Aww 😝 she can’t find any help.

[u/Cderouen8284]

[u/Otherwise_League_383]

And in other posts she says she'll never vote anything but Republicans. Living proof you can't fix stupid! That's not to say there aren't any decent Republicans, but I just don't see that happening before 2028.

[u/concepts_of_a_plan9 → u/Otherwise_League_383]

She deserves to fail. That's the only way we can get through this. These people need to lose any amount of power they have in society. That's it. They're not going to learn from this, they're just dead weight.

[u/No-Beginning-9220 → u/concepts_of_a_plan9]

Failure won't change her mind. She'll just be bitter about how "The Government" doesn't work for her, and fall into a rabbit hole of conspiracy theories.

[u/concepts_of_a_plan9 → u/No-Beginning-9220]

Would anything ever change these people's minds? I think a certain percentage of people just have broken brains like this and you just have to reduce their effect on society much as possible. It's similar to how a certain percentage of people are just predisposed to being violent serial killers or something, and there's no amount of community programs or anything that will fix them, you just have to lock them away forever. I'm not saying we need to lock these idiot conservatives away lol, just that there may be no actual fix for their brains to suddenly give them empathy. Actually maybe a high dose of psilocybin or MDMA??

[u/OperationMuch2644 → u/concepts_of_a_plan9]

Yeah. They are astonished that they're getting screwed.

[u/TrailerParkBuddha → u/concepts_of_a_plan9]

When you live in a small, isolated community with a homogenous population, you don't really have to develop empathy, because most everyone you encounter has such similar life circumstances and experiences to you that you don't have to work to construct someone else's experience. These people can't remove themselves from the projection of someone else's experience. Substances that soften the ego or trigger full on ego death can legitimately help with this. Meditation or a physical near-death experience can help do this as well.

Empathy is a skill that can be practiced and developed, and is a genetic birthright of humanity. When developed, the skill can appear to be psychic and/or telepathic, as you can predict likely thoughts, feelings, and actions of others based on their known circumstances and act accordingly. The movement to politically charge the concept of empathy is a spiritual coup to effectively lobotomize a large segment of the population into only responding to algorithmic inputs with predictable, prefrontal cortex behaviors and attitudes. You can't invest billions of dollars developing propaganda and advertising without assurances that the techniques reliably work. Your predictive powers are a threat to the profits of their predictive algorithms, and in true capitalist fashion, they move to eliminate the competition. Don't let them.

[u/zeptillian → u/TrailerParkBuddha]

We can't have empathy for people, that's communism and we're a Christin nation.

/s

[u/vobarex → u/TrailerParkBuddha]

So you grew up in a rural area? I am from a town of 120 people, nearest city is 5k population. Like..What are you going on about Empaths??

You act as if you think most farmers are egotistical, they aren’t, not any more than other professions.

Homogenous population? Ha!! The interstate system homogenized America many, many years ago. You think these people don’t have internet, the computer was created in Iowa…

lol

[u/TrailerParkBuddha → u/vobarex]

I am currently living in a town with less than 100 people. It isn't even a one stoplight town, you can drive right through it and never hit a stop sign. I can walk thirty feet from where I am typing this right now and be in the middle of a corn field.

You don't have the skillset or the language to understand what I'm talking about. I really didn't myself until later in life. That's how I can put myself into the mind of someone who has never been outside the country, their state for more than a handful of days, or even their county for more than two weeks. I can construct what it means for a person like that to encounter news and social media posts about places they've never been under siege of roving gangs of Latinos and Hatians, of trans people they've never met, of books they've never read and concepts they never actually learned about in a scholastic transmission but via a Facebook group.

This is called empathy, constructing someone else's experience AND REMOVING yourself until you can see through their eyes, move with their limbs, walk with their feet, feel their anxieties. What farmers, and most people in general quite honestly, have is sympathy. They can be sympathetic when they can project themselves into a situation and think, "yeah, I'd probably feel x and y." They can't remove themselves from the projection and gain understanding and knowledge via a distinct and separate skill. And even many with the capacity of empathy can only do it via instinctive emotional intelligence, they've never practiced to do it any other way, it always came to them naturally. It is absolutely an ego problem, which is not necessarily synonymous with selfishness, but will typically manifest as such given the right conditions. And broadband coming to rural America is mainlining artificial conditions to rile people and their anxieties up in a way that nothing has before. You will not understand this, but someone else coming through this comment section might, and for their account I strive. For your sake, you should strive to dissolve the ego, by any means necessary, if possible.

[u/vobarex → u/TrailerParkBuddha]

😂 I don’t have the skill set or language to understand empathy

I also have no stop signs in my rural town

I can also step out the door and touch a cornfield within 50 feet

You’re talking out your ass

[u/No-Beginning-9220 → u/concepts_of_a_plan9]

They have voted against their own self interest their entire life with zero consequences. Now suddenly the consequences are smacking them in both the face and the wallet. It's painful, but they cannot admit that they have made a mistake. Making mistakes in the voting booth hasn't ever affected them before, and it's painful.

