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[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Just to be clear -

If your idea of empathy (which I still don't het) prevents you from criticizing liberal...

It is not your criticism of liberals that lacks empathy, it's your choice of timing in when to criticize them.

They deserve criticism, unquestionably.

But that criticism made more sense to discuss when it was the late 2000's and libs were turning a blind eye to mass murder. They clearly aren't now. So why shit on them as if they are, or ever will be able to again?

In short, modern Libs:

A) Are doing the right thing for once (by kinda being mad about mass murder) B) Not doing as much mass murder as Trump / Russia. C) Might not be around much longer due to Democratic party infighting and Trump working up towards arresting his political rivals.

Which means libs are now:

A) Choosing to be on the right side for once B) Not murdering anyone, and actively fighting Trump / Russia from doing the same. C) Are being openly oppressed.

And all that admittedly, in your very first response, "makes you mad."

You have now spent days judging them for bullshit they are no longer doing, and haven't done much of in decades because of Trump.

Which means, simply put:

Your are choosing to express hate towards them, instead of:

  • Hate towards people actually doing mass murder
  • Hate towards those oppressing free speech and ideology (because what's being oppressed is lib flavored).

If this was 2009, the above wouldn't be true, and your cticism of libs would be valid and warranting of empathy.

But the above now IS true, which means you are choosing to criticize the libs at the opportunity cost of criticizing those who are now actually doing mass murder.

So frankly, your entire opinion comes off as:

I only care about mass murder when the libs do it.

As that's all the mass murder you've managed to talk about for days despite quite a lot of it being done by worse people now.

Your hate towards libs is clearly more important to you than those now being mass murdered as you only care to talk about one of these things.

If you want empathy, talk about the mudered, who the libs are now actually trying to help, instead of how much you hate them for existing.

Because no offense, the brain washed MAGA in the US blindly hate the libs the same way you do. So if you want to come off as having an opinion worth listening too, maybe have sympathy for the devil now that they're clearly not as bad as the President that was just elected. Until then, you're no different than a MAGA influencer blindly hating libs. The only difference is their reasons are made up, and yours are outdated at best.

Hate is addicting. I've watched decades of propaganda turn decent people into idiots who hate each other. So if you want to waste your time, I recommend doing it on something that doesn't make you so angry for no reason. It's clearly affecting your ability to act with empathy, as you seem to lack any towards libs despite their clear change in behaviour that caused you to hate them in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Wow that's dramatic.

You literally admitteded to wanting to be wasteful. So it's not dramatic to point out that over time, if all you do is wasteful things with your life, then it's been a wasteful one. That's how life works.

How is criticism a "lack of empathy"?

It's not your criticism that lacks empathy, it's your choice in who to criticise.

You're taking the time to make your opinion public, and that time could be spent doing or saying anything else.

What you choose to say and do, is at the cost of what you could also be doing or saying with your time.

For example:

Libs choose not to say anything about drone strikes when it's inconvenient.

Their choice to turn a blind eye, is why you feel they lack empathy.

The Right is attacking Democracy worldwide and has succeeded in taking over the US where they have recently enacted policies killing woman (abortion bans), incited LQBTQIA violence and murder, and readily exploit the elderly (antivax BS, removal of social security).

Recent estimates put preventable abortion deaths at 10,000 women a month in Texas alone, not to mention the GOP's support of actual genocide in Isreal.

All of this, you have choosen to say nothing about. So just like the libs, it appears you're turning a blind eye to it.

Because If you actually cared about those commiting mass murder, it stands to reason you would choose to express an opinion against the group doing it the most worldwide, instead of the group who has no power to do it any longer.

In choosing to be critical of libs for actions that others are doing worse on a far larger scale is what makes your opinion lack empathy. Because it quite literally could have more empathy if it was directed towards the larger group now doing all the mass murdering.

Libs don't want to talk about drone strikes killing people (just the "terrorists" that do), and you don't want to talk about the right killing people (just the "libs" that do).

