The irony is how connected to the world today’s youth are - they’ll reject everything these monsters teach if they succeed in banning teaching real history across the board. I’ve been teaching teenagers long enough to see the shift when I casually mention history they haven’t learned.
I can’t imagine a more unsurprising comment for a sociopath to make than “the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.” It’s simultaneously comical and bone-chilling.
Have a hearing to explain why a “consultant” has a decision making role in U. S. government. Until that happens I going to believe Musk used Starlight to skew the count enough to get the Electoral College in The Convict’s favor and this is Elon payoff.
Reminds me of the story about school boy Musk who bullied a school mate (whose father had committed suicide) and found himself thrown down some stairs. Empathy has been missing from Musk from the start. A SA friend told me the tale, internet search finds it too.
I've actually seen this from the pulpit, the attack on empathy, where even Paul is all about empathy. Here's a bit from the letter to the Romans (CEB):
"15 Be happy with those who are happy, and cry with those who are crying."
The attack on empathy has been under attack in white evangelical spaces for decades. Moving said attack mainstream is being done to help justify decisions to commit atrocities that are coming
Always be wary of the human being without empathy, for they are capable of seriously inhumane behavior toward others. Often a sign of a personality or character disorder.
So Musk is a sociologist too! What luck.
Now I understand what Musk and Trump see in one another. They’re both sociopaths and fully capable of mass murder. All they would need is a little aid from a major political organization like the current Republican Party to accomplish their darkest desires.
Empathy is the NUMBER 1 trait that I try to teach my kids. Being able to see the world from someone else's perspective is almost a super power. Being able to reflect on how lucky and fortunate I am (even though I'm just a middle class nobody) is legitimately what drives happiness in my own life.
Ever been to a little boy’s bday party where the bday boy is showered with gifts and the soulless far-right grandmother stands militantly/angrily by repeatedly informing the 7 year old he does NOT need to share his toys with any of his young guests because sharing is a weak Democrat ploy? I have. 🤮
My young child was very sad and confused and couldn’t play the nerf war game because the grandmother was a cold-hearted bitch. It got ugly. We left early. Never to return again.
I know this is a trivial story compared to the many atrocities encountered by minorities and others in our community.
I just wanted to point out that even the simple act of SHARING among your invited guests to a party is taboo for these religious hypocrites!
I am convinced that trumpets are so worshipful because he gives them permission and encouragement to embrace their hatred and worst impulses. Performative empathy was an imposition and it’s the only kind they know.
musk clearly stated on rogan last week that the 'enemy' has been 'exploiting' the 'bug' of 'empathy'. for them, they have turned 'no empathy' into a character trait and something to be proud of and strive for. dark days.
I think mainstream upper middle class Dems can only fret about how imposing or dangerous people who hold this worldview are because in being oriented towards politisse they can't mock these people as insecure, pussy-ass edgelords pantomiming as movie villains.
The problem with the liberal framing of empathy is that it is exclusively channeled through either braying or performative exuberance, rarely through coarse anger and hardened solidarity.
There is no masculine-coded empathy being represented in the US mainstream, it's only either crying or awwing.
Impossible to enforce, but I think people incapable of empathy should not be in positions of power. While our government has always had them, what we're seeing right now unimaginable and the biggest threat to lives worth living.
Not just attacking CRT, BLM, or SEL anymore—they’re attacking empathy itself because if they kill the root, nothing else—equity, justice, human rights—can grow. The goal isn’t just control. It’s preemptive erasure. Look at PlaceNYC & Maud Maron parroting this in NYC schools—our city’s Moms4Liberty
MAGA altered people’s sense of empathy during the pandemic—some MAGA even suggested old people should just accept their fate bc they going to die from something anyway, so who cares. There’s a sickness in the soul of many Americans. It’s depressing.
empathy and community is what has pushed the human species toward incredible things. cooperation with each other allows us to have specialized skills that make our societies great. The human sense of community is evolutionarily advantageous. Musk has no idea what he is talking about as usual.
And in the colder places on this Earth where folk who don’t work together and share tend to die very quickly, that empathy has been embedded in the government and systems of places like Iceland and Norway.
I am of Scandinavian background it’s it always tickles me how atheist/agnostic Scandinavians are better Christians than the self- proclaimed holy rollers in the USA. They will do anything to justify their worshipping of their idols, money, power and cruelty..
Remember, a lot of the tea party era republicans like Paul Ryan were Rand devotees? Seems like a lot of the Musk fascists boys use the same language as Rand to give importance to their masculinity. But it’s fun to remember she died on the public dole.
Yep. And it’s all connected to the degradation of basic facts. As Voltaire said, “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”
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I cannot be proven wrong so I’m not even going to ask.
https://www.apr.org/news/2025-03-05/montgomery-bus-station-among-hundreds-of-federal-buildings-targeted-for-potential-sale
"15 Be happy with those who are happy, and cry with those who are crying."
I will not be complying at all.
Everyone needs to fight back now before this gets worse.
It's as though these people are reading a completely different Bible to everyone else.
Now I understand what Musk and Trump see in one another. They’re both sociopaths and fully capable of mass murder. All they would need is a little aid from a major political organization like the current Republican Party to accomplish their darkest desires.
I just wanted to point out that even the simple act of SHARING among your invited guests to a party is taboo for these religious hypocrites!
Did Jesus hoard toys as a lad?
https://www.dcareaeducators4socialjustice.org/news/bruce-monroe-2024-blmprinciples
They're weakened by their own norms.
There is no masculine-coded empathy being represented in the US mainstream, it's only either crying or awwing.
Straight hair is the greatest sign of weakness in the modern world, you heard it here first.
“The Sin of Empathy”
“The so-called virtue of empathy is the greatest rhetorical tool of manipulation in the 21st century”
I can easily see white evangelicals embrace this callous idea
Author-Joe Rigney is Fellow of Theology at New Saint Andrews College
& all the kids who were in school then, are adults now, and changing corporate culture.
They consider DEI initiatives in the workplace, commonplace.
Plus last May’s student protests.
https://bit.ly/3N7lMQT