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Too soon? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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[–] 448 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Nah empathy is for the weak.

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  • [–] 141 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Well fuck. Now I have to actually have empathy for his death or he will get what he wants. 😭

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  • [–] 169 points 11 months ago (8 children)

    have empathy for his children, who didn't ask to be born into this

    and uh I guess that's about it

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  • [–] 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    nah, those kids are definitely gonna privately celebrate. i know i did when my horrible dad died

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  • [–] 33 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    His daughter just turned 3, and his son is 16 months old. I don't think they're going to celebrate. But, they're going to grow up hearing stories about how their father was a martyr who died heroically, trying to save the soul of the USA. Let's just hope that as adults they're able to see past that brainwashing and understand what a truly horrible person their father was.

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Depends on how involved their mother is in the crazy movement.

    At least one of the other Toiletpaper guys (Matt Walsh, or the change my mind guy maybe?) was treating his wife so badly that she left him and posted the surveillance videos of his dickhead behavior.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Does that mean you don't believe in empathy?

    Sincerely believing in empathy as a guide doesn’t mean only when it’s convenient. Empathy isn’t supposed to be convenient.

    For clarification, I'm not claiming he deserves empathy.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Empathy for the other people attending that rally who had to see such a violent event. Some were there to cheer him on, so fuck them. But, others were there to try to debate him. It was dumb of them to play into his game and participate, but still, some will be leaving that event pretty traumatized.

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  • [–] -2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 child)

    This is the full context of the quote for anyone curious like I was.

    https://rumble.com/v1nnu66-dont-believe-your-lying-eyes-everything-is-fine-bannon-sheriff-lamb-patel-w.html?start=2180

    TLDW is that he follows saying he prefers sympathy over empathy

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    TLDW. what would the difference between sympathy and empathy be?

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago* (1 child)
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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I would argue that the average person refers to a mix of both when they use the word "empathy":

    • caring about the other person's pain
    • being there for them
    • trying to see things from their perspective
    • wanting the other person to be better and wondering how one could help.

    Classifying one as "a terrible problem" and the other as acceptable seems (at least) a bit pedantic. Specially when it comes to language, a dynamic phenomena in which words mean what (the majority of) people deem them to mean.

    my two cents

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    The train of thought he talked about right when he said that was that in the past politicians said they feel your pain, even if they are an opponent. Now politicians try to make the case that people aren't in pain.

    In that comparison I linked one of the differences is sympathy is feeling pain as your own and another is acknowledging pain without feeling it at all.

    I'm not saying I agree with his take, but context made the quote made me go from "this guy doesn't care about others at all" to "grammar police sidenote where he wants people to say sympathy more" in my head

    Context is important and I never heard or watched him at all so I wanted to share for people who were interested like I was.

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