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      He is the average US Catholic in my opinion, and I went to 12 years of Catholic school so I’ve been around the block. The only part of the Gospel that they follow is being anti-choice. Oh wait that’s not in their bible? (Sorry I was disillusioned by this religion at a very early age)

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        The majority of religious people just use it as a badge to make them feel like they’re good people when they’re clearly pieces of shit incapable of empathy. It’s just a front to hide behind.

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      It’s wild how judgy a lot of Catholics seem to be when the bible is pretty specific about God being the one who judges. His only mouthpiece on earth is the Pope so they should really be listening to that guy and focusing a lot more on not being a cunt as per the rest of the new testament.

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        That part is only supposed to be brought up if somebody else is judging them. It’s not cognitive dissonance if they can keep from thinking about it well enough.

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    I wouldn’t call it a war crime because there’s no war in which the crime was committed. It’s just plain state sponsored murder.

    When Mohammed bin Salman ordered the death of Jamal Khashoggi, I didn’t think of that as a war crime, either. Just a simple case of state sponsored murder.

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      You don’t need an official war to commit war crimes. The US hasn’t declared war since WWII, but I don’t think anyone would say the My Lai massacre wasn’t a war crime.

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    I keep saying this and people don’t want to listen. These idiots believe in the rapture, and they think all these things happening are the prelude to that.

    I am not kidding, they’re serious about this. Who cares what real world events are happening, they’re sure the Israel situation is happening because Jesus is going to come back any day, and they’re happy to kill us all because it’s worth it.

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      I hate so much that the most idiotic among us have any power whatsoever.

      I sometimes dream about a system in which everyone still gets to vote, but depending on how you score on a test that tests for both knowledge, empathy and intelligence, your vote is counted higher, while those that score lower have theirs weighted less. Politicians are tested as well, and if it is evident that they have too many traits of sociopaths, they are disqualified.

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        Eh. We don’t need to restrict people’s voting, we just need to start valuing empathy as a society. It’s really both that simple and impossible.

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          We need to make it impossible to not link JD Vance to his “empathy is toxic” movement that he promoted, and then make it the thing that’s just too embarrassing (or bad for business) to even risk associating with. Which honestly why shouldn’t it be?

          Think of the fucking horrific images out of Gaza. This is what is allowed to happen when empathy is toxic. When you see those images, you should also be thinking of the shit eating grins of JD Vance and Peter Thiel, looking way too comfortable hiding behind their “Christian” values while promoting that empathy is toxic bullshit.

          And vice versa, it should be impossible to see their faces or the faces of their supporters without automatically thinking of those images. How many history lesson do we really need to remind us how genocide always happens? Those awful fucking images are the past, present, and future, when empathy is toxic.

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          I agree. The problem, I think, is also not so much that the idiots have power, but the cruelest do.

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    These Nazis need to learn the meaning of due process, like those other Nazis. Enjoy your time of freedom couch fucker. No couches in prison.

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    It’s very shortsighted for leaders to be pro anything that doesn’t have due process.

    If this regime doesn’t keep power forever the next regime can just disappear him and his family and just paste his response saying he doesn’t give a shit about due process when someone asks what happened to them.

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      I was actually thinking about mob justice vs due process yesterday, and how it applies to the most despicable individuals.

      On the one hand, mob justice often provides a sense of that guy definitely got what he deserved. But on the other, news about what happened to Mussolini’s body was allegedly what preceded Hitler’s decision to kill himself.

      If history had been allowed to witness the two (not to mention Himmler) truly brought to justice on a world stage, could it have potentially decreased the chances others would feel emboldened enough to follow in their footsteps?

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        If history had been allowed to witness the two (not to mention Himmler) truly brought to justice on a world stage, could it have potentially decreased the chances others would feel emboldened enough to follow in their footsteps?

        I highly doubt it. Power thirsty assholes won’t be stopped so easily.

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    Nothing new for the conservatives; this is just another one of their public figures now saying what they have been saying for decade upon decade behind closed doors.

    This is exactly what the conservative movement is about. Rules? Those don’t apply to US!

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      I think it is pretty clear he has no power, and is not actually involved in “doing” anything. He is just the mannequin saying whatever it is they want him to say.