• CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      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.

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

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          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.

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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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    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.

        • ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one
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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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    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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    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.