Imagine saying “the sin of empathy”, the “wrongness of kindness”, the “mistake of love”, these dipshits are fucking Captain Planet villains. Demonic energy.
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I’ve seen shitty empathy- like acquaintances trying to get me to see my abuser’s assaulting me from *his* perspective, but this guy sounds like he just wants to be self-righteous transphobia ass
One of the great blessings of being a social animal is the compassion & altruism of our fellows. These are the glue that holds society together. They make our lives more than just existence.
This is Evangelicalism since Newt Gingrich and is the underlying philosophy of Project 2025.
Ironically, if you read only the red words in the Holy Bible, you will see with your own eyes that empathy and compassion is all that Jesus taught. “Love everyone regardless” is the lesson.
Don't forget the "crime of altruism." I mean, why do anything for anyone if you don't turn a profit?
We're in the hellhole country the felon has created in his own image: venal and corrupt.
That's like saying the worst thing Andrew Carnegie and other robber barons did was make those dang libraries to put some of that value they extracted out of their communities back into them.
I think people like Musk think they were the ones referred to in the greatest commandment. It's only the second one and any more sane interpretations of the greatest commandment that irk them.
Elons goal is that one day you see people starving, see people begging for help, see children die, and that he has convinced you to think “this isn’t bad”.
I keep thinking about the fact, that with his wealth, he could literally end world hunger overnight with a word (and it wouldn't even affect his lifestyle)... and he yet he chooses not to.
Elon is a EA adherent, so it's more along the lines of it being acceptable because we are redirecting that money to get people to Mars and saving humanity.
I read a quote from some guy who knows him that essentially said Elon cares about humanity as an idea but not about actual humans and I think that kind of sums it up
Like maybe this seems dramatic but this entire thing is a new religion of evil. You can argue over existing belief systems but there is no major religion with a central belief that “it is wrong to care about people”. That’s these guys. That’s what they want you to think.
the extent that it's "new" is debatable. The neo-reactionary/dark enlightenment bullshit Elon extolls is just a new flavor of older anti-humanist, white supremacist, and anti-feminist ideas.
A bunch of terminally online dorks who read some dystopian cyberpunk and thought, "hey, we should do that!" because it justified their online personas and gave them runway to be even shittier, instead of, you know, working on being better humans.
It feels like the same old Gilded Age/Industrial Revolution-era Social Darwinism & eugenics painted Mountain Dew green and strung with pointless rainbow-gradient LEDs to appeal to the Gamergaters trying to make it popular again.
It is a well known, if loosely organized, religion of the wealthy. It's called eugenics. It asserts that it is good and necessary for the weak and/or injured to die. It's survivor bias on mega-steroids.
Agree. In a way it’s like the antivax movement. These people came of age in a world made safe for their cynical bullshit by the very order they’re trying to destroy.
It is indeed a religion. Simulation theory, effective altruism, autistic/IQ supremacy, all emerge from the same core pre-rational parts of their (our) brains that presume and yearn for immortality, that wish to transcend icky bodily and social demands, to be the player in a cosmic game of The Sims.
I'm not sure what can be done that doesn't involve literally jailing or killing these people. I don't know if there's enough re-education that can turn someone from this. If you have a pipe in your basement spewing toxic shit into your home, you don't grab a bucket, you seal off the pipe.
One theory about why Christianity and Manichaeism spread so quickly in late antiquity is that they were up against state religions that existed solely to aggrandize established power structures while ignoring widespread suffering.
it's not dramatic. it's 100% accurate. every day I'm amazed that not only are these people completely irredeemable sociopaths but that they're genuinely attempting to convince people that it's those of us who aren't sociopaths who are the problem
They're not even couching it in things like the love of one's own family any more. they're just fully out here saying giving a shit about anyone, ever, for any reason, is morally wrong. If this actually *works*, there's no hope left for us
demonization of The Other is bad but they're not even doing that at this point. they're attempting to define The Other as "literally any other human being" and I'm genuinely amazed at the temerity
They want to benefit from basic human decency while pretending they've evolved past the need for it. If that were really true, that poor baby wouldn't be dragged around to every public appearance.
That baby is Musk’s human helmet to protect him from a sniper. I expect the child to be traded out for a new one when he gets too heavy to be portable.
I don’t think this is being dramatic at all. Opposition leaders (uh, Dems?) are making a huge mistake by not invoking the specter of evil in relation to Trump/the GOP. They are truly monsters among us.
