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Hello US Citizens, what's happening...uhhmm...
TY, i will use this meme a lot👍
Please do that
Vote as if there weren't two full sets of electors insulating you from the actual outcome.
Pretty much. You aren't going to get a better outcome with a no-vote or a protest-vote that's for sure.
This is how I feel about it. Even if you don't think your vote will accomplish anything, do it anyway. Otherwise you're just doing nothing.
Do what you can to push things toward the better rather than sit and wait for it.
If everyone did this a bunch of states would turn purple
some people have all of the above and still vote republican
Picture a typical hillbilly from a rustic settlement deep into Alabama
Always make sure your neighbours are doing well.
B-but Gaza! I have to make a pointless defiant gesture to pretend I'm helping! Also will Doordash deliver halo polish?
I know someone who voted for a third party candidate I hadn't even heard of (Claudia De La Cruz). Like man you might as well have just left it blank
Some people just can't resist the thrill of free postage.
Well I'd rather vote third party than leave it blank. Blank shows you don't care while third party says you kind of care just ignorant enough to ignore voting 3rd party only benefits Trump
And even if you don't have a few of the immutable things here such as the colour of your skin..
These situations could always happen in the future. Your brother can find out he's gay, your parents might get sick with cancer, you might fall in love with an immigrant, climate change will have an effect on you, and so on
Not only that, but any of these could be you too. You might get mental health issues or get physically sick, you might find out something about yourself, even well into adulthood, or lose your job, or face a natural disaster, or any one billion of things that you need support for
Humans are not evolved to be truly independent. We all need, or will need, support.
This is the veil of ignorance you can use when considering what a just society should be like when making decisions like voting without knowing where in that society you would be. It's a tool to help with empathy like the opposite of fear and rage propaganda trying to make you make stupid decisions.
There's not even the need for empathy. If people voted for their best interest instead of the interest of the 1% we'll be better.
Why is there an apostrophe in friends, but not parents, when they're both non-possessive plural nouns?
because it's a spelling mistake
Because whoever painted the sign made a mistake? (I'm really reaching, I know)
or none of those and vote with compassion.
compassion > empathy
Why would compassion be better than empathy?
empathy is a double edge sword, often causing more suffering than not. empathy has no morals.
compassion is love without conditions. compassion does not require feeling what others are feeling in order to understand their suffering.
compassion is the goal, empathy is the shitty tool that sometimes achieves the goal.
empathy is a double edge sword, often causing more suffering than not. empathy has no morals.
This makes no sense. People have moral systems, empathy is often a component of that.
compassion is love without conditions.
No it isn't. Compassion is about sympathy and pity, and also is without morals. Unconditional love isn't a thing, and people can act compassionately without loving someone. It also doesn't require understanding which is vital to resolution.
compassion does not require feeling what others are feeling in order to understand their suffering.
Empathy doesn't require you to feel their suffering, but to simply understand and appreciate it.
compassion is the goal, empathy is the shitty tool that sometimes achieves the goal.
Not my goal, seems shitty. Empathy appears to be superior.
Definitions:
Compassion: sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others.
Empathy: the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
