• mycodesucks@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Three words are all it takes.

    “I was wrong.”

    I’m not about to sympathize with these idiots now that they’re suffering just to have them screw everything up AGAIN if we’re fortunate enough to somehow claw out of this mess with SOMETHING like a civil society left. We didn’t get burned hard enough by that when these idiots all voted AGAIN for him in 2024? Having learned nothing?

    She’s not a pitiable victim - she’s a dormant cancer waiting to ruin us again, and continues to be until she sufficiently convinces me otherwise. I don’t enjoy watching other people suffer, but she’s a threat… one of the millions of tiny knives that are tearing open the bleeding wound of the US. Her suffering doesn’t change that.

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      4 days ago

      You very nicely said my reasons for not being overly concerned with their suffering. I know they’ll do it again in a heartbeat without realizing they’re the one’s causing the pain.

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        4 days ago

        In-group behavior is a biologically evolved evolutionary survival mechanism, and is only appalling and destructive when when the out-group is an IMAGINED threat or a scapegoat.

        When they’re ACTUALLY, OBJECTIVELY a dangerous problem, it’s a legitimate response.

        Furthermore, the out-group here CHOOSES to be an out-group. Being a vile, self-serving imbecile is not a “can’t do anything about it”, meaningless biological differentiation. It’s a conscious choice that reflects character.

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            3 days ago

            Uh huh… and are there any limits to your CLEARLY superior magnanimity?

            Would you pity a Nazi? A member of the KKK? How about a member of ICE?

            Because it seems to me right now your position is either “this isn’t big enough of a deal” or “there is NO level of heinous or dangerous ideology that is out of bounds”, and I reject both of those premises.