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Imagine working with the IRS, voting with the party that has said for years they want to defund the IRS, and then being surprised when that party attacks the IRS. I don’t fucking understand these people at all. They truly live a life devoid of reality. They are incapable of considering real world consequences.
Truly to be a conservative is to lack imagination.
Someone I know would often spar with his neighbor over politics. Neighbor has been working for the USPS for most of his life. Neighbor was full-on fucking MAGA. I'd like to get an update on that guy, but the person I know moved and lost contact w/ the qon neighbor.
But I wonder if his butt puckered up just a little bit when he learned this:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/postal-service-braces-for-potential-takeover-by-trumps-commerce-department/ar-AA1zydyK
They believe they are special. My job is important so it wont get cut. My abortion was just because it could have caused health problems for me. I deserved unemployment/medicaid because i paid into it.
It is not imagination but empathy they lack until it effects their lives.
And any type of reason, critical thinking, compassion, empathy, or most other basic human emotions.
Just like anyone in a union that voted for Trump, or any woman. I don't know what they expected.
In the union we were always taught to vote with your wallet. Every meeting during elections I heard it. Still, every other guy would be on about voting for Trump. Can't fix stupid.
Well, when you saw how their leadership behaved....
https://crooksandliars.com/2025/02/scabby-rat-obrien-still-scabby-rat
And stupid people vote Republican, and Republicans destroy education to make more stupid people. It's a cruel feedback loop.
Conservative/capitalist policies don’t even really benefit the rich.
Imagination, empathy, intelligence, a soul, basic communication skills, and any level of emotional maturity.
Don't dehumanize people who disagree with you, this is the wrong path.
Criticizing and even insulting awful people is hardly dehumanizing. Notice how I just called them people?
But, I don't know, maybe calling large swaths of people vermin, or saying they're poisoning the blood of our country, or even just rounding them up and shipping them off to some place they do not know because they're the wrong skin tone? Well that would be pretty shitty.
Hey, if I had all the power in the world I’d still share it with them in the form of healthcare, equal rights, and all that. That’s the thing, they fucking suck rocks and are the worst examples of a human being but I’ll still consider them human either way.
It’s not a binary, maybe you’ll learn that and maybe you won’t.
I accused you of dehumanizing people and you respond with...
What does that even mean in this context? Are you saying they're like part people?
For the record you said earlier that they lacked intelligence and a soul, which is pretty literally dehumanizing, that's what I was responding to. Look, I'm not trying to shame you here, I get where you're coming from. I'm trying to remind you that you're being taken advantage of. That foreign and corporate powers are actively trying to influence public discourse and divisiveness is their most powerful tool, they're pitting us against each other for their own gain.
So don't fall for it! Don't take the bait! As soon as you start treating the other side like they don't even matter, like they're some different species who aren't smart enough to think for themselves, then you're giving up the game, we lose.
And you're right about one part for sure though, conservatives are lacking in communication skills, unfortunately, so are liberals; that's just a human problem. (And on that note, maybe some day I'll learn how to communicate all this in one sentence rather than having to write several paragraphs every time.)
A binary as in you can call someone a piece of absolute fucking trash and still not try to take their rights away. And I specifically said I will always treat them as human because I have principles. Also lacking a soul is a more flowery, poetic way of saying that they seem unable to have kind of compassion or joy and they treat situations as mathematic bullshit instead of ever taking into consideration a human aspext(but boy are they also full of feelings and absolutely terrible at math).
Like, I’m glad you’re looking out but I think you’re missing the nuance here.
Ok, that word you're looking for is "empathy", but soul is definitely the wrong one. The words you use to describe people matter a lot, I'm not being pedantic.
You think I'm missing the nuisance? Funny. Ironically, I think the language you're using just lacks empathy.
No, the word I’m looking for is definitely “soul”. It’s called reading and writing above a grade-school level. It’s fine, if I ever get a buttload of power I’ll make sure even the soulless get access to free education and maybe we can raise some literacy levels.
Speaking ill about people that want you dead and are trying aggressively.to kill you, is that ok?
Absolutely! I mean you're acknowledging that they're people, and people have conflicts all the time, this is normal. Feel free to have all the opinions about that you want.
But saying that as a group, they all lack basic intelligence or a soul, that's not helpful to discourse, and that's really my only point.