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Lemmy Comment with a great analogy of Laura Loomer getting banned from bluesky (sopuli.xyz)

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[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

In case anyone wants actual proof:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10281241/

They measured empathetic responses using an MRI. Conservative's empathetic responses are stunted.

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 1 points 6 days ago

I feel compelled to note that this correlation doesn't necessarily mean there's straightforward causation either direction. That is to say that I don't believe that conservatives are inherently less empathetic. Such a belief can hardly be scientifically tested but ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯ it helps me to cope