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Anonymous wrote:It’s not that I loathe empathy. I can take it or leave it.

It’s that I respect power, and recognized long ago that it’s stupid to be Democrat. They always tie themselves in knots and can’t punish Republicans for hurting people. But Republicans turn the screws on the libs every time they get into office, with Trump deciding to end Democrats once and for all.

If you’re not on record as MAGA, you’re going to go through some things. It doesn’t matter if you’re George Soros or famous or a senator or a judge. If you’re Democrat, Trump is going to make you miserable and TONS of people are cheering him on.

Trump knows everyone’s weaknesses and how to nail them. Take even Federal judges. People hope somehow the courts will check Trump. Nuh-uh. Trump has enormous leverage over the Judicial Branch, because it’s the EXECUTIVE branch that protects them. Namely, the US Marshals.

So if they play ball, everything’s cool. They’ll get their courthouses secured and get bodyguards when they’re on official travel. But at ANY time Trump could pull the marshals, without telling anyone he’s doing it. Now imagine being a Democrat judge going on a junket, and all of a sudden your marshals are ordered to stand down or be fired, JUST as the Proud Boys Trump pardoned show up at the resort to have a word with you.

Yeah, THAT’S Trump’s power. He can have anyone eliminated just by melting away their safety. So they go along and just go through the motions so that it’s the little people who get hosed, not the powerful.

I think this demonstrates the difference between MAGAs and the rest of us.

MAGAs are interested in what politicians can do AGAINST people.

The rest of us are interested in what politicians can do FOR people.

Anonymous wrote:It’s not that I loathe empathy. I can take it or leave it.

It’s that I respect power, and recognized long ago that it’s stupid to be Democrat. They always tie themselves in knots and can’t punish Republicans for hurting people. But Republicans turn the screws on the libs every time they get into office, with Trump deciding to end Democrats once and for all.

If you’re not on record as MAGA, you’re going to go through some things. It doesn’t matter if you’re George Soros or famous or a senator or a judge. If you’re Democrat, Trump is going to make you miserable and TONS of people are cheering him on.

Trump knows everyone’s weaknesses and how to nail them. Take even Federal judges. People hope somehow the courts will check Trump. Nuh-uh. Trump has enormous leverage over the Judicial Branch, because it’s the EXECUTIVE branch that protects them. Namely, the US Marshals.

So if they play ball, everything’s cool. They’ll get their courthouses secured and get bodyguards when they’re on official travel. But at ANY time Trump could pull the marshals, without telling anyone he’s doing it. Now imagine being a Democrat judge going on a junket, and all of a sudden your marshals are ordered to stand down or be fired, JUST as the Proud Boys Trump pardoned show up at the resort to have a word with you.

Yeah, THAT’S Trump’s power. He can have anyone eliminated just by melting away their safety. So they go along and just go through the motions so that it’s the little people who get hosed, not the powerful.

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Anonymous wrote:To us liberals, this is optically very much the vibe. Is this the case IRL? Would love to understand the thinking.

NP. I’m a Democrat and it feels to me that the Democrats have a lot invested in appearing to have empathy, but not actually having any empathy.

The Republican lack of empathy feels more honest in many respects.

VS?

Versus actually having empathy. I simply do not believe Democrats as a group have empathy and compassion. I used to believe that, but no longer.

I find the Republicans somewhat refreshing in that respect. They don’t pretend they have empathy and compassion.

So your world view is that no one has empathy?

I believe people have empathy, but I do not think people grouped by political affiliation have empathy based on that affiliation.

In other words, I believe the average Republican is as likely to have empathy as the average Democrat. As political groups, I believe neither have empathy. And I certainly do not believe whatsoever that Democrats are more empathetic than Republicans.

Anonymous wrote:It’s not that I loathe empathy. I can take it or leave it.

It’s that I respect power, and recognized long ago that it’s stupid to be Democrat. They always tie themselves in knots and can’t punish Republicans for hurting people. But Republicans turn the screws on the libs every time they get into office, with Trump deciding to end Democrats once and for all.

If you’re not on record as MAGA, you’re going to go through some things. It doesn’t matter if you’re George Soros or famous or a senator or a judge. If you’re Democrat, Trump is going to make you miserable and TONS of people are cheering him on.

Trump knows everyone’s weaknesses and how to nail them. Take even Federal judges. People hope somehow the courts will check Trump. Nuh-uh. Trump has enormous leverage over the Judicial Branch, because it’s the EXECUTIVE branch that protects them. Namely, the US Marshals.

So if they play ball, everything’s cool. They’ll get their courthouses secured and get bodyguards when they’re on official travel. But at ANY time Trump could pull the marshals, without telling anyone he’s doing it. Now imagine being a Democrat judge going on a junket, and all of a sudden your marshals are ordered to stand down or be fired, JUST as the Proud Boys Trump pardoned show up at the resort to have a word with you.

