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compassionate leaders do everything they can to alleviate the pain and suffering of their people;
hate-filled leaders don't care about people's pain and suffering unless it is their own inner circle;
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loving societies care about their people, care about their health and happiness and quality of life;
greedy societies care about the rich: their multiple mansions, luxury jets, extravagant yachts, palatial penthouses and their free pass on taxes
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loving businesses care about their people and ensure every employee has a living wage and health care;
greedy businesses care about profits so they pay employees the absolute minimum to maximize profits as well as executive bonuses;
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loving cultures aspire to create a world everyone can enjoy;
hateful cultures seek to instill fear so nobody dares enjoy life;
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compassionate societies define success by the paucity of poor people;
cruel societies define success by the grotesque wealth of the few, pretending the burgeoning poverty is the fault of poor people and not policies;
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compassionate societies take care of their people, particularly those who need to most help because this is what separates us from the crocodiles who would not lift a leg to help a disable colleague;
callous societies do absolutely nothing to help the sick, injured and disabled;
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compassionate societies understand people need decent food, water and shelter to perform optimally;
cruel nations argue people need to work long and hard to earn the right to eat, drink and sleep;
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nothing quite like destroying a business' ability to keep operating,
nothing quite like encouraging businesses to invest in the nation when the nation subjects businesses to daily raids
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loving nations provide food, water, clothing and shelter to dispossessed people;
hateful nations shoot unarmed people desperate for a little food, water and medicine;
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respectful societies may not like a religion or a church but they respect it;
hateful societies don't give a damn about anything but the supremacy of the elite so they will invade any space they wish and abduct anybody they loath for the most absurd reasons;
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immigration brings new ideas, new ways of thinking, fresh eyes and fresh ears;
closed borders breed group think in which people cannot think outside their bubble;
also, immigrants, like women, must work harder for the same rewards and recognition;
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intellectual humility is the willingness to recognize one does not know everything, never will and will very likely make mistakes;
intellectual hubris is the presumption one knows everything about everything worth know so people with other views are obviously wrong;
only one is a good leader
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and yet, Biden had a stronger economy than what's-his-name
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a loving society is committed to taking care of its people, including its most vulnerable people, and it is willing to spend the money necessary to do so;
a hateful society is committed to taking care of its profits and is willing to sacrifice its most vulnerable people to increase profits;
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what kind of society makes people simply vanish in broad daylight? certainly, not the kind of society i wish to be in
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what kind of world do we want to live in? a world that honestly cares about its most vulnerable people and is willing to put its money to help them? or a world that cares about profits and the growing wealth of the richest people?
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what kind of world do we want to live in? a world that cares about human wellbeing beginning with the wellbeing of the poorest people? or a world that cares about profits and the growing wealth of the richest people who apparently have not a shred of empathy for impoverished people?
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what kind of world do we want to live in? a world that cares about human wellbeing? or a world that cares about profits and the grotesque wealth of the ultra rich?
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loving societies do everything humanly possible to help the homeless and hungry escape poverty and live with dignity;
hateful societies also care about homelessness and hunger, though they want to hide it from sight;
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compassionate societies feel feel the pain and suffering of their people and do everything humanly possible to alleviate that pain;
cruel, sadistic societies do whatever they can to inflict pain and suffering on people;
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loving societies do everything humanly possible to take care of women and children;
hateful societies do everything possible to take care of the rich and powerful, damn the rest;
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good leaders care about people from the bottom up because they understand building thriving communities begins at the bottom;
bad leaders care about themselves and their supporters because they think success revolves around themselves;
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loving businesses care about their workers and have no qualms about ensuring everyone has a living wage, adequate nourishment, rest and health care;
greedy businesses care about the executive class and work hard to ensure executives can afford multiple mansions, luxurious yachts and private jets;
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loving societies ensure their people have the knowledge, skill and experience they need to thrive in their chosen communities;
hateful societies want to control people so they build prisons and fenced camps to contain people without due process or adequate provisions;
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why would they come when ICE could abduct them and send them to some paid gulag?
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loving societies care about one fact, that you are a human being;
hateful societies also care about one fact, that you prove your submission to the supreme despot;
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loving societies understand rights and freedoms are for everyone including the people we do not like;
hateful societies believe only select groups like rich, white men deserve rights and freedoms, while everyone else deserves nothing, except perhaps the liberty to kiss their fragrant posteriors;
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kindness produces dopamine (a natural feel good chemical) in the brain of both the giver and the recipient, so if you wish to be happy, be kind to others;
meanness on the others hand produces cortisol in the brain of both giver and recipient, so if you desire a miserable life, be mean to others;
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intelligent nations ask women what they need and want from society so they will want to have 2-3 kids; and then, they act on the answers;
sadistic nations rape women and force them to raise those children alone because they don't care about women or children;
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humans are the only species on this planet blessed with the physical and mental resources to use words to resolve our differences and craft mutually beneficial solutions, while all other species must either fight or flee;
perhaps some day, we will act like linguistic beings rather than wild beasts;
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loving nations care about people, ensuring they have the liberty and security to go about their lives without harassment;
hateful nations abduct people off the streets and make them disappear;
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loving nations care about people, ensuring they have the liberty and security to go about their lives without harshment;
hateful nations abduct people off the streets and make them disappear;
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loving nations welcome people into their communities;
hateful nations abduct people off the streets and make them disappear;
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loving nations welcome people into their communities;
hateful nations abduct people off the streets and make them disappear;
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loving nations care about people simply because they are human beings and because loving nations cherish empathy, the cornerstone of our greatest virtues;
hateful nations care only about select groups, aka rich white men because they cannot comprehend how poor people are just as important;