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“We voted for Trump, not realizing that he was going to slam as hard as he did, but it was on day one when he sat down, right after inauguration, and started signing those executive orders and just trashed us federal employees, it was a kick in the teeth,” Ron said.

“That point was the beginning of my turning away from MAGA.”

“If people would just listen and research and do something other than just listen to Fox News, we may all be better off, but it's going to take an open mind and an ability to say, ‘I made a mistake,’ because once you say you made a mistake, you can turn the ship around,” said Chrissey Kelley, 50, a stay-at-home mom.

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[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 months ago

Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”

Meanwhile the MAGAts are out there worshipping Charlie Kirk when he said:

I can’t stand the word empathy actually. I think empathy is a made-up, New Age term that — it does a lot of damage

[-] Zeppo@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago

Elron Musk also said

The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy, the empathy exploit. They’re exploiting a bug in Western civilization, which is the empathy response.

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