I can't understand the aversion to speaking plainly about the evil of this new Republican/Tech-broligarchy philosophy. It's both the right thing to do and a powerful moral stance.
it’s cliche to say “everything is projection” but a lot of folks talking about being an npc or sheep are waiting for a world where they don’t have to feel bad about horrors as they’re fed an endless diet of AI slop that never challenges them, just folks that want emotional and intellectual neutering
it is much less emotionally traumatizing to oneself, in the short term, to focus on policy debates, but you're on target.
Policy is about which way to do something, they aren't advocating bad policy, they are advocating for a crusade against shared understandings of good and evil.
More like almost every evil billionaire villain from movies in the 1980s was based off this one specific dude because he was just as much of an asshat back then as he is now.
or one from 40k. "do not commit the sin of empathy" is 100% some shit you'd hear a space marine say between rounds of goomba stomping unarmed alien children or some shite
I keep thinking that this is why the argument about the 10 commandments in schools might be a good idea. Thou Shall Not be Empathetic isn’t on there but warning about the sin of idolatry is…
I think a lot of this can be tied back to prosperity gospel preaching that says essentially that if someone is wealthy it's because God blessed them and if someone isn't, it's inherently implied that they were undeserving. It places blame on the poor and sick and says they aren't trying hard enough.
Which is just consumer culture Calvinism and one of America's cardinal sins going back to the beginning is never purging that way of thinking out of the soul of the nation.
It's a short step from that to, "See, God doesn't really *want* you to help the poor because those poor people just aren't living a Godly life, and if they were, they wouldn't be poor. If you help them, you're doing them a disservice."
And that got turbocharged when they cross-pollinated with the eugenicist ultra-weenies in the alt-right with a collective hard-on for genocide & and “wellness” antivax cranks who want to see autistic people wiped off the face of the earth in a way that doesn’t directly dirty their hands.
sorry if this seems annoying but I completely agree I actually watched a great video recently from belief it or not where they talk about "the sin of empathy" rhetoric and I think more people should be concerned about christians becoming cold unfeeling husks.
It’s all this and it ties into their gender ideology in which empathy is a trait associated with women, ergo that is a trait that must be controlled, oppressed, and eradicated from society. These tech guys have been trying to replace women forever, from our ability to create new humans on down.
They're worse than heretics, whose sin is being defiantly wrong; these ghouls, instead of being afraid the Lord will say "depart from me, you cursed", are planning to say "yeah? so? whatcha gonna do about it, Lord?"
Could any group of people trying to reframe empathy as being sin be rightfully called a strain of Christianity at all?
I could call myself an astronaut; could create a large group of people all calling themselves astronauts. If none of us had ever left earth, should society call us astronauts too?
Reminds me of when Elon changed the twitter algo, and some person I no longer associate with said, "we're so fucking back," in response to seeing domestic and gang violence on his feed. I feel like it was clear that was the goal from the start.
It's South Park as a religion for a generation of dudes. If you believe in creating a better world on any level, you're a mark worthy of ridicule. Throw in a couple decades of casual antisemitism and it's not hard to draw a line back to these chuds.
One of the founders of the modern anti-immigration movement was Garrett Hardin who argued in “Lifeboat ethics” that you have to hurt others, let them die, to save your own lifeboat. Strongly shaped so much of what we see re immigration and climate.
And yet when Bligh and 18 others were cast adrift they managed to make it 4K miles w/o killing each other and Fletcher and the others that made it to freedom turned on each other. Not a defense of Bligh, it's just you can make progress together in bleak situations.
It's really amazing how they've convinced so many 'christians' to follow this when this is exactly what they used to accuse satanists of being (even satanists would reject 'it is wrong to care about people')
This isn't historically unprecedented, though; the actual, literal Adolf Hitler thought 'modern ethics' and 'compassion' was a Jewish scam to convince the strong to give up their rightful power over the weak.
Dramatic? I think maybe you’re actually just being honest about the profundity of this problem. And it would be one thing if he was as unique as he thinks he is. But there are millions of people who will fight, scrabble, and defend him all so they get to be sacrificed 5 minutes after everyone else.
I’m too tired to articulate all of what I want to say, but this is cult of Sci*ntology ideology. They’re full-blown fascists. I watched people I love adopt this monstrous thinking under the “religious” guise of “the greatest good for [society].” Dark, horrifying stuff. Helps me understand history. 😞
Graeber has some really interesting things to say about Axial Age philosophies and the increasing rejection of money/market/profit motives in ‘Debt’; it’s not a coincidence how many major religions reject wealth & money-seeking.
