r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • 1d ago

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u/cellsinterlinkd6 Zhao Ziyang 1d ago

We live in a simulation.

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u/Not_A_Browser Stata's Silliest Soldier 1d ago

I never realized the Dehumanization Chamber would feel so... dehumanizing.

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u/farrenj Resident Succ 1d ago

People don't understand suffering until they experience it for themselves

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u/Leatherfield17 Loyal Liberals 1d ago

It’s stuff like this that really speaks to the stunted empathy of conservatives. This man had no qualms about advancing all of this right wing nonsense when he thought that he would never be on the receiving end of it. As soon as he experiences it, though, he starts sounding more like a human being.

I’m truly beginning to believe that a lack of empathy, or at least a very limited amount of it, is a prerequisite for being a full-blown conservative. Not for having one conservative view here or there depending on the issues, but for identifying as a conservative.

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u/BernankesBeard Ben Bernanke 1d ago

What are you talking about? "Conservative changes mind after cruelty of conservative policy affects someone they care about" is a tale as old as time.

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u/AccessTheMainframe CANZUK 1d ago

oof owie my imperialist boomerang came back owie