I feel like I have lost all empathy and sympathy

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The climate that we are in has made me feel like I (and everyone else) has lost all empathy and sympathy. I see natural disasters and instead of immediately thinking how I can help and how bad I feel for these people instead I think - well that sucks. Too bad there isn't FEMA to help you and most likely you voted for that.

When I see people whose health insurance premiums have been raised 100% I don't feel empathy I just think - well you should get a job that gives you good health insurance.

Basically I have become a Republican who thinks everyone should "pull themselves up by their bootstraps and figure it out themselves". I can't force any sympathy or empathy anymore for people who vote for this to happen to themselves. Its hard to think good Christian thoughts for people who are fake Christians.

Honestly, nobody cares. You aren't important enough for anyone to care what you think or how you feel. Sympathy and empathy from you are as useless as your announcement here.

Oh shut up.

OP has every right to feel this way and post here.

It is still a free country til 2026.

You are too stupid to figure that out.

[Anonymous]

It is a sign of the End Times:

And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. (Matthew 24:12)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm sorry but the delusion that voting will solve the world's issues and being mad at people who have zero power is very weird to me. You should be mad at billionaires, corrupt systems, unchecked money in politics and big donors shaping everything, the fact that there is no universal health care, the fact that so many Americans can barely afford to feed their children, that we could solve the climate change issue and world hunger but people in power prevent this from happening. Redirect your energy and you'll make a bigger impact on the betterment of the world.

How so? Honest question. How do you impact the big things cited earlier in your paragraph besides voting?

Grass roots. Start small and then expand. Simply being kind in day to day interactions with strangers is a start.

This. Having empathy and being kind is radical in the face of this kind of regime.

They WANT you to feel defeated. They want your cynicism. They want you to think that nothing matters, that there is no point in trying or caring about anything.

So don't. Read a poem or a book. Hug your friends. Read the news. Get mad. Get frustrated. Talk about it. Care. Be human. Don't give in.

+1

Holding onto our humanity is the most radical thing we can do. Even when others won’t. Even when they mock us. Even/especially in the face of shocking inhumanity.

It’s also just a practical, and somewhat self-serving thing. In darkness, we need light. If we can keep a bit of the light inside us, we are never in total darkness.

So hell yes to poetry. Live theater. Great music. Get together with friends and read a beautiful book aloud. Volunteer somewhere where you are reminded that humans are beautiful and messy and suffering and in desperate need of gentleness and grace. Just seeing this is a reminder of gentlenesd and grace. None of these things will fix the world — none of them. But here we all are nonetheless.

[Anonymous]

People on this thread are unhinged. I live outside of the D.C. area and Democrats and Republicans here get along fine for the most part. It helps that people outside of D.C. are less likely to view every thing through a political lense. Y'all need to log off of whatever doomer social media you are consuming (a problem that exists on the left and the right) and touch some grass.

[Anonymous]

I feel empathy and sympathy … I’m just no longer willing to act on those feelings when it comes to some people in my life who definitely voted for the administration that is causing this and think they’re somehow still supposed to be special in the eyes of God or the President or the normal social order.

I definitely now always give bigger tips to the drivers and delivery people, though.

I have a 1st cousin whom I call distant because he made his landscaping practice in Nebraska. But we used to know one another, sort of, when he was 17 and I was 9. I thought he looked like Shaun Cassidy.

He’s F’d now because all his labor has disappeared and he’s asking Jesus on FB for people to contribute, he even messaged one of my kids who still has a profile there to say he was trying to “get in touch with your mom” because they know I’m a lawyer.

Never bothered to get in touch with me before.

Oh well

[Anonymous]

OP I'm sort of the same. I don't go so far as wanting bad things to happen to others... but I just don't care about others anymore.

For me it actually started after covid / during Biden's administration. The whole "Karen" thing and privilege and harm and safe spaces and the "have a seat" crowd and the "have vs the have nots" and I realized... I don't want to be involved with any of these people. So I pulled back in my little ways - I don't patronize "woke" people or places, I don't volunteer, I don't donate time or money to my kids' public school - instead I invest directly in my kids, etc. etc.

Then with Trump and MAGA and once again I realize, I don't want anything to do with these people. I don't want your incel son to shoot me because I believe women have rights. I don't want to support your businesses, I don't want to support your backward churches. You want to live in rural America with terrible healthcare and zero opportunity? Go for it.

However, I don't actively want bad things to happen to anyone. I just don't care.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People on this thread are unhinged. I live outside of the D.C. area and Democrats and Republicans here get along fine for the most part. It helps that people outside of D.C. are less likely to view every thing through a political lense. Y'all need to log off of whatever doomer social media you are consuming (a problem that exists on the left and the right) and touch some grass.

Yeah, my husband comes from an immigrant family, so no, we aren’t hanging out with MAGAS that voted to pull families like his apart. How nice for you that you can “just log off” and there is no more impact on your life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People on this thread are unhinged. I live outside of the D.C. area and Democrats and Republicans here get along fine for the most part. It helps that people outside of D.C. are less likely to view every thing through a political lense. Y'all need to log off of whatever doomer social media you are consuming (a problem that exists on the left and the right) and touch some grass.

