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Yes, I have observed that many people are actually, very simple. As good as their intentions may be, they can't compute the ramifications waiting just two steps ahead. To put empathy to action requires the ability to envision outcomes. For example, every time there is a school shooting, people who consider themselves to be empathetic "send thoughts and prayers". Is that really empathy, because there is that next six-year-old and a bullet with their name on it.drunkenshoe wrote: Tue Jun 23, 2026 12:50 pm Why do people always think about empathy in simplistic, positive terms? You also need empathy to do something bad to people. When someone threatens another one with harming their children, they perfectly know that it's so bad a thing for the person involved, that person would do anything to prevent that. That's fucking empathy too.
Empathy is the base of human intelligence. It's the ability to see things, events, phenomena in relevance to each other, and their relations from outside. Our species have become so successful at this, we alienated ourselves from the very nature that created us. But in the end, even a 2 years old Chimpanzee can't build an empathy about a situation and come to a conclusion while a 5 year old human child can. The Chimpanzee is just feeling sad losing an offspring or a member of the tribe. That's not equal to human 'empathy'.
It's not a real anything. It's a show of sympathy stripped of actual sympathy. It's a delaying tactic forestalling making substantive changes to prevent this next time. The mismanaged and disgusting reflecting pool gets better security, more protective activity, and more heartfelt concern than America's future and that's an intentional choice.Cassia wrote: Tue Jun 23, 2026 2:32 pm For example, every time there is a school shooting, people who consider themselves to be empathetic "send thoughts and prayers". Is that really empathy, because there is that next six-year-old and a bullet with their name on it.
I have never felt more embarrassed for a nation.Hydra009 wrote: Thu Jun 25, 2026 2:59 pmIt's not a real anything. It's a show of sympathy stripped of actual sympathy. It's a delaying tactic forestalling making substantive changes to prevent this next time. The mismanaged and disgusting reflecting pool gets better security, more protective activity, and more heartfelt concern than America's future and that's an intentional choice.Cassia wrote: Tue Jun 23, 2026 2:32 pm For example, every time there is a school shooting, people who consider themselves to be empathetic "send thoughts and prayers". Is that really empathy, because there is that next six-year-old and a bullet with their name on it.
Pity we live here.
Expatriating is not my preferred solution. Motivating and educating young people, so they will learn from these political mistakes is the answer. For example, so many boomers, gen x, and even millennials believe conservative administrations are better with the economy and deficit. This is easily proven false, yet the myth persists. Historical data shows that the U.S. economy and federal deficit have performed better, on average, under Democratic administrations since World War II.
I feel like there's already a word for that...The draft language would also let the organization obtain public property in Gaza “free of charge”.
Whew. Well thank goodness there's some sort of checks and balances by....*reads notes* the guy who let the January 6th insurrectionists escape justice *reads more notes* and the guy who organized them in the first place. Also, there's a whole child traffiking/pedophilia ring thing. Anyway, couldn't ask for a better guy to uphold the law.The Board of Peace’s chair, Donald Trump, would have the right to waive someone’s legal immunity, pending majority support from his peace board, the June 2026 draft resolution states.
So weird how that stuff just keeps happening when we clearly have nothing but the best of intentions.US-led reconstruction efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan were often plagued by controversies of corruption or cases of civilian deaths or abuse at the hands of American contractors, including those working for Blackwater and KBR