I’m not sorry. Seeing someone who spread so much hate and bigotry and weaponized disinformation get his clock cleaned was absolutely fine by me.

I have empathy for lots of people even if we don’t always agree, but not for people like Charlie Kirk.

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    Empathy does not come without conditions.

    Example, Trump is a vile human being, I feel no empathy towards him.

    I feel empathy towards the people who, as we say in Sweden, bites the sour apple and interacts with him out of necessity while maintaining their professionalism.

    I can even feel empathy toward the first wave MAGA crowd, plenty of them was deceived and fooled into believing their lies, and the weak democrats only acting as a ratchet and not reversing the GOPs decisions when they could have. I feel empathy toward them for having been brainwashed for generations into believing that socialism is bad, that line must go up, but that things can never improve more than marginally.

    The US government has failed is people, I have no empathy toward the people perpetuating the status quo

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      Yeah, sorry i conceeded elsewhere that empathy was not what i meant. I appreciate what you are saying.

      I just have 2 points. 1 is that feeling pleasure in watching someone dying gruesomely is concerning.

      And 2. Applauding and validating this shooting goes both ways. If you don’t oppos3 this then you are opening the doors and saying its ok for anyone to shoot anyone if they have an opinion.

      Kirk may have been a complete fake and just peddling propaganda and nonsense. A vile creature but from the rights point of view, thats what left wing equivalents are doing. From their perspective its ok to retaliate.

      I think it s3ts a dangerous precedent and people should be careful how they go forward with this.

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        It’s perfectly fine, showing empathy towards people who does not, is an increadible strength.

        Depending on the situation, it could even change their views.

        However, someone who tries to argue that empathy is bad, a weakness, does deserve to get a taste of what true lack of empathy is.

        If I saw Trump or Vance alone on in a forest with a broken bone in the middle of winter, would I help? Yes, but i would be a huge dick about it once I realized who they were.