Fascism, yes please. But don’t you touch my precious gasoline.
Don’t forget paedophilia. Pedos are apparently not a deal breaker.
That’s because they lack empathy, anything that impacts others won’t change their mind, when it impacts them directly is the only time they’ll care and boy are they about to be impacted.
I was genuinely shocked how much this is the way most people are. I just didn’t get out enough to understand empathy is not normal,
I’ve speculated about this a bit.
Our society protects and/or hides from the general masses, a lot of the bad stuff that happens in the world. It’s the media and our lawmakers, but it’s also very cultural.
The Internet has also been very dumbed down. 20 years ago it used to be easier to find videos of some of the horrors that occur around the world. Drug cartel videos, war videos, terrorist videos. Remember rotten.com, etc?
I think seeing stuff like that, or maybe not the extreme detail but at least hearing about it, gives you a different perspective. At least it did for me, towards the empathetic and cautious.
If people are protected and hidden from the bad, how will they ever know? The people I’ve met that lack empathy seem very childish like they’ve never been exposed to anything.
This, in my opinion, is very much on purpose and by design. If our population had all the gruesome details about what really goes on in the world, the wars, the trafficked children, terrorist and drug cartel tortures, all the suffering in 3rd world countries and poverty…
They would be less happy, and therefore less enthusiastic to go buy stuff. Also, many would be causing a ruckus for our leaders to fix it all.
Your purpose is to produce and consume, to prop up the billionaire and elite leadership class. And not cause any problems, or at least kept in control. This is best when you’re “happy” and content. Or at least content enough to keep the machine churning.
I feel like empathy is the Hallmark of a healthy soul. Unfortunately, a soul has to be earned through struggle, inner turmoil, forgiveness and growth. Many people just haven’t made the effort or gained the experience yet
A lot of them aren’t in the yet column, they actively and knowingly refuse to
The Internet has also been very dumbed down.
What happend is that corporations took over. Sites like Reddit, Facebook and such have their “code of conduct” that limits what you can post and violating that results in losing your account. Both examples made this a very painfull punishment as a Facebook account uses your real name and Reddit make sure that you can’t really make a new account after being banned. The last decade it’s been very noticeable how people start to self censor with bullshit like “PDFile” or “unalive”. We’re living in a 1984 Big Brother re-enactment.
Januari last year I was banned from Reddit over nothing. I did manage to get a new account for allmost a year until I got banned again, again over nothing. But during those months I did experience a lot of selfcensoring because the thread of another ban.
It’s not so much “dumbed down” as it’s become company territory with workplace like rules and policies. And we’re being treated as unpayed personel.
Looking critically I think it really started at Nixon.
That was the first real crack in the idea that government and society will work for the people, even if they don’t now. The draft was repealed then. When the us went to war it was everyone’s problem. Now it’s not.
Regan took the ball and ran with it. Radically slashing social safety nets while improving wealth for most. I wasn’t alive for it mentally Ill people didn’t used to live on the streets by the 10,000’s of thousands. Unions protected workers much more than what we have now before that.
There used to be some kind of idea we were all in ‘this’ together.
But maybe since I wasn’t there none of that was true then either.
While also making everyone afraid due to violent criminals roaming the streets.
I don’t think it’s most. I think it’s way too many, for sure.
That’s what I used to think. Surely more people have empathy and act on it than don’t.
I used to think people disagree on how to address the issues, but agree on the issues should be addressed.
It’s just not true.
We did vote on it.
But most people didn’t vote. I don’t know that I’d lump them in with the group that did, but for the wrong person.
I wouldn’t lump them all in - some were legitimately disenfranchised - but most non-voters showed zero empathy when the world needed their help for an hour.
nor is sexism, or racism.conservatives:" i can excuse BIGOTRY, but i draw the line on GASOLINE."-republican voters.
Only things that directly effect them.
Maybe it’s aspirational.
You know how they say right wing voters are just embarrassed future millionaires?
“As long as the regime is hurting brown and queer people, I’m happy. I’ll even lose money, representation, and status, as long as the browns and queers are being persecuted.”
Ah America…you can steal money, rape children, defraud billions, but don’t touch the price of gas.
Which is why the world sees the USA as only slightly less evil that Russia or North Korea.
She already said she’s an idiot.
‘Apparently, I’m An Idiot!’
I’m sure her whole family has been trying to tell her since 2016.
Oh you absolutely are an idiot
Even better, they used to be a “useful idiot” to someone - now they’re just another idiot useless to everybody.
Well, admission is generally the first step. I respect that.
I agree entirely.
Those first to self realisation will rank among the best figureheads for mass pushback, being able to genuinely empathise with those yet to come to terms with being quite so supremely reamed by such an odious contender for the title of “most selfish winnet to ever fall from the collective anus of the United States”.
