• Rottcodd@lemmy.world
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      Even when I can see the ROI (I’m sure the money the Israeli government intends to leech from US taxpayers far outstrips the amount they’ll spend to support politicians who can be counted on to vote in favor of it), I just can’t understand the amorality of it all.

      Are they all psychopaths? That’s the conclusion I keep coming back to - that they’re just psychologically defective, such that they just don’t have any empathy or restraint or sense of shame - that they’re as morally void as serial killers, and just exercise their evil in a somewhat different way.

      No other explanation makes any sense. Anyone with even the tiniest shred of common decency would be unlikely to choose to do the things they do, and unable to live with themselves if they did, so it must be the case that they don’t even have a shred of decency - that they’re literal psychopaths.

      I can’t even imagine what it must be like to be that twisted and broken.

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          Yes.

          I still don’t even begin to understand how any human being could be so vile and repugnant, but yes - it’s almost certainly the case that they got where they are through a lifetime of being vile and repugnant, so their current loathsomeness is just a continuation of a lifelong pattern.

          And by the bye, that was notably well written. Kudos.

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      You need to understand: your vote means nothing. Wealth makes people powerful, and you don’t have that kind of wealth. Give up. Stop resisting. The sooner you recognise your position the happier you’ll be.

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        LOL, this is the one thing George Carlin was completely fucking wrong about.

        This however, is how they would like you to think. Learned helplessness.

        If it was remotely true they wouldn’t spend so much time & effort prevent people from voting.

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        Fuck right off with that defeatist bullshit. So many critical elections last cycle turned on small numbers of votes. That happens over and over again yet people still spout this shit. NO. GO AWAY.