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#empathy

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Xamanismo Coletivo

Where @ethanz tells us about the cultural power of #DontLookUp:

"But there’s something Don’t Look Up gets right. Many of our #institutions are failing us. The experts don’t know what to do. The feelings of terror and helplessness lead people to behave strangely and unpredictably. McKay doesn’t offer us a solution to an ongoing #apocalypse, but this #film, at its best, offers us a moment of #empathy. Look past the machinations of the politicians and the media stars, and look towards the people in the background trying to make sense of a reality that no longer makes sense, disrupted by #COVID or #climatechange or by a slide into #authoritarianism. If there’s a solution to this polycrisis, this interconnected mess of apocalyptic threats, it’s in the #groups working to live through this scary moment, not through the politicians or celebrities who’ll get to escape to their bunkers or spaceships."

ethanzuckerman.com/2025/04/04/

Ethan Zuckerman · Science on Screen: Don't Look Up - Ethan ZuckermanDon't Look Up anticipates the stupidity of our political moment, but misfires on the power of authenticity. Enjoy the apocalypse.
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Preston MacDougall

@tg9541 They get it from the “Atlas Shrugged” novels written by #Russian emigrée #AynRand (where the ‘hero’ is a character named John Galt). Her hyper-rationalist #Objectivist philosophy (#empathy is a sin) was perversely melded into the ethos of so-called fundamentalist #Christians already worshipping #prosperity in the #UnitedStates.

I saw an excellent essay on this #American phenomenon entitled “Who is #Jesus Galt?” that has since been ‘disappeared’. 🤷🏻‍♂️

#Resist#DoNotComply
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Farhad

Today I learned that having #empathy and calling off genocide supporters is "a big part of what is wrong with #America".

You can't simply demand your "good" leaders to NOT support genocide, because the other side may crash the #economy and hurt the "good Americans" who benefit from the #genocide.

These people are pissed, because their comfortable life has been disrupted because half of the voters elected the orange Hitler who is the uncovered and naked version of America they have been ignoring for the past 70 years when their government did this to so many countries again and again.

But now, it's happening to THEM and it's an OUTRAGE. And it's the fault of those who disrupted the illusion of the humane and prosperous US of A.

#USpol #Inhumanity #politics #Dumbfuckistan
@palestine

screen capture from #BlueSky post: I see the folks who wanted Kamala to say something are already talking crap about her speech tonight. The only reason that y’all wanted her to speak was so you could tear it apart and mischaracterize what she said. You people are ridiculous and are a big part of what’s wrong with this country.
#america
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Witty Dragon

@DemocracyMattersALot
To sum up, #billionaires have a huge dose of Machiavellianism, psychopathy, narcissism, self-promotion, emotion coldness, duplicity and aggressiveness.
This affects their #empathy (e.g. #Musk) and moral judgement thus resulting in a disconnection from reality and justification of their behaviour, no matter how harmful it's to others - be it financially, emotionally or physically.
In order words, they don't give a fuck about others and want to own everything in the world.

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MusiqueNow :pride: ✡️ 🇵🇸 :anarchismhebrew:

youtube.com/watch?v=-nWsJKF9Uu

#DaveNeal #TheRushHour

1.09 min. mark #ValKilmerRIP 💔

4.28 min. mark #SuperRichBullies in the #FilmIndustry vs. Real Creatives

12min. mark #CoryBooker's filibuster

17min. mark #SusanCrawford's win in the #WisconsinSupremeCourt Election

19.50 min.mark #Deportations #TheRightToDueProcess #AbolishICE #BeckyBurke . 21.51min mark #KKKarolineLeavitt nazisplaining deportations and BLATANTLY LYING about #KilmarArmandoAbregoGarcía

24.17min mark Mum who has lived in the U.S. for 39 years. CAUTION: the video shows this mother's tearful good-bye to her children before being kidnapped by #ICE

25.38 min. mark 'The lack of #empathy is frightening amongst some people. I don't want to be a part of a world where people have this lack of empathy. I don't want any part of it...' Dave Neal said. referring to Jesse Watters 'I'm disgusted by this man'

(I wouldn't call Jesse Watters a man, and I wouldn't call that far right hack a human!!!)

Hey, #JessieWatters, you #farright nutter! Fuck yourself

YouTubeBlake Lively CONTINUES To Distort Reality & NEW PROOF CALLS IT OUT!By Dave Neal
#StopDeportations
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Nonilex

EXACTLY what a #SOCIOPATH would say:

#ElonMusk has a…diagnosis of what’s *ailing* #America: It’s being destroyed by #empathy. In a long interview w/Joe Rogan, in numerous tweets…, #Musk has argued that “empathy” is a “suicidal” trait that is a driving force behind civilizational extinction. It is time, he believes, for “the West”…to bar its doors to #immigrants of a *certain type* & endure “temporary hardship” so govt can be transformed & “the woke mind virus will die.”

motherjones.com/politics/2025/

Mother JonesElon Musk can’t take the heatThe numbers say anti-Tesla protests are working. So do Musk's increasingly unhinged actions.
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Bohemian Peasant

In just the last week the Trump regime has viciously threatened

❌ European allies 🇪🇺
❌ Universities 📚
❌ Judges ⚖️
❌ Law firms & lawyers
❌ News organizations
❌ Canada 🇨🇦 & Mexico 🇲🇽
❌ Asylum seekers
❌ Protesters
❌ Congresspersons
❌ Various states
❌ SSA
❌ Medicare
❌ Medicaid
❌ Women
❌ Minorities

The vitriolic hatred and attacks emanating from the #WH is incompatible with loving our country.

#ruleoflaw#democracy#tyranny
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Rik :blackcat: 🇵🇸 :fckpvv:

"This is a hideous lesson for all of us about how the great evils we are familiar with in the past were made possible. And it must be restated. If we do not succeed in establishing that Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people is an intolerable crime, if we do not succeed in holding those who facilitated this genocide to account, then it is not just the Palestinian people who face physical ruin. We will have paved the way to hell for our species as a whole."
#Gaza #Palestine #Genocide #Complicity

#Empathy or #Hell
owenjones.news/p/israel-on-the

BattleLines with Owen Jones · Israel on the rampage in Gaza - and our media covers it upBy Owen Jones
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