Yeah, THAT’S Trump’s power. He can have anyone eliminated just by melting away their safety. So they go along and just go through the motions so that it’s the little people who get hosed, not the powerful.

Anonymous wrote:It’s not that I loathe empathy. I can take it or leave it.

It’s that I respect power, and recognized long ago that it’s stupid to be Democrat. They always tie themselves in knots and can’t punish Republicans for hurting people. But Republicans turn the screws on the libs every time they get into office, with Trump deciding to end Democrats once and for all.

If you’re not on record as MAGA, you’re going to go through some things. It doesn’t matter if you’re George Soros or famous or a senator or a judge. If you’re Democrat, Trump is going to make you miserable and TONS of people are cheering him on.

Trump knows everyone’s weaknesses and how to nail them. Take even Federal judges. People hope somehow the courts will check Trump. Nuh-uh. Trump has enormous leverage over the Judicial Branch, because it’s the EXECUTIVE branch that protects them. Namely, the US Marshals.

So if they play ball, everything’s cool. They’ll get their courthouses secured and get bodyguards when they’re on official travel. But at ANY time Trump could pull the marshals, without telling anyone he’s doing it. Now imagine being a Democrat judge going on a junket, and all of a sudden your marshals are ordered to stand down or be fired, JUST as the Proud Boys Trump pardoned show up at the resort to have a word with you.

Yeah, THAT’S Trump’s power. He can have anyone eliminated just by melting away their safety. So they go along and just go through the motions so that it’s the little people who get hosed, not the powerful.

Anonymous wrote:It’s not that I loathe empathy. I can take it or leave it.

It’s that I respect power, and recognized long ago that it’s stupid to be Democrat. They always tie themselves in knots and can’t punish Republicans for hurting people. But Republicans turn the screws on the libs every time they get into office, with Trump deciding to end Democrats once and for all.

If you’re not on record as MAGA, you’re going to go through some things. It doesn’t matter if you’re George Soros or famous or a senator or a judge. If you’re Democrat, Trump is going to make you miserable and TONS of people are cheering him on.

Trump knows everyone’s weaknesses and how to nail them. Take even Federal judges. People hope somehow the courts will check Trump. Nuh-uh. Trump has enormous leverage over the Judicial Branch, because it’s the EXECUTIVE branch that protects them. Namely, the US Marshals.

So if they play ball, everything’s cool. They’ll get their courthouses secured and get bodyguards when they’re on official travel. But at ANY time Trump could pull the marshals, without telling anyone he’s doing it. Now imagine being a Democrat judge going on a junket, and all of a sudden your marshals are ordered to stand down or be fired, JUST as the Proud Boys Trump pardoned show up at the resort to have a word with you.

Yeah, THAT’S Trump’s power. He can have anyone eliminated just by melting away their safety. So they go along and just go through the motions so that it’s the little people who get hosed, not the powerful.

Anonymous wrote:It’s not that I loathe empathy. I can take it or leave it.

It’s that I respect power, and recognized long ago that it’s stupid to be Democrat. They always tie themselves in knots and can’t punish Republicans for hurting people. But Republicans turn the screws on the libs every time they get into office, with Trump deciding to end Democrats once and for all.

If you’re not on record as MAGA, you’re going to go through some things. It doesn’t matter if you’re George Soros or famous or a senator or a judge. If you’re Democrat, Trump is going to make you miserable and TONS of people are cheering him on.

Trump knows everyone’s weaknesses and how to nail them. Take even Federal judges. People hope somehow the courts will check Trump. Nuh-uh. Trump has enormous leverage over the Judicial Branch, because it’s the EXECUTIVE branch that protects them. Namely, the US Marshals.

So if they play ball, everything’s cool. They’ll get their courthouses secured and get bodyguards when they’re on official travel. But at ANY time Trump could pull the marshals, without telling anyone he’s doing it. Now imagine being a Democrat judge going on a junket, and all of a sudden your marshals are ordered to stand down or be fired, JUST as the Proud Boys Trump pardoned show up at the resort to have a word with you.

Yeah, THAT’S Trump’s power. He can have anyone eliminated just by melting away their safety. So they go along and just go through the motions so that it’s the little people who get hosed, not the powerful.

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think it’s contempt as much as it is people think that your idea of empathy is overrated.

Some people prioritize sane and logical decision making to empathy.

Anonymous wrote:It’s not that I loathe empathy. I can take it or leave it.

It’s that I respect power, and recognized long ago that it’s stupid to be Democrat. They always tie themselves in knots and can’t punish Republicans for hurting people. But Republicans turn the screws on the libs every time they get into office, with Trump deciding to end Democrats once and for all.

