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They're Never Happy (lemmy.world)
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[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 39 points 11 months ago

I'm never happy and it didn't turn me into a MAGA dipshit. I don't think I'm even an asshole most of the time or at least I try not to be.

[-] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 25 points 11 months ago

I think the larger thing lacking is two-fold.

  1. Perspective. These people lack the ability to look at the world objectively and outside themselves to see the larger picture of where they fit in the world. They are unable or unwilling to comprehend anything remotely complex.

  2. Empathy. They are unable or unwilling to walk a step let alone a mile in anyone's shoes but their own.

[-] Cataphract@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago

oh, number 2 is worse than you think. I picked up on a talk show on the radio the other night with a guest author who wrote, "Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion". They're actively teaching to avoid empathy,

In Toxic Empathy, Allie Beth Stuckey argues that empathy has become a tool of manipulation by left-wing activists who bully people into believing that they must adopt progressive positions to be loving. She explores the five most heated issues through which toxic empathy is deployed: abortion, gender, sexuality, immigration, and social justice.

This is what fills the airwaves around here of which a lot of elderly and rural citizens are inundated with daily.

[-] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 4 points 11 months ago

Compassion is also frequently lacking.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Compassion is a natural result of Empathy: those who feel as if their own a bit of other people's emotions don't want others to be unhappy if only because that makes them feel a bit unhappy themselves.

This also applies to positive emotions, so those with higher Empathy are more likely to want others to feel good as that makes them feel good hence their notion of A Better World also includes what's good for other people rather than purely what's good for they themselves.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago

Maybe you should blame others more, especially foreigners, liberals, and education. Your problem is that you’re not blaming the right people.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

I'm never happy and just blamed everyone collectively, rather than specific groups. I've been around humans enough to know we're all equally awful.

[-] blady_blah@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

That's so weird.. with some exceptions, I've found most people to be pretty nice and friendly once you get to know them. I would never have said "we're all equally awful"..... I think I want to keep living in my world rather than yours.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

That's okay I don't want to live in your world either

[-] blady_blah@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Why not? What's the benefit of being so bitter?

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

An enlightened pessimist.

[-] ChronosTriggerWarning@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Reading my own thoughts while having not written them is trippy.

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

I hadn't considered projecting my self-loathing onto others...

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Only then will you become a real ~~Jedi~~ MAGA.

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I think you're right. I need to pick a nationality to hate.

I'm thinking Icelanders. They don't know how to use vowels, get free electricity from the earth, and their cops hardly murder anyone.

[-] ChronosTriggerWarning@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

"There's two things i can't stand; people that are intolerant of other people, and the Dutch."

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

How contemptible.

[-] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Don't forget tHe BaByKiLlErS

[-] mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

It's a serious culture issue. Big companies make lives worse and since th big companies own the media (except tiktok) they lie and blame the issue on something else.

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