From where I'm at, you both appear to be the same kind of hypocrite.

Egypt and Japan...

Both are already under Russia's heel. Japan only recently.

Egypt gets 80% of their grain from Russia in exchange for guns. Russia has them by the balls and doesn't need propaganda to influence their politics:

https://www.eureporter.co/world/egypt/2024/02/15/a-new-dawn-for-russia-and-egypt-and-a-wake-up-call-for-the-west/

And Japan is one of the 11 Democracies found to be under attack through targeted election interference in this report:

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-intelligence-report-alleging-russia-election-interference-shared-with-100-2023-10-20/

Concerted Russian operations between 2020 and 2022 sought to "undermine public confidence in at least 11 elections across nine democracies, including the United States," the report said, adding 17 others were targeted by "less pronounced" efforts.

So the mass murder people already have control of the Egyptian government, and are working on Japan.

And its working because:

Right now people will follow whoever promises to do things and then follows through on that promise.

This includes voting for people that don't care about mass murder as long as they follow through on their other promises.

So all together, talking about how much you hate the Right and what they're doing feels like an opinion you should have and be sharing if you truly cared about those who commit mass murder.

Libs are not in power in the US and very likely won't have it in the same way ever again.

Do they suck? Yes.

But there's bigger mass murders now that arguably warrant the same view you have of libs.

So why are you choosing to talk about the libs instead?

From my perspective, it looks like you just want to waste your time being angry at a lesser evil. Which if done over the course of your whole life, will unquestionably waste it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (5 children)

... there's nothing wrong with doing wasteful things.

Agreed.

But I prefer to live a productive life instead of a wasteful one.

Especially when wasting your life involves picking on a currently oppressed group instead of their oppressors. If your anger stems from liberals lack of empathy, you are certainly lacking it towards them now that they're oppressed.

So if you want to waste your life being an angry hypocrite in this way, I will not stop you, but I will point it out.

And let me know where in the world you're living if you feel you are currently safe from the Russia fueled right-wing populist hate machine. I'd gladly move there to escape the grip they are tightening on the world.

Especially considering how effectively they dismantled the US, have now weaponized their military (the largest in the world by several factors), and have publicly stated their interest to take over Canada, Greenland, and Panama.

If there's a safe place on this planet that escapes their grasp, let me know, especially since you already feel:

...that united front will never happen.

Seeing as a united front is the only way this ends well for humanity instead of Oligarchs, I guess we'll have to wait 4 years to find out if you're just being wasteful, or dangerously naive.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (7 children)

This is the reaction of people who are only marginally opposed to mass murder.

Understood.

My point: the world is slowly becoming overrun by people that are not opposed to mass murder at all.

So why should we spend any effort towards measuring what level we're each opposed to mass murder, instead of actually opposing it while it's happening?

It's wasteful at best, and creates fractures in a needed united front against mass murdering corporate narcissists at worst.

Albeit a valid criticism of libs, it's not productive towards solving any growing problem in any way. It is punching down on a group that Trump already has his boot on. Yet you're enjoying the boot, and feel it's earned, instead of aligning with the people it's on who you clearly agree more with.

At the rate the US is going, there won't be many libs left to laugh at once that boot is finished with them.

So I'll save my criticism of their behavior after I know for sure they'll still be around to criticize. Until then, anyone under that boot is my ally despite any political differences.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (9 children)

Does anyone find it disgusting that conservatives now AREN'T mad that Obama was incompetently committing mass murder in the Middle East? (Because Trump is now doing the same?)

Personally, and morally, our anger should be towards the people NOT upset at Mass Murder, which as you have explained, isn't liberals.

To be clear, yes, liberals turned a blind eye to this during Obama. But to your point, they aren't now. Trump, instead, is murdering without care, and his base is celebrating it.

A blind eye isn't the same as active support, and MAGA is actively supporting murder. While at worst, liberals still have blinders on.

