Someone told me that the “fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy,” so you can go fuck yourself.
this post was submitted on 30 Mar 2025
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And that was such a dangerous thing to say.
Humans are social creatures. Empathy is a cornerstone of society.
We literally teach kids about empathy in preschool. Imagine being against teaching small children to understand how someone else feels. shivers
We have a national narcissism crisis.
The the age old Problem of Evil.
If we could somehow figure out how to cure Cluster B Personality Disorders, 90% of humanity’s problems would disappear overnight.
I'd say legalizing shrooms might help, but then again Apartheid Edison is only inflating his ego with ketamine abuse so idk how effective that would be
Psychedelics have a counterintuitive tendency of making pre-existing clinical narcissism and sociopathy worse.
For some people, if you keep achieving ego death, it just keeps coming back stronger
Psychedelics help you find out who you truly are underneath all the social conditioning.
Some people are assholes to the core and mushrooms reveal it.
K aint psilocybin-but yeah... I think musk may be beyond redemption.
AND A MANDATORY EARTH WIND AND FIRE CONCERT
lol if you can’t handle the heat from being a massive cunt then maybe don’t be a cunt. It’s not a difficult concept to grasp.
Yup. Musk is a 4chan shit poster with a really thin skin. He never grew up and he never WILL grow up. He's "Poochie" from the Simpsons.
The reason he carries his kid with him everywhere as a meat shield now.
He said we shouldn't have empathy so fuck him.
Boo hoo poor wittle musky
There is nothing as weak, delicate and fluffy as a MAGA.
Thought you were gonna say fascist there at the end.
Glad to see I was right!
awww. poor widdle bubba. Manbaby needs a dummy/pacifier.
Trump is his dummy, ketamine his pacifier.
bu...but they weren't supposed to fight back.. sob sob
no bullibacks, meanies~!
The thing that pisses me off the most about all of this is Edolph Muskler is giving ketamine a bad name with his ridiculous behavior.
Wait, he wants empathy, now? I'm confused.
Typical narcissistic whining. Mocks any misfortune that befalls others. Then they whine like a two year old who get told they can't have another piece of candy when its their misfortune.
The good thing is that all of these fascists are so hateable.
It is going to be easy to gaddhafi them
This just in "One South African Man Topples American Superpower", film at eleven.
Hate to tell him, but a lot of Republicans hate him, too.
Ah, who am I kidding? I love telling him that.
Empathy is weakness. Its patriotic to not care about a billionaire.
we need more players 2. where's Tails, Diddy, Lance, Jimmy, Ken... Insert coin already.
I really need to know what the deal is with the chainsaw…does he think he is Eminem?
