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

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

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      get enraged over the simplest of issues.

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

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

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      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.

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    People these days seem happiest when ostracizing, excluding, and destroying another’s life just because they are different.

    Empathy is dead, because if you show empathy it’s grounds for expulsion. Anyone still capable of empathy has been ejected from society by the twitter mob over the past decade. The only people left are callous bullies.

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