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jeffw @lemmy.world

5mo ago

After their children survived a school shooting, these ‘lifelong Republicans’ entered the gun conversation

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Now that it involves they're kids, it's an issue
- It's always the way. Every single time. I'm beginning to think con voters have some mental deficiency where they literally can't imagine things outside their immediate perception.
  
  “Empathy is for suckers and communists“ <- the conservative ethos in a nutshell.
  
  Science is finding they do indeed likely have lower/under developed empathy capacity.
  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10281241/
  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3092984/
  https://jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/jspp/article/view/5209/5209.html#:~:text=One%20indication%20that%20conservatives%20are,importance%20of%20teaching%20to%20children.
  
  Think of how stupid the average conservative is then remember that half of them are stupider than that.
  
  It's a mixture of that and some kind of sadism. They love to protect power and inflict pain.
  
  Lack of empathy :/
- Not to be pedantic, but since you're emphasising it: their (they're = they are)
  
  Thanks for the correction
  Edit - I only dislike pedantry when it's repeatedly thrown in my face by the ex (/s), you weren't being pedantic IMO
  
  I thought it was being used sarcastically.

"I never thought it would be MY kids traumatised in a mass shooting in school." - Conservatives.
- So true. How fuckin brain dead do you have to be to actually have this take in life? I can't even grasp it.
  
  The bit that gets me is that these new found campaigners for (weak-ass) gun control honestly thought they were going to get something from the Republican legislators they spoke to. Which part of not caring until it was your own kids made you think other Republicans were going to give a shit?

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