jeffw@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 4 months agoAfter their children survived a school shooting, these ‘lifelong Republicans’ entered the gun conversation19thnews.orgexternal-linkmessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up1157arrow-down13
arrow-up1154arrow-down1external-linkAfter their children survived a school shooting, these ‘lifelong Republicans’ entered the gun conversation19thnews.orgjeffw@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 4 months agomessage-square23fedilink
minus-squaretigeruppercut@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up70arrow-down1·4 months agoIt’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.
minus-squarevzq@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up34·4 months ago“Empathy is for suckers and communists“ <- the conservative ethos in a nutshell.
minus-squareZipitydew@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up20arrow-down1·4 months agoScience 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 indication that conservatives are,importance of teaching to children.
minus-squaremokus@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up7·4 months agoWait so republicans fail the Voight-Kampff test?
minus-squareZipitydew@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·4 months agolol wouldn’t surprise me. Their NPC talk probably is projection like usual.
minus-squareSkeezix@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up18·4 months agoThink of how stupid the average conservative is then remember that half of them are stupider than that.
minus-squareLetstakealook@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 months agoIt’s a mixture of that and some kind of sadism. They love to protect power and inflict pain.
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 indication that conservatives are,importance of teaching to children.
Wait so republicans fail the Voight-Kampff test?
Stupid upside down turtle
lol wouldn’t surprise me. Their NPC talk probably is projection like usual.
Think of how stupid the average conservative is then remember that half of them are stupider than that.
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It’s a mixture of that and some kind of sadism. They love to protect power and inflict pain.
Lack of empathy :/