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Vice President JD Vance doesn’t ‘give a s***’ if you think lethal Venezuela boat strike was a war crime
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 07 Sep 2025
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Eh. We don’t need to restrict people’s voting, we just need to start valuing empathy as a society. It’s really both that simple and impossible.
We need to make it impossible to not link JD Vance to his "empathy is toxic" movement that he promoted, and then make it the thing that's just too embarrassing (or bad for business) to even risk associating with. Which honestly why shouldn't it be?
Think of the fucking horrific images out of Gaza. This is what is allowed to happen when empathy is toxic. When you see those images, you should also be thinking of the shit eating grins of JD Vance and Peter Thiel, looking way too comfortable hiding behind their "Christian" values while promoting that empathy is toxic bullshit.
And vice versa, it should be impossible to see their faces or the faces of their supporters without automatically thinking of those images. How many history lesson do we really need to remind us how genocide always happens? Those awful fucking images are the past, present, and future, when empathy is toxic.
I agree. The problem, I think, is also not so much that the idiots have power, but the cruelest do.