The price of gas did it, huh?
yup. it wasnt:
- 40,000 dead Palestinians
- 37 felony convictions
- 2 impeachments
- illegal tariff costs passed to consumers
- US citizens shot dead on the streets
- babies in concentration camps
- ratfucked federal programs
- botched war in Iran
- punishing LGBT persons
- incarcerating women for miscarriages
- unhinged outbursts
- destroying farmer’s livelihoods
- threatening NATO countries with annexation
- lawless gustapo roaming wild
Nope. none of that. It’s when he went to put gas in his Ram pickup that it all hit home.
Its always “as long as im not affected”
Ao selfsish, short sighted and plane dumb
planes are smarter than plains
After about the third “You’re Fired”, I never wanted to hear anything from that asshole ever again.
I was 18 ish in the late 80s, I saw him on David Letterman. I thought he was a stupid piece of shit, for 30 years I have seen people either talk about how great he is (though it always seemed like the people saying he was great were making fun of him) or about how he scammed people. And every time I think “how fucking stupid can people be”
Monumentally, apparently.
I’m about the same age and very vaguely remember being aware of him in the late 70s. I assume my “let me pull apart distressed companies for profit” father had something of his that was just so glaringly awful to look at.
By the time he was pushing into the greater media bubble, it was painfully obvious he was the worst kind of gold plated clown.
Sorry to be picky, but it’s definitely way more than 40000 dead Palestinians.
Being racist for decades 👍
Doing thousands of stupid things during the first term 👍
Stealing of top secret documents (and attempting to cover it up) 👍
Insurrection 👍
34 felony convictions, plus numerous fines and trials for other heinous shit 👍
Being a rapist of E Jean Carroll, plus numerous other sexual assault court cases 👍
Grabbing women by the pussy 👍
Having people murdered on their own streets 👍 and foreigner fishermen in boats 👍 mass illegal deportations to death camps👍 …
…wait, this is going to take too long.
Ok, all the Epstein and child rape stuff, and bombing of little brown girls in school and just about everything and anything that most decent people would see as abhorrent 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍But when the price of fuel goes up then that’s just unforgivable. That is a step too far!!!
that’s what pisses me off. he’s a fucking asshole, he isn’t a good person for changing his mind.
he probably got an erection watching ICE terrorize minorities and killing people on the streets, or seeing US bomb girls, or the fact that he’s a Pedophile. no the real problem is when he has to pay a little bit more in gas.
*she, so probably no erection.
metaphorical erections
I mean, her clit probably still got hard, so…
Conservatives only care when it affects them.
Small brain maxes out at one float number
You were warned. So, so many times. Yes, you are an idiot.
She’s the only one half thinking though. The other idiots in the video couldn’t even find Iran on a map and have no fucking clue what theyre talking about.
Country is cooked because these idiots can’t take ten minutes to think about anything.
As a three-time Trump voter she’s a bit slow on the uptake, but unlike a majority of them, at least she is now willing to recognize her error.
Only after her face began to be eaten
Yea, but she stopped after a few munches, those other guys are still being gnawed on and seem to enjoy the experience.
Ayo, those other guys into furries now? 😉😈
She is willing to recognize the error and that is exactly what is needed now. Yes it comes from their selfishness but it’s the best way to turn these people around: them feeling it themselves and finally connecting in their mind that voting for this idiot = everything is getting crazy more expensive. Not sure if she should be made fun off for finally seeing her error. The more people feel okay with having been wrong, the better the next vote might be… while there still is voting. Making fun of them will make other people dig themselves even deeper in their trenches of stupidness?
Amanda thinks turning in her algebra homework 15 years late will earn her at least partial credit.
These MFs are some of the most selfish, lazy, myopic and sadistic people ever.
Even if it doesn’t benefit them directly, and could even cost them personally in the future, they are happy if others get hurt and they don’t have to lift a finger. They enjoy and relish suffering of others based on their made-up morality that excludes their own failings.
I want to be mean to her, but unlike her compatriots there, she has at least some insight. Good for her. Now stop being an idiot.
Nah, after that whole shit show, TWICE, high gas prices is the tipping point? That’s insane.
Uh, yes. You are.
Typical low IQ, under educated, brainwashed American 🙄
Self-awareness of your weaknesses is the first step on the road to overcoming them.
Won’t somebody think of the leopards?
Pass me the ketchup please.
I’m not sure if any republican has ever made life better for the working class
Sure they have, but not since the shift to the 5th party system.
Conservatives have certainly never made life better for the working class, but Republicans haven’t always been conservative.
A couple weeks ago I had a back-and-forth with a conservative poster who staunchly believed that the GOP is still the “Party of Lincoln.” I was telling them how that wasn’t the case anymore, described the fifth party system, explained that the two parties switched views in the mid-20th century. They responded by saying I had been brain-washed by the MSM and calling me a sheep. I hadn’t seen so many emojis in a reply since ~2009, so I shrugged them off as a bot.
Maybe I gave them the benefit of the doubt a bit too freely.
Lincoln
But that’s why I prefer to call people “conservative” or “liberal” (or “progressive” or “communist” or “libertarian”) instead of by party
funny the one that started the whole movement had alzheimers dementia and the current one has it as well.
Hilariously, we’re now doomed to repeat history.
Some people liked Theodore Roosevelt.
Not by the numbers, no.