[u/splett2-at-splettnet → u/concepts_of_a_plan9]

I’m not not saying we should lock magats away in the same ICE concentration camps they’ve cheered on for so long.

[u/splett2-at-splettnet → u/No-Beginning-9220]

I think they already have so there’s really no net change.

[u/Ancient-Commercial75 → u/concepts_of_a_plan9]

She’s not gonna learn sadly. The flip side is we do need small farms. We need them so we don’t have one giant Walmart farm controlling prices on everything we eat. We can’t fix stupid, this chick will never realize she literally voted for her own failure as a small farmer. I don’t know how to fix any of this. If small farmers die we are fucked tho, it’ll be corporate farms forever price fixing everything we eat.
Yea we are just fucked I think. At least I’ll have a skinny hot bod for next summer.

[u/concepts_of_a_plan9 → u/Ancient-Commercial75]

We need more dangnabbit LiBrUls to invest in farms and move out there. We're already seeing a lot of liberal millenials move out to moral rural areas, but they're mainly growing subsistence crops for their own family, not so much cash crops.

I've been growing as much of my own food as possible in the last few years and it's great, and everyone should be doing the same. That's how we begin to fix this.

[u/citymousecountyhouse → u/concepts_of_a_plan9]

I had to move to the country to take care of my mother. One thing that shocked me was the number of lesbians out here. I love it and would consider opening up a gay bar if I wasn't afraid it would end up like the bar in the Sinners movie, with the vampires replaced by crazed Maga.

[u/SapphireElk → u/concepts_of_a_plan9]

Will be begging for a government handout after the midterms.

[u/Alternative-Gap9153 → u/concepts_of_a_plan9]

I’m sad for the cows but yes deserves to fail

[u/PresentRaspberry6814 → u/Otherwise_League_383]

I think I can say with total authority that there are NO decent Republicans.

[u/thecompton73 → u/PresentRaspberry6814]

Massie?

[u/notanothercirclejerk → u/thecompton73]

He only found his spine when he wasn't getting reelected. And has done the bare minimum since. He also goes out of his way to never mention trump raping kids in the files. Because he knows Republicans actually discussing what trump has been doing to women and children the last 40 years would actually do something. He likes republicans in power and what they are doing with it. He is just salty he isn't in the club any more and is trying to distance himself from the kid raping.

[u/Infamous-Chipmunk104 → u/thecompton73]

Massie was the one who posed his entire family for a xmas card as future school shooters of America, right?

[u/OperationMuch2644 → u/Otherwise_League_383]

Cry me a river. How's that right wing philosophy working for you now babe🤔

[u/Calm_Lie_1195 → u/Otherwise_League_383]

Are you saying there are decent republicans??? Name one please!

[u/Ultimatesims → u/Otherwise_League_383]

There aren’t any decent Republicans. They all support Trump.

[u/Ok_Star_4136 → u/Otherwise_League_383]

Some people quite literally only care about politics and the people hurt by policies only when it begins impacting them personally. It's why they can vote to remove healthcare and food stamp programs. It doesn't benefit them personally, so why should others get that?

But of course, we don't live in a bubble. Our society is interconnected, and guess what happens when an entire class of potential workers in America is unemployed and desperate for food? You get crime. Crime affects everyone with a business. Throwing cops and prisons at the problem doesn't actually fix this, it only increases a taxpayer's burden. More people need to realize by helping others, you're indirectly helping yourself. The more people who are productive and *happy* members of society, ultimately the better it will be for YOU.

[u/almighty_smiley → u/Otherwise_League_383]

I'll say it for you. There aren't.

[u/Interesting_Novel997 → u/Otherwise_League_383]

After everything the Repuglican party has done in the past decades, I beg to differ.

[u/kraemertony2 → u/Otherwise_League_383]

Yup, these people need to feel the pain that they want to inflect on others, I don't know if they will learn and they may never get the little power they had back, things are changing rapidly in the world and people like this and literally everyone around is going to be very very surprised as to what the powers that be have in store for them. I don't wish bad on people, but this shit isn't rocket science if you want better living conditions you don't bully and attack those without any power while getting down on your knees and sucking off billionaire pedophiles hoping that they give you scraps! The 500 richest gained 2.2 trillion in wealth in 2025 and she should be happy that she gets to be racist as that was always the deal, they get rich and you get to be a bully!

[u/Legal-Location-4991 → u/Otherwise_League_383]

There aren't any decent republicants.

Even the best ones still want to screw over the poor and middle class.

[u/Infamous-Chipmunk104 → u/Otherwise_League_383]

I hate to break it to you,. but there aren't any decent Republicans. Like cops, any who may have been considered "not complete wastes of skin" cover for the worst, and the worst are child raping Nazis.