If you’re not on record as MAGA, you’re going to go through some things. It doesn’t matter if you’re George Soros or famous or a senator or a judge. If you’re Democrat, Trump is going to make you miserable and TONS of people are cheering him on.

Trump knows everyone’s weaknesses and how to nail them. Take even Federal judges. People hope somehow the courts will check Trump. Nuh-uh. Trump has enormous leverage over the Judicial Branch, because it’s the EXECUTIVE branch that protects them. Namely, the US Marshals.

So if they play ball, everything’s cool. They’ll get their courthouses secured and get bodyguards when they’re on official travel. But at ANY time Trump could pull the marshals, without telling anyone he’s doing it. Now imagine being a Democrat judge going on a junket, and all of a sudden your marshals are ordered to stand down or be fired, JUST as the Proud Boys Trump pardoned show up at the resort to have a word with you.

Yeah, THAT’S Trump’s power. He can have anyone eliminated just by melting away their safety. So they go along and just go through the motions so that it’s the little people who get hosed, not the powerful.

Anonymous wrote:It’s not that I loathe empathy. I can take it or leave it.

It’s that I respect power, and recognized long ago that it’s stupid to be Democrat. They always tie themselves in knots and can’t punish Republicans for hurting people. But Republicans turn the screws on the libs every time they get into office, with Trump deciding to end Democrats once and for all.

If you’re not on record as MAGA, you’re going to go through some things. It doesn’t matter if you’re George Soros or famous or a senator or a judge. If you’re Democrat, Trump is going to make you miserable and TONS of people are cheering him on.

Trump knows everyone’s weaknesses and how to nail them. Take even Federal judges. People hope somehow the courts will check Trump. Nuh-uh. Trump has enormous leverage over the Judicial Branch, because it’s the EXECUTIVE branch that protects them. Namely, the US Marshals.

So if they play ball, everything’s cool. They’ll get their courthouses secured and get bodyguards when they’re on official travel. But at ANY time Trump could pull the marshals, without telling anyone he’s doing it. Now imagine being a Democrat judge going on a junket, and all of a sudden your marshals are ordered to stand down or be fired, JUST as the Proud Boys Trump pardoned show up at the resort to have a word with you.

Yeah, THAT’S Trump’s power. He can have anyone eliminated just by melting away their safety. So they go along and just go through the motions so that it’s the little people who get hosed, not the powerful.

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Anonymous wrote:All this thread has done is shown that Democrats care only about appearing empathetic, not actual empathy, and that Republicans do not have empathy.

All that this thread has shown is that MAGA are full of crap ^^case in point^^

Conservatives, MAGA, Republicans have plenty of empathy, it is just not for groups or people that the left considers worthy of empathy. We have empathy for people who have been killed, raped, beaten up, robbed, etc. by illegals. We have empathy for the people whose businesses were looted and destroyed by the BLM rioters. We have empathy for the victims of Los Angeles wildfires. We have empathy for the family of the CEO who was shot in cold blood in NYC. Do you have empathy for those people?

Right. So concerned for those survivors. But you DGAF about all of the other survivors who don't fit into your boogeyman narrative.

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Anonymous wrote:New poster. I think there's definitely a segment of conservatives who are essentially sociopaths. They may look after their immediate circle but beyond that they don't care about anyone or what may befall them.

And, self-aware to their lack of empathy, they project it onto others, not believing that others are, in fact, capable of empathy. When they see someone else showing empathy, they think it's fake (since they themselves are incapable of it), and thus attach their own artificial labels like "virtue signalling" which projects their own lack of empathy onto others.

The other thing that goes far far beyond the "contempt" that's presumed to be shown by white collars toward blue collars (which I think is at least partly also chip-on-shoulder inferiority complex of the blue collar) is the level of gleeful malice that's out there - for example the complete demonization of federal employees right now.

Right, being resentful of having to pay for the college loans of *other people* is just a "chip-on-shoulder inferiority complex." How dare those blue collar workers not step up and pay for my college loan!!
Do you even hear yourself?

Anonymous wrote:New poster. I think there's definitely a segment of conservatives who are essentially sociopaths. They may look after their immediate circle but beyond that they don't care about anyone or what may befall them.

And, self-aware to their lack of empathy, they project it onto others, not believing that others are, in fact, capable of empathy. When they see someone else showing empathy, they think it's fake (since they themselves are incapable of it), and thus attach their own artificial labels like "virtue signalling" which projects their own lack of empathy onto others.

The other thing that goes far far beyond the "contempt" that's presumed to be shown by white collars toward blue collars (which I think is at least partly also chip-on-shoulder inferiority complex of the blue collar) is the level of gleeful malice that's out there - for example the complete demonization of federal employees right now.