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[Presidential Election Thread] All Hail the Liberty Rooster.
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Now that was one heck of an American. My high school was named after him. Or well, I guess it still is, but I don't go there anymore.
I've come to the conclusion that many times, conservatives are conservative specifically because they think 'empathy' is a dirty word.
Well, there's a reason "got mine, fuck you" is a popular sentiment among that set.
You know I was hearing a guy on NPR talk about how liberals are less open minded than conservatives (he was preaching "both sides are the same", more or less) in that, in surveys most conservatives believe in helping others but most liberals don't think conservatives have empathy for their fellow man and he used that as evidence of liberals having conservatives all wrong. I say that it's evidence that conservatives don't actually practice what they believe, or they are voting for people who are completely opposed to their own sets of morals without realizing it.
That religion would never catch on.
You fuck up the president's burger your franchise is destroyed by drone strikes
it's in the patriot act
...Buddhists...?
How is his Daughters trip(which the article heavily implies wasn't something Obama took part in) taking advantage of the president? They can afford to take a trip to Mexico.
Like that's all pretty terrible but man.
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ALL THE BRUSH.
We are expected to be in a brush deficit for at least another decade.
Tumbleweeds have almost gone completely extinct.
I'd say that's a birther dog whistle.
Once there was a day when a Presidential Candidate would not make such a ridiculous statement as "When I'm president I'll never travel or do any recreational activity" because the news would call them on it and they'd actually have to do it!
I hate to go "good ol days" but man I hate our media.
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Seriously. He grew up there. He's seen it.
A true Merican man raises a family but works 24/7 without spending time with them. And does it without giving their children emotional deficts.
The cornerstone of modern social conservatism is the belief that you and your kind are constantly being attacked by those who wish to destroy your way of life; ergo, as an act of self-preservation, you must actively work to destroy theirs.
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Won't happen because of the state's child support laws, and there's no way the rich white men would violate the sanctity of state laws by enacting more fed'ral govment encroachment.
Why you gotta ruin my dreams of becoming a rich, white asshole?
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From what I gather from talking to US conservatives online, they have empathy, but it is limited empathy. They can be very kind to people they know, or people who are unfortunate through reasons they understand (eg a conservative with MS in the family will be sympathetic to the struggles of people with MS, but not necessarily other disabilities). But they have pretty much zero empathy for people they don't know in situations they are unfamiliar with.
So if their next-door neighbour is struggling to make ends meet they are very likely to help out, and they often donate to charity. But for the vast mass of "others" out there, they have no sympathy or empathy whatsoever. All "others" are lumped in with the worst of their group. So all single mothers are defrauding welfare, all young black men are up to no good, all foreigners are plotting against the USA, all socialists are trying to introduce communism, all non-Christians seek to persecute Christianity. And so on.
This cognitive dissonance leads to things like "the only moral abortion is my abortion." They assume that most girls get abortions because they sleep around with no thought to the consequences and care for the fact fetuses become babies. But when it happens to them or their daughters, they can list all the reasons why it is the best thing in their case, forgetting that all the other girls in the clinic will have similar stories.
It's psychologically fascinating. A whole political philosophy built on fear of the other.
And there it is. "Likely voter" models are a key way polls can be manipulated and allows the media to make the race appear closer than it is. That makes the race more exciting but also effects the race itself. IMO that's a pretty big ethical breach.
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Absolutely ridiculous. He was a child and the culture was different. We don't accept dogs being slapped on top of cars here.
The whole thing has undertones of "weird furiners!" too.
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I think money is when they claim they draw the line. Which is unacceptable because money is needed for everything. When money is on the line their empathy comes to an end and starts the "it's mine mine mine fuck you." If they have a family, they use this a shield and say "my money goes to my family (mine mine mine.)" A person can donate three things: time, money and blood. I don't think the people making these kinds of statements give as much as they think they do. I don't think they give anything.
EDIT - It's MY blood! My time! MY PRECIOUS!
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Some pet owners would say yes. I know I would.
But what if the pet enjoyed it?
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I think money is the excuse they give to make their feelings seem rationally based. But they will consistently disadvantage themselves financially if it means that "the other" won't be getting things they "don't deserve."
I've also seen studies that say that conservatives give more to charity than liberals. Part of this is that religious people tend to be encouraged to give by their churches, and conservatism is linked to religion in the USA. But I do think that part of it is that their empathy is undamaged when concerning people who are not "other" to them. So if their friend died of breast cancer, they will give freely to breast cancer charities because they understand how it feels to lose someone to breast cancer. But they will fight tooth and nail to prevent their money being used to help "the sick" in general, because they think "the sick" in general are "swinging the lead" in order to get free money.
It's a reference to the Mexico birthday and the lavish trip to Spain.
How are people equating a dog hanging its head out of the window with being strapped to the top of a car for hours on the highway
In high school, the president of the Catholic League paid for his girlfriend's abortion. He had his future to think about.
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I would be honored and pants-shittingly terrified all at once.
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