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GOP senators warn mega-bill’s new Medicaid cuts will hurt rural hospitals
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Ive tried for years to convince themselves knuckle draggers all while they wish me nothing but the worst for wanting things like universal Healthcare and equality. I smile everytime I see a story like this. Evil people need to feel the consequences of their actions.
Sounds like they convinced you instead. Because taking pleasure in the misery of others is precisely what they're all about.
Taking pleasure in the (self inflicted) suffering of others, but voting for and supporting policy change to fix that suffering seems very different from actively participating in the increase of suffering of others.
Not everyone has to be as holy as thou to not be evil.
That's a pretty damn thin line, and a recipe for hypocrisy while you're at it.
No, abandoning your empathy is not gonna lead anywhere good.
A tolerant society can't tolerate intolerance. Fuck'em.
I agree. But abandoning your empathy is a great way to become one of the intolerant ones. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
There can be no empathy for intolerance, none.
Ok. Never said that.
And now you've become a piece of what you hate.