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You don’t speak for the left. You don’t speak for lefties. You don’t speak for progressives. You don’t speak for socialists. You speak for yourself, and you shouldn’t do that.
I don’t engage with anecdotes or hypotheticals, but here’s a paper from nature that should help. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12227-0
The fact that you demonstrate zero empathy for conservatives while bemoaning “lack of empathy” is certainly a sight to behold. It’s no wonder no conservative will demonstrate empathy for you when you can fit their eradication.
Your study does not address the conservative's lack of empathy. At all. In fact, if anything, it supports my position regarding conservative "love" being related to their positive expressions of ownership.
After reading your cited study, it's no wonder conservatives are so quick to disown their family members for being LGBTQ or for having interracial relationships. It's also no wonder conservatives will so often "trade in" their spouse for a younger model without any expression of loss. It seems conservative "love" really is shallow.
Look, no progressive is going to be fooled by your gaslighting that conservatives are empathetic and caring when ALL of our life experiences with conservatives show the exact opposite. Even conservatives themselves openly despise empathy, calling it "woke", "imaginary", "weakness" or "sinful". The enemy you are defending openly and proudly disagrees with your defense.
Conservatives will not spare you from the camps just because you argued in their favor. They will eventually turn on you as well. It's just the nature of conservatism. They need an enemy, and you will eventually be in that group if they continue to grow in power.
Lmao, I’m very scared of the conservative witch hunt coming my way. I wonder if it’ll be as violent as what you call for against conservatives.
You once again are showing much more of your intellectual capability within your critique then you are exposing any truth carried by your critique. If you can read that paper and come to the conclusion that conservatives don’t possess empathy you’re blinded by bias.
Ultimately you will never have an ounce of respect from any significant portion of the population because you routinely call for the exact action your fear monger conservatives will enact. The worst version of a conservative you could ever come up with is just you with a bible in hand.
Every word uttered by a conservative is deception or manipulation. I am not fooled by you pretending conservative violence upon the vulnerable is "imaginary". You know we (the normal people) can see it, right? We document it in video and share it on social media. All while conservative propagandists and apologists lie incessantly, trying to gaslight the population to disbelieve our eyes and ears. Your lies are tiresome and weak.
You have not convinced me to alter my views about how conservatives/fascists should be dealt with. Not even a little. In fact, the more you squirm and post weak deceptions, the more confident I become in my understanding of my enemy.
You’re genuinely schizophrenic, aren’t you?
I hope you get the help you need.
Sounds like something a conservative would say. Picking a random psych diagnosis out of a hat because conservatives don't value psychology... then pretending to care that someone would get the help they need when conservatives are biologically unable to care about the well-being of others.
You could have outsourced that attempted insult to Grok! 🤣
Let me try one... You seem to suffer from a pathological need to lie. I hope you get the treatment you voted for.
How'd I do? 😆