Not sure I'd agree it's new, it seems to me just like capitalism (religion) replacing capitalism (economic structure) which is pretty much the destined result of demonizing socialism, Marxism, communism, and any other system than capitalism. When you've created demons, people want to invent angels
I mean this genuinely, what is the point of life at all without empathy? Truly, like, that’s kinda like the thing we *do* while we wander about here for a few decades, isn’t it?
It's so cliche at this point but every accusation is a confession. The right-wing will say the UN and Bill Gates want to depopulate by force and then immediately fellate the effective altruism tech crowd.
Everything you do for free is something they can't make a profit off of. Therefore, to keep the stonks line going up, all nonmonetised activities must be eliminated.
They are working on it with the federal workers - instead of a narrative around how can we support them with job transitions, FFOTUS and Muskovite are vilifying them as people who didn’t deserve their jobs, were corrupt, and are throwing them into the street.
Genuinely so cartoonish. Empathy is the driving force that keeps humanity moving forwards - even if its just limited to your kids, you empathetically want to give them a better life.
Very telling as to the husk of a soul that Apartheid Clyde has.
Me in 2008: billionaires aren’t evil they’re just rich people who don’t appreciate the gravity of their actions. There’s nothing about being rich that turns you into a bad person
This is a christian interpretation because christianity is a very thinly disguised death cult.
Some of the taped sermons discussing the "sin of empathy" will make you laugh at their leaps and bounds to interpret it from bible verses. You are right theyre cartoon villians. Inspiration if you will.
That's why you never hear the so-called Christians who support these fuckers quoting the beatitudes. It's all fire and brimstone old testament bullshit
And there’s a ton of problematic stuff in the Old Testament, but it also repeatedly shows God getting mad at the people for being selfish, cruel, treating immigrants and other vulnerable people like garbage, etc. There’s a whole bit about, “I desire mercy, not sacrifice,” that’s pro-kindness.
But elsewhere in the Bible it says that Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed because of their lack of hospitality. So it was the rape bit that was the problem.)
A lot of the fire and brimstone stuff is against people hating on the people around them. Heck, the original fire & brimstone story was in relation to a society that tried to gang rape the strangers who came into town. (People have argued that it was because they were queer, but
The Cassidy and Butch version, maybe. The Jessie and James version of the Team Rocket motto explicitly talks about uniting all peoples and protecting the world from devastation.
This is a guy who envisions loading people onto rockets he is in charge of and going to a planet where they are entirely dependent on him, and he's making an explicit point that caring about other people is bad.
These two things would appear to be at cross purposes at the very least.
They *have* to care about him, he *doesn't* need to care about them insofar as they are being good cogs in the machine he's built. And if a cog stops working or damages the machine, they can be easily discarded.
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Turns out they're just the voices of the people in the cigar smoke filled rooms.
Ironically, if you read only the red words in the Holy Bible, you will see with your own eyes that empathy and compassion is all that Jesus taught. “Love everyone regardless” is the lesson.
We're in the hellhole country the felon has created in his own image: venal and corrupt.
TESCREAL is another name for this cult of death and immortality and transcendence of human bodies and humane morals
Because they weren't "really" people
Policy is about which way to do something, they aren't advocating bad policy, they are advocating for a crusade against shared understandings of good and evil.
Soon my dogs of love!
I could call myself an astronaut; could create a large group of people all calling themselves astronauts. If none of us had ever left earth, should society call us astronauts too?
The stampede on the road to Hell they are on is crushing them.
For crying out loud, they're against anything to do with DEI
https://www.latin-dictionary.net/search/latin/dei
If this were a TV show you'd call the writers lazy bastards.
It's always been a death cult with those people.
Very telling as to the husk of a soul that Apartheid Clyde has.
Billionaires in 2025:
Some of the taped sermons discussing the "sin of empathy" will make you laugh at their leaps and bounds to interpret it from bible verses. You are right theyre cartoon villians. Inspiration if you will.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29lmR_357rA
These two things would appear to be at cross purposes at the very least.
They *have* to care about him, he *doesn't* need to care about them insofar as they are being good cogs in the machine he's built. And if a cog stops working or damages the machine, they can be easily discarded.
That's how he views other people.