I hear these comments for not wanting to help people, and it feels like we’re worshipping individuality to the detriment of community, which is necessary for survival.

  • “I don’t want my money going to ___ .”
  • “This is not a democracy, it’s a constitutional republic!”
  • “You don’t have any freedoms under socialism/communism.”
  • “They’re just looking for a handout because they’re lazy.”
  • “I’m a self-made man. I didn’t need anyone’s help.”
  • “Empathy is not a virtue.”
  • “I don’t see how that’s my problem.”
  • 3abas@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    After watching Israel slaughter tens of thousands of our children while Biden lied and covered for them and have them everything they wanted, i have no empathy nor sympathy left for anyone who isn’t ready for a revolution and calls enthusiastic support for genocide “the lesser evil”.

    They’re all Nazis, both sides, and I have zero respect left for anyone who only cares about them and theirs and their life domestically. I have no empathy for anyone who lives in and benefits from the imperial core and doesn’t have empathy for the victims of the empire.

    I don’t have sympathy and empathy left for them. When a dear friend told me his mother died, I tried so hard to find an emotion, and I just remembered all the lost children he refused to speak up for and came up empty. Fuck you and your dead mother, I thought as I said I’m sorry for your loss.

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        Worse for you, objectively the immediate situation in Gaza is better, our children are no longer being slaughtered inn the hundreds daily. They’re restoring and rebuilding some form of daily life, they have cafes running and they’re watching the Palestine team compete in the Arab cup. Things that seemed unimaginable when Biden was greenlighting 2,000 lbs bombs on tents while licking ice cream.

        Biden is our Hitler, Trump is yours, and if you were one of the people who saw what Biden was doing in Gaza and decided Kamala promising the most lethal military deserved your vote, you deserve Trump and I feel no empathy for you.

        If you refused to vote for both evils, I respect you and expect you to stand aside me when the revolution begins. I expect liberals to side with maga in a true revolution, and they’ll label is communist islamist extremist terrorists for disrupting their comfortable daily life at the very top of society.

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        The full view thing is … interesting, unique in my experience. It’s one of the few “good” things about the recent unpleasantness. Hopefully all this blatant graft, corruption and just plain evil in clear view leads to some reforms.

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          When a Republic卐n is publicly nasty, be on guard. They’re doing worse while you’re distracted.