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It always comes down to a lack of empathy with conservatism. Just completely unable to take a step back and look from a different perspective until it's a personal issue.
Then they'll have to let it go because abortions and guns are more important than a functioning society.
I’ve learned that some people think empathy means putting yourself in other people’s shoes and asking how you’d react to their situation.
If I were in your situation, I would just do XYZ.
Real empathy is knowing there are differences between yourself and others and trying to understand that.
What pisses me off is when people think of themselves in my position and fail to understand it.
Happens all the time
"If I was trans, I'd see a therapist instead of taking hormones!"
When therapists were the ones who got me on hormones to begin with, because gender affirming care is the only treatment for gender dysphoria that exists.
"If I was poor, I'd just work harder."
What do you mean you'd work harder? I have five hour shifts every day, I get paid the same amount whether I'm super anal about cleaning or if I just hit the hot spots and watch fucking Tubi on my phone in the bathroom for the remaining three hours. Not that I do the latter of course, my own sense of pride in my work will not allow that.
Society already doesn't function even if you allow abortion and ban guns. Not when the police still has free reign to kill people at their whim, a justice system that encourages putting people in prison so they can be used as slaves, and corporations doing their best to torture the workers.
Also, remember what the bearded grandpa said back in the mid to late 1800s. Banning guns in the US now would be a disaster because the cops are ALL nazis or in cahoots with nazis and would only disarm the people they seek to exterminate, not the only group who's known to kill and massacre people endlessly with guns.
I don't know of any responsible Democrat politicians who is advocating for the prohibition of all guns. That is Conservative Propaganda Machine dogma, with no basis in reality. During the Obama administration, SCOTUS reached one of their only decisions regarding the 2nd Amendment, not full prohibition, just in certain large cities, and dismissed it. The Dems weren't happy about it, but they accepted it, and there hasn't been any real gun legislation since.
Some have proposed some common sense restrictions on certain types of weapons, age of ownership, etc., but MAGA will not allow ANY new restrictions on guns, even though we already have LOTS of restrictions already.
Nobody is trying to take anybody's guns away, least of all Democrats, who actually respect the Constitution and SCOTUS. When blanket gun restrictions come, it is a guarantee that it will come from MAGA. Trump has already said that he wants to take guns a way first, and deal with the legalities later.
The moment MAGA starts to think that guns will be turned on them, guns will be made illegal.
This is mental illness. Stuck in a congnitive-emotional state of being incapable to extrapolate from given information, incapable of empathy, even on a non-emotional level. Decades of ultra capitalism have finally given birth to a stunted and 100% egocentric generation.
What do you mean finally? Boomers have been like that since forever
Their generation's original name was The Me Generation because they were so selfish.
It's because evil people lack empathy. They villivy it, condemn it, call it woke or dei and will do everything to make it illegal.
Until they live it, then it should be something they are allowed to do.
I think it looks evil, but is, in fact, stupidity; the whole group is just not at all self aware.
Two strategies that decrease the amount of empathy in the world:
You had me in the first part. People are responsible for their choices.
People are responsible for their choices and people are not to blame for the influences they had no power to refuse. We could help them overcome those influences, but it's tiring when their influences seem more prolific and powerful than our patience.
hell rare they don't just paint it when it happens to themselves as a rare exception. "Oh i need it but most of it is just scammers or leeches" and so on.
I read a thread somewhere where abortion clinicians were sharing their experiences.
Someone said they frequently got told they were going to hell, by women who were in the middle of their abortion and holding their hand at the time.
I've been thinking about it ever since. The mental gymnastics on these people.
That doesn't have the specific story I'm thinking of (and I don't recognise the blog/author), but it's good to know there's an endless parade of similar stories. 😬
It was probably Reddit but I haven't used it for a long time, so no idea where I found it.
"I'll give you a dollar to eat that dog turd on the ground... Holy fucking shit, I can't believe you did it. You're fucking disgusting."
Man, I hate conservatives. I know them all too well and this is them to a t.
See also: Nancy Reagan and stem cell therapy
Conservatives lack object permanence, what else is new? It's kinda like all the conservatives who say that transgender people only started to exist a few years ago because that's when Fox News made them aware of them, and they can't fathom the idea that they existed before that and they just didn't know about it.
"yeah but i'm doing just fine" is one conservative mantra
this "opened my eyes" is the other one.
McCain also pretended to be at least as far to the left as Biden and Hillary until they handed the last nomination to Kamala.
The immediate switch to talking shit about Biden and Kamala and taking back her endorsement against trump made it pretty obvious at the time.
But at least some other people are finally noticing.
More like: “My solution only applies to people like me.”
Think she wants a McD’s back of house cook to get what she gets? Of course not.
So in other words before she opened her eyes she was asleep, or in other words wokeness is the answer?
Republicans are imbeciles
Unfortunately I don't think this is a "conservative or republican" problem. Almost all Americans are too "me first individualists" until something affects them personally. In Canada it is Conservatives and Albertans who are more likely to be individualistic.
Unfortunately I don't think this is a "conservative or republican" problem. Almost all Americans are too "me first individualists" until something affects them personally. In
It's the same picture
I used to watch the view. Meghan was the biggest bully and made it a toxic environment. It was not surprising when she announced her departure. It was a relief.
Also she kept calling herself a token minority because she was a Republican. But they are all pro corporate ghouls, Sara is pretty damn conservative. For some reason Ana and Meghan hated each other, even though Ana is a hardcore right winged Republican screaming about how the leftists stole her daddy's plantation back in Nicaragua. It was a whole thing. I hate Ana's politics but she doesn't give the domestic violence/emotional abuse vibes that Meghan gave.
Maybe I'm more optimistic than I should be, but I kind of think its less of a "this affected me and now its a problem" and more of a "this affected me, it sucked, and now I dont want it to happen to anyone else".
Like, of course she should have woken up sooner, but she could have suffered, been quiet about it, and just let it happen to other people as well. Maybe Im not as cynical as I thought I was.
The problem is they have to experience it first. Every time.
They are incapable of considering or imagining what others are experiencing without going through it too. They are incapable of it.
Because that is what empathy is.
I see it more as... "it's not important, and is a complete waste of money, until it affects me personally"
experimental physicist: has to figure stuff out experimentally before they believe it
meanwhile the theoretical physicist makes accurate predictions
But I'm still not going to do anything to fix it because I'm strong and was able to overcome it
This is why the incel to transgirl pipeline is real.
