Most people just want a good life. If we stopped seeing each other as the enemies the world could be better.

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I’m not sure that’s true. One side has empathy. The other does not. I don’t want to be friends with someone who doesn’t have empathy.

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The world is not binary like that. Your side is not all good and the other side is not all bad.

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I didn’t say they were “all bad.” I said they lacked empathy and I wasn’t interested in being friends with them.

Conservative and progressive brains are different.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/conservative-and-liberal-brains-might-have-some-real-differences/

And one of those differences is empathy. https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/18/1/nsad029/7175525

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One side has empathy. The other does not.

You generalized as if everyone on the left has empathy and no one on the right does. That’s simply not true. Group differences like this are often larger within the group than between them. While it might be true that, on average, people on the right are less empathetic than those on the left, it’s neither fair nor accurate to imply that one side has empathy and the other doesn’t.

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Ive been down both sides of the indoctrination rabbit hole both the alt left and the alt right pipelines lead to the same place.

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One would need empathy to see it that way ;)

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Empathy is something that can be learned like any ability, it isn’t always a binary you have it or you don’t.

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I kind of see your point there. My hope though is that maybe people could gain more empathy for each other by understanding that we are all human and I hope that one day people can understand each other’s struggles.

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Idk one side wants to enslave, murder, and rape. The other does not.

Let’s just be friends as they take away my rights and everyone I love rights away, we shouldn’t be enemies as they hunt down and murder someone for “existing”

Maybe we shouldn’t be friends with the enemy and fight against the regime?

This is one of the was Nazis came into power, by manipulating the mass thinking “oh we should all be friends” and now look what happened.

-a trans non-binary disabled person

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Idk one side wants to enslave, murder, and rape. The other does not.

Seeing people hold this kind of views is fucking depressing.

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this view

The truth?

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Lol what is the truth LMAO 🤣

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No one is more confused about reality than the ones claiming to know “the truth” Some even name their social media platforms like that.

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solidarity means solidarity. other working class people are not your enemy (re: 1984). the all or nothing mindset accomplishes nothing besides closing your mind off to the plights and perspectives of others.

-also trans and disabled

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Idk one side wants to enslave, murder, and rape. The other does not.

Advocating for OP, that’s the learnt way they see how they can become comfortable.

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There aren’t only two sides to every issue. Thinking like that is limiting.

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As an autistic person, wholly agreed. It is like people are actively trying to isolate and dehumanize us autistic folks.

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Some are fascists. Some are not. That’s a pretty big distinction.

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And someone says they are a trump supporter and suddenly its all just calling everyone a fascist time.

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You know what, you’re totally right. There’s plenty of other accurate single-word descriptions that could be used to add some more variety:

Shortsighted, dogmatist, sociopath, mysognist, bootlicker, Neanderthal, degenerate, cultist, egotistical, simpleton, supremacist, etc.

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U and the other 7 people who downvoted really did miss op’s point lol.

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OP says everyone just wants to have a good life, you come in an intentionally antagonize people. It’s pretty clear who missed the point.

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They get really mad when you point out that Harris is also fascist by there definition.

In reality they are in a echo chamber where they only see good things about Harris and bad things about Trump

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Democrats can be considered fascists by their own definition, but let’s not pretend MAGA is any less of an echo chamber. On zero hands, I can count the number of times that a MAGA member actually knew anything about gender affirming healthcare while arguing with me why it shouldn’t exist.

The only thing that should matter is the candidates representing both sides are corrupt trash that put the interests of their multimillionaire friends and corporate lobbyists over their own constituents.

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Zero hands hey? So never?

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Nah.

A life of experience tells me most people is awful, and will have zero regards on making your life miserable for whatever reason they see fit.

People is generally bad, they just are like that. My simple existence is hated and ilegal in most of the word. Most of people in this planet wish me death without even knowing me just because how I am.

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