Conservatism is, as always, a complete failure of empathy, a lack of ability to recognise that if you don’t care about other people and you choose to put people who also don’t care about other people in charge, the people in charge simply and absolutely don’t care about you or your friends or your family.
Conservatives don’t understand that “them” and “us” are actually all just us.
Well said, and i love your user name. Happy Friday 🥂
… “them” and “us” are actually all just us.
Yes!
This is a bit of an extreme view. Most conservatives do have empathy, though they will prioritize their closed ones with it.
The problem with this specific scenario with the tarrifs is just people being misinformed and buying everything the party tells them, but I wouldn’t blame it on lack of empathy. If they’d actually known what the repercussions would be, I don’t think most of them would have voted for trump.
Many, many conservatives voted for dump to punish immigrants. Many, many people voted to “own the libs”, just like the person cited in this very post.
Please… point to the “empathy” in “owning the libs”. They might have the tiniest drop of empathy for some, but the problem is they have a lot more HATE for people they don’t even fucking know. That makes them terrible people no matter how much you say, “butbut they still have some empathy!”.
Yea, the problem is they have more hate than empathy.
Democrats are also a conservative party. Biden is a conservative with empathy.
I wish Lemmy had an “Exemplary” tag like Tildes, because this response is exemplary.
Face meet leopard.
I wish I was still on Twitter so I could see all the replies, flaming this guy
You know for fuck sure this guy is going to vote Republican in the midterms and then do another insurrection to make sure Trump is “elected” in 2028.
Yeah, but he’s owning the libs or what ever the fuck that means.
It means everybody lives in squalor because fuck everybody
Clearly he is liberal and didn’t know it.
Thank you Trump for enlightening him!
/sarcasm (because it is no longer obvious)
I genuinely think they won’t, one thing that does make people like this learn is when they personally feel the consequences of their actions.
Despite what he said, he didn’t vote for Trump for the economy.
He voted for Trump because he was racist. So unless he suddenly became unracist, he will vote Republican again and blame a darker skinned person for the failure of his shoe business.
I honestly think it’s just because they’re fucking stupid and we’re raised that Republicans were “their” team.
I know for certain plenty of Republicans aren’t racist but I’ve yet to meet one who wasn’t rich or stupid.
Unfortunately, in the twitter comments that someone linked, you can see that he still staunchly believes that Trump was the best pick, and that a vote for democrats is a vote to “trans the kids.”
Republicans have been primed to treat their own suffering as a trial they need to overcome, and that was done specifically so they wouldn’t vote in everyone’s best interests even if it’s clearly also in their own best interests.
Thanks for linking, ironically this guy makes patriotic shoes with flags and ones that say “Gulf of America” on them according to the thread.
So much to unpack here…
Those shoes legit look like clown shoes. Makes sense I guess.
Thank you for putting in the effort, I wish only the best for everybody involved🤣🤣
Hey baby are you a lib? ‘Cause you seem pretty owned.
He spent the entire day insulting people and posting conspiracy theory bullshit. He got what he deserved and won’t complain about Trump directly because his followers would shit down his throat. He’s a pussy ass bitch.
Oh no, not Steffi!
Your business has been sacrificed for his rich backers. HTH!
The leopard’s are gonna be eaten good by the summmer.
surprise pikachu moment
Owned themselves 😂 funny thing is im better off now then when she decided to own herself lmao
Literal NPC behavior… That first tweet is full-blown parody
not a shitpost
You don’t get to decide that.
Conservatism is a shitpost these days
Honestly it always looked like a shitpost to me
Conservative is a misnomer used for propaganda purposes.
After all conservative aren’t really in the game of conserving.
what’s hilarious is they could be out on the street freezing and starving to death and they STILL will bleat their praises for dear leader trump, rather than admit that maybe they’ve been completely utterly 100% conned by the con man everyone’s been calling a con man for the last several decades
One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.
- Carl Sagan
exactly why they’ve been deliberately ruthlessly wrecking education for the last several decades. believe what you’re told to believe, regardless of whether that belief is supported by facts or evidence. actually, fact, evidence, science are your ENEMY
as painfully evidenced by death threats to dr. fauci
What a novel sacrifice they must make to make sure the other is properly hurt!
And:
“Can you imagine how much worse things would have been if Harris was elected?”
— conservative voters
Because you were never in their secret little club. That’s what these idiots don’t understand. They think that because they have a few million dollars, or tens of millions and a business that they are ‘wealthy’ and therefore Republicans are one of them and vice versa.
If you don’t have at least 250 million, you are never going to be the intended beneficiary of Republican policy, and in fact, you will be harmed by their decisions. If you went to one of their little fund raisers and proudly announced that your business made ten million dollars last year, they’d fucking laugh at you, because you’re a joke to them. A donkey that thinks it’s a Thoroughbred
