Jesus, imagine not only equivocating all uses of caring with basic empathy, but then calling the capacity for empathy ableist. Dunning-Kruger is running wild in pop-psychology these days.
this post was submitted on 08 Dec 2025
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I feel that second comment and as an elder AuDHDer Commie, that "not caring" is actively dipping down into the desire to do violence against certain red hat wearing segments of this population.
You're not supposed to only desire to inflict violence on fascists, you are supposed to help the downtrodden too, and I think that's infinitely more important as a leftist to do than just punch nazis and dunk on MAGA.
You're not supposed to eat red meat or sugar either, and yet here we are.
Bullshit. Sugar is on literally everything plant-based that we eat. As for red meat, the study that said it's bad for you has been debunked.
Counterpoint against the 1st:
Yes, most things contain some sugar. The sugar they're against is the stuff that is not there naturally.
Every carb we put in our body also becomes sugar, you know...
Have you seen the carbon footprint of a steak?😅
Sigh.
If those people who wear red hats cared about people then that would solve a lot of problems, though.
How long are you going to hold your breath waiting for that to happen?
If you were from the US Deep South you would know racists/white supremacists/MAGAts very rarely unfuck themselves.
Santa does care about people.
It's literally all he does :)
Yes. Between actual Nazis, competitively woke keyboard revolutionaries who appointed themselves Captain of the 101st Lecturing division, and enshittification everywhere in between, I'm about done with the Internet.
The best place to declare that is on the internet. It makes a definite statement about being done with it
I hear that.
I mean... If you lack empathy, I'm pretty sure that's a neuro-divergence. Sociopaths aren't typical and exist.
I see that as a bullshit copout for people that don't want to care about people. Some of the nicest people I know are neuro-divergent, they just need to put a little more effort into figuring out what effects their actions have.
Just because you lack empathy doesn't mean you don't, or can't, care about people. It just means you don't have an automatic, involuntary response to other people's emotions. You can still care about people and desire good outcomes for them and want your actions to be positive for other people.
Neuro-divergence that reduces, or eliminates the capacity for empathy makes that harder because you don't get that immediate feedback, you have to figure out if what you're doing has the desired effect in other ways. Which makes it harder, but not impossible. And definitely doesn't prevent you from wanting to do it in the first place.
If you don't care about other people, you're just an asshole. Stop blaming it on neuro-divergence.
That "prize comment" is a mood, for sure.
Honestly I've played enough video games to know that after a while I just get tired of being nice and helping people.
People: a set of parameters in some computers memory.
I do love how everyone is suddenly ready to stand up to the US police and military.