• jrubal1462@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    They certainly didn’t lack compassion. Like, if you were one of theirs, they’d give you the shirt off their back and infinite second chances. 2 of the kindest, most caring people you’d ever meet… But yeah, they were also very capable of dehumanizing people and not giving a damn.

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      1 year ago

      How tf could an actually compassionate person bend their brain to be like this? Personally helping others is ok, but doing it systematically via the state isn’t?

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          Exactly. Kids at school are a statistic that cost money. They’re not seeing the kids behind the statistic, just the cost.

          Maybe democrats should start spoofing the feed-the-starving-kids-in-Africa videos.

          <video of some balding white guy sitting surrounded by kids in a school cafeteria, looking sad and hungry>“For just twenty five cents a day, you could feed these kids… and it would mean so much to them, but you have to vote for assholes, who hate actual Americans.”

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      Compassion goes well beyond those you see as family. The fact that they actually complained about children getting free breakfast at school, of all places, proves that they weren’t compassionate. They take care of the people close to them, and ONLY the people close to them.

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        Oh yeah I guess I should clarify that I meant to say that they’re capable of displaying compassion (I’ve seen it). But this, obviously, was not compassion.