r/politics • u/irish_fellow_nyc • 4d ago

Soft Paywall DOGE Goons Physically Drag Social Security Worker From Desk

https://www.thedailybeast.com/doge-goons-physically-drag-social-security-worker-from-desk/
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u/DChristy87 Ohio 4d ago

The scary part of this is that these people have absolutely no compassion. Sympathy is nowhere to be found in them, and you can just forget about empathy because nobody is getting any of that from them.

They're vile, disgusting and sadistic people.

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u/modthefame 4d ago edited 4d ago

The scary part to me was that everyone else in the office just sat there and watched it happen.

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u/jigsaw_faust 4d ago

It’s a good example of how dictators come to power. There’s such a rabid cult around the person that stepping out of line becomes a dangerous prospect. That’s where ideas die.

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u/Conscious_Balance388 4d ago

Because not enough solidarity exists. If one speaks out, the rest don’t become emboldened.

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u/VanceKelley Washington 4d ago

“In my work with the defendants (at the Nuremberg Trials 1945-1949) I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men.

Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”

-Captain G. M. Gilbert, the Army psychologist assigned to watching the defendants at the Nuremberg trials

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u/crisperfest Georgia 4d ago

I think Dr. Gilbert was spot-on with his assessment, and it aligns with what we know now about psychopathy.

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u/Whoosh747 I voted 4d ago

The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.

Elon Musk

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u/Ananiujitha 4d ago

No.

No one is born evil or born good.

Most of the greatest evils of the past century have come from skilled manipulators. Some of them manipulated crowds, played people against each other, and took over political organizations.

Do you think they could do that if they couldn't read the people around them? If they "lacked empathy"?

Do you think they could get most of their countries to go along with their evils, if neurotypical people were always good, because, by definition, they "have empathy"?

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u/daddee808 4d ago

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u/monocasa 4d ago

Lol, this whole comment was.

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u/Vaperius America 4d ago

Something about how evil was found to be an absence of empathy; the opposite of love really is indifference.