What in the world are you talking about?

Project 2025 is a thing you are an idiot.

Women are going to lose all rights.

Christianity will dumb down public schools with chaplins raping your kids to play sports and you are good with KING Piggy?

Screw off you fool.

There is no "right" it is the party of Putin Anti American much!

Not to mention we do not have KINGS!

Look at the National Debt!!!
Inflation, unemployment!!

And the fact Trump is not leaving after this term you moron!

[Anonymous]

The extent to which so many of you view absolutely everything through your partisanship is pathetic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People on this thread are unhinged. I live outside of the D.C. area and Democrats and Republicans here get along fine for the most part. It helps that people outside of D.C. are less likely to view every thing through a political lense. Y'all need to log off of whatever doomer social media you are consuming (a problem that exists on the left and the right) and touch some grass.

Yeah, my husband comes from an immigrant family, so no, we aren’t hanging out with MAGAS that voted to pull families like his apart. How nice for you that you can “just log off” and there is no more impact on your life.

My in-laws are all immigrants too and I still think you’re pathetic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People on this thread are unhinged. I live outside of the D.C. area and Democrats and Republicans here get along fine for the most part. It helps that people outside of D.C. are less likely to view every thing through a political lense. Y'all need to log off of whatever doomer social media you are consuming (a problem that exists on the left and the right) and touch some grass.

Yeah, my husband comes from an immigrant family, so no, we aren’t hanging out with MAGAS that voted to pull families like his apart. How nice for you that you can “just log off” and there is no more impact on your life.

+1 have a number of immigrant family members and also separately my DH lost his job as a fed so yeah this isn't just some "get off the Internet and touch grass" thing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The climate that we are in has made me feel like I (and everyone else) has lost all empathy and sympathy. I see natural disasters and instead of immediately thinking how I can help and how bad I feel for these people instead I think - well that sucks. Too bad there isn't FEMA to help you and most likely you voted for that.

When I see people whose health insurance premiums have been raised 100% I don't feel empathy I just think - well you should get a job that gives you good health insurance.

Basically I have become a Republican who thinks everyone should "pull themselves up by their bootstraps and figure it out themselves". I can't force any sympathy or empathy anymore for people who vote for this to happen to themselves. Its hard to think good Christian thoughts for people who are fake Christians.

i am Republican and any time I see natural disaster, I immediately find the ways to help people in need. When I see people who's health insurance have been raised, I only feel empathy for those who did not understood this when ACA was implemented. This was a recepie for disaster, everyone understood this that it will not be sustainable in a long run. Regardless, I am now helping to pay for health insurance for Ukrainian woman and her little girl. They are refugees from Ukraine and would not be able to afford it otherwise. Maybe you can find one person and help them instead? No one is seeking your sympathy or empathy. People who are in need seek actual help. Why not to help them?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People on this thread are unhinged. I live outside of the D.C. area and Democrats and Republicans here get along fine for the most part. It helps that people outside of D.C. are less likely to view every thing through a political lense. Y'all need to log off of whatever doomer social media you are consuming (a problem that exists on the left and the right) and touch some grass.

What in the world are you talking about?

Project 2025 is a thing you are an idiot.

Women are going to lose all rights.

Christianity will dumb down public schools with chaplins raping your kids to play sports and you are good with KING Piggy?

Screw off you fool.

There is no "right" it is the party of Putin Anti American much!

Not to mention we do not have KINGS!

Look at the National Debt!!!
Inflation, unemployment!!

And the fact Trump is not leaving after this term you moron!

We have been hearing that the women going to lose all their rights since 2016.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is a sign of the End Times:

And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. (Matthew 24:12)

Could Jesus speed it up and yeet the Christian nationalists on out of here? I don’t know what He has in mind for their Heaven, but I’m getting awfully sick of the Hell they have wrought here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The climate that we are in has made me feel like I (and everyone else) has lost all empathy and sympathy. I see natural disasters and instead of immediately thinking how I can help and how bad I feel for these people instead I think - well that sucks. Too bad there isn't FEMA to help you and most likely you voted for that.

When I see people whose health insurance premiums have been raised 100% I don't feel empathy I just think - well you should get a job that gives you good health insurance.

Basically I have become a Republican who thinks everyone should "pull themselves up by their bootstraps and figure it out themselves". I can't force any sympathy or empathy anymore for people who vote for this to happen to themselves. Its hard to think good Christian thoughts for people who are fake Christians.

i am Republican and any time I see natural disaster, I immediately find the ways to help people in need. When I see people who's health insurance have been raised, I only feel empathy for those who did not understood this when ACA was implemented. This was a recepie for disaster, everyone understood this that it will not be sustainable in a long run. Regardless, I am now helping to pay for health insurance for Ukrainian woman and her little girl. They are refugees from Ukraine and would not be able to afford it otherwise. Maybe you can find one person and help them instead? No one is seeking your sympathy or empathy. People who are in need seek actual help. Why not to help them?

Because private charity is no substitute for a government that is by the people, FOR the people. I’d rather be dependent on my government than the whims of some smug Republican lady who doesn’t understand healthcare economics in 2025. You know you’re going to cut her off the second she disappoints you, and you get off on that.