Has the appearance of a transient ischemic attack. But apparently “he’s fine”

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Just because he doesn’t have empathy doesn’t mean I don’t.

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Paying him empathy is a slap in the face to all of his victims.

You wouldn’t do this shit for anyone else that murders children. I 100% guarantee you that this man has killed hundreds of children in his lifetime.

The issue you libs have is that you believe that the institutional murder that these fucks perform is magically different to murder that isn’t institutional. It allows you to look the other way when they perform horrors that are unspeakably more evil, and then to performatively pretend you’re on some moral high ground for being nice to someone far far far worse than any person that has directly murdered with their hands. You’re not on moral high ground for it, all it does is highlight the incredible lack of principles that liberals have, that institutions and performing in the ritual acts of the civic religion are more meaningful to you than the actual pain, suffering and death they’ve reaped upon people.

It’s one of many reasons so many people continue to stop calling themselves liberals and start calling themselves socialists, anarchists, communists, or some other variant of real leftist.

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💯 with you here. Fuck McConnell. Some people do deserve to die for all the horrible things they’ve done to their fellow man. He’s one of them. Limbaugh was another.

Just wish it didn’t take 81 years to happen. He’s lived a long and full life, and that’s a terrible reward for all the hate and evil and death he’s brought into this world.

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I don’t have a choice of who I am empathetic to. It’s just a core part of my personality.

I agree he is a terrible person. I agree he shouldn’t be legislating. I agree he has caused untold suffering. I can’t stand the man. He angers me, he infuriates me, and when I hear him I want to beat him senseless. I can even agree that he should probably be dead.

I’ll still have empathy to him.

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and when I hear him I want to beat him senseless

Clearly not. Or you wouldn’t have this emotional reaction.

You can let go of this, simply recognise that some people are real monsters and that sometimes those monsters do in fact thoroughly deserve it. The emotional reaction you’re having is, in fact, latent propaganda still living in your bones, put there by having heard it from liberals postering as the “good people” over and over again by doing this shit.

Nobody has empathy for Mussolini swinging upside down until he died. The institutional propaganda implying you should have empathy for political opponents is just not pushed for him, and so the feeling doesn’t exist. That’s what this is, a feeling created by institutional propaganda that you absolutely don’t need to have for any monsters. You do not need to feel bad.

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Great comment, saving this one!

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Well liberal means you’re pro-liberty. Which is a virtue that is up there with freedom and justice, so I don’t see liberals going anywhere soon.

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Liberalism is the political ideology of free markets and capitalism.

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That is not what liberal means. It’s an ideology from the enlightenment based on the emancipation of the individual as being key to the emancipation of society. It has completely failed.

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Spot on man. I used to call myself a democrat and now i hate (yes actually hate) the party with more fiery passion than the Republicans.

it could be the part they play in this farce, the browbeating to vote for them as if it’s my duty to vote for them as a citizen to fight the Rs regardless of the Ds platform. Then they do fuck all and tell me its not that they don’t want to, i just don’t understand politics to know that they cant.

I prefer the naked hated of the R party. L, frankly. Its frightening, but less paternal, insulting, and demeaning.

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I hear you, but I think there is still value in voting D, if only to make the Overton window shift slower.

If the election is close or contested, Dems can pretend their hands are tied and let Rs enact their facist bs. If Dems own the house, they’ll need to do something or come up with some other bullshit excuse not to enact more left leaning policies. In an ideal world there’d be real consequences to them if they meandered like they usually do.

It’s not great though, happy to hear your perspective.

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