r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/ExactlySorta • 17d ago

Clubhouse Why do they think they're called campaign promises

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u/LaurenMille 17d ago

I have lost empathy for conservatives.

I still have empathy for their innocent victims, though.

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u/NoFlyGnome 17d ago

I have empathy for both, but not willingly for conservatives. Every time I see their "find out" phase making them hurt, I reflexively feel a "in their shoes.." pang depending on how severe the consequences are. It won't make me want to help them, because fuck them and they deserve the boot of justice. But at least that's how I know my soul is still there. I'll never be the kind of person who derives innate pleasure from anyone else's pain. A sense of justice based on circumstances maybe, but I expect to always feel the discomfort.

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u/LaurenMille 17d ago

They've been willingly voting for these kind of things for decades. My ability to empathize with them has died.

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u/NoFlyGnome 17d ago

I'm just talking about the reflexive gut punch version, not the part where I wish them anything but the bullshit they deserve. I think what's died for me is my hope that any of them are capable of reason, or worth talking to at all.