I'm not putting a value judgemental on empathy, I'm just restating that those on the left have more, and those on the right have less. (Which, again, just looking at behaviour, surprises nobody. )
Though, too be fair, I do prefer to hang out with empathetic people.
I reference 2 articles higher up in the thread. Feel free to scroll up and read.
Like I said. Both sides suck. I could go down that same path and list all the atrocities the IDF and settlers have done. Because both sides suck ass. BUT there are a LOT more dead Palestinian kids than Israeli. I don't want my tax dollars going to support those violent bastards.
If you think the CBC and BBC are "very left wing" then you might be a biiiiit far to the right to be considered sane.
They're both slightly left (i.e. center-center-left) and importantly, highly factual.
E.g. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/cbc-news-canadian-broadcasting/
Never said my side was righteous. I said that one of the main differences between the left and right is empathy. This isn't an opinion, it's peer reviewed fact.
It's bleeding obvious, even without the science.
So many strawmen, lol!
Again, I want my socials experience to be pleasant. I have no problem with uneducated people or people who spell poorly - I do have a problem with people (like you) who only have rage. People who think every person they disagree with needs to be yelled at. And when that rage addiction is combined with bad spelling/grammar it just underlines that it's coming from a place of ignorance. Just makes for a better experience to not interact with those people at all. Just like I'll no longer be interacting with you - because you're unpleasant.
Ya, I'm not talking about extremists. I'm talking about just normal everyday people.
Eh. Fits with what I see in politics, the folks voting for right winger, and my own experiences conversing with them IRL. I see no issue with making that assumption and then being pleasantly surprised the odd time it isn't true.
Maybe it's a North America thing, tho. It's quite possible that the euro flavor of right wing is a more empathetic group.
Basically, you subscribe to the list (e.g. https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:e4elbtctnfqocyfcml6h2lf7/lists/3l53cjwlt4o2s ) and then, as people get added to the list, they're automatically blocked for your.
People can be added by the maintainer, or automatically based on profile content/keywords.
There are a bunch of lists for different things. Like, if you don't want to see crypto bros, or AI artists selling shit, or whatever.
Naw, dude. I want my social media to be a pleasant experience, like a chat around a water cooler. Not a road- rage yell-fest filled with bad takes, worse spelling/grammar, and where fucking Elon Musk gets to decide what I see. Just no.
It's not my responsibility to educate mouth breathing morons. Especially when they're not interested in anything beyond their own hatred.
Also, lol at your strawman. I'm not even remotely centrist. My political compass is waaay down in the bottom left. But thanks for making assumptions like that - kinda underlines my point on why Bluesky is a pleasant experience.
I didn't say they were "all bad." I said they lacked empathy and I wasn't interested in being friends with them.
Conservative and progressive brains are different.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/conservative-and-liberal-brains-might-have-some-real-differences/
And one of those differences is empathy. https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/18/1/nsad029/7175525
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
Black reports that every Nazi concentration camp maintained its own Hollerith-Abteilung (Hollerith Department), assigned with keeping tabs on inmates through use of IBM's punchcard technology.[2]: 351 In his book, Black charges that "without IBM's machinery, continuing upkeep and service, as well as the supply of punch cards, whether located on-site or off-site, Hitler's camps could have never managed the numbers they did."[2]: 352
I'm not sure that's true. One side has empathy. The other does not. I don't want to be friends with someone who doesn't have empathy.
Race had everything to do with it. Lady was repeatedly heard dropping the N word and calling the kids N-lets. She didn't like that black kids were playing in a field near her apt, or that black me were waiting for busses at the bus stop near her house.
This murder was the culmination of her ongoing racism, and bullying of the neighborhood children.
Her interrogation is available on YouTube and it's chilling.