Personally, I'm not going to spend any time chastising a lesser evil. But many did during our previous elections, which is how Trump got elected both times.

Harris + Isreal being a great recent example. Because no matter how bad Harris was, it's not Trump turning Gaza into a night club.

What disgusting hate should we throw her way about Gaza now that it's targeted for demolision by Trump?

At best, it's wasteful to be so angry at liberals now. At worst, it's stupid, and will keep the people you should be angry at in power to do worse things more frequently as it has for both of Trumps elections.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

You know those scam phone calls from India pretending to be Microsoft? They overwhelmly target the elderly, because their success rate with them is so high. The elderly are without question more gullible when it comes to being taken advantage of over the internet and social media.

The elderly control every branch of our government. Their gulliblity is now something that lets all of us get taken advantage of - not just themselves. They are collectively buying MAGA Hats for the country because some guys on the internet told them it would make America Great. It's clearly not, hasn't, and is a scam, but now our entire country has to pay for it.

Even the best, most well trained guards cannot provide protection if they are too old to lift a shield. Our entire government hasn't been able to lift that shield in decades.

Which explains why 9-11 was "Never Forget," but Columbine is "Always Forget" for every school shooting that's happened since '99.

I was a Sophomore in highschool when Colombine happened, and now my kids get to see others their age die yearly in school shootings while President crime grandpa tells us it's because of trans kids.

It's not boomers as a generation that's the problem, it's that generation is just now old to provide security. At worst, they are too proud to admit their age causes issues in their ability to lead and protect this country. But it unquestionably does.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

I agree with others below that the GOP is at the limit of what they can get their followers to believe in once they can't eat. Most are already suffering, and expect a quick turn around. Instead, we're about to get Great Depression 2: Trumps BS Boogaloo. The violence that follows will overwhelmingly be directed at those that control every branch of the government with an iron grip and failed to make anything better despite it. Historically, this has always been the course of events.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

If your decision is between voting for someone that associates with the worst, most ineffective, and cruel politicians in our modern era, or someone else, you vote for someone else.

Evil people lie, and most of them have the money to get social media influences to lie with them, so you won't know their angle until it's too late to stop them. Like project 2025.

Also, no offense, but why would you even possibly entertain voting for someone who is clearly backed by a lunatic that wants to literally invade and annex your country?

Not believing this is a viable threat to your sovereignty is the most dangerously naive you could be.

One of your choices will unquestionably make it easier for Canada to become a US state. Don't pick that candidate unless you're prepared for that result.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 5 days ago (7 children)

They do. Because they already got away with making the US fail to realize a whole bunch. About project 2025. About Trump. School shootings. Class solidarity. Etc. The US is pliable because 50% of the country just needs someone on Fox to tell them how okay it is for them to get fucked, and they'll just let it happen.

Problem is, there are clear limits on how far this can be pushed. And these idiots are just about to discover what those limits are. But they are without question idiots, and certainly stupid enough to not see how this is going to effect them.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 days ago (2 children)

As an American, don't be naive. Trump said he had nothing to do with project 2025, and now it's 40% complete in just 3 months in office. Everyone on the right side of politics isn't to be trusted in this era. They are all absolutely full of shit, and will unquestionably align with Trumps insanity. Name a single one that hasn't.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 days ago

By all means, explain to me how Americans are supposed to fight against decades of wrong-think being bought and paid for by the richest people alive.

America is in the situation we're in because money is power and those with the most of it decided to slowly take over this country. If 90% of the people here could unify, they still wouldn't have the resources of the 30 billionaires controlling their tech and media narrative.

You better have a good answer of what to do when this happens again because based on the world wide rise of this kind of disinformation, it's only a matter of time before it happens to your country too. Assuming your safe is the only short sighted thing America did in this situation.

So I wouldn't be delighting in the strength these enemies showed in defeating the US, because it's just a matter of time before they come for you next. And if the US didn't stop them, you better be learning how.

Because this evil isn't localized to the US.

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