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[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There's also practical benefits. As someone without children I'd really like to see more funds and attention paid to education because I'm getting really fucking sick of interacting with stupid people.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

I'm also sick of stupid people trying to sabotage every good thing about our society.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Hello US Citizens, what's happening...uhhmm... If you could just go and vote - that would be great (meme)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

TY, i will use this meme a lot👍

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Please do that

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Vote as if there weren't two full sets of electors insulating you from the actual outcome.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Pretty much. You aren't going to get a better outcome with a no-vote or a protest-vote that's for sure.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

This is how I feel about it. Even if you don't think your vote will accomplish anything, do it anyway. Otherwise you're just doing nothing.

Do what you can to push things toward the better rather than sit and wait for it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

If everyone did this a bunch of states would turn purple

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

some people have all of the above and still vote republican

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Picture a typical hillbilly from a rustic settlement deep into Alabama

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

Always make sure your neighbours are doing well.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

B-but Gaza! I have to make a pointless defiant gesture to pretend I'm helping! Also will Doordash deliver halo polish?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I know someone who voted for a third party candidate I hadn't even heard of (Claudia De La Cruz). Like man you might as well have just left it blank

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Some people just can't resist the thrill of free postage.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Well I'd rather vote third party than leave it blank. Blank shows you don't care while third party says you kind of care just ignorant enough to ignore voting 3rd party only benefits Trump

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

And even if you don't have a few of the immutable things here such as the colour of your skin..

These situations could always happen in the future. Your brother can find out he's gay, your parents might get sick with cancer, you might fall in love with an immigrant, climate change will have an effect on you, and so on

Not only that, but any of these could be you too. You might get mental health issues or get physically sick, you might find out something about yourself, even well into adulthood, or lose your job, or face a natural disaster, or any one billion of things that you need support for

Humans are not evolved to be truly independent. We all need, or will need, support.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

This is the veil of ignorance you can use when considering what a just society should be like when making decisions like voting without knowing where in that society you would be. It's a tool to help with empathy like the opposite of fear and rage propaganda trying to make you make stupid decisions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

There's not even the need for empathy. If people voted for their best interest instead of the interest of the 1% we'll be better.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Why is there an apostrophe in friends, but not parents, when they're both non-possessive plural nouns?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

because it's a spelling mistake

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Because whoever painted the sign made a mistake? (I'm really reaching, I know)

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

or none of those and vote with compassion.

compassion > empathy

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why would compassion be better than empathy?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

empathy is a double edge sword, often causing more suffering than not. empathy has no morals.

compassion is love without conditions. compassion does not require feeling what others are feeling in order to understand their suffering.

compassion is the goal, empathy is the shitty tool that sometimes achieves the goal.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

empathy is a double edge sword, often causing more suffering than not. empathy has no morals.

This makes no sense. People have moral systems, empathy is often a component of that.

compassion is love without conditions.

No it isn't. Compassion is about sympathy and pity, and also is without morals. Unconditional love isn't a thing, and people can act compassionately without loving someone. It also doesn't require understanding which is vital to resolution.

compassion does not require feeling what others are feeling in order to understand their suffering.

Empathy doesn't require you to feel their suffering, but to simply understand and appreciate it.

compassion is the goal, empathy is the shitty tool that sometimes achieves the goal.

Not my goal, seems shitty. Empathy appears to be superior.

Definitions:

Compassion: sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others.

Empathy: the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.