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Trumper loses their government job, asks for sympathy (sh.itjust.works)

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I can honestly say I have thoroughly enjoyed my time as a federal worker.

Right now I'm working on my resume. I'm open to work, preferably in finance as I have my accounting degree. If you know of anyone hiring please let me know.

As I have mentioned before, please do not post your political beliefs as I am not interested in debates or opinions. During this time, please remember that government employees are workers at risk of losing their job. It's scary as most of us have dedicated our careers to government and government operations is all that most of us know and now will be forced to look outside for other options and start over. No matter which side everyone is one, no one wants to lose their job so please be mindful of this. Remember that government employees are humans too and it is a very scary time for most of us and our families.

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[–] Shanmugha@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

No, it does not mean extending solidarity to people who are ok with hurting everyone but themselves, they can go and fuck right off. So whatever solidarity you have in your mind, I for one won't be a part of that

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[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

i totally get what you mean, and of course i would never ever push anyone into it. i just read some kinda dark comments in this thread and i wished that people would be a little more compassionate

i know they don't deserve it, really - and i totally get how you can think of it as "aiding the enemy" or something.

but i genuinely believe that we can reduce harm just by being a bit more compassionate, a bit more patient, and a bit less aggressive

fascists believe that the world is polarized into "us" and "them", and they believe that "them" would stop at nothing to destroy them.

just a simple act of compassion can show them that there are choices beyond destruction

[–] dan@lemmy.i.secretponi.es 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I disagree. These are the people who call compassion the "woke mind virus" and they are takers. They live their entire lives taking from others because they think they deserve it. Yet fight against others receiving support and care.

Expend energy on people who give back instead.

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

thanks for your comment, i completely understand your perspective, but, you know, they say exactly the same kinda stuff about the people that they hate. it makes me uncomfortable seeing MAGA reflected in their enemies

something something gaze into the abyss something

[–] dan@lemmy.i.secretponi.es 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I don't care what they say because they're liars. That's the difference. There's objectively no value in meeting liars half way. There's no value in "hearing them out" and there's no value in acting as though we just need to empathize harder.

They don't care if they lie as long as it furthers their goal, they don't care to hear what anyone else thinks, and they don't have any interest in empathy. If any of my prior statements were false then we wouldn't be where we are.

Your attempt to normalize Nazis is fucked up, to be honest. I am not a hateful person, I am done giving hateful people comfort. You should be ashamed for trying to equate the two concepts.

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

maybe you could approach me with compassion and try to understand, instead of just riding in on a high horse to pass judgment

or don't, believe what you want. i know i'm right.

doing the right thing is often hard. i'm gonna keep punching nazis, but when i see trump voters having their lives ruined, i'm going to put hatred aside to try to create a better world. you may not agree with me, but i hope my comments moved at least a few people.

[–] mangodouble@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

We are tired of the hate. The tribalism. At the end of the day us seeing their humanity might help them see ours. We’ve been doing the hate for the past 8 years and it’s gotten us here.

Empathy will get more converts while anger will further radicalize all of us

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[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

dehumanizing people is the first step on the road to genocide.

if you could click your fingers and everyone who voted Trump died, regardless of how they now feel about it, would you do it?

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I'm with you other than the part about not treating them like humans.

Bad take.

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Really? This is where you want to take it? There's plenty of scholarly discussion about dehumanization (particuarly surrounding WW2 and the events leaading up to it)....

Here is something I found after a quick search (I'm sure there are better examples out there. Hannah Arendt is a good place to start):

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/anthem-companion-to-hannah-arendt/explaining-genocide-hannah-arendt-and-the-socialscientific-concept-of-dehumanization/9F5785E91D0742BD3429D7B1933156F1

This, the authors tell us, is an example of dehumanization. The doctors fail to recognize their shared humanity with the prisoner: they fail to empathize with their victim, which leads them to disregard his suffering, which in turn enables them to treat him in ways they would otherwise have deemed morally abhorrent.

The concept of dehumanization has assumed a prominent place in socialscientific thinking on genocide and mass atrocity. It has been called a “master category” in discussions of mass murder (Goldhagen 2009, 319) and “a chief premise in scholarly accounts of the Holocaust” – the “sine qua non” of such “large- scale evil” (see Vetlesen 2005, 93). Many scholars see dehumanization as a necessary precondition for genocide. Sociologists portray the diminishment of the victims’ human status as a “prerequisite to their destruction” (Alvarez 1997, 168).“ Without dehumanization,” historians argue, “the murderers could not have committed their crimes” (Blatman 2011, 424). The president of Genocide Watch has declared dehumanization one of eight universal “stages of genocide” (Stanton 1998) and psychologists confirm that “no mass atrocities in the contemporary world have occurred without some form of dehumanization” (Kressel 2002, 172).

I was going to copy/paste more before realizing I was just copying the entire page. I highly recommend you just read the thing yourself.

Nothing good ever comes from dehumanizing people.

Regarding your argument about other animals... I just... I don't even know what to say. We are talking about humans being viewed as less than human. Has nothing to do with treating animals like people (which is also something we shouldn't do, but for completely unrelated reasons).

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

i totally get that, i really do. and if you don't think it's right for you, i fully respect that choice, and besides, some of us still need to be the "stick" so that the "carrot" gets put into perspective!

thanks for your reply! <3

[–] Shanmugha@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Well, we have our differences, but - kudos to you for trying to make people more open and compassionate. It really matters